The New Yorker article was written a year after a new 100 naira bill was introduced in Nigeria, which proved to be controversial because it replaced Ajami with Latin letters. Nigerian currency of ...

A lawyer has asked a court in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos to compel the country's central bank to remove the Arabic script which appears on most naira banknotes. The lettering states the note's ...

A new Nigerian banknote that removed an inscription written in Arabic letters has drawn the ire of the country's Muslim community, with activists linking the note's design to President Goodluck ...

Shehu Usman Dan Fodiyo (of blessed memory), was confronted with the challenge of transforming a society that was enlightened but deeply enmeshed in immorality, injustice and corrupt leadership.

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the removal of the Arabic writing in Hausa language (the Ajami script) that read 'Naira Dari' (one hundred naira) on the N100 note being replaced with ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Trust newspaper, looks at what a row over Arabic script reveals about Nigeria's divides. A lawyer ...