Nation Builders Magazine

By Faruk Ahmed On July 28, 2026, something remarkable happened in Adamawa State. Hajiya Salamatu Mohammed, the Executive Director of Asabsah Success Initiative and Coordinator of the Asabsah Peace Cluster, invited the Women's Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN) to her office. They did not come for a sermon. They did not come with a petition. They came to receive a box. Not an ordinary box. A VSLA kit—a Village Savings and Loan Association box. Inside were 24 passbooks, tags, and the seeds of a powerful idea: that Muslim women and Christian women can build peace together, not through words, but through shared economic empowerment.   Salamatu (middle) giving out the VSLA box to WOWICAN Adamawa The VSLA model The VSLA model is deceptively simple. A group of women—typically 24 or more—come together and make monthly contributions into a communal box. Each month, they meet to decide who should receive a loan from the savings. The recipient invests the mon...

By Faruk Ahmed Musa Abdu was twenty‑five years old when the system told him he mattered. He had watched his father climb the ranks of the Nigeria Police Force—one promotion at a time, one dusty uniform at a time. His father never drove a new car. He never built a mansion. But he walked with dignity, and he served. That was enough for Musa. That was the dream. In December 2025, applications opened for the Nigeria Police Force recruitment. Musa applied. He followed every instruction. He travelled to Kaduna for a one‑week training exercise. He was told that anyone called for that exercise was as good as taken. When the portal told him he was  Qualified , he wept. He shared the screenshot with his mother, his friends, his village. He was going to be a policeman. He was going to serve. Then the portal told him he did not exist.   The glitch that wasn't A few weeks later, the Force asked applicants to check their status. Musa logged in. He entered his National Identi...