A student association, Kungiyar Daliban Hausa ta Kasa (KUDHAN), has honoured the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Nigerian, Jaafar Jaafar, for his effort in rehabilitating a famous Hausa diva, Magajiya Dambatta. Conferring the award on him, the president of the association, Comrade Nura Sulaiman Janbirji, Sarkin Daliban Hausa, said the purpose of the award was to acknowledge his contributions to the development of Hausa oral literature. Jaafar won acclaim recently for championing the rehabilitation of the old musician who in her day was a brilliant composer. However, she had become blind, living in penury...