Posted by Samuel on Sun 16th Nov, 2025 - tori.ng
The news platform had shared a video showing the moment the honest Hausa man was being celebrated for returning a phone a woman had misplaced inside a market.
Former Presidential aide Bashir Ahmad has opposed the practice of referring to Hausa men as “Aboki.”
Bashir expressed his displeasure after a national daily referred to a honest Hausa man as an ‘’Aboki''.
The news platform had shared a video showing the moment the honest Hausa man was being celebrated for returning a phone a woman had misplaced inside a market.
The video showed the market women celebrating and hugging him after he returned the phone.
It was with the caption: ‘’Aboki returns lost iPhone to woman in market
A woman has shared how a kind stranger returned her iPhone after she unknowingly lost it while alighting from a commercial tricycle in a market.
Narrating the incident in a TikTok video, she said the man, identified as a northerner commonly referred to as Aboki, found the phone on the road and traced her to her stand to return it.''
Bashir spotted the post and reacted stating that describing the young man as an ‘’Aboki'' is wrong and unacceptable. According to him, Aboki is a derogatory term.
‘’This is completely wrong and absolutely unacceptable from a national newspaper. Using a perceived ‘derogatory’ term to describe that honest Hausa man is irresponsible.
@TheNationNews and other national newspapers should be in the lead promoting unity, not providing platforms for disunity or ethnic bias.''