News reports say the dusk-to-dawn curfew continues eternally as the development has compelled husbands to stay indoors from 5p.m. to 7a.m. the next day. Governor Isa Yuguda imposed the curfew on the entire Bauchi metropolis to curtail a religious crisis that erupted in some parts of the state capital last Friday.

One of the married women said: “If not because of the food items in the house that will finish and we will have to buy them again, and we need money to do other things and the children are still going to school, my wish is let the curfew be increased to 24 hours; no going out completely, so that I will have my husband in full.”

Mrs. Amina James too said: "Thank God for the curfew! My husband never had time for his family; every day is work. He wakes up early in the morning and gets set for work when the children are still sleeping and comes back home at 10 or 11 p.m. when the children are sleeping. The children are not used to their father; same for me. To be sincere, I am enjoying the curfew; I wish government would extend the time of the curfew from 4p.m. to 7am and let it remain like that for a year.”

After closing at work, many married men in Bauchi often hang out at pepper soup joints and beer parlous where they are joined by their girlfriends and mistresses for a good time till late in the night before they head home to tell tall tales to their often worried wives.

Defending this, a Bauchi resident, John Barau told The Streetjournal that, "it is good for a man to hang around with friends after closing from work.” According to him, many married men head for fun spots after closing from work because of problems at home.

He added: "Women are always demanding; they are just like children and don't know when you have enough money or when you are broke. For me, coupled with work stress, staying out is to douse tension before going home."

However, to a clergyman, Pastor Ishaya Jatau, responsible men should go home after finishing the business of the day. He said: "Who will take care of your children properly when you are not there? It is very imperative for husbands to go home after closing from office.

"If they will use the time and money wasted in the beer parlous, pepper soups joint and gambling houses, wasted on prostitutes and unnecessary things that are not beneficial to their families, to play with their children at home and prepare them for the great challenges of life, it would be better for them and the country in the future."