Month: August 2020
Yobe gets new controller of corrections
Yobe State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service says a new Controller of Corrections has been posted to the Command. He is Ali Isah. A signed statement by ASC Haruna Isa of the Public Relations Unit, Nigerian Correctional Service, Yobe State, says the new Controller has assumed duty at the Command Headquarters’ office, Damaturu today, […]
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Fani-Kayode’s crocodile tears
By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH on Monday, August 31, 2020) “Thank you, Mr Charles Eyo, Daily Trust correspondent in Cross River State, for seeking to know who’s bankrolling my tour of projects in Peoples Democratic Party-led states across the country. “Well, I come from a bloodline of fearless forebears who set sail in […]
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Re: Bauchi APC Berates Gov’t Over non-payment of salaries
By a concern citizen The All Progressives Congress APC, has no moral justification to attack the PDP government led by Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed over payment of salaries in the state. A problem they created in the past which the present administration is trying to correct. Talking about non payment of salaries by the APC […]
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Dr. Ali Boderi: The prodigious provost, FCE (T) Gombe.
By Muhammad Amin Kwami Federal College of Education (Technical) Gombe, has been a favourable institution of learning for a number of students from far and neighboring states, since its creation. This has to do with the standard of the school, which supersedes its peers in the north east sub-region and beyond. FCE (T) Gombe has […]
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Spate of Cross-Carpeting and Fate of Gov. Bala.
By Sulaiman Maijama’a A couple of weeks back, I have written an extensive article with the heading “Gov. Bala and Political Gladiators”, in which I said categorically that, whenever a government is increasingly becoming intolerant of selfish interests of unpatriotic individuals who do not mean well for the people, this particular government is bound to […]
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The Dynamics of food price inflation in north east Nigeria – Whose fault?
By Abubakar Inuwa Tata I want to start this column with a verse in the holy glorious Quar’an as Allah (SWA) said “Verily, Allaah will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to […]
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One Year of Kashifu at NITDA
By Adamu Usman Garko Leadership is about responsibility. Those who instill hope into our minds and hearts are true heroes and deserve encomium. Consequently, leadership is also a burden. This burden had been bestowed upon Mr. Kashifu Inuwa by the Pacemaker of IT and Digital Economy in Nigeria, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami and indeed he […]
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The Man Behind Nigeria’s Edicts
By Eden Finn At the centre of Mr Buhari’s fight against corruption is a fine gentleman from the city of Kebbi, Northern Nigeria. A soft-spoken lawyer who rose to the pinnacle of Nigeria’s legal profession, the distinguished Senior Advocate of Nigeria. Mr Abubakar Malami is his name. On the pages of the newspapers and online […]
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NBA: Lowering The Bar
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir I was salivating as Sam Omatseye dished out his disinvitation of Elrufai, in a rich buffet of literary spice and diction that would definitely awe every fan of English prose. For starters, he likened Elrufai to a Napolean, as he criss-crossed from citing historic figures, to quoting novelists like Fyodor Dostoevsky, […]
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My Mercedes is bigger than yours
By Femi Adesina I am borrowing the title of a 1975 book by Nkem Nwankwo to express my thoughts today. Published by Heinemann African Writers Series, it is the story of postcolonial Nigerian society, and the social climbing that attended it. As a young schoolboy, one grew up on the staple of such writings. In […]
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