Month: January 2021
OPINION: The Newly appointed service chiefs and the precarious situation
By Muhammad Inuwa Dauda Nigerians for long time been outcry seeking for the sacking of the immediate past Service chiefs over the Insecurity which they believe if the service Chiefs are been sack, it will Immensely help to end the insurgency and other menace of insecurity in the country, particularly the Boko Haram Insurgency […]
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OPINION: The story of ‘Likitan Burra’, Dr Adnan
By Abdul Ahmed Burra Last week, I received several phone calls and messages from my kinsmen, the people of Burra in Ningi Local Government, all talking about one thing. More often, when these kind of calls and messages come from home, they would be about either pressing issue in our community or when tree […]
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Boko Haram: New Service chiefs make first trip to Borno, meet Zulum
In their new capacities, last week’s appointed military service chiefs have undertook their first trip to Borno State, which has been at the centre of the war against Boko Haram, during which the chiefs met Governor Babagana Umara Zulum in Maiduguri. Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Leo Irabor, led chiefs of army staff, […]
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Governor Bala inspects renovation of Bauchi Government House
The Executive Governor of Bauchi State Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed today inspected the ongoing renovation of Government House Bauchi. A statement signed by the Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media Lawal Mu’azu revealed. According to the statement, the renovation work commenced with the office complex of His Excellency, the Governor, Secretary to […]
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OPINION: Covid 19 and the Fate of Nigerian Students in 2021.
By Vasty Agila. Covid 19 had really brought alot of delay of almost everything in the world especially in the educational sector. Coming into 2020, I entered with the expectation of graduating and forging ahead, but from February the year came with the global pandemic, I was praying and hoping that schools will resume that […]
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Whistle blower: A failed policy in the midst of fighting corruption in Nigeria
By Beauty D. Suyibam In Nigeria, whistle-blowing is an anti-corruption programme that encourages people to voluntarily disclose information about fraud, bribery, looted government funds, financial misconduct, misappropriation of government assets and any other form of corruption or theft to the country’s federal ministry of finance. The policy which was launched on December 21, 2016 […]
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The fairytale of “Not too young to run”
By Muhammad Mahe Abubakar Despite growing evidence of youths activism and mobilisation, Nigerian youths are yet to achieve the level of inclusion required to gain representation in politics. Leadership deficits, money politics, poor internal democracy among the older parties and an absence of a strategic political agenda pose ongoing barriers to young people playing […]
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Clerics urges parents to enroll their children into schools
By Sani Adamu Musa Parents and guardians have been called to enroll their wards to seek for both Islamic and Western education to guarantee their future. A University Don, Dr Muhd Safiyu Abdulkadir made the call at a qur’anic graduation ceremony of Zauren Liman Baban Inna held at the Edil prayer Ground Bauchi. Dr […]
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Al-Sadique: Meritorious Service of Nigeria’s finest Airman!Â
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi In November of 2019, in a piece titled, ‘NAF: Consolidating a strategic and logistical Airbase in Bauchi’, I had written that; “The most visible of the dividends of the change agenda, that has come the way of Bauchi, is the siting of an Airforce Base in Bauchi, just adjacent […]
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Abolishment of Underage Children in Grazing Job: Hope for Herder’s Children
BY MARYAM ADAMU MUHAMMAD There have been a lot of clarion calls from leaders and masses from Southern part of Nigeria to abolish the peripatetic grazing business due to the challenges and setbacks they perceived it brought from heders and farmers clashes and other serial attacks. We can’t dispel the brio, verve and industry […]
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