The 18th of March, 2023, state governors’ and national assembly members’ elections were characterized by vote buying and selling. The elections were the kinds I have never seen in all my years of existence, before my eyes people bargaining for the price of their rights for peanuts and I wondered where the future of Nigeria goes. Democracy is constituted based on interest and choice, but because of poverty, people sell their rights and the dignity they have for money and food. For me, money is the only winner of the 18th state governors and national assembly members elections and the…
Author: Auwal Ahmed Ibrahim
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD come up with a new eco-social contract flag to achieve the vision 2030 in the mainstream of justice for all. The 2020 flag of the new eco-social contract is geared to track equality between the climate and the society, build ways to empower the people to protect the earth, improve citizens’ welfare by considering human rights values, gender inclusion, and historical injustice and transform the world economy. As financial bodies keep counting on poverty lines in the world and nations are perpetuating to reduce the scorch of poverty among the citizens;…
Democracy is supposed to be a system of government that should promote peace, development and progress for the people of the nations. It is supposed to be a system that should unite the people and uplift the nations, but in Africa, democracy is turning bloody and becoming a system of anarchy and assisting corruption. Democracy as a government of the people for the people is giving the authority upper hands to acquit and offer amnesty to selected individuals confined for corruptions and other felony. In Nigeria, such cases are examples of how democracy helped in flourishing corruption and crimes.…
The Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC has been making promises and good moves to resolve the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strikes for many years. In 2013, NLC intervened in the ASUU strike by writing to the presidency to find a good modality to resolve the six months’ academic strike. In 2021, the Labor Union again, played its roles between the government and the Academic Staff of Nigerian universities to table their grievances and resolve their misunderstandings for the sake of Nigerian universities’ students. Since the Academic Staff of Universities embarked on another strike in February 2022, the Labor Union…
As 2023 general elections are coming nearer, the Nigerian polity is becoming volatile, chaotic and unsecured as we witness in every political activity. There are politicians that take politics a do or die affair and they can do anything to clinch power. As usual, politicians move with thugs to protect them while miscreants with devil mind attach themselves with campaigners to steal and cause mayhem. People that are not politicians should stay clear off campaign spots. I am a living witness of many political assaults. I once saw thugs pursuing opposition member with all sorts of weapons in the broad…
There are many governorship aspirants at the moment struggling to clinch the veto power of Kaduna state and all of them with their different manifestos. The people of Kaduna state had witnessed the administrative style of Governor Nasir Ahmad Elrufai and his leadership can be measured by the yardstick of the good, the bad and the ugly to different set of people of Kaduna state. Among the strongest contestants of Kaduna state is Uba Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central. Uba Sani is believed to be the top aspirant of Kaduna state Governor and he is a close ally to…
Education is not only the backbone of every society but it is the source of happiness and unity of a society, and it is inline of this importance, a Nigerian proverb symbolized education as the taste of life. Education is one of the pillars of any country’s progress and it is in accordance to this reason Nigerian government since independence keeps promising to make education sector very conducive and compulsory to the citizens of Nigeria. The first indigenous government of Nigeria for knowing the values of Western Education continued with the doctrine and policies of the colonial masters of providing…
On the 6th of this month, August the news of army personnel attacked Nigeria Police men and released a kidnap kingpin enroute to Jalingo became a national issue with extreme shock in the minds of Nigerians. The information of the event engulfed me with so much tentacles of how on earth such kind of tragedy happened? I couldn’t believe my heart that had been throbbing to convince me that such incidents in Nigeria do happen and I should believe the allegation of the Police Headquarter pointing fingers at the Nigerian Army because there were many reports on different Nigerian newspapers…
I decided to make this letter open for other people to know about some problems with our political leaders when it comes to fulfilling their promises to the people that voted them. I am writing this letter to you with regret and deep thoughts in my mind on why you suddenly change your decision of curtailing the bumper allowances of senators. I know how you have been one of the cardinal opposition of the 8th National Assembly, even though you were among the prime movers of the house as a majority leader. Though, I know, it is normal for Nigerian…
The sallah celebration is at the doorstep and during every season of this nature some unusual events happen that claim lives and property of magnitude naira. The youths are becoming very provocative and consider celebrating moment of this as an avenue to unleash terror and fracas among their foes and innocent people. Such youths make it a yearly tradition of blood flowing and excessive drugs abuse. Some of the youths meet at different points of people gathering to cause mayhem and terrorism just for their lust to cause unrest. In Kaduna state that I know very well than any other…
It is a day of commemoration for the African people to reflect on their past experiences on how their freedom and independence was achieved and discuss on the way forward for African developments. The day was carved out after the first Conference of Independent African States, which attracted African leaders and political activists from various African countries in Ghana on April 15, 1958. The meeting was the first pan-African gathering that attracted many African countries to have a sober reflection of their past colonial eras. The Liberation Day is also celebrated by the black Africans living in Europe and other…
Professor Idris Muhammad Bugaje, the current rector of Kaduna Polytechnic is destined to rectify problems and provide solutions in leadership for achievements and successes. It is a merriment moment and a thing of joy to salute president Muhammadu Buhari for searching and spotting a technocrat like Professor Idris Muhammad Bugaje to be on the ministerial nomination list of Nigerian next level government. Professor Idris Muhammad Bugaje the born versatile academician from Katsina state of Bugaje is an experienced man that is destined to rectify ineffective management to effectiveness. His exemplary leadership has been manifested in many areas of his working…
