“Reform is China’s Second Revolution” Deng Xiaoping The rampaging COVID-19 pandemic for obvious reasons has dominated the entire media outlets, pushing other major developments expectedly to the background. It’s only natural that other events will suffer news blackout considering that it has continued to knock off people at will. A virus that has brought the almighty United States of America to its knees, that has seen America burying more people than it did during the notorious Vietnam war, a virus, that kills at will and that has demystified nuclear power by its far reach and “cost-effectiveness certainly deserves some “respect” even though it’s rude. The unspoken but real fear is that rogue nation like North Korea, Iran etc do not abandon…
Author: Emmanuel Ado
The United States of America according to the predictions of public health experts could suffer more than 200,000 deaths, from the 126.5 million people that are expected to contract the deadly coronavirus, due to President Donald Trump’s abysmal failure to provide leadership. The consensus amongst most experts is that had Trump acted decisively and provided the much-needed leadership, the worldwide crisis triggered by the virus could have largely been contained. Clearly from day one, the tragedy wasn’t Trump being late in taking actions, but that has continued to mislead those who look up to him for direction, the result is…
“You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something.”Winston ChurchillIdowu Akinlotan is a confirmed loathing hater of Nasir El-Rufai, an attribute that virtually every columnist or presenter working in the Bola Ahmed Tinubu media empire has in commonality. But the columnists of the various titles of The Nation are clearly the worse with their propensity to peddle utter falsehoods against Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State. The unprovoked malice towards El-Rufai, by The Nation newspapers, will expectedly get worse and more reckless by 2021 when political activities are expected to heat up. This is understandable…
Barrister Francis Danladi Kozah, Board Secretary/Legal Adviser, Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service Board, in this interview with Emmanuel Ado, spoke on the achievements of the Service and why it resorts to sealing up businesses over PAYE and the expectations of the service in 2020. Question: Congratulations to the entire staff and management of the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service(KADIRS) for unprecedented feat the service achieved in 2019 taking the service from a paltry 12billion yearly to 44billion is no mean feat… FDK: Thank you very much. We are grateful to be of service to the good people of Kaduna State…
“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and hopefully, in value.” Louis L’ Amor The definition of a politician as “an individual involved in influencing public policy and decision making in government” or as a “person engaged or interested in politics” and sees politics as “science and art of government”, more aptly describes Nasir El-Rufai, the highly cerebral Governor of Kaduna State, even though he prefers to describe himself as an “Accidental Public Servant”. The point must be made from the very outset, that El-Rufai is in every…
Noah Ebije, the Chief Correspondent of the Sun newspapers Kaduna State, can be utterly reckless and deliberately mischievous with words. At the height of the 2019 campaigns, he had described the wedding reception crowd at the campaign flag-off of the now twice defeated Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), governorship candidate Isa Ashiru, as “unprecedented”. Ebije who prides himself as a “wordsmith” was only contributing his own “efforts” to the defeat of Nasir El-Rufai, by painting a picture of El-Rufai lacking the support of the people of Kaduna State. Unfortunately, the “unprecedented” crowd of Ebije, was handed a resounding defeat, a defeat that…
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” Joe Biden From the 2016 Budget of Sacrifice, Restoration and Change to the 2020 Budget of Progressive Renewal, Nasir El- Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State has been unambiguously…
“No Nation Develops Beyond The Capacity Of Its Public Service.”Nasir El- RufaiSeveral studies by multilateral institutions have clearly established that “individual investment projects are less likely to succeed in a distorted policy environment and that neither good policies nor good investments are likely to emerge and be sustainable in an environment with dysfunctional institutions and poor governance.” It follows that if the purpose of governments at all levels is development and reduction of poverty, then reforms and strengthening of the vital institutions of government, that will ensure effective performance are important,most especially at the level of the Local Government Councils,which…
“In war, you can only be killed once,but in politics many times.” Winston Churchill Where it a war, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State would long have been history,but would most certainly be remembered for his great exploits in the several battles he would have gallantly led his men in. Unfortunately in politics, not just Nigerian politics where El- Rufai by “accident” has…
“This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls – to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.” ― Virchand Raghavji Gandhi First there is a compelling urgency to address the tendency by most public affairs commentators to personalize government policies and in the process make policies look more like the personal decisions of such “autocratic” leaders imposed on a “docile” council, when in actual fact such policies were subjected to rigorous debates by the appropriate organs of government and having been so deliberated becomes a decision of government,which makes it a…
