In our Nigeria of today, several Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what it means to live in a decently administered society with robust leadership. The unfortunate situation of these days, quickly reminds me of the past. In my primary school days, bars of soap, powered milk and school uniforms were given out to pupils for free while in my secondary school (Government College Keffi) in present day Nasarawa State, virtually every basic was free even tissue paper accompanied with weekly stipend while the school food was superb and rich. The college’s sick bay was stocked with beds and…
Author: Sanusi Muhammad
It is impossible to put to question the identity of Governor Caleb Mutfwang as an indigene of Plateau State. That he wasn’t qualified to have contested the 2023 gubernatorial election. The party, PDP that provided him its platform to contest the election, is claimed not to have a valid structure for participation in the elections but yet constitutionally allowed to contest. This is a typical case of the abracadabra rubbishing the integrity of our country’s judiciary and putting it to ridicule. The electoral umpire INEC did not raise objection to the PDP primary elections conducted by party goons, nomination and…
The recent allegations of corrupt practices, non-accreditation of several courses and sexual abuse against the management of Ningi College of Health Technology in Bauchi State and the visit to the institution by Bauchi State Commissioner for Health accompanied by two other State Government officials to possibly verify the allegations of corrupt practices and sexual abuse bedeviling the institution as reported, was described as infantile, baseless that achieved nothing towards changing the narrative other than burying the truth from the knowledge of the governor in defence of falsehood. It was a booboo trap laid for the governor to continue to believe…
The imposed president of Nigeria courtesy of a compromised judgment by delivered by the Supreme Court in presence of glaring evidences of forged credentials and fake identity, deserves full-throated cheers for dribbling the judiciary and for taken the bull by the horn for the first time at our ‘economic’ recovery war by scrapping the fuel subsidy regime at his May 29th inauguration without a serious look at the consequences involved. Though the ban on rice, dairy and poultry imports remains enforced, it is bearding the lion of economic irresponsibility in the den. To an extent, we should appreciate that the…
“The administration of Governor Bala Muhammed has over the years, deployed humongous resources to the education sector. Despite the concern and effort, the sector seems yet to appreciate the huge spending. Certain things must be ongoing wrong somewhere to have forced the governor’s recent comment on the deplorable situation of that sector. But since then, the situation is fast changing and it must continue to change for better”…….Comrade Mouktar Gidado Although, in his displayed displeasure, Governor Bala Muhammed was not specific on which component of the education sector is in shambles. Investigation reveals that the governor’s attention is needed on…
Despite the deployed efforts of Governor Bala Muhammed of Bsuchi State to improving the education sector, with special emphasis placed on health education, the management of the once vibrant School of Health Technology, Ningi in Bauchi State, has transformed the institution to a cesspool of corruption and sexual abuse of female students. An investigation conducted into affairs of the institution shows that even proposed intervention projects from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) tailored to improving facilities and infrastructure in the institution were not spared from the corruption spree ongoing in the institution as contractors were hurriedly reached to submit…
Bauchi state politicians must have by now been shocked by the unpredictable politics their state promoted in the 2023 contest with fanfare. No, not in terms of the expensiveness of the past campaigns introduced by the desperate All Progressives Congress (APC), which became the leitmotif of their competition for offices, or the gargantuan remunerations proposed for their elected party members in Bauchi State, but in terms of their defiance of every, known orthodoxy that typified and ennobled global politics for decades. Bauchi politicians of APC extraction had defied the odds, subverted rules, mocked conventions, and now, seem to sneer at…
“No serious government with visible and touchable track record of achievements within few years in office and with well articulated intentions and robust plans to change the narrative for a better society can address all the needs of the people at a time no matter what as Bauchi State under Governor Bala Muhammed is battling the odds to achieve within a specific time frame” The recently reported case of lack of teachers, infrastructure claimed to have forced schools closure and turned pupils to farmers in Bauchi State sounds an imagination beyond comprehension going by the records on the table. There…
One of those who masqueraded as Bauchi State gubernatorial candidates supposedly a man without clear political base, was thrown into a deep thinking on how to impose himself on the electorates by pulling through the shenanigan of foisting himself on his party as its 2023 gubernatorial candidate. He scaled the hurdle of party primary with the active support and connivance of those that preferred to load him over and silenced the voice of other credible contestants with reliable political bases. To be candid, I still wonder how he survived that long when it was obvious that he wouldn’t bulge on…
Its recorded casualty at the 2015 presidential and few of the gubernatorial seats in major states, was a devastating blow to the solar plexus of the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). And despite its organizational fragility and lack of cohesion having been hurriedly cobbled together for the polls as an election winning machine, the All Progressives Congress (APC) moved with lightening speed to attempt putting a seal of finality on PDP’s coffin of electoral mummification in 2015. The party found most handy in this regard the alleged reckless looting of humongous amounts of public funds by assorted…
The arrest of some eminent jurists, Justices of the Supreme Court – Sylvester Ngwuta and John Okoro – and four other Judges on October 10, 2016 by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) caused loud acclaim and denunciation among Nigerians. Those who spoke on the matter include eminent jurists, senior lawyers, civil society activists and other concerned Nigerians. It was hard to find a Nigerian indifferent to the development considered as laudable. In view of the stature of those arrested and the deep implications of the action, one is constrained as a classless citizen to join the debate…
Hard times like this are not for lazy journalists who fail to endure the rigorous of investigating issues with expertise before rushing to the press to dent reputations for peanuts and please a few. A journalist who abuses the ethics of the profession is best described as a pen bandit on a destructive mission pursuing a futile exercise to justify a futile undertaking against his target. When envy and hatred beclouds the reasoning faculty of opposition, it becomes full blown madness as the attention of MING XIN MINERAL SEPARATION NIGERIA LIMITED, a reputable mining company operating legitimately in different parts…
Mob action has been part of our national politics from time immemorial. We can recall the infamous wild west rioting of the 1950s, Onitsha market women’s riot and the 2011 post-election violence in some parts of northern states. Mobs destroy and scarcely create. Be it as wild savages or unthinking herds, it has always been the pre-occupation of the mob to tear and destroy. Take the Nigerian mob for instance by its impulsiveness, lack of forethought and restrain, want of personal and societal ethics it expedites the destruction of everything and anything—-like an unpopular policy or worn-out civilization. Whether concrete…
At first, I never thought it necessary to repeat the obvious that Nigeria is a blessed country. It is so blessed that apart from its endowment with abundant natural and human resources, it is also blessed with a ray of certified heartless criminals and rogues who are celebrated and honored with chieftaincy and other titles while some, transform to leadership positions to garner respect to stabilize criminality in power. There is a typical case of one federal permanent secretary (rtd) who could not control his itchy fingers while in office. The rogue as alleged stole over N5billion from funds meant…
I never deemed it necessary to waste time revisiting the case of Nigeria’s renowned Queen of Rot, while serving as a cabinet minister, courted hate to the very government that offered her a plum appointment piloted by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Diezani Allison Madueke, until I was moved by a recent report from the international Corruption Unit of the United Kingdom, National Crime Agency (NCA), which charged Diezani for receiving a bribe of 100,000 British pounds sterling among other allegations. Every administration that sprouted in Nigeria from 1960 had its heroes and villains—-depending on the leanings or dialectical disposition of the…
Governor Bala Muhammed of Bauchi State, has lamented the fact that some Nigerians for whatever reason, most often than not, have developed the habit of criticizing, condemning than commending whatever is Nigerian including negative and disturbing concocted stories about leaders and the country that is seriously de-marketing the country before the international community and prospective investors. According to him, this lack of sense of patriotism is part of the factors that slows development of the country. Governor Bala who was speaking to journalists, penultimate week at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa International Airport, Bauchi, said on the contrary, Nigerians are innovative,…
An in-depth investigation on the position of public schools in Nigeria shows glaring decayed structures and absence of learning and teaching tools as well as qualified and motivated teachers with demoralized parents to conveniently handle the education sector successfully. One needs not to be told that the educational standard of Nigeria has fallen off the quality cliff courtesy of sharp corrupt practices, absence of committed and educated educational managers in the supervising organs of government. Nigeria remains an ever interesting country with charlatans and clowns on the saddle of affairs under the protection of security agencies. Across the country, the…
As Governor Bala Muhammed of Bauchi State steps forward for the commencement of his second term, it is expected that more dividends of democracy are in the pipeline to benefit the people within available resources. One remembers the 35th President of the United States of America, late John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose early days in office were so eventful that history hoisted him as a rare leader who didn’t need a long stay to prove his mettle in leadership. In only two years, Kennedy revived his country’s low balling economy with legislations and policies that sought to eliminate America’s debilitating racial…
By every available standard, Nigeria was a country President Buhari inherited in 2015 celebrating corruption and thieves of all hues, mediocrity and governance by deceit. As a country that was lousily established on fraud, one tries as much as possible to justify so many obnoxious smells of institutionalized fraud and corruption stinking to the high heavens in Nigeria. The stench is threatening to get all choked-up, unless President Tinubu, and other committed Nigerians act fast to clear the mess before his exit and handover a fresh and focused country to his successor. One needs to live in Nigeria to experience…
From the onset, he never pretended to be a political novice or a merchant in politics pursuing a business capital to be in government. He resurfaced on the political turf armed with a robust and well articulated blue-print for the good of Bauchi State. His political journey began way back in 2007 when he defeated the power of incumbency to be in Senate. Since May 29, 2019, Bauchi State has been steered by a governor whose conviction is to make living better for the people, transform the state into an investment destination and make it contribute its sub-national, quota to…
Since creation, Nigerians has never had it this bad according to history. I’m talking about the reality of terrible oddities in our lives. Strange acts wrought by people who seem ordinary from wretched homes hitherto threatened by poverty and malnutrition but unknowingly, sophisticated in theft of public wealth, wickedness and barbarism while in leadership. Men rape their daughters. Public servants turned to crooks and thieves. Other ones and their sons take turns in raping minors who they put in family ways. Claimed religious leaders, rape physically challenged ladies in places of worship and flee. Boys go after girls’ under wears…
His first appearance on the political turf was in 2003 on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP), which was catastrophic to a first timer. Not deterred with the humiliating defeat, he repeated same appearance in 2007 on the platform of a modified platform, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). The effort was again disastrous. Not tired as a retired military officer, in 2011, he reappeared on the platform of a brand new party, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Again, he received another bashing from the electorates. Not comfortable and convinced with his defeat and the authenticity of declared…
As President Buhari vacated the seat of power on May 29th, before his ceremonial exit, there was a need for him to have probed the management of Ecological Fund under his watch to clear doubts in some minds. If he had thoroughly probed the Ecological Fund, many souls of those criminals who butchered the Fund could have been in the correctional facilities serving jail sentences apart from seizures of illegally acquired properties. The Ecological Fund was established in 1981 with a clear mandate of solving serious ecological problems that include; flooding, soil erosion, drought, desertification, oil spillage, general environmental pollution,…
Till this moment throughout my sojourn on planet earth, I have never come across a set of people that hate to be developed by others like those so called indigenes of Plateau State languishing in abject poverty, frustrated, confused but deceived by their so called leaders living in opulence. If you desire their votes in any election, tell them what they want to hear. Tell them you will flush out those Muslims in their midst. Tell them you will sponsor the killings of Fulani, and their votes are yours in the name of Jesus! “I am a son of the…
In the entire history of the world, the world has never existed without challenges and it would never. At every phase of human history, leadership is required to change the world; authentic, visionary, assertive, creative, transformative, sincere and disruptive leaders are required to fix and forge their societies forward without bias or sentiments attached. At the peak of public leadership in any country is the presidential leadership, either a president, prime minister, or a monarch, every nation looks up to the Head of State to provide hope, optimism and shared social possibilities. To lead a country in a time of…
The Vice Chancellor Federal University Dutsen-Ma, Katsina State, Professor Armaya’u Hamisu Bichi, has commended the foresight, support and concern of the management of the National Universities Commission (NUC) in their desire for universities to attain academic excellence, as proven by the recent approval of 23 additional undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the university. Speaking to our correspondent on phone on the recent approval of additional programmes for the university, the vice chancellor said: “The approval, although was not on a platter of gold because a team of experts visited the university to assess human and material resources on the ground…
Gololo Appeals to Tinubu for Competent Appointments Muhammed Garba Gololo, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made an appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Gololo urged Tinubu to appoint only competent, loyal, and committed party members who diligently contributed to his victory in the keenly contested presidential election on February 25, 2023, to critical positions within his government. The objective is to achieve the government’s Renewed Hope agenda. Speaking to this medium of phone to express his gratitude and appreciation to members of his federal constituency of Gamawa in Bauchi State for the support extended to the APC…
The polity was charged earlier than the scheduled date of February 25th by the serious, masquerades and the usual sycophants to politicians jostling for elective positions in the presidential and national assembly elections. Deceitful games and unrefined lies for ridicule, occupied the centre stage of the campaigns including use of thugs, marabouts and juju priests by desperate power mongers and their hangers-on. In Bauchi State for instance and Kano where I covered the campaigns in line of duty, dangerous weapons were freely used and brandished by opponents of Governor Bala Muhammed and in Kano by those against APC candidates while…
We least expected the touted ‘ruthless’ and anti-corruption retired military general would fail, in salvaging our drowning country. Alas! We are where we are still in search for true messiah not the messiah accompanied by the likes of Sabi’u Tunde etc. We are consoled by the fact that everything that has a beginning must definitely have an end. So is the same natural trend with the outgone Muhammadu Buhari eight-year administration whose hitherto soaring popularity tragically descended to its lowest ebb over the years. But the negative reversal of the swaying of an erstwhile political hurricane was politically fatalistic. It…
The Question of Religion and Ethnicity in our Politic Religious leaders these days are not helping the growth of unity in Nigeria going by their public preaching, greed, sycophancy, body language, behavior and antecedents. Of recent, religious difference was smuggled more into politics in the case of the just concluded presidential and national assembly elections. That may not be the first time such sentiment surfaced in our politics that is seriously retarding our progress and affecting good governance, unity and confidence. Religion has unfortunately been carried to the highest level of decision making in our political and governing system. There…
