Sheikh Goni and the hypocrisy of the Nigerian Media
By Sani Danaudi Mohammed Everyone, including good people will do bad things.That’s the nature of humans.We all have flaws. We all commit sins. Nobody is perfect. But learn from your…
Ganduje, Dala Inland Dry Port and Sustainable Economic Development
By Abba Anwar After over twenty years of neglect and deliberate suffocation, by previous administrations before the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari and also before the coming of Governor Abdullahi…
Lawal Mu’azu: Idol to proteges, exemplary role model per excellence
By Usman Abdullahi Koli It gives one a great feeling to know that people look up to him whenever they wish to do something, not because he inspires fear, but…
ECWA Should Search Its Soul
By Dr Aliyu U. Tilde I will start from the conclusion of this article. The Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) should search its soul. But in its beginning, I must…
Gov. Yahaya Bello: A valorous ambassador of the New-age.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. On the 6th of November, 2019; in a piece titled: “Kogi 2019: Oshiomhole’s all in with Yahaya Bello,” I underscored how then APC party…
ONE YEAR IN OFFICE: Inside Hon. Zaharadden Abubakar’s scorecard on good governance
By Rilwan Muhammad Exactly one year ago on this day, a fresh leadership chapter of Gwaram local government was opened with the swearing-in of Hon. Zahraddeen Abubakar as the Executive…
Defection: Senators Lawal Yahaya and Halliru Jika must vacate their Seats
By Saadu Umar “Section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution is to stop carpet crossing. A person elected to on Party A must remain in Party A for the term for which…
Damning rate of Jinn claims: why we need to lift the curtain
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin While on a national assignment, within some distance from us, suddenly one of the Government Day Secondary School girls entered in high spirits, exhibiting behavior like that…
OPINION: Health Cost of Smoking cigarettes
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin The first time I could read and comprehend the caution written on the pack of tobacco it rocked my world. The phrase on the pack we are…
Correcting the misperceptions regarding Atiku Abubakar’s Higher Education Policy
By Abdulhakeem Ishaq Ringim Prof Abdelghaffar Amoka earlier raised a concern over one of Atiku Abubakar’s proposed policy prescriptions that suggested the transfer of responsibilities of funding and control of…
Who will be the next President? The hunt intensifies
By Ahmed Ghani Hassan In the fourth republic, Nigeria had four Democratic presidents, which three of them were under the platform of People Democratic Party ( P.D.P) and the incumbent…
When Bourdillion roared.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Over and over, I’ve heard Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu being referred to as the Lion of Bourdillion. He owns the title Jagaban, and has…
Mahiru Maiwada Wundi could be instrumental to the success of Atiku Abubakar in Bauchi.
By Mai Gari Considering his vast political knowledge especially grassroot politics, Mahiru Maiwada Wundi can play a vital role in the campaigns of the PDP presidential aspirant Alhaji Atiku Abubakar…
Case of Betrayal: Tinubu and APC Political Squabbles
By Abdulrahman Yunusa Although aside the obvious fact that “Politics is a game of interest” there is also this saying in politics that “Always prepare for the worse” more relatively…
MAHMUDA HASSAN TABLA: Unwavered leader impacting on the lives of all
By Usman Abdullahi Koli Local governments in democratic settings are universally known as the tier closer to the people especially at the grassroot levels. For candidates contesting various positions ranging…
ABUBAKAR Y. SULEIMAN: Celebrating the unopposed candidate
By Usman Abdullahi Koli One of the numerous banal reasons that make majority of the populace still believe and recall past leaders unto political positions is unforgettable legacies erected when…
APC and Southern Presidency: Lessons from the PDP Presidential Primaries
By Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim Some days back, Orji Uzor Kalu on Channels TV identified Kwankwaso to be their only headache in APC and a lot of people, especially those sympathetic…
The APC National Convention must not be another Bazaar
By Adamu Abdullahi A lot have been said about the last PDP convention that it was a dollar rain . Sadly, this sort of occurrence was one of the excuses…
Harira’s Life matters
By Sani Adamu Hassan. The gruesome killing of Harira Jibrin, a 32 year Old woman, who is 9 months Pregnant and her four Kids – Fatima 9, Khadija 7, Hadiza…
3 Years of Governor Inuwa’s Saddle in the Savannah: A Vindication Of A Promise Keeper
By Ismaila Uba Misilli Given the character of politics and governance in our clime, there is the tendency by the people to be cynical about pronouncements or promises made by…
THREE YEARS DOWN THE LINE: A reminder to Gov. Bala
By Sulaiman Maijama’a This is a difficult piece to write. How can anyone following my writings from the start of the Bala Mohammed’s led-administration not submit that I have been…
OPINION: Inuwa Yahaya’s Moment of Honour and Reward As He Gets Second Term Ticket
By Bola Saliu For a man who has radically and demonstrably rewritten the socio-economic history of Gombe State within barely 3 years of his stewardship as Governor, Muhammdu Inuwa Yahaya’s…
Guyaba Celebrates in Custody
By Umar Sani Yakubu It is over a week since the arrest and eventual detention of a Students’ Leader and critic Comrade Aminu Harsanu Guyaba after been presented before the…
USMAN ABDULLAHI KOLI: A pen wizard that outshines salubrious ones
By: Mukhtar Garba Kobi It is a known fact that some people are naturally gifted, they do things in few hours that others spend days trying, when one is privileged…
OPINION: Deborah’s blasphemy and taking the law into the hands
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin Since last week, the country has been sitting on the edge of peaceful coexistence thanks to the blasphemous remark made by Deborah Samuel, a 200L student of…
Why I support Dr. Ladan Salihu
By Sulaiman Maijama’a I did not know Dr. Ladan Salihu before 2015, perhaps because of my young age or lack of exposure to the Media. When I finished Secondry School…
One word to super Bureaucrat Yayale Ahmad @70 years
Godknows B. Igali The date April 15, 2022 passed almost solemnly, obscured by the celebrations of the Christians’ holy day of Good Friday which, interestingly coincided with the Muslim fasting…
Comrade, Comradeship and Comradery
By Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD This fasting comes with many instances of human delineation, differentiation and casual ordering of otherness among Arewa social media. As with other of our human…
Johnchizzy’s foundation: a great step in becoming a billionaire of your time.
By Muhammad Umar Shehu The days of been poor in the midst of availability has finally come to an end in the lives of the citizens of this country. This…
OPINION: President Buhari Must Not Allow The Governors To Kill Local Government Autonomy Bill.
By Saadu Umar “In politics, nothing moves unless it’s pushed”. Morton C Blackwell, Laws of Politics. On March 1, 2022, the National Assembly (NASS) was widely reported to have passed…
Kirfi flood: We Cry for help before it is too late to Speak up
By Adamu Musa Kaloma In times of danger it is important people act together. It’s very sad to realise that up to date no single pragmatic approach to Execute a…
OPINION: The Dangerous Disqualifying Attributes of Osinbajo
By Saadu Umar Behind Osinbajo’s credentials, intellect and innocent but confident mien lie some scary beliefs, scarier than the golden poisonous dart frog. His attributes are disqualifyingly dangerous. His potential…
Slapping Saga: A lesson from Mrs. Obianu’s action
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin Depending on the individual peculiarities, but naturally, when one is provoked, the urge to slap becomes increasingly irresistible. Nigerians have been exploring this phenomenon from time to…
NYSC Redeployment and Service in Absentia: How not Fall as a Prey (2)
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin For my insight about this topic, check the previous article. The present discussion wishes to share a little bit of my experience. At the time of deployment,…
NYSC Redeployment and Service in Absentia: How not Fall as a Prey (1)
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin Many countries would seek to foster unity, cultural integration and religious tolerance by rolling out one particular national service or the other. Nigeria, who had witnessed an…
How to Change Bauchi in Four Years: 10 Point Progressive Agenda.
By Saadu Umar Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence….…
Dr. Suleiman Muhammad Lame: valorous academic messiah of our time
By Usman Abdullahi Koli Academicians in different institutions are the reservoir of knowledge in the face of the earth; they are not only teaching how to read and write but…
ASUU vs FG: A solution to the university revitalization fight
By Abdelghaffar Amoka ASUU in 2008, provided pictorial documentation on the state of infrastructural decay in public universities to the Federal Government (FG). After several struggles and strikes, FG put…
SHAMSU BALA MOHAMMED: ONE IN A MILLION EVACUATING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FROM ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS
By Usman Abdullahi Koli People live and die but name of those that did well are always crafted with golden inscriptions and recognize in the whole nation. Most youths in…
SOS: some thoughts on Ƴar-Bokon Arewa
By Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD You see, we may have our misgivings about many societal problems, we may even disagree on what causes what and what remedies what. However, our…
OPINION: The Business of making money in Whatsapp Groups
By Amina Ibrahim Umar Between 2020 to date, I have been added to a number of WhatsApp groups with the sole purpose of raising funds for wedding ceremony of friends…
The Abba Kyari scandal sheds light on Police-NDLEA rivalry
By Ahmed Musa Husaini You could sense the fierce inter-agency rivalry and distrust in the police statement about Abba Kyari’s arrest. What the police is simply telling us is that…
The beautiful life of the Nigerian university lecturers that you do not know.
By Abdelghaffar Amoka About 2 weeks ago, a friend visited me in my office and while we were discussing, he said he will love to be a lecturer. He is…
ABBA KYARI: An anomaly turning into an abnormality
By Bala Ibrahim The last 48 hours have been bizarre in a way, because they arrived with peculiar challenges that have severe and devastating shock to me all over. First…
What many don’t know about university lecturers in Nigeria.
By Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD An Assistant Lecturer with a take home N120 000 naira monthly would have to pay his PhD school fees, pay to accomplish his PhD studies,…
Ten takes from the current Kannywood boils
By Hashim Muhammad Suleiman, PhD 1. Film industry is globally and locally an amalgamation of people living on the fringe of and within societies. 2. The crux of film industry…
Alan Waƙa: A unique trans-national singer
By Usman Abdullahi Koli It is true that music is a universal language. Alan Waka’s song which has gone beyond the shore of Hausa speakers –to a across borders is…
OPINION: ASUU and the Fight for us!
By Adamu Musa Kaloma It use to annoyed me whenever the news of Academic strikes looms. It makes me think ASUU are the villians and FG are the saint. I’m…
COMRADE ABDULWAHAB DIYAR: Redeemer to the lost glories of APC youth in North-East
By Saifullahi Yusha’u The only way to correct the mistakes of past leaders and impact too on many in a democratic settings is to engage into politics or choose good…
Professor Zulum and his ‘empty seat of power’
By Isa Gusau From the most part of March 2020 to date, I have observed that Borno’s governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, abandons the executive red chair, and desk in…
OPINION: Motivation of girls child education is the key to success
By Aishatu Shuaibu Yunusa Education is a fundamental human right that should be availed to all citizens with the rehabilitation indulgent of having or indecating the tendency lenient of age,…
DR. ALIYU IBRAHIM YAKUB: Skilled politician fit to take APC youth to promise land
By Saifullahi Yusha’u In any democratic dispensation, political party leaders are important actors that bring well-deserving candidates to limelight, they serve as the bridge which link both side (electorates and…
Killings of minors: taming the upsurge
By Usman Abdullahi Koli Children are one of the best gifts given to couples by Almighty God. They bring happiness to their parents. Every parent wants to see his/her children…
OPINION: Hermit’s Paradise
By Hadiya A. Tilde There was a cleansing whiteness and quietness to the house, a kind of purity that forced one into the now. A pot of incense was frequently…
2023: How APC Can Kick PDP Out of Power in Bauchi
By Saadu Umar As we welcome 2022, the year marking the beginning of the end of the four year term of His Excellency, Senator Bala Mohammed, (the governor) there is…
BUHARI’S PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW: The joke is on you Bozo
By Maiwada Dammallam This is a response to Farooq Kperogi’s article “Buhari should give no more interviews” published 8/1/22. Kperogi’s latest outing to disparage President Buhari shouldn’t surprise anybody given…
OPINION: The worsening of insecurity in northern Nigeria
By Josephine Samuel Insecurity is becoming the issue of everyday in northern Nigeria, Everywhere is blood, it over stained the life of our citizens and this is not something worth…
Bauchi – Katagum: A Divide We Need To Heal
By Saadu Umar “Malam Yaƙubu and Malam Zaki were best buddies – their descendants distrust one another” A few days ago, I called Kabiru to my home in Bauchi to…
Choosing the Suspended Sarkin Burra as my Man of the year
By Abdul Ahmad Burra I am relatively apathetic to royalism and monarchy perhaps because there is no royal blood in me and the fact that traditional institutions in Nigeria are…
GWARAM UNDER HON. ZAHRADDEEN ABUBAKAR: Six months at a glance
By Rilwan Muhammad As a passer-by to Gwaram, one of the luckiest local government areas of Jigawa state that got a leader of unmatchable standing, you would not resist the…
BANDITTRY IN NORTH WEST: The Way Forward
By Usman Aliyu Sambo Banditry is on the increase in northern Nigeria. This is a region with many security problems, chief among them is Boko Haram insurgency. In the north-central…
OPINION: Bauchi and politics of deforestation
By Abdul Ahmad Burra Recently a committee was inaugurated by Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammad to implement the Government’s White Paper on the report of administrative committee on land use abuse,…
OPINION: Erecting legacies of Dr. Adamu Saidu in ATAP Bauchi
By Usman Abdullahi Koli When a person dies, all that he or she has are inherited by other relatives and nothing of benefit goes to him or her except knowledge…
Drug Abuse: An increasing menace among Nigerian Youths
By Yunusa Usman Chindo The current health situation of Nigerian Youths most especially men and Women is disheartening and worrisome considering their engagement into hard drug abuses , in which…
Breakdown of National Security policy framework
BY SHEHU USMAN BELLO For over two decades now, Nigeria and Nigerians have plunged into an array of security challenges characterized by Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East, indigenous people…
OPINION: Must English and Mathematics be a yardstick to get admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions?
By Muhammad Umar Shehu English and Mathematics shouldn’t be a yardstick to get admission into tertiary institution in Nigeria why because there ample of people out there that are vary…
OPINION: Wrong timing for tomorrow’s celebrations in Daura
By Maiwada Dammallam Barring any last minute change, Nigerians will tomorrow witness the conferment of the traditional title of “Talban Daura” on Malam Yusuf Muhammadu Buhari by the Emir of…
Opinion: Effect of Almajiri child education in Northern Nigeria
By Rakiyatu Muhammad Yusuf The almajiri child education has become one of the basic phenomenon in Northern Nigeria, whereas parents send their children to Islamic boarding school which is almajiranci…
OPINION: Insecurity and Buhari’s failed promises
By Sani Adamu Hassan The present Nigerian security situation is disheartening and worrisome considering the devastating effects whereby day in day out people were been killed, kidnapped and hundred of…
Dr. Ibrahim kabir: Pace setter in BASEPA, rebranding the Pearl of Tourism
By Usman Abdullahi Koli One of the best achievements in life is when the general public celebrated one’s services to humanity while the celebrant is hale and hearty. Many have…
OPINION: Little things, they add up to big things in life
By Muhammad Umar Shehu Yes, little things, they add up to big things in life, why because the little amount of hard work you put in life lead to a…
Egocentric politicians: Agents that impede Nigeria’s speedy developments
By Usman Abdullahi Koli Nigeria, a country located in Western coast of Africa is one of the products of British colonialism. It encompassed over 250 ethnic groups and endowed with…
OPINION: The plight of house officers at state Specialist Hospital Gombe
Medical graduates in Nigeria are required to undergo a one-year mandatory housemanship to further acquaint themselves with the practical knowledge in the medical profession before undertaking their national youth service.…
OPINION: Open Letter To Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje OFR, Governor Of Kano State.
By Muhammad Bashir Your Excellency, the Khadimul Islam I am prayerful that my letter reached you sound – and in still in the spirit of helping Kano state citizens to…
Barr Bello: the contemporary redeemer of the hopeless
By Usman Abdullahi Koli From the time Allah created this world some are destined to help while others are meant to receive the assistance, if all people are the same…
Re: Governor Bala Boondoggles
By Mallam Bibi Dogo I read with utter indignation an article written by one Mallam Saadu a lawyer and Secretary Publicity Committee of APC with the above headline that went…
Governor Bala: Please Revamp Bauchi Moribund Industries
By Adamu Yalwa Gabi Today’s topic is just like a wake up call to the Bauchi State Governor Bala Muhammad in motivating him to fulfill one of the integral part…
OPINION: Hajara Yakubu Wanka, PDP Deputy National Women Leader, A Round Peck in a Round Hole
By Isyaka Laminu Badamasi The emergence of Hajiya Hajara Yakubu Wanka as the Deputy National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) didn’t come to all discernible minds as…
Time to stop the avoidable deaths by building collapse
By Maiwada Dammallam The recent collapse of a 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos, is another avoidable tragedy that Nigeria shouldn’t have witnessed given numerous similar tragedies caused by identical professional…
Albarka Radio: Celebrating four years of transformation through programming
By Usman Abdullahi Koli With global communication becoming so easy now a days after the first invention of radio by Guglielmo Marconi in 1985, it has traversed different stages of…