By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Dr. Dikko Radda of Katsina State was recently awarded the Governor of the year at the Leadership Conference and Awards 2023 themed, An Economy in distress, which way forward? By pioneering community policing in Katsina, while building a robust intelligence gathering network between security agencies and the communities in […]
Well merited: Dikko Radda as Governor of the year 2023.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Dr. Dikko Radda of Katsina State was recently awarded the Governor of the year at the Leadership Conference and Awards 2023 themed, An Economy in distress, which way forward? By pioneering community policing in Katsina, while building a robust intelligence gathering network between security agencies and the communities in […]
Oronsaye report: the good and the blues.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. There is not an iota of doubt that the Federal Government is over bloated to put it lightly. Quite a number of parastatals not only bear about the same nomenclature, but share practically the same missions and have not so dis-similar functions. The level of duplicity in the aims […]
Food security: within sight.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. In Nigeria, The rise in the exchange rate affects virtually everything. If the naira value of the dollar increases overnight, we wake up to a morning where the price of garden egg increases, and so does the price of mangoes! So the fall in the value of the naira […]
For the umpteenth time it is not Tinubu’s fault!
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. We all found jest in fPMB’s question, laced in his hausa/ fulani accent, “where is the power?” 16 billion dollars dedicated to providing adequate electricity supply for Nigeria during the OBJ administration, and 4 administrations after, our power supply is as epileptic or even worse than when the billion […]
Nigeria: divided eagles, united while flying!
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. With the invectives thrown between different tribes and religions on a daily, magnifying the inter-tribal and inter-religious wars, brewing so much enmity and discord across the country, one often wonders, is this a country? – resonating with Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’! In the east, IPOB is killing […]
Cardoso at CBN: The most unenviable job at the moment.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The naira is the worst performing currency at the moment, with the Zimbabwean dollar standing at 3 Naira to 1 Zimbabwean dollar. Today, one cannot safely quote the value of the American dollar to the naira, because of the very high volatility of the rate. FX inflow into the […]
Dear President Tinubu,
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. I am one of your most ardent supporters, an APCist to the core, as hard as nails believer of the renewed hope agenda of your administration, and a dyed in the wool official and leader of one of the Asiwaju support groups that toiled with our own resources, to […]
Insecurity: a Kanuri man’s ‘Pulaku’ approach.
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Pulaku is originally a fulani word that means ‘to be shy’. The fulani as a diverse people adhere to a code of conduct called Pulaku, which exudes patience, wisdom, modesty, and courage. There is this age old traditional friendly banter between the fulanis, and the kanuris, each holding onto […]
Youth empowerment on the radar of Dikko Radda
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. As a progressive, the more I follow the activities of Dr. Dikko Radda, the more my hopes are renewed, that there is indeed a generation of emerging leadership in Northern Nigeria; rigorous in its pursuits, robust in its approach to onerous challenges, sincere in its endeavors, and competent enough […]