by Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. About A century ago, the saying was, “do not blow your own trumpet, and allow others to blow it for you.” The whole world has departed from that now, and if you do not blow your own trumpet, no one will blow it for you actually. As a writer, […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Patriotism is speedily becoming an extinct ideal, while patriots have truly become endangered species; as a new world order of crypto-phenomena guaranty the formulation and propagation of lies and fabrications, as basis for the execution of– you name it; wars, genocide, pandemics and whatnot. This global trend, wheeling […]
by Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi In November of 2019, in a piece titled, ‘NAF: Consolidating a strategic and logistical Airbase in Bauchi’, I had written that; “The most visible of the dividends of the change agenda, that has come the way of Bauchi, is the siting of an Airforce Base in Bauchi, just adjacent […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi The narrator’s voice, over the live coverage of Nigeria’s 15th January, 2021, Armed Forces Remembrance Day, went on with the script that had the pigeons flying, saying; “there they go, and up they go”… supposedly describing the pigeons that were let out of their cage, as ceremoniously done every […]
by Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. As a fresher at the University of Abuja back in 1994, the University campus tagged ‘Mini Campus’, really felt like a glorified secondary school – and half the country referred to the University as such. It was a start up campus and it mostly had small structures in similarly […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Every year I pen down a tribute in December, to mark your demise, which was on the 8th of December 2009. I did not write for two of the years in-between because I was on a very busy schedule, as I had delved into poltics – you know, I’m […]
by Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. I had written a tribute – more like an expression of my deep gratitude to Sam Nda Isaiah, for giving me a platform to consolidate on a writing adventure as a columnist on the backpage of Leadership Newspapers. The piece titled, ‘Merry Christmas in Advance to Uncle Sam’s was […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi The Southern part of the country had come up with Amotekun, as a community policing/ vigilante model to counter the very numerous threats of cultism, kidnapping, rape, and all other forms of malfeasance that have continually destabilised the peaceful existence of the south-western states. Sen. Bala Ahmed Tinubu had […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi Reflecting on how the CNN coverage of the 2016 US presidential elections had woefully projected Hillary Clinton as the winner; I was forced to tread with caution, what the network’s speculations and analysis was, in the just concluded US presidential elections. It wa so palpable that their analysts […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi On the 18th of February, 2019, I had written an article titled: ‘With broken hearts and ready PVCs’, where I had conveyed the disappointment of Nigerians over the postponed 2019 general elections. Snippets of information about the postponement had started coming online a few days before INEC came through […]