By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Nigeria had successfully won an arbitration challenge to an award granted against it, in favor of P & ID (Process and Industrial developments Ltd). The arbitration award had grown to about 11 billion dollars. This was after a decade of legal tussle between Nigeria and the hedge fund backed […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The Vice-President Sen. Kashim Shettima turns 58 today, the 2nd of September, 2024. In a statement issued by his spokesperson Mr. Stanley Nkwocha, the VP called on his well wishers not to spend money on newspaper and TV adverts or other lavish gifts to celebrate his birthday. Mr. Nkwocha […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. In response to the banditry that has plagued the North West, Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State, created the Community Watch Corps, drawing vigilantes from all the wards of all the local governments in the state, comprising of atleast 1500 personnel, which is currently being doubled to a 3000 […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Nigerians or perhaps Northerners, may not want to concede that the finest years of purposeful leadership ever experienced were the military years of leadership under Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. The democratic adventure since the beginning of the 4th Republic has been a mishmash of mixed fortunes. The lack of […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Drawing from the Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative, the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare is recording a lot of developments on both fronts of policy formulation and direction – which is largely aimed at improving the quality of services delivered by healthcare personnel, as well as infrastructural […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. I was livid when I heard former governor Fayose’s diatribe against the North and how we’re responsible for the world of economic troubles President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PBAT, is facing. I had composed a virulent rejoinder and somehow I didn’t get down to scribbling it out. Then I heard […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The multi billion dollar investment of Aliko Dangote in the form of the world’s largest single chain refinery, the largest refinery in Africa, and perhaps, the largest refinery owned by an individual in the world has seen a lot of ‘crazy’, from inception to completion. 20 billion dollars in […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The signs are looking quite ominous as clouds of destructionists are forming a storm, threatening thunders of violence, and a downpour of carnage, as they assemble under the pretence of protests to end bad governance, while their eyes are set on more sinister intent. These same players were behind […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. When it rains it pours is the best phrase to describe what is happening to the Dangote refinery, as it grapples with one challenge after the other, especially as it prepares for the take-off of the PMS component of its refining processes. Dangote refinery is the largest investment by […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Dr. Dikko Radda was once a local government Chairman of Charanchi local government, under the administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, when he was the Governor of Katsina state, and therefore appreciates comprehensively, the challenges faced by the day to day running of local government administrations. With the […]