As intelligent, hardworking and technologically advanced as we brag to be, it is ironic that at the end of the day, we fail to show up for patriotism and country — and choose to dwell on the divides that do not crystallise into the positive building blocks of our national development. We tow the lines […]

It was New Year’s eve all over again on Nigerian twittersphere, as the Nigerian Government announced that it was lifting the ban it had placed on twitter in the country. Twitter was to be restored by 12 am, on the 13th of January, 2022. We all kept vigil as we waited for the midnight hour, […]

Just about a week ago, I wrote an article on the 26th of December 2021 titled, ‘Tetfund at 10: The giant strides of the Apostle of Research and Development’, celebrating Tetfund as it marked its 10 years of remarkable service in the nation’s tertiary education sector. I harped on the leadership qualities of its Executive […]

Tetfund recently celebrated its 10 years of service, having gone through a lot of changes in its functions, duties, coverage and composition. It had existed under different names before now, but the amendments to the act establishing it, have turned it into a Tetfund, with more coverage of tertiary education in the country. At the […]

It is no longer news that on the 7th of December, 2021; 42 innocent travellers were gruesomely burnt in a bus, as they moved through Gidan Bawa village of Sabon Birni local government of Sokoto state. 35 died instantly and 7 survived with very severe burns and were being treated in the hospital. May Allah […]

The presumption was that General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd), as a candidate for Presidency, with battlefront and war time experience, would be a better fit than former President Jonathan; in handling the insecurity situation of the country. Boko haram had spread its murderous wings and was flying sky high, killing and maiming, like we’ve never seen […]

What is a massacre actually? An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people. As a verb, Oxford describes it as say: thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers. A massacre entails the brutal killing of many many people. In hundreds or thousands, perhaps even more. The leaked, porous, unsigned report of the Endsars panel in Lagos […]

If I’m not writing on ‘Gombe Blazing on’…, I’m writing about ‘Inuwa Yahaya’s footprints of purposeful leadership’.  Before these, were ‘Proactive and decisive tutorials from Gombe’, and ‘Gombe, on the cusp of economic transformation’. Gombe has always been home, ofcourse being a part of Bauchi state before now — and a very courteous and brotherly […]

I have had cause to write numerous times about Gombe state, and the wonderful job Gov. Inuwa Yahaya is doing in the state. On the 4th of March, 2019, in an article titled ‘Gombe, on the cusp of economic transformation’, I wrote about his efforts on the reticulation and water works, to bring water to […]

Do you remember when Elrufai chased bandits into the bush, along the Kaduna/ Abuja expressway as he came across a bandit attack along the highway? He practically trailed the assailants into the bush, chasing the gunmen, along with his retinue of armed escorts. He just wouldn’t stand aside and watch the security men put their […]