By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The explosion of a car at a NIPCO CNG (compressed natural gas) station at Aduwawa in Benin city on Wednesday, October 16, 2024; has sparked more fears in the minds of those opposed to, or scared of converting their vehicles to CNG powered ones, to save energy costs from […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. University of Abuja is an institution I hold dear to my heart. That’s my alma mater. Popularly referred to as Unibuja or gwags, it is one of the finest public universities we have. It is unique in so many ways providing one of the most excellent learning environments in […]
Katsina State has been facing a lot of challenges lately, especially from banditry, making it one of the most challenged theatres in the war against terrorism. As we all know, terrorism stagnates everything. All the indices of growth and development come to a standstill and no matter what effort you put in, it almost amounts […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Decades ago while I was still in the University, my aunt, Kulu Kyari, had introduced me to some pamphlets tagged Leadership Confidential. They were small green colored pamphlets written and distributed by late Sam Nda Isaiah, founder of Leadership Newspapers. This was before the creation of Leadership Newspapers. Later […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. On the 10th of September, 2024; The Vice-President, Sen. Kashim Shettima was in Maiduguri, to commiserate with victims of the flood disaster that had engulfed the state capital from the collapse of the Alau Dam. He represented Mr. President, to oversee the implementation of the comprehensive flood mitigation measures […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Edo polls has come and gone and not surprisingly, APC won. Yes, APC! If governance is detached from reality, elections are not. Edo had a PDP governor that denied 14 lawmakers their seats in the state assembly and blatantly refused to swear them in. He disenfranchised them and their […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Filled with patriotism, flummoxed by anger, yet motivated by the plight of the common man – and today even the not so comman man; I’m penning this as a dumbfounded Nigerian who is finding it quite difficult to wrap his head around the non-musical tango between Dangote refinery (DR), […]
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir. Governance as it were usually drives a top down approach, where programmes and projects are designed from the top, with a holistic blueprint that provides a uniform approach to different solution requirements. Solutions to problems at the top or centre are driven down to the grassroots without taking into consideration, the […]
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 […]