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By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The next level is the promised land of all the APC campaigns in the 2019 elections, especially at the Presidential level. This is premised upon a pledge and commitment to improve on the gains from 2015 to date by the APC led government which had pivoted its campaign mainly […]

By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. Chief Obafemi Awolowo had once said that, “The children of the poor you failed to train will never let your children have peace”. The spate of kidnappings and banditry all over the country has become the most pertinent and worrisome issue in Nigeria now and it has fast become […]

By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi Two out of the three tiers of government; being the Federal and State governments, have flourished financially, under our current democratic dispensation of the 4th republic, leaving out the local governments, whose fate lies in the hands of state governors. In all honesty, the governors have not been prudent […]

Hate Speech or Freedom of Speech? By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), on Thursday, suspended the operating license of DAAR Communications, the operator of AIT and Raypower. The NBC said that AIT has continually violated the 2004 broadcasting code, even after persistent warnings to the Television station, to tow the […]

By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. On the 26th of May, we were awaken by the sad news of the demise of Dr. Ibrahim Yakubu Lame, Chairman of the board of The Nigeria Airspace Management Agency. He died at Niziamiye, the Nigeria – Turkish Hospital at Abuja. He died at around 4 am, after hospitalisation […]

RUGA GETS THE LUGER By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi A yoruba proverb says, “there is no one who appreciates a person that doesn’t finish the work he started than the one who completes it”. PMB’s works are replete with projects that were started by the Jonathan administration and abandoned or not completed. These include […]

By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. “Perception is reality in this world” – Robert Foster, State Rep. and Mississippi GOP gubernatorial candidate. He stood against having a woman in his campaign tour bus because he didnt want to be perceived as scandalous or having an affair. When someone insinuates something or believes he sees something, […]

“The most comfortable thing is to live within your means and damn the consequences” – President Buhari. A simple anecdote for financial prudence and self discipline, admonishing young Nigerians to live within their means and shun unaffordable luxuries which are usually acquired fraudulently. But the Nigerian blogosphere was awash with criticism and malevolence and there […]

A dark ominous cloud looms over Nigeria, carrying a flock of birds with molten stones of poverty and hardship, as a $9billion judgement which was unfairly given – racially driven perhaps, is set to reset and upset the country’s dwindling fortunes, having just recovered from a recession barely two years ago. If the Federal Government […]

The Trumpian era of modern day America has heralded a culture where white supremacy and racism are consciously encouraged, thriving under state policy, and it is no wonder, xenophobia is thriving all over the world. Racial and ethnic profiling have been re-invigorated by the POTUS, entrenching immigration reforms that are targeted at other races and […]