KWANKWASIYYA: CRITICS AND PROSPECTS

WRITTEN BY NAJIBULLAH A.NUHU The swearing in of the newly elected Public Officials on 29th may, 2011 usher in a fresh public Agenda namely, calculation of gains and loses. This is especially after the three mouths of these elected Public Officials in office. The modest objective of this piece is to closely examine some of the activities of the State Government to improve its leadership where there is slip-up and further strengthen its credit...

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THE LOST GLORY OF STUDENT UNIONISM IN BUK

The experience of the universities has shown that when the climate is ripe, and the susceptibility to radicalization is married to a heightened sense of social injustice, educational institutions can indeed become factories for the production of idealistic Social Reformers and even highly committed Revolutionaries. For about five solid years in BUK am into Struggle, Agitating the Yearning and Expressions of the entire Bukites.   Last...

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GENEVA 2012

My speech as World Bank observer in the WTO MOCK SUMMIT B.U.K. it was superb.......kudus to the organizing comitte and our father M M YUSIF. Diary would remember you in future! I am grateful that today presents yet another opportunity to interact with fellow observers and distinguish delegate across the globe on multilateral trading systems. I am convinced that regular dialogue with parliamentarians strengthens the democratic foundation of the...

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NIGERIA; A PAPER NATION

  Some days back I was watching the London version of who wants to be a millionaire when the man on the hot sit was asked; what name do we call someone or something that appears to be strong but in real sense is weak? The man on the hot sit did not waste his time to choose option  (D) paper tiger, while other options were A paper lion, B paper leopard and C paper cheetah. Suddenly, I place Nigeria in this position after a long...

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WHY HUMAN LIFE IS IMPORTANT

    “I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.”  Rob Bishop   “I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.”Tom Coburn...

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LOVE LESSON

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find courage to let that person know how you feel. May be god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right ones, but when you we finally the right, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. Love is when you take away the feeling; the passion and the romance in a relationship and find out you still care for the...

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THE AIR IS STILL FRESH!

written by Abbas Abubakar Permit me to quote Ho Yanxi who lived during the Sung Dynasty and contributed his own to humanity by commentating on the Sun Tzu’s Art of War. This quote is also derived from the same book of strategy by Sun Tzu The Art Of War. Yanxi quoted ancient classics in governance and leadership by saying “the one who treats me well is my leader, the one who treats me cruelly is my enemy. The question is, which side has a...

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House Rents, Transport Fares and the Meaning of Despair

 After the reading the full text speech of 2013 budget proposal to National House of Assemble by President Goodluck Jonathan, recast my mined to 2012 budget criticism by Nasir Elrufa’I to which I have strong believed on him by his constructive criticism. Here is another critic of 2012 budget implementations and the recent 2013 budget proposal.   by Nasir El-Rufai Just when you think President Goodluck Jonathan should have finished settling his political debts to enable him focus on easing the hardships that most Nigerians face...

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JOS YOUTH’S UNEMPLOYMENT AND WAY OUT

  Plateau state government has side-line Jos city, no meaning project, no good road and no standard market for the past year’s, Jos city was double alienated first, marginalised by the state government and secondly was been engulfed by the issue of settlers-indigene issues which often escalated crisis and  which keep on occurring and reoccurring. What could a youth of Jos site should do? To be educated and to be reasonable in other confront those challenges.   Unemployment simply means any resources that is not fully utilized...

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THE NEMESIS CALLED SURE-P (2)

Last two weeks president Goodluck Jonathan presented 2013 budget proposal to the joint session of national assembly at Abuja with the theme of ‘Fiscal consolidation with exclusive growth’. As Nigeria is moving toward economic freedom and self-sufficiency by Mr. President Transformations Agenda. If my memory will serve me well, President Goodluck Jonathan had assured Nigerians that the incomes of the partial withdrawal of petroleum subsidies...

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NANS: UNITY OR DIVERSITY?

  Nigerian student movement is relevant as any other group in the plural societies of Nigeria for it development. They have an historical responsibilities in political, economic and social activities of the country. History also informed us how Nigerian student struggle for the emacipetation of Nigerian independent in 1960. As the banning of National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) in 1978, student regroups into National Association of...

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