THE FRAME

An amazon is  a big, strong, warrior-like woman , someone who reminds you of the mythical Greek women-warriors, the Amazons. They were female warriors and hunters, known for their  physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat .  Hajiya Zainab Baban Takko is a woman that can be described as AMAZON woman, she possess all the qualities and what it takes to be, with her Physical agility she envelope everyone when in the field discharging her primary assignments, she is strong because even the men in her entourage struggles to catch up with her in inspection tours.  It's been long in the political history of Bauchi Local Government to have in the limelight a woman of substance that withstand the odds of nay sayers to outperforms beyond everyone's expectations. Zainab Baban Takko has written her name in the history book to be the first woman in everything and she is making everyone proud.  Hajiya Zainab Baban Takko is a dedic...

Stories are written differently, depending on the narrative that is associated with the tales.  Impressions are sometimes carriers of great stories, a behind the screen oratory that shapes the future of the onlooker or listener.  Why banditry has roots in the Northwest? Something that slowly started in Zamfara State decades ago as a result of many mistakes that resisted reconciliations, Injustice, and above all corruption and bad leadership. Castle rustling, farmers/herders clashes that resulted into many lost of lives, the intrusive attitude of some Pula people especially those traversing from the neighbouring counties of Niger Republic, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso, those Peul (fulani NBororo) into Nigeria contributed much into to this unrest and wanton indiscriminate killings happening today in the North West Nigeria.  There is need to avoid repeating historical fallacies and mistakes, having read the past we must use it to furnish the present.  It's a h...

By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir (Talban Bauchi) In what was a thinly veiled move at vanquishing arewa, Islamic extremism engulfed the entire North Eastern part of the country under the guise of Boko Haram and Iswap, waging the most deadly war Nigeria has ever witnessed, successfully annihilating thousands of lives in the region, defying all military and non military approaches to the war. No pogrom in the entirety of Africa, has seen to the massacre of lives and destruction of villages and property, the way Boko Haram and Iswap have done. This spread vociferously to the North West as banditry and kidnapping, practically turning arewa into a war zone. The audacity, deftness and precision of the terrorists continues to overwhelm the country’s security architecture, despite the sophistication of the Nigeria Airforce, the equipping of the Nigerian Army with fighter-aircrafts, and the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The first few months of this administration saw to some disquiet in the camps and o...

By   Tahir Ibrahim Tahir  (Talban Bauchi) In the 2007 former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration's constitutional conference, which was generally perceived as a thinly veiled attempt at a third term, Dr. Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi late, was one of the delegates who vehemently stood against that agenda, and prevented a monarchical style of governance, where a dictator, under whatever pseudo-nomenclature, would hold onto power endlessly, till thy kingdom come.  That type of phenomenon has continued to haunt our democracy where those exiting power, indulge in a primitive attempt at governance from the sidelines, which has almost always derailed government policy and implementation. Dr. Tahir represented the Islamic Caliphate, as a delegate from the Sultanate, as his name was conspicuously missing from the delegates from Bauchi State. Dr Tahir's albatross was his intellect, oratory and aura that was enviable and intimidating. Abdullahi Yelwa, a journalist ...

The CV of the Former President Muhammadu Buhari ▪️ Below is the Curriculum Vitae [CV] Of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. ▪️ Born in Daura, Katsina State, on 17 December 1942 ▪️ EDUCATION ▪️ Attended Primary School in Daura and Mai’adua, 1948-1952 Attended Katsina Model School in 1953 and Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) from 1956-1961. ▪️ Joined the then Nigerian Military Training School, Kaduna in 1963. Attended Officer’s Cadet School in Aldershot (United Kingdom), October 1963 Attended Platoon Commanders’ Course at the Nigerian Military College, Kaduna, 1964 Attended the Mechanical Transport Officer’s Course at the Army Mechanical Transport School in Borden (United Kingdom) in 1965 Studied at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (India), 1973 Attended the United States Army War College, from June 1979 to June 1980. ▪️ MILITARY CAREER Platoon Commander, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 1963-1964; Mechanical Transport Officer, Lagos Ga...

The first argument in PBAT's presidency is the total removal of Petroleum Subsidies. Already heated debates have started on whether the New President should just announce that in his inaugural speech, meanwhile knowing fully how wicked Nigerians are.  One day into the Presidency, petroleum Marketers started hoarding the products thereby willingly shutting down their filling Stations to have a chance of price hiking.  Fuel scarcity is not a new thing in Nigeria, for decades, Nigerians are acquainted with the hardship of fuel scarcity due to excessive and massive corruption in the Petroleum industry. For years, the only three refineries owned by the government are not functioning properly, which resulted in another corrupt business of importing PMS, AGO and other petroleum products to cushion the lives of the citizens. But the negativity of such activity plunges the Country that happens to be rich in crude oil into uncertainty in the petroleum supply to c...