THE FRAME

By  Tahir Ibrahim Tahir  (Talban Bauchi)  28/1/2022 The subsidy debate has brought to the fore, the sordid reality that successive governments since 1999, have failed the Nigerian people, in doing away with this highly corruptive channel of providing PMS (petroleum motor spirit) through imports. For over 20 years, the monumental fritting away of our foreign exchange by this monster has been left unchecked and unhindered. At some point, it was estimated that our daily consumption level was 35 million litres. This has since multiplied to 50 million litres and going by the figures of our fuel importation bills, we are well over 70 million litres per day. The Nigeria customs service had brought to our attention that most of the service stations near our borders were just conduit pipes to smuggling subsidised fuel to our neighbouring countries. There is an additional 150 Naira per little or even more, to be made when trucks of PMS are smuggled out of the country. S...

By  Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim January 14, 2022 Last week, I attended a Convening on Higher Education in Africa, organised by Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas at Austin. The conference held at Babcock University and focused on the theme of the impact of private universities on public universities in Africa. Participants were drawn from university faculty, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), education regulators, founders, donors, students, and independent researchers from Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Nigeria. It was an exciting debate on the complex relationship between the public and private sectors in higher education. The original argument for the establishment of private universities was to create more access for students but the reality today is that the private sector has not substantially increased access. In addition, private universities have not really recruited and trained their own faculty, they poaches from the public sector f...

Daga taskar Mal. Maude Nuhu  Farfesa Ali Isa Fantami GAMJI Wanga ɗanɗa namu Isa,   Masu saran diddigen sa,      Za ku sara ne ku bar sa,          Don ko Isa khaliƙin sa, Shi ya zaɓai ba mutum ba ne ba. In ka so Isa ka so sa, Ko kasa ɗamba ka ƙi sa,         Ɗanmu Isa ya yi nesa,      Ya zame tamkar ya ƙusa, ba a san hanyar cire shi ko ba. Ƴan'uwa na ku matasa, Ku yi rubutu don yabon sa,         Don fito da irin halinsa,        Duniya duk har ta san sa,       Bai san aikin ta'adda ko ba. Babu mai cin diddigen sa,         Sai Ɓarayi masu ƙin sa,       Ƴan ta'adda da ke warisa,        Koko don kyawon halinsa,   Harda yahoo boy da bai sake ba. Ko ka Mai lakabin Farfesa,     Ko ka ce No! ban kiransa,            Ba ka kwace illiminsa,   ...

By Ibraheem A. Waziri 14-12-2021,  Whatever is the source of the current insecurity is; it remains the responsibility of the government to be able to negotiate us through it with minimal casualties! We have submitted in the past, so many ideas that we feel the government could make good use of. Ranging from horizontal restructuring and reorganisation of power and command flow in the country; to massive reform in the security hierarchy and mode of operation. Abnormal situations often require an extreme response to tackle and control. We changed the whole constitution in 1966-7 to save Nigeria from disintegrating! However, over the years, academics in the ivory towers up North and clerics all seem to argue that the problem has always been part of a great scheme of the world powers, to control the vast resources hereunder the feet of the African Sahel. And it is why the problem refused to go! They often suggest that the government might not be entirely blamed, because ...

a report by the United Nations World Food Program has suggested that about 44 countries across the World are in dire need of food, the shortest Supply of food has plunged these countries into hunger, preceded by excessive poverty caused by the recession.  Countries in crisis requiring external assistance for food  are expected to lack the resources to deal with reported critical problems of food insecurity.  I extracted some reasons why Nigeria was included in the list despite its riches and being the Number one economy in Africa.  According to the latest CH analysis, about 12.9 million people are estimated to require humanitarian food assistance between October and December 2021 because of the worsening conflict that is driving new population displacements, particularly in Northern states, high food prices and reduced household purchasing power. Over 3 million people are estimated to be internally displaced in Northern states due to civil insecurity and ...

Tahir Ibrahim Tahir  (Talban Bauchi)  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 shower their souls with his mercy. This is one of the most horrendous and inhumane acts of the bandits that have since visited Northwestern Nigeria with an orgy of violence. I believe this barbaric act, accounts more for Sheikh Gumi excusing himself from speaking on behalf of the bandits, than the reason he gave -- citing their proclamation by law as terrorists. This heartless, baseless and demonic act of burning a fellow human being alive has laid bare, the true nature of what Nigeria is fighting for so many years. Fighter jets bombarded many enclaves of the bandits, east of Dumburoum forest in Zurmi, Zamfara, and also in Sok...

By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi.  We went on a trip a while back, to Jama'are local government in Bauchi state, for the turbaning ceremony of my cousin as the Ubandoman Jama'are. Jama'are is a 2 hr journey from the Bauchi metropolis. On our way there, we ran into one of the potholes and we got a twisted tyre. After our event, we proceeded to Azare, another local government in Bauchi which is a 30 minutes drive from Jama'are, with the hope that we would get a tyre to replace our damaged one. We were directed from one shop to the other, and each time we arrived at any of the shops, we met them all locked up. We got the puzzling explanation that one of the shop owners lost his father and that he and all his brothers had gone for the burial. Now what they meant was that all the shops were owned by Igbos and they were the only ones that sold the size of tyres that we were looking for. We had to manage the twisted tyre back to Bauchi because Chinedu's unc...