Nigeria Anchorage

  Cultist gangs and criminals been paraded by police I It is a new trends in Igede lands, people knew us for our values, uprightness and integrity. When did “we” as people loss all these values is a question I can't find the answers right now. This short snap of my boyhood reminds me the plenty stuff of uprightness with forwardness others tribals seen our tribe those days .my story goes like this-: As a young boy immediately after my secondary school in far away Suleja in Niger state early nineties. I went for a job placement I’had put in an application. They was no formal interaction that day as the owner of the supermarket which I had applied told me,he can not attend to me hence I was very young and he need to know me better and insists I must come with a guarantor. Without prejudice to the owner, I was angry with him , how will I bring a guarantor before I am even given an interview for a job I has not gotten. I’was naive and inexperienced at that age. I never thought I was ...

I don't want to agree with the saying that “as things change, they remain the same” because change itself is constant. But Placing the Nigeria ways of our leaders, especially our dear land of Igede nation, that rhetoric may not be far away from the fact. As people, we have seen all kinds of emerging leadership over the last two decades to be precise. It is like a recurring decimal, if not, how can one explain the retrogressive development that comes with every new leadership in our land as long as political office is concerned.? What we hear in every terminal election is,”a new songs of hope,”  a liberation songs that never moved us out of our river of Babylon. My people are cajoled  with all sort of lies. At time, we had been blindfolded to believed, we been hindered by spiritualism and our land is cursed,and that our lands needs healing. We seen all kinds of prophets with their balms of anointing oil into our lands but has the story change? A simply logic would have  he...

A famous elder statesman, Dr.Ibrahim Waziri had hail the victory of the Bauchi state governor, Dr Bala Mohammed over the  Supreme Court judgement at the weekend.  Governor. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state. According to Dr Waziri, "the victory of the governor reflect the votes of people at the poll, who were keen to reward the governor for his second tenure base on his good works and the new face of infrastructure developments he had brought to Bauchi state over the last four years as a governor.  He said , 'the judgment of the Supreme Court was a lesson for others politicians in the state to learn, stating that,"even the electorates reward performance and urged opposition party members to support the administration of Bala Mohammed to build a better Bauchi state now that the litigations is over.  Recall that, the Supreme Court  over the week affirmed the  election of governor Bala Mohammed  of Bauchi and  five others governors including that of Plat...