Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello has freezed all the state and local governments’ accounts with immediate effect.
Author: Abdoulaye Kay
The counsel to the governor of Kano State, Wole Olanipekun, SAN has replied to the Court of Appeal over its request to retrieve the controversial Certified True Copy (CTC, of its judgment on the Kano Governorship Election Appeal.
Many pharmacies in the southern German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria remained closed on Wednesday to protest current healthcare policy.
An accident involving an articulated vehicle killed 17 persons at Takalafia village along Yawuri Expressway in Magama local government area of Niger on Tuesday.
The Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) has nominated 22 Justices of the Court of Appeal to the National Judicial Council (NJC) for elevation to the Supreme Court.
The Minister of State for Environment, Dr Iziaq Salako, says climate action is central to achieving the eight presidential priorities of the present administration.
My brother, Abdullberqy U Ebbo, is gifting 300K to 10 youths to write essays enumerating 10 things that Governor Bago of Niger State has achieved. He then requested our uncle, Baba Muhammad Dzukogi, and myself to pick the winning entries.
Aspiring to a leadership position is one thing, being at the top is another; they are simply two different scenarios. In the aspiration stage, dreams and fantasies permeate the thought process and produce both workable and seemingly unworkable ideas, making decisions and reasons for action quite difficult. Once one reaches the leadership position, reality brings stresses, challenges, painful choices, and controversial decisions and actions from which problem-solving mechanisms emerge. This puts a new leader in a difficult situation: having to meet the demands and expectations of diverse groups of people. The people are diverse. From those who have secretly opposed the leader’s goals to those who have helped him achieve them, they will flood him with a sea of demands that may be impossible to meet. Without strategic thinking, this problematic situation can prevent the leader from achieving his or her desired goal of serving people. From a strategic perspective, a leader must identify the tasks and those who could take on those tasks. A leader must beware of political paternalism that results in putting a round peg in a square hole, because the job can never get done that way. Therefore, a leader must recruit talent from within and outside the political arena to build a high-performing team. He must gather the best minds and assemble a team to accomplish the task before him – good governance, integrity and accountability as embodied in the true democratic ethos. In this regard, the less than 200 days that Dr. Dikko Umar Radda has spent as Governor of Katsina State is on my radar as an interested stakeholder who is keenly interested in addressing the challenges, rapid progress and development of Katsina State. Dikko, the 4th civilian governor under the current political leadership, inherited a basket of problems and challenges as if they came out of Pandora’s box. At his inauguration, Dr. Dikko pledged to the good people of Katsina State that they would not regret putting their trust in him.
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately transfer the sums of $9.8 million and £74,000 recovered from Mr Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to an account under the control of the chief registrar of the court.
Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while. By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but Nigeria’s if the Supreme Court legitimizes illegality, including forgery, identity theft, and perjury.