In my career, I have headed organisations and one of my most difficult periods is during recruitment. One is inundated by applications and the ambient feeling is that everyone has decided to apply irrespective of whether they are qualified for the job advertised or not. Very few people appear to read the qualifications required for the job and simply apply and pray. They also seek out “powerful” people from their state or zone to lobby Oga for the job. When sifting through the applications, my first step is to see whether the application has mentioned the job they are applying…
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Polygamy may take the form of polyandry, where multiple men share a woman or polygyny where a man marries many women. The truth remains that many people regard marriage as transactional, therefore as a common enterprise through which man and woman produce goods and services for their own consumption. For some, it is recognized that the more women you marry, the more resources you gain. In addition, no one has yet given a complete explanation about why the bride’s price is paid by the husbands, while elsewhere the bride’s family provides a dowry. Today, 28% of married Nigerians are polygamous.…
Make-up, the art of applying cosmetics to the face to look good, has been part of womenfolk from time. It is generally believed that every woman had, at one time or the other, used one cosmetic or the other with powder, lipstick and eye pencil usually the most common. Women have different reasons for applying make-up, but it is generally assumed that most do it to attract or impress the opposite sex. Some women have often said that make-up gives them confidence and enhances their beauty, while others argue that cosmetics keep them looking much younger than their real ages.…
The Abracadabra Patented Crooks, APC, and the Provocative Devils Pandemic, PDP, the two biggest Political Merchants Associations have turned politics in Nigeria to huge Lottery business. They have become groups of gamblers, gangsters and horse trading, pools betting Mafiosi. I really no longer consider it worthwhile for me to waste my time writing, talking or thinking about Nigeria. It is not helpful to my sanity to dwell in or on a building about to collapse, even though I am worried stiff about the calamity knocking at the door. Nigeria is irredeemably in ruins; it is only those who are benefitting…
On one of my trips to the USA after the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria, I met a flamboyant Nigerian on transit. As we were struggling to introduce ourselves, he fished out his business card and tossed it to me. I carefully studied the card and observed a spectacular expression, written boldly “Former Presidential Aspirant in Nigeria”. I looked at the man’s face again, his name and could not place his political weightiness or relevance in Nigeria’s party politics. I was disappointedly flabbergasted at the extent some Nigerians could go to promote their image deceitfully. What the hell is “former…
By Zubair Abdurra’uf Idris This day, thirty years ago, Malam Zubair Jibrilu Abubakar (MAIGWARI II) ascended the throne of Birnin-Gwari as the Seventy-Fourth Emir of Birnin-Gwari. The Technocrat, a Teacher and a versatile expert in Islamic jurisprudence, was chosen by the Kingmakers to fill the vacuum left by his father, Late Emir (Mualimu) Jibrilu Abubakar Maigwari I, the father of modern Birnin-Gwari. Many pundits, wondered about the choice of Malam Zubair Jibrilu Abubakar as the emir due to their lack of knowledge of him and his cognate intellectualism on both Islamic and western education. Today, as we celebrate thirty years…
As we do from time to time, today we are leaving the stage for our readers because their voices matter. Now, nowhere is safe (1) (04/04/2022) Awolowo in the 70s said that the children you failed to train will never let you have peace, True or False? Emmanuel Joshua Oluwabankole ———– We Nigerians are physically and spiritually defeated by our beliefs about our government’s ability to protect us, and sincerely speaking, the youths nowadays care less about the government’s matter, the country is getting worse and is about to collapse. Just take a look at those strikes that keep students…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe Two terms governor of Sokoto state and Senator representing Sokoto Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly (NASS), Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko (aka Alu) is known to have a penchant for quietude. This is displayed even at the floor of the Senate, where except he has something to say, he sits, listen and probably contribute to debates – if and when he feels he should. Down history lane: He’s known for winning battles Recalling history, Wamakko, insignificant as he seemed to be as deputy governor in Bafarawa administration, was attempted-to-be-impeached in 2006. The well-calculative, sharp politician resigned. Yet,…
Speaking up about the perceived harm the bank has done to me may not seem right. In the Nigerian clime, it is almost a culture for us to accept every misfortune, especially when the next step for redress is unknown. The harm eventually smokes away in the haze of jokes, until the hysterical laughter relieves our senses briefly of our nation’s calamitous state. A lot of people will try to shut me up for daring to speak. They will attempt to shame me into silence. How dare I not accept my cup of woe in peace? What is my aim…
We know from the Hansards of the National Assembly that the late Senator Nuhu Aliyu, a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police has affirmed that he found many of the criminals he was investigating for prosecution as “distinguished” colleagues of his when he was elected into Senate I find the request from Buba Marwa, head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to political parties to support the idea that all aspirants for political office be brought for a drug integrity test very reasonable. Of course, he is asking the parties to accept the tests voluntarily because there is…