Category: Bala Ibrahim’s Corner

By Bala Ibrahim. For the second time in two consecutive years, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Father Mathew Hassan Kukah is using the pulpit on Easter day, to send insults to President Muhammadu Buhari and the government he supervises. In this year’s Easter message, which he delivered today, Sunday,17/04/2022, Bishop Kukah said President Buhari has destroyed every aspect of […]

By Bala Ibrahim. As Nigerians adjust to the latest action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which has extended its warning strike for another two months, the issue on the minds of many is how to address the abiding arrogance of the bully, ASUU. Since formation in 1978, ASUU has succeeded in making its name to be seen […]

By Bala Ibrahim History has recorded President Muhammadu Buhari as the single Nigerian that has surpassed everyone, living and dead, in occupying more public offices, and who, by the special grace of God, came out of them clinically clean all through. Buhari is the only Nigerian lucky enough to have been a Governor, a Minister and a Head state. He […]

By Bala Ibrahim In his characteristic repulsive and often repugnant remarks, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, while flagging off the 2021 sales of fertilizer in the state yesterday, Thursday, 01/07/21, chastised the Buhari administration for the way and manner it carried out the re-arrest and eventual re-arraignment of Nnamdi Kanu, the elsewhile fugitive leader of the proscribed IPOB. Speaking […]

By Bala Ibrahim The recent move by some mischief makers, to further plunge Nigeria into a supplementary crisis, through the addition of ethnicity into the existing calamity of the country, has woken up the conscience of some concerned Fulanis, who were quick to commission a law firm to act on their behalf, by alerting the corporate affairs commission about an […]

By Bala Ibrahim The dictionary describes a warrior as a person engaged in, or experienced in warfare. In my native Hausa language, a brave man who shows great vigour or courage in hunting, is given the name “Maidawa”. This is because of his constant courage and intimacy with the bush or forest. There is a direct link in meaning between […]

By Bala Ibrahim In the last one week, and pursuant to the provocation of Twitter, which deleted the account of PMB for promising to respond to the threats of some recalcitrant in their own language, the president seems to have gone into the gear of talking to the people more, and talking in the language of leadership. Between the twitter […]

By Bala Ibrahim It is no longer news that last week, precisely on Friday, 04/06/21, the government of Nigeria had announced an indefinite suspension of the operations of Twitter, the super blogger and social networking service from the country. The suspension was announced by Mr. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of Information, who said, “The suspension was hinged on the persistent […]

By Bala Ibrahim The Police Council, under the chairmanship of President Muhammadu Buhari, has today, Friday, June 4th, confirmed Usman Alkali Baba as the substantive Inspector General of Police. By this development, Alkali has become the 21st indigenous Inspector General of the Nigeria Police, as his confirmation came almost two months after he assumed the office in an acting capacity. […]

By Bala Ibrahim Whoever is in the business of listening to the news about happenings in Nigeria is concretely familiar with bad news. It’s either the story of kidnappings, insurgency, carnage caused by calls for cessation, or cries from those clamouring for good governance. The country’s landscape is painted in the picture of frustration, as citizen’s dreams are put on […]