THE INFRASTRUCTURAL REVOLUTION IN ADAMAWA STATE
A silent revolution is taking place in Adamawa state – the infrastructural type – which is completely transforming the landscape of Yola, the state capital, and other major towns. The Continue Reading
NO IMAGINARY STORM AFTER AN IMAGINARY CALM A failed Houdini Act Aishatu Dahiru Binani, the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 elections in Adamawa state, walked herself Continue Reading
BINANI: HOW NOT TO RETAIN SYMPATHY
Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) and Peter Obi are doing the same thing to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) – chiselling at the integrity of the electoral umpire. The supporters Continue Reading
BINANI AND THE EFFECTS OF POWER VIAGRA
A near combustible situation was averted in Yola, Adamawa state capital – a needless situation generated by desperation and unbridled ambition garbed in recklessness. There was an attempted civilian coup Continue Reading
MY ADAMAWA PEOPLE, AS WE GO TO THE POLLS
As we go to the polls once more to elect a governor for our dear state, I am writing this piece with a heavy heart because of the toxic environment Continue Reading
WHY FINTIRI NEED NOT CAMPAIGN
The season of campaigns and political rallies has reached its zenith and we are already on the last lap of the campaigns. The elections are just around the next bend; Continue Reading
GIVE TO CEASER WHAT IS UNTO CEASER
GIVE TO CEASER WHAT IS UNTO CEASER The people of Adamawa State and the immediate catchment areas of the Modibbo Adama University (MAU) Yola are now enjoying the full compliments Continue Reading
A YEAR WITHOUT MY MOTHER
This is about the twentieth time I have been trying to write a tribute to my late mother in the past twenty-four hours but each time I put my fingers Continue Reading
MR. PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE FAILED US
President Muhammadu Buhari has failed Nigerians. Twice. He has woefully failed the expectations of most of his dyed-in the wool supporters who has supported him through thick and thin from Continue Reading
THE SELECTION OF PROF. KALETAPWA FARAUTA:
THE SELECTION OF PROF. KALETAPWA FARAUTA: CHECK AND CHECKMATE The selection of Professor Kaletapwa Farauta as the running mate to Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri may proof to be a win-win Continue Reading
EMPOWERMENT AND HANDOUTS
Babayola M. Toungo There has been some hullaballoo in the past week in Adamawa state (or otherwise), depending on who is doing the talking, on the state government’s refusal for Continue Reading
THE NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES BILL 2022
Babayola M. Toungo The reintroduction of the National Water Resources Bill 2022 generated a flurry of reactions from diverse stakeholders that highlighted sundry and varying shades of opinions and even Continue Reading
ADAMAWA STATE: AS 2023 BECKONS
ADAMAWA STATE: AS 2023 BECKONS Babayola M. Toungo During a press conference to kick-start his quest for the gubernatorial seat of Adamawa state in 2019, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, Continue Reading
The Second Northern Renaissance
This essay began by contending that the North did not arrive at its present predicament through an unavoidable twist of history but through the gradual abandonment of the principles that Continue Reading
The North and The Politics of Consumption
Babayola M. Toungo If the North’s decline is indeed the consequence of a profound failure of leadership, as argued in my last article, then the next question becomes unavoidable: how Continue Reading
The North Did Not Fall. It Was Betrayed
There are moments in the life of a people when history demands an accounting. Not an accounting of budgets or election results, but of ideas, values and leadership. Such moments Continue Reading
Stalling the North, Hurting Nigeria
A nation’s development is often measured not by the speeches of its leaders but by the strategic choices they make. Governments reveal their priorities not through campaign slogans or policy Continue Reading
When the Powerful Rewrite the Rules, Nigerians Pay the Price
Nigeria has spent decades fighting corruption. Governments have launched campaigns, established commissions, created special courts, and repeatedly assured citizens that accountability remains a national priority. Yet corruption has neither disappeared Continue Reading
Politics Above People
The North appears once again to be drifting into another national election cycle rudderless, leaderless, and tragically devoid of coherent vision. A region that once produced some of the country’s Continue Reading
Party Primaries: The Aesthetics of Consensus and the Politics of Imposition
What Nigeria increasingly calls “consensus” in party primaries is, in many cases, neither democratic compromise nor political maturity. It is often a carefully choreographed performance – an aesthetic of unity Continue Reading
When Parties Stand for Nothing
Nigeria’s democracy suffers from a profound crisis that is too often ignored because it has become normalized: the near-total absence of ideological clarity within its political parties. What passes for Continue Reading
When Integrity Becomes Rebellion
Nigeria’s crisis is often explained in the language of economics, insecurity, or institutional weakness. But beneath all these lies a more fundamental collapse: the erosion of moral authority in public Continue Reading
The Politics of Political Overdose
In politics, victory often carries within it the seeds of future defeat. Parties collapse not only from weakness but sometimes from excessive strength. What appears as expansion may in fact Continue Reading