It's not disgusting that upper class Africans hoard resources from the masses & leave other Africans in destitute, they take it a step further to brag about their over consumption and resource hoarding to people who don't even have access to bare minimum. It's so fucking evil to me.
Paying 46 million naira annually for your child to get the experience of an average Chinese public school student.
This country has robbed TOO MUCH from us. Too much.
This man failed to pay the SSCE fees of poor students in Zamfara during his tenure in the state, sacked many teachers, and failed to implement the N18k minimum wage.
These are verses in the Qur’an where Allah speaks about people like Dauda Rarara and their hypocrisy. @davido please don’t mind him. Even Islam condemns such behavior. Rarara is cursed!
“In Haiti & Somalia, Terrorists generate more revenue than the government. In Ecuador, a presidential candidate campaigned to end insecurity, the terrorists warned him and when he campaigned against insecurity again, they killed him. This is where Nigeria is heading” -Bulama Bukarti
Madina has followed up on so many stories about insecurity, she has gone to the frontlines and risked herself by asking powerful people dangerous questions. What we won’t do, is downplay her amazing work as a journalist.
Major-General Rabe Abubakar: The Wounds We Share
I have just read the statement by the Katsina State Government confirming the passing of Major-General Rabe Abubakar, rtd, a former military spokesman, while in captivity. Even though the statement says that “the deceased… died a natural death from complications of diabetes and hypertension,” this does not erase the horror of the circumstances in which he spent his final days. What haunts us is not only the manner of his passing, but the tragedy of a life of service ending in the hands of criminals who have exploited the dysfunctions of our society.
What happened to the General is a tragedy of immeasurable dimension. To return from a career that required putting one’s life on the line for one’s country, only to become a captive of ragtag criminals, is a fate no patriot deserves. It is a cruel reminder that this weather of insecurity is one we all breathe and feel. It bears our names, our faces, our families, and the histories of service behind its victims.
There is no dignified way to avoid the truth that, as a nation and as a government, we have let down the General and many others who have met similar fates. This does not take away from the efforts I know were ongoing to secure his release or rescue, nor from the renewed operations and proactive steps being taken to confront these criminal networks. But grief must never be managed with denial. Something more radical, more coordinated, and more sustained must be done to break this chain of tragic events. Contrary to the assumptions of some, nobody is immune.
What happened to the General is a cautionary tale for all of us in government today. The General, who once served in one of the most protected institutions in the country, could never have imagined such an ending. That is why it remains baffling when anyone assumes that those in public office are insulated from the failures and fractures of the nation. The same roads, the same communities, the same future, and the same consequences await us all.
As a northerner, I am doubly troubled by the direction in which our region has been dragged. No honest person can claim ignorance of how we got here. If we are even more honest, we must admit that the untrained, abandoned, and hopeless children on our streets are being turned into cannon fodder for present and future dysfunctions. Even if banditry and terrorism are defeated, a vulnerable demographic left without education, discipline, opportunity, or hope will remain available for other invidious agendas against the Nigerian state.
This is the part that should frighten us most. We once spoke of building human capital. Today, too many of our people are trapped in the desperate arithmetic of survival.
The government has the primary and non-negotiable responsibility to protect lives and property. But no government policy, however well designed, can fully overcome a society that refuses to confront parental irresponsibility, the abandonment of children, hostility to education in some communities, and the casual normalisation of neglect. Security is not sustained by bullets alone. It is sustained by schools, families, values, livelihoods, justice, and a population civilised enough to reject the temptations of nihilism.
And yet, we cannot afford to lose hope. Despair is exactly what these criminals want to manufacture. They want citizens to stop believing in the possibility of order, to stop trusting the state, and to stop imagining a country that can still be rescued. We must refuse them that victory. We must mourn the dead, demand better from the living, and insist that the Nigerian state still has the duty and capacity to reclaim every inch of its authority.
May Allah forgive him, grant him Aljannatul Firdaus, and comfort his family. My condolences also go to all families who have lost loved ones to this madness. May their grief not be in vain, and may our country find the courage to end this tragedy.
I had the opportunity to film in Dino Melaye's house in 2020.
Dino is proof that you can own the flashiest cars and live in the most beautiful mansion, yet still be poor.
True poverty is not merely the lack of material possessions. It goes much deeper than that. A person can have everything money can buy and still be impoverished in character, values, purpose, or peace of mind.
Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un 💔
A Chinese company in Kano has been accused of humiliating a young man named Aliyu Ahmad from Katsina State, who was one of their employees.
The incident happened after an engineer at the company caused Aliyu to lose both of his hands while he was working for them. Following this tragedy, the company’s management allegedly abandoned him.
Aliyu and his mother later appeared on the Brekete Family program