Daily Differences in wants and needs abound,
Food, shelter and clothing we see basic,
Daily thriving for survival make us move,
From one place to the other we journey,
Searching for a cause to better life,
This time, way past basic needs,
At first, eager and enthusiastic we climb on board,
Excitement mounting at the thought of perceived success,
Buying extravagantly at origin we set forth,
Thereafter, settled we are on board as we take off,
Through hills and valleys we journey,
Day gives way to night and then, the heart goes sober ,
A skid at the wrong turn sends the car swinging off course,
Everybody on board timid and frightened for dear life,
Clinging on to the carrier as a baby would his mothers back,
Looking forward into the depths of the night and hoping,
Too dark to see through the night, what will be at the next turn?
Only the Lord knows!, men they say; only turn to God,
When the Devil has no further use for them,
Now , even the godless turn to God and yearn for safe delivery,
Stars above in the sky give a glimmer of hope in earnest,
Soft as wool in winter the hearts of men on a trip become,
Whispering in low tones, asking the Lord to see them through,
Their whole dilemma handed over to their own creator ,
Out of his infinite mercy he lands them safely,
Proud and arrogant they become once again,
Hurriedly, they disperse forgetting,
The favors of their Lord upon them,
To even say thank you Lord?, it might seem tiring,
And thus, the search for livelihood continues,
A seemingly endless search indeed!,
From the cradle to the grave we search,
Sometimes obliged to move in order to seek,
How long will this journey go on?, a lifelong pursuit I guess!,
How much easier is the journey getting so far?, only the Lord knows,
Time destroys everything, and thus the trip so far.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande, a freelance writer, is a neo panafricanist, you can reach him online at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Thank you Mallam shekarau! A youth perspective.
“A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it”.
Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972)
U.S. president.
It is evident to note by now that, no society has ever progressed and developed infrastructure wise with its human populace being handicapped.
It is on this premise that I will put forth my views on Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau’s person and administration. By party affiliation, I belong to the shekarau opposition camp, but the effort put in place is so glaringly clear that even a blind man could testify, so, I put political party affiliation aside, say the truth and shame the devil, and to remind you dear readers, my admitting the golden era of Mallam shekarau does not in any way make me less of an opposition that I was and will always be. It’s nothing personal, it’s strictly politics.
Categorically put forward, it could be deduced that the first four [4] years of Mallams administration was geared towards Human development, while the second part of the four [4] year tenure is being driven by Infrastructural development.
If you and I are hungry, impoverished, unemployed, insecure, and if our aging and dependent fathers who served this great state are not given their dues in good time or not paid at all as the case was, if portable pipe bone water had eluded the general populace and in their place we had instead, well tarred and glamorous roads, fancy Sallah events, world standard hospitals, extravagantly furnished ministries, fancy round-abouts and the likes. Then let me tell you something, a beautifully paved road and fancy clinic will not have people to walk it and admire it if the people are not well equipped, thus empowering the people to be employed and engaged would guarantee enjoyment of the facilities that would later be provided, and this is just what Mallam shekarau did in a nutshell, and it is what we are going to dwell upon, adore and appreciate and once again collectively say thank you.
“It is everlastingly true that on the whole the best guide to the future is to be found in a proper understanding of the lessons of the past”.
Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923)
U.S. president.
Whatever the leaders of today put in place will be for the benefits of the youths of today who are presumably the leaders of tomorrow. We are going to start by examining the human development aspect of Mallams administration then later focus on the supposed infrastructural development and subsequently marry the two giant efforts together to rival and supersede the administrations of the likes of former governor Abubakar Rimi and Late Audu Bako of blessed memory combined.
The Mallam shekarau lead administration started off with a set of programs that were aimed at directly making an impact on the life of the poor and the downtrodden, the middle class and subsequently the elite to begin with;
• This administration restructured the salary package of the class room teacher, paid them in good time and looked into their general welfare.
• The A daidaita sahu program was put into mainstream governance which greatly helped in producing a more well behaved and refined citizen of Kano state thanks to constant radio messaging that readily reaches the common man in Kano state i.e “daidaita sahun nan yana nufin….mata su zauna gidan miji…daidata sahun nan yana nufin yan achaba su daina ganganchi.. e.t.c
• The same program brought in buses and tricycles that both young and old were employed by, which fed extensive families with, gave others the opportunity to be married , paid bills and school fees with, and gave out “sojan haya”, a term given to a person who works off a vehicle already assigned to another and still make money to survive. It also gave shelter to our mothers and grandmothers who instead would have been exposed to the dangers of Achaba riders and sex offenders.
• The Hisbah board systematically sought to and made a giant effort towards sanitizing our billboards which hitherto contained explicit and sometimes nude depictions of sensual female models in the crafty name of advertising and marketing.
• The Adaidaita Sahu inspired program was instrumental to the partitioning of almost all Kano state ministries bringing an end to free mixing of the sexes in their bit to contribute to nation building. What more of a Sharia system would we be asking for? [ I mean anywhere in the world].
• The Tsangaya system [ a system of Islamic education in northern Nigeria] sought to sanitize the Almajirai/allo system of education and thus, documented the ones worthy of caring and educating the young minds, provided them with the necessary learning materials, enlisted them in free food distribution during Ramadan, and provided them with soft financial assistance and strict monitoring as a pilot project to begin with.
• We the youth have been witnessing a near perfect and stress free Kallon Hawan Sarki due to effective and pro active arrangement jointly put in place during the whole week of Sallah by the Nigerian police force.
• The primary and post primary school within the government in question has witnessed a surge in its total staff employment list, the largest of its kind in the history of the education sector. Young and energetic N.d, N.c.e graduates were at last taken off the streets for good.
• The food handed down to people which is evidently well prepared is one of the greatest achievements of this administration towards improving the human lot of this great state because it is evident that feeding in the month of Ramadan is very much rewarding
• It was during Mallams administration that we as tertiary institution student got a 100% rise in scholarship and course with practical studies were recently given a rise, how sensitive of a humble fellow!
The soft loans handed out to unemployed youth after empowering them through seminars and workshops on things like soap making and poultry is a normal occurrence and a good sight to behold as some of those youths shot off on track to becoming great poultry farmers feeding families and dependents from a supposed paltry loan.
The seemingly inexhaustible roll call of Mallams human development oriented first four [4] years could be said to be simmered down in order to save space for the infrastructural side of the story. Thus, with the generality of the populace being humanely empowered, we could say that they are now ready to enjoy whatever infrastructure will be put in place at ease. A hungry man they say is an angry man and thus we might have been indisposed towards enjoying the supposed social amenities then.
Infrastructure is defined as ; public services or systems, the large scale public systems, services and facilities of a state or a region that are necessary for economic activity, including power and water supplies, public transport, telecommunications, roads, and schools. In this regard, we could however bear witness to the giant stride by the Shekarau administration to among other things provide;
• An enviable road network rehabilitation, upgrading and at most trying times demolition and renewal. We saw roads pass through the most remote locations never imagined in the history of the state and it is ongoing.
• Our state specialist hospital popularly referred to as asibitin murtala or birni was rehabilitated to the world standard that it was and a new well tarred road inset, the nasarawa specialist hospital popularly called Muhammad Abdullahi wasse was equally refurbished and a new tarred road inset also.
• We are witnessing the building of two world class ultra modern hospitals at giginyu and zoo road respectively, an effort we cannot seem to remember which of our past military and civilian governors made.
• Street lights and traffic lights in Kano were considered a thing of the past, alas!! We can now enjoy the comfort of a well lit street while we cruise the beautiful road networks of our dear city.
• A fly over bridge we were meant to believe is only for riverine areas and too expensive to build, thanks to this administration, a fly over bridge is almost at 60% completion stage at the outskirts of Kano to ease traffic.
• To compliment the aging water processing and supply plant at Challawa, Mallams administration built from scratch the Tamburawa water processing and supply plant and now, places with ghost pump head terminals are seeing water for the first time in ages.
• The same program ushered in once again a more refined and well structured Hisbah board, their presence on our junctions to help when the traffic warden is off at six o clock really touched the high and the low [we all know the traffic jams we witness]. Their mere presence prevented us, especially the youths from committing countless crimes, their words although always mocked at, are always a reminder for people of understanding, they sanitized indiscriminate alcohol consumption that hitherto was spreading like wild fire in our society, advised ladies to dress decently e.t.c.
• The turmoil that surrounded our post office environs was laid to rest by a fair compensation which sought to relocate the skilled youths to a well designed and equipped market at farm centre. It was evident that three months ago the road leading to the post office and the post office buildings themselves were quite elusive to the view and passing through which took a minimum of ten [10] minutes then, now takes less than two minutes to get through and the view of the post office is a spectacular sight to behold.
• The illegal refuse dump sites and street corner refuse dumps are now a thing of the past, thanks to the effort of the refuse management and sanitation board REMASAB. Overtime recurring potholes on our roads are constantly filled up and maintained through the effort of the state ministry for land and physical planning and Kano state urban development and planning division KNUPDA. Many thanks to mallams efforts in providing them with over twenty [20] heavy duty trucks, [all painted yellow for reference].
• The recent effort of this administration to equip kano line with long commuter buses for a start is a move that only our fathers saw during the Rimi and Audu Bako era.
As inexhaustible as the roll call of this administrations infrastructural development effort might seem, time and space will warrant our limiting the efforts here and move on to simply marrying the two move together.
Thus, it is becoming increasingly clear that human development should supersede infrastructural development which will ensue maximization of the opportunities provided by an equally capable citizenry.
As for our royal father, I would also like to use this medium to say a big thank you and a big “Ran Sarki ya dade!” It is evident that the most advanced and sophisticated civilizations which today pride themselves as being the best democracies did not find any cause to separate politics from the monarchy on who’s foundation politics was built and strongly relies upon. The romance between our political administration and our humble monarchy is a symbol of the level of trust and confidence the common people have for this administration which tends to transcend itself in the royal approval and blessing given to the leader of the administration I call “The Golden Era”
The above notes, although not statistically documented are the pure observations that we as the youth have seen on the ground and can’t help but say thank you to mallam shekarau once more for a job well done, so far so good. God bless him and give him the vision to move on as humbled as ever, if his supposed dreams for the highest seat of governance is going to be beneficial to his being, religion and our beloved nation, may God see him through to it, amen.
Long live the federal republic of Nigeria!
Long live Kano state!
United we stand, divided we fall [like a house of cards]
Nigeria! Good people, great nation!
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande, a free lance writer, neo pan africanist, you can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com
Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972)
U.S. president.
It is evident to note by now that, no society has ever progressed and developed infrastructure wise with its human populace being handicapped.
It is on this premise that I will put forth my views on Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau’s person and administration. By party affiliation, I belong to the shekarau opposition camp, but the effort put in place is so glaringly clear that even a blind man could testify, so, I put political party affiliation aside, say the truth and shame the devil, and to remind you dear readers, my admitting the golden era of Mallam shekarau does not in any way make me less of an opposition that I was and will always be. It’s nothing personal, it’s strictly politics.
Categorically put forward, it could be deduced that the first four [4] years of Mallams administration was geared towards Human development, while the second part of the four [4] year tenure is being driven by Infrastructural development.
If you and I are hungry, impoverished, unemployed, insecure, and if our aging and dependent fathers who served this great state are not given their dues in good time or not paid at all as the case was, if portable pipe bone water had eluded the general populace and in their place we had instead, well tarred and glamorous roads, fancy Sallah events, world standard hospitals, extravagantly furnished ministries, fancy round-abouts and the likes. Then let me tell you something, a beautifully paved road and fancy clinic will not have people to walk it and admire it if the people are not well equipped, thus empowering the people to be employed and engaged would guarantee enjoyment of the facilities that would later be provided, and this is just what Mallam shekarau did in a nutshell, and it is what we are going to dwell upon, adore and appreciate and once again collectively say thank you.
“It is everlastingly true that on the whole the best guide to the future is to be found in a proper understanding of the lessons of the past”.
Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923)
U.S. president.
Whatever the leaders of today put in place will be for the benefits of the youths of today who are presumably the leaders of tomorrow. We are going to start by examining the human development aspect of Mallams administration then later focus on the supposed infrastructural development and subsequently marry the two giant efforts together to rival and supersede the administrations of the likes of former governor Abubakar Rimi and Late Audu Bako of blessed memory combined.
The Mallam shekarau lead administration started off with a set of programs that were aimed at directly making an impact on the life of the poor and the downtrodden, the middle class and subsequently the elite to begin with;
• This administration restructured the salary package of the class room teacher, paid them in good time and looked into their general welfare.
• The A daidaita sahu program was put into mainstream governance which greatly helped in producing a more well behaved and refined citizen of Kano state thanks to constant radio messaging that readily reaches the common man in Kano state i.e “daidaita sahun nan yana nufin….mata su zauna gidan miji…daidata sahun nan yana nufin yan achaba su daina ganganchi.. e.t.c
• The same program brought in buses and tricycles that both young and old were employed by, which fed extensive families with, gave others the opportunity to be married , paid bills and school fees with, and gave out “sojan haya”, a term given to a person who works off a vehicle already assigned to another and still make money to survive. It also gave shelter to our mothers and grandmothers who instead would have been exposed to the dangers of Achaba riders and sex offenders.
• The Hisbah board systematically sought to and made a giant effort towards sanitizing our billboards which hitherto contained explicit and sometimes nude depictions of sensual female models in the crafty name of advertising and marketing.
• The Adaidaita Sahu inspired program was instrumental to the partitioning of almost all Kano state ministries bringing an end to free mixing of the sexes in their bit to contribute to nation building. What more of a Sharia system would we be asking for? [ I mean anywhere in the world].
• The Tsangaya system [ a system of Islamic education in northern Nigeria] sought to sanitize the Almajirai/allo system of education and thus, documented the ones worthy of caring and educating the young minds, provided them with the necessary learning materials, enlisted them in free food distribution during Ramadan, and provided them with soft financial assistance and strict monitoring as a pilot project to begin with.
• We the youth have been witnessing a near perfect and stress free Kallon Hawan Sarki due to effective and pro active arrangement jointly put in place during the whole week of Sallah by the Nigerian police force.
• The primary and post primary school within the government in question has witnessed a surge in its total staff employment list, the largest of its kind in the history of the education sector. Young and energetic N.d, N.c.e graduates were at last taken off the streets for good.
• The food handed down to people which is evidently well prepared is one of the greatest achievements of this administration towards improving the human lot of this great state because it is evident that feeding in the month of Ramadan is very much rewarding
• It was during Mallams administration that we as tertiary institution student got a 100% rise in scholarship and course with practical studies were recently given a rise, how sensitive of a humble fellow!
The soft loans handed out to unemployed youth after empowering them through seminars and workshops on things like soap making and poultry is a normal occurrence and a good sight to behold as some of those youths shot off on track to becoming great poultry farmers feeding families and dependents from a supposed paltry loan.
The seemingly inexhaustible roll call of Mallams human development oriented first four [4] years could be said to be simmered down in order to save space for the infrastructural side of the story. Thus, with the generality of the populace being humanely empowered, we could say that they are now ready to enjoy whatever infrastructure will be put in place at ease. A hungry man they say is an angry man and thus we might have been indisposed towards enjoying the supposed social amenities then.
Infrastructure is defined as ; public services or systems, the large scale public systems, services and facilities of a state or a region that are necessary for economic activity, including power and water supplies, public transport, telecommunications, roads, and schools. In this regard, we could however bear witness to the giant stride by the Shekarau administration to among other things provide;
• An enviable road network rehabilitation, upgrading and at most trying times demolition and renewal. We saw roads pass through the most remote locations never imagined in the history of the state and it is ongoing.
• Our state specialist hospital popularly referred to as asibitin murtala or birni was rehabilitated to the world standard that it was and a new well tarred road inset, the nasarawa specialist hospital popularly called Muhammad Abdullahi wasse was equally refurbished and a new tarred road inset also.
• We are witnessing the building of two world class ultra modern hospitals at giginyu and zoo road respectively, an effort we cannot seem to remember which of our past military and civilian governors made.
• Street lights and traffic lights in Kano were considered a thing of the past, alas!! We can now enjoy the comfort of a well lit street while we cruise the beautiful road networks of our dear city.
• A fly over bridge we were meant to believe is only for riverine areas and too expensive to build, thanks to this administration, a fly over bridge is almost at 60% completion stage at the outskirts of Kano to ease traffic.
• To compliment the aging water processing and supply plant at Challawa, Mallams administration built from scratch the Tamburawa water processing and supply plant and now, places with ghost pump head terminals are seeing water for the first time in ages.
• The same program ushered in once again a more refined and well structured Hisbah board, their presence on our junctions to help when the traffic warden is off at six o clock really touched the high and the low [we all know the traffic jams we witness]. Their mere presence prevented us, especially the youths from committing countless crimes, their words although always mocked at, are always a reminder for people of understanding, they sanitized indiscriminate alcohol consumption that hitherto was spreading like wild fire in our society, advised ladies to dress decently e.t.c.
• The turmoil that surrounded our post office environs was laid to rest by a fair compensation which sought to relocate the skilled youths to a well designed and equipped market at farm centre. It was evident that three months ago the road leading to the post office and the post office buildings themselves were quite elusive to the view and passing through which took a minimum of ten [10] minutes then, now takes less than two minutes to get through and the view of the post office is a spectacular sight to behold.
• The illegal refuse dump sites and street corner refuse dumps are now a thing of the past, thanks to the effort of the refuse management and sanitation board REMASAB. Overtime recurring potholes on our roads are constantly filled up and maintained through the effort of the state ministry for land and physical planning and Kano state urban development and planning division KNUPDA. Many thanks to mallams efforts in providing them with over twenty [20] heavy duty trucks, [all painted yellow for reference].
• The recent effort of this administration to equip kano line with long commuter buses for a start is a move that only our fathers saw during the Rimi and Audu Bako era.
As inexhaustible as the roll call of this administrations infrastructural development effort might seem, time and space will warrant our limiting the efforts here and move on to simply marrying the two move together.
Thus, it is becoming increasingly clear that human development should supersede infrastructural development which will ensue maximization of the opportunities provided by an equally capable citizenry.
As for our royal father, I would also like to use this medium to say a big thank you and a big “Ran Sarki ya dade!” It is evident that the most advanced and sophisticated civilizations which today pride themselves as being the best democracies did not find any cause to separate politics from the monarchy on who’s foundation politics was built and strongly relies upon. The romance between our political administration and our humble monarchy is a symbol of the level of trust and confidence the common people have for this administration which tends to transcend itself in the royal approval and blessing given to the leader of the administration I call “The Golden Era”
The above notes, although not statistically documented are the pure observations that we as the youth have seen on the ground and can’t help but say thank you to mallam shekarau once more for a job well done, so far so good. God bless him and give him the vision to move on as humbled as ever, if his supposed dreams for the highest seat of governance is going to be beneficial to his being, religion and our beloved nation, may God see him through to it, amen.
Long live the federal republic of Nigeria!
Long live Kano state!
United we stand, divided we fall [like a house of cards]
Nigeria! Good people, great nation!
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande, a free lance writer, neo pan africanist, you can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com
Sunday, November 22, 2009
POWER
When power is abused in excess,
when the rulers hip shy’s away,
pretending not to hear the cry,
when the ruled complain in anguish,
when the society frowns at it,
when the good advisers refrain,
when opposition becomes taboo,
when the imam says “a daidata sahu”,
when no one says the same to the imam,
then, prejudice overshadows the king,
pride and arrogance rules the king,
seeing no fences and feeling no bounds,
there seems to be no limits at all,
self admiration and self worship ensues,
in a manner only befitting a dictatorship,
history has it in store that,
all tyrannical leaders since Moses,
they ended up self destroying,
ironically, history goes in cycles,
power abused in excess,
power seized by fraud,
comes haunting its culprit,
until it leads to self annihilation,
a word is enough for the wise,
a word of advice for future leaders,
do not seize and abuse power.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande, a freelance writer, neo pan africanist. You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .
when the rulers hip shy’s away,
pretending not to hear the cry,
when the ruled complain in anguish,
when the society frowns at it,
when the good advisers refrain,
when opposition becomes taboo,
when the imam says “a daidata sahu”,
when no one says the same to the imam,
then, prejudice overshadows the king,
pride and arrogance rules the king,
seeing no fences and feeling no bounds,
there seems to be no limits at all,
self admiration and self worship ensues,
in a manner only befitting a dictatorship,
history has it in store that,
all tyrannical leaders since Moses,
they ended up self destroying,
ironically, history goes in cycles,
power abused in excess,
power seized by fraud,
comes haunting its culprit,
until it leads to self annihilation,
a word is enough for the wise,
a word of advice for future leaders,
do not seize and abuse power.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande, a freelance writer, neo pan africanist. You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .
THE gods are not to blame.
[Pure confessions of a hypothetical sister gone sober]
Sincerely , I do not blame the God of time for a lack of husband or a set of difficulty in finding or keeping a date,
At 25+, I look back and I say what if,
When I look back through the hands of time and the joyful memories, left to me now I ask myself a very sincere question?
The last person I intend to lie to is myself though,
What was at the top of my priority list when I was young and tender?[when I was 16-18+],
A time my skin was as firm as a rubber band, and my whole being as succulent as a pumpkin from a royal pumpkin tree,
And remember!, no additives involved then!!,
Boys my age with fairy tale hopes asking me to marry them and alight,
Men much older and matured, proposing to a diamond in the dark,
Men and boys all in a seemingly endless journey of wooing a priceless work of art,
The thrill and fun that came along being clamored around intensified and I was beginning to think it will never end,
And at that time I had a list of my greatest priorities, neatly folded and tucked beneath my boundless heart,
As for the innocent proposers, it was either he was too short or too tall or just too cute for my liking dad,
And after all, marriage against my western induced will in the 21st century!?, that’s utterly silly dad,
Higher education and western influenced independence was all I yearn for inside silently though,
Marriage at this point to me is portrayed as being a burden which will tie my hands down and deprive my independence [babies and university!!!?]
Establishing a promising career was all I yearned for,
Financial independence is all I foresee,
All had to wait till I had my fill,
My biological clock would not stop ticking though, and my skin would not stop sagging as I grew older,
The natural allure and sharpness of my succulent skin is all but a mirage now,
Now I am plagued by enormous cost of maintenance, new gel, new soap, latest wears,
And now I look back at it all and say to myself silently,
Whatever was at the top of my priority list then should have waited,
Today, I do not want to blame the God of time,
For the God of time gave me a chance at a tender age,
this chance I thought would last a lifetime,
Indeed the gods are not to blame.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, wrote in from the university of Maiduguri, borno State, Nigeria.[2008]
Sincerely , I do not blame the God of time for a lack of husband or a set of difficulty in finding or keeping a date,
At 25+, I look back and I say what if,
When I look back through the hands of time and the joyful memories, left to me now I ask myself a very sincere question?
The last person I intend to lie to is myself though,
What was at the top of my priority list when I was young and tender?[when I was 16-18+],
A time my skin was as firm as a rubber band, and my whole being as succulent as a pumpkin from a royal pumpkin tree,
And remember!, no additives involved then!!,
Boys my age with fairy tale hopes asking me to marry them and alight,
Men much older and matured, proposing to a diamond in the dark,
Men and boys all in a seemingly endless journey of wooing a priceless work of art,
The thrill and fun that came along being clamored around intensified and I was beginning to think it will never end,
And at that time I had a list of my greatest priorities, neatly folded and tucked beneath my boundless heart,
As for the innocent proposers, it was either he was too short or too tall or just too cute for my liking dad,
And after all, marriage against my western induced will in the 21st century!?, that’s utterly silly dad,
Higher education and western influenced independence was all I yearn for inside silently though,
Marriage at this point to me is portrayed as being a burden which will tie my hands down and deprive my independence [babies and university!!!?]
Establishing a promising career was all I yearned for,
Financial independence is all I foresee,
All had to wait till I had my fill,
My biological clock would not stop ticking though, and my skin would not stop sagging as I grew older,
The natural allure and sharpness of my succulent skin is all but a mirage now,
Now I am plagued by enormous cost of maintenance, new gel, new soap, latest wears,
And now I look back at it all and say to myself silently,
Whatever was at the top of my priority list then should have waited,
Today, I do not want to blame the God of time,
For the God of time gave me a chance at a tender age,
this chance I thought would last a lifetime,
Indeed the gods are not to blame.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, wrote in from the university of Maiduguri, borno State, Nigeria.[2008]
Friday, November 20, 2009
कानो!!!
“ No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all by himself, or get all the credit for doing it”
Andrew Carnegie [1835-1919].
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders. In combat, officers eat last”
Robert towns end [1920].
“We have to stop personalizing politics and be ready to accept genuine critism”
Aminu bello masari.
The above quotations are a food for thought for our dear readers.
The cardinal objective of a leader is the happiness, peace and progress of the followers. It is therefore pertinent for leaders to consider the teeming masses first, as their primary target, in order to change their lives for good. Anything contrary to this remains counterproductive and anti people.
As long as the world lasts, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs will last forever.
Empty vessels they say makes the most noise. Achievement! Achievement! Achievement! Is all we ever hear. Ideally, a good leader should not blow his own trumpet all by himself.
Each succeeding generation of leaders should patiently await the testimony of the people they ruled over, it is from the joint testimonies of the teeming g masses that a historical account could be adequately documented and laid to rest in the annals’ of history whether good or bad. At first when votes were sought, it was low tone voices and a sense of pity for losing a first attempt; with high expectations, a majority of congress voted although some electoral misappropriation was employed. Still sober and timid, executive support was geared towards retrieving the unions most valued possession, from then, it has always been busy days, pride and unlimited arrogance. A crooked ruler just like a good liar will surely have an excuse for every misdeed when confronted, so, at first they might seem spotless.
The best attribute of a good leader is that which is inclined towards accepting genuine critsm and not making excuses and trying change for the better. An exemplary rule within a student union like ours will definitely be passed on to the outside world, back at home; if we are asked to give testimony of the leadership habits of a supposed senatorial aspirant who was a one time leader within our cycles back in school, guess what our general response will be? how much support do you think we will give? Do you and I think that we will forget so easily the busy spree? No!, I do not think we will.
Thus, I say this, even though the leader maybe as wise as a sage, he must humble himself and yield to the inclined public pressures and demands, only then will the intelligent and the wise offer to him their good counsel and the braveness to exert themselves in full submit to his course.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, a neo pan africanist. You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .
Andrew Carnegie [1835-1919].
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders. In combat, officers eat last”
Robert towns end [1920].
“We have to stop personalizing politics and be ready to accept genuine critism”
Aminu bello masari.
The above quotations are a food for thought for our dear readers.
The cardinal objective of a leader is the happiness, peace and progress of the followers. It is therefore pertinent for leaders to consider the teeming masses first, as their primary target, in order to change their lives for good. Anything contrary to this remains counterproductive and anti people.
As long as the world lasts, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs will last forever.
Empty vessels they say makes the most noise. Achievement! Achievement! Achievement! Is all we ever hear. Ideally, a good leader should not blow his own trumpet all by himself.
Each succeeding generation of leaders should patiently await the testimony of the people they ruled over, it is from the joint testimonies of the teeming g masses that a historical account could be adequately documented and laid to rest in the annals’ of history whether good or bad. At first when votes were sought, it was low tone voices and a sense of pity for losing a first attempt; with high expectations, a majority of congress voted although some electoral misappropriation was employed. Still sober and timid, executive support was geared towards retrieving the unions most valued possession, from then, it has always been busy days, pride and unlimited arrogance. A crooked ruler just like a good liar will surely have an excuse for every misdeed when confronted, so, at first they might seem spotless.
The best attribute of a good leader is that which is inclined towards accepting genuine critsm and not making excuses and trying change for the better. An exemplary rule within a student union like ours will definitely be passed on to the outside world, back at home; if we are asked to give testimony of the leadership habits of a supposed senatorial aspirant who was a one time leader within our cycles back in school, guess what our general response will be? how much support do you think we will give? Do you and I think that we will forget so easily the busy spree? No!, I do not think we will.
Thus, I say this, even though the leader maybe as wise as a sage, he must humble himself and yield to the inclined public pressures and demands, only then will the intelligent and the wise offer to him their good counsel and the braveness to exert themselves in full submit to his course.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, a neo pan africanist. You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .
Zan rattaba!!
“I do not believe in running cap in hand begging people or organizations for money to run our humble union. We must have a source of raising our revenue so as to truly make us independent to pursue our goal of equity and justice for all our members”
Muhammad Garba , N.U.J president.
Any organization that is not capable of generating its revenue internally and running itself at least for survival is not considered by business administrators to be an establishment deserving to maintain its name for much longer.
A good leader is suppose to be an innovator, creative and dynamic, not in terms of sweet begging the rich money bag politicians or elder state people; but in terms of being able to utilize revenue internally generated to put forth simple little achievements for their humble union.
A good leader ought to be a good manager and use funds and fund raising material at his disposal to churn out money for well defined projects.
The most prestigious N.AK.S.S is Bayero chapter. But even they put their vehicle to tread the equivalent of “accada to complex” generating nothing less than 15,000 naira monthly, which will be enough for fueling and general maintenance over time. Sometimes I wonder how show off on campus with public property could bring some cadre of people supposed happiness, while the masses are generally grumbling against unfair marginalization.
We are generally meant to believe that the essence of taking our unions vehicle home was to chase money bag politicians around for funds or their equivalent, visiting sick or bereaved congress members, attending their weddings and events e.t.c , yaeh!. So?, ideally under such arrangement the use of the vehicle should have been restricted within the bounds of this venture and not too much inclined towards personal gratification. Yes the vehicle serves as a personal as well as an official car to Mr. president! Agreed!, but how personal? There are and should be restraints. Ideally, personal engagement should be 30% and union issues take up 70%, in its absence, let the vehicle sleep and rest.
Almost everybody back at home, maid student or not will tell you where they saw your unions vehicle, Kaduna- Abuja express way, bachirawa, hotoro,shagari quarters e.t.c and in almost every unguwa within the metropolis , one thing I live to ask you and I is, are we the only union with a car or it’s just that we have a leadership with no screws in them?
Trust is burden and every one of us is but a Sheppard that will be called upon to account for their flock on the day of recompense. Public property is too sensitive to be employed for personal gratification. I remember we used to have a business centre that is decaying out of empty promises, if only the money making tools within the leadership had been put to effective use? Sometimes I look back and I say what if?
Thus we do not believe in a system that is so dependent on external support to survive. Going cap in hand, begging money bag politicians for dimes and pennies will no develop vibrant future leaders with a zeal for creativity and success which is independent of external support, at least not until it becomes an absolute necessity.
An ce “wai daga na gaba akan ga zurfin ruwa”, I hope the next cadre of leaders will learn from the blunders of history and steer us to greater heights.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, a neo panafricanist. You can reach him on www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .
Muhammad Garba , N.U.J president.
Any organization that is not capable of generating its revenue internally and running itself at least for survival is not considered by business administrators to be an establishment deserving to maintain its name for much longer.
A good leader is suppose to be an innovator, creative and dynamic, not in terms of sweet begging the rich money bag politicians or elder state people; but in terms of being able to utilize revenue internally generated to put forth simple little achievements for their humble union.
A good leader ought to be a good manager and use funds and fund raising material at his disposal to churn out money for well defined projects.
The most prestigious N.AK.S.S is Bayero chapter. But even they put their vehicle to tread the equivalent of “accada to complex” generating nothing less than 15,000 naira monthly, which will be enough for fueling and general maintenance over time. Sometimes I wonder how show off on campus with public property could bring some cadre of people supposed happiness, while the masses are generally grumbling against unfair marginalization.
We are generally meant to believe that the essence of taking our unions vehicle home was to chase money bag politicians around for funds or their equivalent, visiting sick or bereaved congress members, attending their weddings and events e.t.c , yaeh!. So?, ideally under such arrangement the use of the vehicle should have been restricted within the bounds of this venture and not too much inclined towards personal gratification. Yes the vehicle serves as a personal as well as an official car to Mr. president! Agreed!, but how personal? There are and should be restraints. Ideally, personal engagement should be 30% and union issues take up 70%, in its absence, let the vehicle sleep and rest.
Almost everybody back at home, maid student or not will tell you where they saw your unions vehicle, Kaduna- Abuja express way, bachirawa, hotoro,shagari quarters e.t.c and in almost every unguwa within the metropolis , one thing I live to ask you and I is, are we the only union with a car or it’s just that we have a leadership with no screws in them?
Trust is burden and every one of us is but a Sheppard that will be called upon to account for their flock on the day of recompense. Public property is too sensitive to be employed for personal gratification. I remember we used to have a business centre that is decaying out of empty promises, if only the money making tools within the leadership had been put to effective use? Sometimes I look back and I say what if?
Thus we do not believe in a system that is so dependent on external support to survive. Going cap in hand, begging money bag politicians for dimes and pennies will no develop vibrant future leaders with a zeal for creativity and success which is independent of external support, at least not until it becomes an absolute necessity.
An ce “wai daga na gaba akan ga zurfin ruwa”, I hope the next cadre of leaders will learn from the blunders of history and steer us to greater heights.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a freelance writer, a neo panafricanist. You can reach him on www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com .
NATURAL SUCCESSION AND THE HUMAN MIMICK THROUGH THE RISING OF MEGA CITIES [SKYCRAPER ORIENTED].
In the field of ecology, succession is the natural process by which a community of organisms in an ecosystem gradually replaces another. The process of succession begins with a group of simple, rapidly growing organisms called the pioneer community. The final stage of ecological succession, which consists of the most complex and stable community, is called the climax vegetation.
The human societal development takes a similar pattern as such, through an increase in population. In the field of population and urban geography, it is believed that people move into a favorable area in drifts from different places and tend to settle down permanently. Over time one generation succeeds the order beginning with homogenous group to a vast heterogeneous pack of people with advancing technology for shelter and thus the emergence of complex buildings.
Through the stages of succession which are nudation, migration, excess, competition, stability, the ecosystem reaches a stage of structural complexity and subsequent climax. This is achieved while the vegetation undisturbed passes through stages where plants and animals compete to establish themselves, reproduce, compete for space, sunlight, nutrients all in a quest to survive leading to an endless struggle known as the survival of the fittest in which only the strong can survive.
In comparison, the human society tries in earnest to outdo each order in wealth and property. High rise apartments are thought to be trendy and cool, offering a paradise view, lots of sunshine and free flow of natural air. Thus competition between tall buildings developed as technology and affluence evolved. A ten story building in the middle of Manhattan in new York city will be deprived of essentials such as sunlight, free flow of air for comfort and thus has to be pulled down for a fifty story building [that is before many seventy story buildings cover the sky overtime]. Thus, the climax of human succession could be said to have been reached.
In the plant community as explained above, a stage of structural complexity is reached as well, as such only the most advanced species could carry on living.
Thus the above keen observation of mine attempts to put forth the glaring similarities inherent within ecological succession and human territorial expansion and quest for survival.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a 300 level student, department of geography, university of Maiduguri, Borno state Nigeria.
You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com
The human societal development takes a similar pattern as such, through an increase in population. In the field of population and urban geography, it is believed that people move into a favorable area in drifts from different places and tend to settle down permanently. Over time one generation succeeds the order beginning with homogenous group to a vast heterogeneous pack of people with advancing technology for shelter and thus the emergence of complex buildings.
Through the stages of succession which are nudation, migration, excess, competition, stability, the ecosystem reaches a stage of structural complexity and subsequent climax. This is achieved while the vegetation undisturbed passes through stages where plants and animals compete to establish themselves, reproduce, compete for space, sunlight, nutrients all in a quest to survive leading to an endless struggle known as the survival of the fittest in which only the strong can survive.
In comparison, the human society tries in earnest to outdo each order in wealth and property. High rise apartments are thought to be trendy and cool, offering a paradise view, lots of sunshine and free flow of natural air. Thus competition between tall buildings developed as technology and affluence evolved. A ten story building in the middle of Manhattan in new York city will be deprived of essentials such as sunlight, free flow of air for comfort and thus has to be pulled down for a fifty story building [that is before many seventy story buildings cover the sky overtime]. Thus, the climax of human succession could be said to have been reached.
In the plant community as explained above, a stage of structural complexity is reached as well, as such only the most advanced species could carry on living.
Thus the above keen observation of mine attempts to put forth the glaring similarities inherent within ecological succession and human territorial expansion and quest for survival.
Muhammad Tijjani Nakande is a 300 level student, department of geography, university of Maiduguri, Borno state Nigeria.
You can reach him at www.muhammadnakandesworld.blogspot.com or email him at memzycool@yahoo.com
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