“Nigerians love to criticize their country perhaps far more than any nation I know of in the world. Yes, we have all earned the right to be cynical and even contemptible about the way we have been governed, and about how the resources of our nation
have been frittered away mindlessly.
I am even more amused by the criticisms of some of our brethren in the Diaspora especially those who think that simply being abroad has set them apart from their fellow countrymen and women, those who believe that those of us who are here
are here are so because we are not good enough to be abroad.
...It is about time we took off the gloves and speak honestly to ourselves about our future as a country, our mistakes, our fears, anxieties and deep hope. We are not the worst people on earth nor is our country the
on earth nor is our country the worst piece of God’s real estate. We have to seize this narrative and re-define ourselves...
Kuka SAKABULA in 2014 .
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Cape Town to Cairo is an ongoing project connecting southern African to Northern Africa. Each country is building its own infrastructure and there is no noise about it from the citizen of those countries.
Since 1973 there has been a plan by ECOWAS to build West Africa railway
from Calabar to Gambia. Each of nations was supposed to build it's own system. Nigerian internal railway systems is mainly two trunks Port Harcourt to Maiduguri and Lagos to Karau Namuda. There also plan to build railway from Calabar Chad republic which is of strategic
importance for Nigeria. Our eastern plank is getaway to the rest of Africa and to the Asia with population of close to 4billion people. This railway could have given us right to provide cargo services for Central Africa republic, western Sudan, South west of Niger republic, Chad
In 1999, Atiku became Nigeria’s Vice-president and, thus, created a blind trust to hold his asset in Intels. It was the blind trust created in 1999 that GTCN was incorporated to manage in 2003, with Gabrielle Volpi. Akintola Kekere-Ekun, a banker, and Uyiekpen Osagie, a lawyer,
, as its directors and trustees.
“An investigation (of the March 2012 wire transfer) identified GTCN as an alleged shell company that has been used to transfer over USD 10 million via wire transfers through U.S. banks on behalf of the former vice-president of Nigeria, Mr Atiku
Abubakar,” HBLNY reported.
Of the $40 million identified in the US Senate investigation regarding Atiku, $25 million was reportedly wire-transferred into more than 30 U.S. bank accounts opened by Jennifer Douglas, Atiku’s fourth wife. another SAR filed in 2017 and showing 27
".....It's true that I didn't give as much as I ought to give to support my party (APC) for the 2020 gubernatorial election. Many reasons are responsible for that, I won't go into that detail. While I have a duty to support my party, I however had a soft spot for Obaseki until he
left my party. The truth is, we all know how Obaseki was made governor. I believe that he won't feel too bad to see that same process that he benefited from also remove him from office. It's poetic justice and it's actually equity because you cannot gain from a process and also
Wail when the same process compensates the one you took advantage of in the past. In summary, about the forthcoming election, I can tell you without mincing words that the APC will win the election and I enjoin Obaseki to accept the result in good faith and return to the APC
Attended Primary School in Daura and Mai’adua,1948-1952
Attended Katsina Model School in 1953 and Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina)
) from 1956-1961.
Joined the then Nigerian Military Training School, Kaduna in 1963.
Attended Officer’s Cadet School in Aldershot (United Kingdom), October 1963
Attended Platoon Commanders’ Course at the Nigerian Military College, Kaduna, 1964
Attended the Mechanical Transport
Officer’s Course at the Army Mechanical Transport School in Borden (United Kingdom) 1965
Studied at the Defence Services’ Staff College, Wellington (India), 1973
Attended the United States Army War College, June 1979 /June 1980.