Category Archives: News and News Analysis

Kaduna Teachers Primary 4 Competency Test X-Rayed

Jerry D. Ishaya 11/11/17 Because I don’t want any misinformed person to keep on telling me that Kaduna state fail primary four exams , I went through the questions that were used to evaluate the capacity of the primary school teachers in the state and made the following observations : The assessment instrument is not

THE DISHONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE KADUNA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

Yahaya Shinko November 10, 2017 The present members of the KDSHA to say the least are the worst set of legislatures the state have witnessed.  Many of them have lost touch with the electorates talk less of consulting them on matters of state policies and programs. Some have reduced themselves to being the mouthpiece of

Kaduna Again Shutdown by Protesting Teachers, NLC, Pupils – Pictures

Today, teachers, pupils and officials of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)  and Nigerian Union of Teachers again shutdown Kaduna in continuation of the protest against the planned sack of over twenty thousand primary school teachers who “failed” the “primary Four” competency test organized by the state’s ministry of education headed by the renown Prof Andrew

PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN IN PROTESTS: THE LEGAL AND SOCIO-MORAL QUESTIONS

James KANYIP  08/11/2017 On Monday, 06/11/2017 and Tuesday, 07/11/2017, pupils of some primary schools stormed some Streets and Roads in both the Northern and Southern parts of Kaduna metropolis to protest the threat by Kaduna State Government to sack about 21,780 of their teachers. I personally witnessed the protest staged by the pupils of Narayi

Bantex:Tragedy of political leadership

Simon Reef  By his emergence as deputy governor of Kaduna State on May 29, 2015, Architect Barnabas Bala Bantex became the political leader of Southern Kaduna. For some of us who have admired his political voyage in the past, especially when he served as chairman of Kaura LG, our confidence in him was unshakeable as

SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLE’S UNION (SOKAPU) TOWN HALL MEETING ON RESTRUCTURING

SOUTHERN KADUNA PEOPLE’S UNION (SOKAPU) TOWN HALL MEETING ON RESTRUCTURING AT HAMDALA HOTEL, KADUNA Restructuring simply refers to change the basic organization or structure of something. Restructuring has become one of the most popular languages used in the Nigerian political world today. Many politicians and enlightened citizens are calling on the federal government to restructure

Gov. El-Rufai Counselor’s Visit To Southern Kaduna Clergy “Shameless” – SOKAPU YOUTH

Bomba Dauda Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, youth-wing president, Nasiru Jagaba described the recent visit by Governor Nasiru El-rufai of Kaduna State newly appointed Counselor on Political Matter, Mallam Lawal Samaila Yakawada to Southern Kaduna clergy as “an act of shamelessness and politically energized.” Jagaba made these assertions during an exclusive interview at the union

20,000 TEACHERS AND KASU STAFFERS IN MY MIND!

TO NASIR ELRUFAI Those who find themselves in power need to be very careful over the manner they exercise that power. Among many things they should avoid, going by recent events, these are important: 1. Do not humiliate teachers and other people who serve the public. Discipline them and hold them up against standards by

Victims of Elrufai’s Oppressive Gov’t

Some names of Journalists and other Kaduna citizens arrested, detained and harassed by the orders of Kaduna Governor, Mallam Nasiru  Elrufai, since assuming office on May 29th, 2015 for criticising him or disagreeing with him. 1.Gabriel Idibia The Union Newspaper El-rufai sued the paper and the reporter for writing a story on his monetary worth. The

Re: Sanusi Maikudi’s Pretext for Genocide on Sunrise Daily

I will try to make this as short as possible. I managed to catch up on parts of Sanusi Maikudi’s interview on Sunrise Daily on Channel’s TV on the 26th of April 2017. He posited that the root cause of the crisis in Southern Kaduna is the refusal of the autochthonous people of Southern Kaduna