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Governor Bala Muhammad asked Bauchi state assembly to extend tenure of 14 Local government caretaker committees.

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By Abbas Yushau Yusuf
Bauchi state House of assembly has  received two executive communications from  Governor Bala Mohammad seeking for the screening and confirmation of nominees for appointment as Caretaker Committee chairmen and deputies while the second letter seek for the withdrawal of Barr Kefas Magaji as Caretaker chairman of Tafawa Balewa LG and Mahmud Babamaji as Deputy Caretaker chairman of Bauchi LG from the list earlier sent.
The new nominees to be screened as CTC chairmen are:
Saleh Abdu Nasaru Ningi LG,Garba Musa Bara Kirfi LG, Abbas Aliyu Waziri Darazo LG,Daniel Danjuma Mazadu Tafawa Balewa LG
 
Those to be screened as CTC deputy chairmen as requested by the Governor are:
1. Idris Shuaibu Ningi LG
2. Ahmad T Shuaibu Warji LG
3. Mustapha Muhammad Alkali Bauchi LG
3. The Governor requested for extension of the tenure of the following Caretaker Committee Chairmen:
1. Alh. Yusuf Garba Kigan Alkaleri LG
2. Alh Danladi Danbaba Bauchi LG
2. Mr. Ilya Habila Bogoro LG
3. Alh Sale Abubakar Dumba Dass
4. Alh Ahmad Abubakar Dambam LG
5. Alh Adamu Lele Gamawa LG
6. Alh Abubakar Adamu Salihu Giade
7. Alh Dayyabu Kariya Ganjuwa LG
8. Alh Ahmad Adamu Itas Itas/Gadau LG
9. Alh Sama’ila Dogon JejiJamaare
10. Alh Babayo sunusi madara Katagum LG
11. Alh Yaro Muhd Gwaram Misau LG
12 Alh Maigari Muhammad Khanna Shira LG
13. Alh Shehu Buba Toro LG
14. Alh Muhammad Danjummai Warji LG
15 Alh Yahuza Zaki Zaki LG
4. The Governor equally requested for the extension of tenure of the following Caretaker Committee deputy chairmen
1. Alkaleri LG Muhammad Sani Umar
2. Bogoro Gideon Landi
4. Dambam Muhammad Danjebu Dagauda
4. Darazo Safiyanu Isyaku Lanzai
5. Dass Ali Baba
6. Ganjuwa Ibrahim Shehu Baba
7. Shira Mahmud Yana
8. Gamawa Yaya Hamma
9. Giade Lamara Adamu
10. Itas/Gadau Suleiman Babayo
11. Jama’are Ahmed  Bayye Jamare
12. Katagum Auwalu Madaki
13. Kirfi Suleiman Adamu
14. Misau Mal Baiduy Liman
15. Tafawa Balewa Dan Asabe Bununu
16.Toro Mal Musa Idris Mantawai
17. Zaki Mal Shehu Liman
3. The House resolved to screen the nominees after due consultations for appropriate date.
4. The Honourable House received petitions as presented by the Chairman House Committee on Public Petition Hon. Musa Mante Baraza (Dass Constituency.
Some of the petition include those written against Caretaker Committee chairmen of Bauchi LG Alh Danladi Danbaba, Alkaleri LG Hon Yusuf Garba, Giade LG Alh Abubakar Adamu, Toro LG Alh Shehu Buba and Dass LG Alh Saleh Abubakar Dumba. Other petitions include one written against the State Government over the the alleged unlawful dismissal of DG of BASEPA and the other written against Nigeria Army over the encroachment into farms and lands along Bauchi-Jos road in Toro Local Government.
5. Under matters of urgent public importance, Hon. Tijjani Muhammad Aliyu (Azare/Madangala) move a motion on the spread of corona virus in the State. He explained how the virus originated from China but spread world over including Bauchi State.
The Member added that so many measures are taken by the State government and the legislative arm including partial lockdown, social distancing and suspension of plenary of the State Assembly to complement government efforts.
He narrated how the local government he is representing, Katagum, has the highest number of people infected with the virus in which the State government ordered the total lockdown of the Local Government as well as Giade and Zaki LGAs.
He therefore call on all citizens to key into fight against the disease because the disease is contacted from interactions with victims from other States, thus people and government must do everything possible to protect the State.
Hon Tijjani explained that Bauchi as one of poverty ravaged States and with Bauchi North being the highest index of poverty in the State, and with  negative consequences of the disease, people of the State will suffer a lot. 
He therefore opined that the House must work hand in had with the Executive Arm to protect the citizens.
On his part the speaker of the Assembly Abubakar Suleiman said the motion is very important going by how the disease is rapidly spreading and many people are dying. He therefore said as representatives of the people they are very concerned with the situation and sympathized with all those infected and prayed for Allah’s protection.
Contributing, Deputy Speaker Hon Danlami Ahmed Kawule (Zungur/Galambi/Miri) said people Bauchi State have good awareness of the disease as most of the cases recorded are returnees from other parts of the country.
He therefore urge his colleagues to make sure they protect their constituents by making sure their borders with other States are patrolled and protected.
Hon. Dan’umma Bello (Giade Constituency) said in Giade, they held stakeholders meeting to find out how the disease get way to the local government in order to find way out.
He suggested that since people are allowed to go to market for three days per week, people should equally be allowed to go and pray Juma’at prayers on Fridays and church service on Sunday.
According to him, there is need to go spiritual to end covid-19  and the best way to do that is to allow people to observe Juma’ah prayers and church services.
Hon. Dan’umma also opined that they Government should reduce the number of mosques and churches by selecting few that the prayers will be allowed.
On his part, Hon. Jamilu Umaru Dahiru (Bauchi Central Constituency) requested that the House should spare some minutes to observe special prayer for Bauchi State and the country at large so that Almighty Allah will heal all infected persons and end the pandemic.
He also lamented the highhandedness of some security agents in the enforcement of lockdown order in Bauchi Metropolis where many people are being manhandled.
Hon. Jamilu therefore call on the government to call the attention of the security agents to be professional and respect the dignity of human being in enforcing government’s orders on covid-19.
In his contribution Hon Yusuf Inuwa Dadiye (Ganjuwa West) reminded the members that they will account all their deeds and actions on the day of judgement.
He lamented on the banning of Juma’ah prayers and church services in the State, saying everyday their constituents are calling them to inquire whether they can go to Juma’ah mosques and churches.
Hon. Dadiye who quoted some verses of the Holy Qur’an on the necessity and sacrosanct of Juma’ah prayer to all Muslims, called on the members of the Assembly to call for opening of Juma’ah mosques on Fridays and churces on Sunday because the solution to covid-19 is prayers.
The member therefore call the government to increase number of mosques for Juma’ah prayers so that people will not congest the existing mosques and order for strict compliance to the guidelines of fighting the disease in all Juma’ah mosques and churches.
Hon. Baballe Abubakar Dambam (Dambam/Jalam/Dagauda) presented the message of his constituents who demand for the lift of the ban of Juma’ah prayers.
He said he and his constituents are of the view that the solution to covid-19 is abandoned by closing Juma’ah mosques where the solution resides.
According to him, Almighty Allah tests his servants with calamities and diseases like corona virus and when such happened repentance and prayers are the solution not banning mosques.
He wondered how people are allowed to go to market which is more congested than mosque but ban them from going to Juma’ah prayers.
Hon. Baballe therefore call on the Government to open Juma’ah mosques with strict guidelines including uniform time for all Juma’ah prayers and duration of 15 to 20 minutes for all prayers.
Hon. Musa Wakili Nakwada (Bogoro Constituency) said that there is no required synergy between the legislative arm and executive arm in fighting the disease in Bauchi State.
He added that there is no required representation of the members of  State Assembly in most of the Committees set up by the government on covid-19.
Hon. Nakwada opined that synergy between the two arms will help a lot in fighting the disease.
Hon. Bakoji Aliyu Bobbo (Chiroma Constituency) said their constituents are very much concerned on the banning of Juma’ah prayers. 
He therefore suggested opening of Juma’ah mosques and the increase of number of mosques for the prayers to reduce congestion. 
Hon Bakoji suggested that the government should set up a committee to see how people can be allowed to observe Juma’ah prayers.
He commended Governor Bala Mohammad for involving stakeholders in all the decisions he is taking on the fight against covid-19.
Hon. Danlami Ahmed Kawule suggested that the three days allowed for opening of markets should be made on Friday and Sunday so that people will go to market on the days and also go to mosque and church. This according to him will reduce the number of days people will go out to reduce congestion when Juma’ah prayers and church services are allowed.
On his part, Hon. Abdulkadir Umar Dewu (Kirfi Constituency) explained that all the decisions taken by the government against the novel corona virus are taken in full consultations with stakeholders which comprised religious leaders.
According to Hon. Dewu the decisions of the government are meant to protect the people based on the advise of professionals and convention of the stakeholders and leaders across the country.
He said the lockdown of Bauchi State has human face compared to other States where one can’t even go to mosque for daily prayers.
He commended Governor Bala Mohammad for his large heart and human feeling in fighting against covid-19 in the State.
He therefore advised that the leadership of the Assembly should meet the Executive Arm to brainstorm on the matter so that lives of people will not be risked.
Hon. Yusuf Muhammad Bako (Pali Constituency) said food, education and economy are important to the lives of people but corona virus has affected them all.
He narrated how a woman and a child died in Central Market Bauchi because of congestion, saying this was caused by closure of markets for four days which made people to storm markets for their various needs when the markets are open for three days. I
He therefore call for adding more days for the opening markets and opening of mosques and churches for Juma’ah prayers and services.
Hon Yusuf said all decisions that will affect the people of the State should rather be taken by elected officials because people trusted them their mandates.
In his contribution, Hon. Mukhtar Suleiman (Katagum Constituency) said being member of the Palliative Committee, he can testify that all Emirs, religious scholars and stakeholders are part of the decisions taken to protect the State from corona virus.
He said the decisions are not unilaterally taken by Governor Bala Mohammad but in full consultation with the stakeholders.
However, Hon Mukhtar said he is in support of discussions toward allowing Juma’ah prayers and church services.
He called on strict patrol and closure of boarders because most of infected persons are returnees from other States.
On the total lockdown of his Constituency, Zaki Local Government, Hon. Mukhtar Suleiman opined that strict compliance of patrol of their boarder with Jigawa State will be better.
He said that most people of Zaki Local Government are irrigation farmers and fishers and total lockdown will have devastating effects on them as their farms will dry, millions of Naira will be lost and source of livelihoods will be lost.
The member therefore call on the Government to allow all farmers and fishers to go on with their normal businesses.
Speaker Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y Suleiman said the House has adopted the suggestions and opinions of the Members and ordered that all the resolutions be communicated to the Executive Arm for consideration.
In another development a motion calling on the need to set up an ad hoc committee to facilitate effective monitoring of the measures taken by the government against covid-19 was moved by Hon Tijjani Muhammad Aliyu (Azare/Madangala)
Moving the motion Hon Tijjani said the State Government has taken some measures to fight against covid-19 in order to ensure safety and effective healthcare the system such establishment of Covid-19 Taskforce, Palliative Committee, Isolation Centres, provision of safety kits, partial lockdown, executive order agaisnt covid-19, considering the magnitude of the threat of Covid-19 on the people and economy of the State the legislative arm should play the legislative role of oversight in articulating and streamlining the activities of the committees in order to achieve the desired common goal.
He therefore call on the House to set up an ad hoc committee of sizeable number to monitor the administration of drugs and palliatives related to covid-19.
He also urge the government to establish palliatives committees at local level and ensure adequate supply of palliatives, ensure equity and fairness in distribution of the palliatives and direct the Taskforce on covid-19 to furnish the ad hoc committee on the current situation and all measures taken.
Hon. Saleh Hodi Jibir (Disina Constituency) explained that there is poor awareness of Covid-19 among the citizens of the State as many people don’t believe in the disease. He therefore call on the State Government to strengthen public enlightenment on the disease, strict patrol of boarders and health workers should be trained on how to trace those who are infected with the disease.
The Honourable House unanimously adopted the motion as amended as moved by Hon. Abdulkadir Umar Dewu (Kirfi Constituency). 
Speaker Abubakar Y Suleiman announced the composition of the Ad hoc Committee on Covid-19. The members of the Committee are; Hon. Dan’umma Bello, Chairman, other members of the committee include Hon Jamilu Umaru Dahiru, Hon. Bello Sarki Jadori, Hon. Babayo Muhammad, Musa Wakili Nakwada, Bala Abdullahi Dan and Hon Sabo Bako Sade.
However a report of the joined committees of Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs and Appropriation on the proposed 2020 budget estimates of the 20 Local Governments of the State was laid by Hon. Abdulkadir Umar Dewu (Kirfi Constituency)
 Anothet report of the House Committee on Education on their monitoring visit to the contracts awarded by Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and State Universal Basic Education Board in 2027/2018 action plan was laid by Hon. Babayo Muhammad (Hardawa Constituency)
The Honourable House resolved to take the reports in tomorrow’s plenary.
 A special prayer against the pandemic corona virus was led by Hon Musa Mohammad Lumo and Hon. Musa Wakili Nakwada.
The House adjourned to 13th May, 2020.

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Muslim-Muslim Ticket: idea fixation pathetic, religion be excluded in politics and governance, says El-Rufai

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The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has described the possibility that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, would run a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election as mere speculation.

Making a remark on Channels TV’s political show, Politics Today, he said, Nigerians’ obsession with religion – when it comes to voting – rather than competence is sad. “This fixation of Nigerians on religion instead of competence, capacity, and capability is quite sad and pathetic.”

El-Rufai said that anyone asking him questions about the controversial Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket is asking the wrong person, because, in the 2019 general election he settled for a qualified Muslim woman as a running mate and won the election in Kaduna State.

He said, “I don’t look at people from Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian angle. Most of my closest friends are Christians. It was Pastor Tunde Bakare, a Pentecostal pastor, that took me to the CPC, not President Buhari. I’m very close to Bakare. I’m very close to many Christians. I don’t think the business of governance has anything to do with religion. I think we should look for the best person for the job. A person that will get the job done and let him do that.”

He advised Nigerian journalists to keep religion out of politics and government. He said, “I don’t think we should be looking at religion. We want to develop this country. When I get into a plane, I don’t ask about the religion of the pilot. When I go to the hospital, I don’t ask for the doctor’s religion of the doctor, I just want to get well. I just want to get to my destination when in an aircraft.

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Nigerian Universities, the interference of Professional bodies, and the time bomb

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Having worked with multidisciplinary teams during my PhD at the Department of Engineering of the University of Leicester and postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Electric Power Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), I decided to experiment the acceptability of a multidisciplinary team in Engineering departments in Nigerian universities in 21st century on my return in 2015. Then, I was already due to be a Senior Lecturer in ABU since 2014. So I sent my CV and an application letter for the position of Associate Professor to the VC through the Head of Electrical Engineering Department of one of our public universities in November 2015. And I received the following not very surprising reply.
“Having perused your application documents, I found them interesting and relevant to the need of the department. However, I cannot pass your application for further processing because of the post applied for. For your information, the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nig. (COREN) has fixed the bar of an Engineering lecturer who is not registered with COREN at Lecturer I regardless of the number of his/her publications.”
The question that came to my mind was that is the regulation of engineering lecturers in universities part of the mandates of COREN? I read the reply again and he was very emphatic on my PhD and postdoctoral research experience and the relevance to his department. I was made to understand that the University has no academic staff in the area of high voltage engineering, but for them to utilize my experience in high voltage engineering, if I was actually ready to move there, I have to accept to be demoted for 4 years because COREN said so. And I can’t grow no matter my research output till I am registered with COREN. Amazing offer! It will take a complete idiot to accept such an offer. That is the reality of the compartmentalization of our university system and the destruction of the Nigerian university system and the structure by supposed professionals.
This was completely different from my experience in my two universities in Europe. Prof. Len Dissado had a first degree in chemistry and a PhD in chemistry but was a Professor of Engineering at Leicester because his research area was in Dielectrics, a topic very relevant to High Voltage Engineering. He was retained as Emeritus when I left in 2012. Dr. Steve S. Dodd had his first degree in Physics and PhD in Physics but was employed as a Senior Lecturer in Engineering (High Voltage Engineering group) because his research area was in Electrical insulation materials. He retired as a Reader in High Voltage Engineering. The HoD of the Electric Power Engineering as at the time I left the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2015 had a PhD in Physics and was a Professor of Electric Power Engineering. Universities in the rest of the world are closing gaps, while we are widening the gap. Since I could not close the gap, so we decided to have a High Voltage Laboratory in the Physics department.
In universities, we are academics and research workers. Irrespective of the field, we are employed to teach and do research. The yardstick for evaluating your performance is research output. Engineering graduates in academia are not left out. They are not employed as Engineers. Universities have their Engineers to do the engineering work. As an academic, you can be COREN registered to enable you to practice outside the university but not for the classroom and research labs in the university. I once asked a colleague some years back if as a university worker, he is an Engineer for real or a teacher and he was silent. I asked about the value of COREN registration in his teaching of Engineering courses, research output, and student project supervision and he could not give me a straight answer.
I still find it weird that COREN, a body regulating practicing engineers on the field is now setting standards for promotion in the Engineering departments of Nigerian universities. They will soon be telling Nigerian universities what to teach and what not to teach. The other councils of professionals will soon follow to set what they perceived as standards for the respective faculties or departments.
The interference of the Councils of professionals in the affairs of Nigerian universities has grown beyond setting promotion guidelines. They are now deciding the establishment of faculties and the duplication of academic departments. It does not matter the burden of running such faculties and departments on the universities. I am still wondering how they are able to twist the hands of NUC and the universities’ Senate and Governing Council to achieve all that. Not long ago, the Faculty of medicine in Nigerian public universities were converted to Colleges of Medical Sciences with 4 faculties and several departments, thanks to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
What baffled me was the fact that the Department of Biochemistry, for example, that has taught medical students the biochemistry they know since the inception of the study of medicine in Nigerian universities is suddenly no more qualified to teach medical students because the Lecturers do not have a degree in medicine. Very amazing! We now have duplicated Biochemistry departments across Nigerian universities that they called “Medical Biochemistry” in the college of medicine. The “medical biochemistry” will possibly be taught by the Medical Doctors based on what they learned from the Biochemists in life science while in medical school. Could this be a case of trading quality for ego?
We also, for example, have a medical microbiology department in the college of medicine, a microbiology
department in the faculty of life science, and a vet microbiology department in the faculty of Veterinary medicine.
The microbiologists will be able to explain to us the difference between the different versions of the microbiology.
I was in Norway in 2014 when the Norwegian couple at NTNU shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with a Professor at the University College London (UCL). I tried to check the structure of these 2 universities. The faculty of medicine at NTNU has no biochemistry department. The Department of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, a replica of the Biochemistry department, is in the faculty of natural science and they provide service to the faculty of Medicine as we had before the coming of the colleges of medicine in Nigerian universities.
How the increased number of departments helping to improve the quality of our academic output is what I can’t figure out. Rather than the duplication of service departments that will only increase the number of academic departments and won’t really add much value to the system but increased running cost, we should have created a college of life sciences and pulled the relevant faculties and departments into it.
Individualistic research is going extinct and most of the novelties of the 21st century are from interdisciplinary researches. One of the winners of the 2014 Nobel prize in medicine John O’Keefe is a neuroscientist in the Faculty of life sciences at the UCL with his degrees in Psychology. But the others, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser are both neuroscientists from the Faculty of Medicine at NTNU and received their first degree from the Department of Psychology and PhD in neurophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Oslo.
There is nothing more fascinating than the fusing of different ideas together to produce a unique product. That is the exploration in the 21st century. The world has left us behind in individualistic ideology and moved into multidisciplinary academics. If we must make progress in our universities, we must break our erected artificial barriers that are keeping us apart. The academics in physical sciences and engineering must come together with possibly a research centre that is into cutting-edge research that will involve research groups from all the relevant departments. Same way to bring life science and medical complex together.
I have seen graduates of mathematics that became Professors of Econometrics in Economics departments in universities in Europe, but not in Nigerian universities. I have seen a graduate of Chemistry that became a Professor of Engineering in Europe, but not in Nigerian universities. I have seen a graduate of Physics that became a Professor of Electric Power Engineering in Europe, but not in Nigerian universities. In Nigeria, I have seen Engr (Prof) XXX boldly written on our doors in the department but not in the universities in Europe. Are we having an identity crisis?
Professional bodies that are supposed to focus on the regulation of Professionals in the field should focus on their mandate and not be given free hands to change University policies as it pleases them. If we don’t end their interference, just like the medical council, COREN could wake up one day to tell our universities that there is a need for colleges of Engineering with departments of mathematics and physics to service the college because those in Mathematics and Physics departments are not qualified to teach engineering students because they don’t have engineering degrees. Vet council, Pharmaceuticals council, builders council, architects council, Quantity surveyors council, etc, may follow. So, how are we going to handle that?
Let’s stick to the founding principles of the university. Universities have world standards. We can stick to our British standard or borrow a leaf from the world’s top universities to improve our system, instead of allowing professional bodies to manipulate us and create barriers within the university system that will further slow down the progress we are to make.
Our universities are not in it’s best form and we have to do what we have to do to improve them. We should be more preoccupied with that. We should be discussing how to reposition Nigerian universities to be able to stand up to our various challenges and not duplicate departments without facilities because some Councils of professionals said so.
Finally, to my colleagues in Electric power engineering or high voltage engineering in Nigerian universities, you are welcome to experience our High Voltage Materials Laboratory in the Department of Physics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. We have a 400 kV DC generator and 100 kV AC source with a partial discharge measurement system to serve you. Join us to learn the physics of electric power equipment. We do not have barriers!

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Galadima Knocks Nigeria Sports Handlers Over Laziness in Talent Development,

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By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.

Former chairman, Nigeria Football Association , NFA Ibrahim Galadima(MFR) has faulted the administration, promotion and development of sports in Nigeria, noting that  the continuous  degenerating  global  status of Nigeria on the  sporting  arena could be attributed to laziness.

The outspoken sports administrator   stated that the absence of  clear  cut policies  on how  sports should be driven in Nigeria  constitutes parts of the factors that  has enrolled Nigeria on the path of total  failure.

Galadima in his remarks  on ( Thursday)at a one day workshop organized by Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN  Kano state chapter held at the conference hall of the Kano state Sports Commission with the theme “Early Warnings and Security Vigilance At Sports Events, he said “we re yet to clearly structure and drive the message clearly to say whether we   are in sports for business or  for leisure purposes.”

“our sports is going through difficult times, certainly, the Kenyans have  a clear concentration, they  have  shown clearly where they belong by dominating marathon races, recently they came to Kaduna and stamped their dominance.

“The abundant talent in Nigeria remained untapped, no age group graduation, even if you are in Chad, you are considered as a foreign based athlete, we are now so lazy in identifying talents.” Galadima lamented.

He alleged that lack of trust and confidence has  sent sponsors out of the industry, adding that potential brand sponsors are shying away from injecting their monies into  the industry for the fear of unaccountability.

 

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