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Kaduna’s political capital and the price of influence
In the chessboard of Nigerian politics, few cities have watched the pendulum of power swing as often, or occupied as consequential a position, as Kaduna. A city of historical gravitas, intellectual ferment and political intrigue, Kaduna has long been more than a geographical expression; it is an important coordinate in the cartography of Northern Nigeria’s political imagination.
Kaduna’s Political Capital and the Price of Influence
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD In the chessboard of Nigerian politics, few cities have watched the pendulum of power swing as often, or occupied as consequential a position, as Kaduna. A city of historical gravitas, intellectual ferment and political intrigue, Kaduna has long been more than a geographical expression; it is an important coordinate in the cartography of Northern Nigeria’s political imagination.
Who Will Negotiate For The North?
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD It ticks all the boxes of tragedy when you are close enough to whisper into the king’s ear but too timid to tell him that his subjects are hungry. It is indeed the tragedy of proximity and access without purpose.
Beyond the Headlines of Terror
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD Long before satellites surveyed battlefields, military commanders understood that superior weapons could not compensate for failed signals, delayed intelligence or fractured coordination. In The Art of War, the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu examined intelligence, deception and the coordination of military action.
The Girl Child, the North and the Munira Suleiman Question
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD A society can profess affection for its daughters or celebrate the girl child at public ceremonies, and still preside over the systematic diminishment of their possibilities, thereby leaving millions of girls negotiating an uncertain passage between childhood and a future circumscribed by poverty, educational exclusion and inherited expectations. In such circumstances, the question is no longer whether society cares.
The girl-child, north and Munira Suleiman
A society can profess affection for its daughters or celebrate the girl child at public ceremonies, and still preside over the systematic diminishment of their possibilities thereby leaving millions of girls negotiating an uncertain passage between childhood and a future circumscribed by poverty, educational exclusion and inherited expectations. In such circumstances, the question is no longer whether society cares.
An Anatomy of a Changing Kaduna
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD A state is like a peculiar kind of organism. It could have bones, but they are called roads and bridges. Its bloodstream, the economists would prefer words such as electricity, commerce and transportation. It equally has a brain, hidden in ministries, laws, budgets and institutions. Its nerves carry information from the centre to the remotest extremities. It has lungs that breathe through forests, farms, drainage channels and open spaces.
An anatomy of a changing Kaduna
A state is a like a peculiar kind of organism. It could have bones, but they are called roads and bridges. Its bloodstream, the economists would prefer words such as electricity, commerce and transportation. It equally has a brain, hidden in ministries, laws, budgets and institutions. Its nerves carry information from the centre to the remotest extremities. It has lungs that breathe through forests, farms, drainage channels and open spaces.
The Generator Republic: Nigeria’s Most Expensive National Shame
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD There is something almost Kafkaesque about Nigeria’s electricity story, 66 years after independence, yet the country is still unable to provide stable, uninterrupted electricity to its citizens. All the ingredients of power generation are abundantly there: a country that proudly stands as the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the world, the world’s largest producer of cassava and the most populous black country in the world.
Kaduna central and a Senator who became distant
They say, when the people lift a man onto the horse, he should not ride so far that he forgets the road back to the people. For the tree may grow tall, but it must never forget the earth that gave it root. In Kaduna Central, however, there is a curious political tale unfolding: a man carried to the Senate on the shoulders of his people now appears to have travelled so far from those same people that the road back to them has become a matter of public conjecture.
Kaduna Central and the Senator Who Became Distant
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD They say, when the people lift a man onto the horse, he should not ride so far that he forgets the road back to the people. For the tree may grow tall, but it must never forget the earth that gave it root. In Kaduna Central, however, there is a curious political tale unfolding: a man carried to the Senate on the shoulders of his people now appears to have travelled so far from those same people that the road back to them has become a matter of public conjecture.
Northern Nigeria is Digging Itself to Death
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD The deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners should force Northern leaders to confront a failure much larger than illegal mining: the failure to protect the people and the land from which their wealth is extracted. The earth is patient. It keeps its secrets beneath granite, schist and laterite, beneath the roots of crops and the beds of rivers. Gold sleeps in its geological matrix. Lithium waits in pegmatites.
Like Water Finding Its Course, Kaduna’s Development Must Find Its Conscience
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD This is a defining season for Kaduna State. Governor Uba Sani has flagged off a flood and gully-erosion control project exceeding ₦34 billion, with ₦2 billion already paid as compensation to about 1,000 affected property owners. Yet amidst the applause, a quieter question lingers like smoke in a room nobody wants to open: what happens to the people and the environment around the development we are so eager to celebrate?
Hannatu Musawa and the Politics of Cultural Estrangement
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD There are certain political questions asked in anger, and certain others that emerge quietly from bewilderment, and it is to the latter category that this piece belongs. How does a government convince a young Northerner that culture truly matters, when the very officials entrusted with Nigeria’s cultural renaissance appear curiously distant from the institutions that have kept Northern creativity alive?
The Subtle Alchemy of Kaduna’s Human Capital Development
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD There is a certain irony in how we, as a society, conceptualise youth empowerment. We celebrate the distribution of material things, bags of rice, sewing machines and tricycles as though empowerment begins and ends with the act of possession. Yet, beneath the razzmatazz of such interventions lies a more enduring truth: a person is not truly empowered by what he receives, but by what he is capable of producing after the gift has been exhausted.
The Quiet Strength of Kaduna’s Fiscal Discipline and Public Finance
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD The irony in governance is that the projects that capture public imagination are often the least difficult to appreciate. A newly commissioned road, a modern school, a renovated hospital or a flyover bridge speaks for itself. Fiscal discipline does not. Yet, behind every lasting development lies an often-overlooked virtue: the prudent management of public resources.
The quite strength of Kaduna’s fiscal discipline and public finance
The irony in governance is that the projects that capture public imagination are often the least difficult to appreciate. A newly commissioned road, a modern school, a renovated hospital or a flyover bridge speaks for itself. Fiscal discipline does not. Yet, behind every lasting development lies an often-overlooked virtue – the prudent management of public resources. Governments are judged ultimately not by the abundance of their income but by the wisdom of their choices in spending that income.
The Kaduna Peace Model, HURIWA and Northern Governors: Promise, Proof or Anagnorisis?
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD The fundamentality of securing our lives and property, especially in Northern Nigeria, cannot be overemphasised. Any other responsibility comes after this for a responsible government. Sadly, for close to two decades, Northern Nigeria has been a gallows of despair, rape, and death.
Kaduna state peace model, HURIWA and northern governors: Between promise and proof
The fundamentality of securing our lives and property, especially in Northern Nigeria, cannot be overemphasized. Any other responsibility comes after this for a responsible government. Sadly, for close to two decades, Northern Nigeria has been a gallows of despair, rape, and death.
Taking the Pulse of Rural Kaduna
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD Thrilling it is to realise that some journeys answer questions you never knew you were asking. Mine happened with no political prism through which to interpret every urban developmental project. Instead, it manifested with a simple curiosity: what does rural Kaduna look like today vis-à-vis three years prior?
Taking the pulse of rural Kaduna
Thrilling it is to realise that some journeys answer questions you never knew you were asking. Mine happened with no political prism through which to interpret every urban developmental project. Instead, it manifested with a simple curiosity: what does rural Kaduna look like today vis-à-vis three years prior?
The Choice Before Kaduna
By Sani Abdulrazak, PhD People go through watershed moments sometimes when the cacophony of politics attempts to drown the cadence of progress; it becomes more serious when chimaera masquerades as certainty, but it is a known fact after all that the loudest voices are most times not necessarily the wisest. Kaduna seems to have arrived at one of those moments.
The Phantom Presidential Council Scandal, By Farooq A. Kperogi
I first received a WhatsApp forward about the scandal from notable University of Texas history professor Toyin Falola. I didn’t read it. I thought it was just another corruption scandal, the sort I have become tragically inured to. A few days later, my friend Professor Moses Ochonu forwarded another version of it to me. I told him Professor Falola, mentor to both of us, had already sent it to me but that I didn’t bother to read it because I had become jaded on issues like that.
Assessing President Tinubu’s Youth Empowerment Initiatives, By Mustapha Isah
Any nation that wants to develop must see the youth as the driving force. Their commitment is indispensable to achieving sustainable economic, social, and political progress.. Over 65% of Nigeria’s population is made up of youth under the age of 30. This translates to one of the most youthful populations globally. So, any government that wants to succeed in moving Nigeria forward has no choice than to empower the youth and transform them into national assets.
The Hausa- Fulani Conversation: History, Identity &the Weight of Perspective, By Sani Abdulrazak
Some conversations never truly end. They simply change speakers. One generation inherits them from another, adds fresh interpretations, and passes them on again. The Hausa–Fulani conversation is one of those enduring subjects. It surfaces whenever history is discussed, whenever politics takes centre stage, or whenever identity becomes the focus of public attention.
Akara, Corn, And Kuli-kuli: All Hail Remi Tinubu, By Promise Adiele
The recent nationwide outrage against Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, affirms that Nigerians are ungrateful people. Instead of them to grovel, prostrate, and kneel, despite their agonizing economic conditions, and thank the First Lady for her first-class microeconomic advice, they are busy hurling insults at her. What kind of impudence is that anyway?
The Almajiri System: A Stream Now Watering Northern Nigeria Insecurity, By Sani Abdulrazak,
Every civilisation carries within it traditions that define its identity and shape its collective memory. Some traditions withstand the test of time because they continue to serve the purpose for which they were conceived. Others gradually lose their essence, becoming shadows of their original intent, until they begin to produce consequences diametrically opposed to the ideals they once espoused.
Nigeria: Legitimizing Terrorism And Banditry?, By Promise Adiele
Many things in life defy comprehension, rationality, or basic explanation. Certain enigmas defy solution, no matter how hard one tries to understand them. Sometimes, searching for answers to some contradictions numbs the sensibilities. Yet the man of equitable conscience must resist the urge to reconcile some anomalies with the sensibilities. Therefore, we must continue to ask questions, challenge the authorities, ask more questions, and upset the apple cart.
Varsity Reads Riot Act on Campus Security
From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja The management of the Prince Abubakar Audu University, Anyigba has announced series of stringent security measures aimed at strengthening safety within and around the campus following the security breach recorded on Thursday, June 11 2026.
Uba Sani: The Debt He Owed Kaduna, the Promise He Kept, By Sani Abdulrazak
Three years ago, we traversed the length and breadth of the beautiful Kaduna State carrying not merely a political message, but a conviction. We knocked on doors, stood beneath scorching suns, spoke in crowded markets, villages and quiet courtyards, and sold a candidacy we genuinely believed in. We told the good people of Kaduna State that Senator Uba Sani could be trusted.
Edo Destroys Suspected Criminal Hideout, Orders Fugitives to Surrender
By Ayo Kehinde The Edo State Government has intensified its crackdown on violent crime after demolishing a building allegedly linked to ritual killings and cult-related activities in Uromi, while sealing another property connected to the same suspects and ordering two fleeing individuals to surrender within 72 hours.
You don see my 2027 Billboard, By Prince Charles Dickson
Prince Charles Dickson PhD There is a particular Nigerian season when potholes become campaign offices, electric poles become manifesto stands, and every roundabout suddenly receives a new landlord with smiling teeth. The rainy season may fail. The dry season may punish. The power grid may cough like an old generator. But election billboard season never disappoints. It arrives with full chest.
Crisis is brewing in the rank of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, By Ken Osunwa,
Crisis is brewing in the rank of the Actors Guild of Nigeria following the recent election of the Edo State executives. There is a quiet truth in Nigerian politic and in Nollywood: when the stakes are highest, all roads run through Edo. The soil of the old Benin Kingdom has become a crucible where loyalty is tested, where kingmakers rise, and where betrayals cut deepest. Nowhere is this symbiosis more evident than in the unfolding story of the Actors Guild of Nigeria.
Electricity or Excuses: The Test Before Northern Governors, By Sani Abdulrazak
It is a boom season for Nigerian Governors; at no time before have they had it this much. Huge sums of money are being allocated to them every month. To whom much is given, they say, much is expected. What are the visible things they have put in place commensurate with the allocations they receive? How do we hold them accountable for such? Nigeria today faces one of the widest electricity supply gaps in the world.
Uba Sani and the journey so far
Governance, they say, is a Herculean task reserved only for the brave. However, it is even more so in Nigeria, where governance defies all logic known to man. As the great golden voice of Africa, the late Dr. Yusuf Maitama Sule, aptly stated, Nigeria is like a silk gown—when you fold one side up, another side inevitably falls.
The Challenges Of Educating A Northern Child - By Sani Abdulrazak
A Northern child with dreams as high as the sky knows so well that he can only realize his dreams with qualitative education. And with a myriad of colossal brouhaha standing in his way of acquiring such, and as if it is not enough, he now hears large sounds of war drums beating around him.
2023 Elections: Kaduna And Uba Sani’s Conquest Before The Polls
By; SANI ABDULRAZAK As the floodgates of the 2023 campaign season opens, there will, one imagines, be plenty of cloying hodgepodge of strategic maneuvers as those vying for elective offices wouldn’t take any chances, so that there shouldn’t be as the French say ‘temps perdu’ lost opportunity. The antsy political cumulus heated like never before with a whimsical farrago of tongues analyzing it.
Kaduna 2023: The Declarations and The Head That Fits the Crown
By Sani Abdulrazak For a while now, the debate from Macedonia of voices within and outside Kaduna state has been who will succeed the father of modern Kaduna state, Malam Nasir Ahmed El-rufai.
The Anointed One And His Diehards, The Region And Anagnorisis
By Sani Abdulrazak Five times he called on his region and presented himself, five times they answered and voted him enmasse. To them, he is the chosen one, the savior with followership at par with if not more than the founding fathers of the region.
Northern Nigeria: Perishing in Silence
By Sani Abdulrazak It is now as clear as day, Northern Nigeria has sunk steeply into the abyss of despair. The fright is glaring like a pray staring at a hungry lion. The palpable fear is unquantifiable, never before in the history of once peaceful Northern Nigeria have the people been in this calamitous catastrophe. On a daily basis, they bury their loved with eyes full of sorrowful tears and gnashing of teeth.
People Assume Nollywood Actresses Are Prostitutes — Actress Joke Lawal
Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now. Nollywood actress, Joke Lawal has spoken up about the belief that actresses are into prostitution. The actress who said this in an interview with Vanguard’s Potpourri, noted that many people think that actresses are prostitutes. Joke Lawal said: “I would like to change people’s perception of actresses. A lot of people think of actresses as prostitutes, they see us as people who are not worthy of marriage and having a family.
Northern Nigeria: Perishing in Silence By Sani Abdulrazak
Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now. It is now as clear as day, Northern Nigeria has sunk steeply into the abyss of despair. The fright is glaring like a pray staring at a hungry lion. The palpable fear is unquantifiable, never before in the history of once peaceful Northern Nigeria have the people been in this calamitous catastrophe. On a daily basis, they bury their loved with eyes full of sorrowful tears and gnashing of teeth.
Like A House Of Cards, The Food Palliatives Fall
By Sani Abdulrazak This is indeed a tumultuous period for our dear country, while we are struggling to wriggle out of negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic amidst dwindling resources, then came flood that washed away several hectares of farmlands across the country with North West region the worse hit, the result of which is an imminent food shortage in the country.
The Darkening Clouds Over Northern Nigeria
By Sani Abdulrazak The cavalcade of insecurities and maelstrom of emotions presently wrenching every corner of Northern Nigeria is frightfully execrable. The region has sunk steeply into the abyss of despair; from the bloody insurgency that barks and bites the North East, to kidnappings, banditry and freelance killings that scratch, pierce and is ruining the North West leaving behind scorching trail of rancor and sorrow of unimaginable proportion to millions in the region.
Uba Sani and youth inclusiveness in governance - TheCable
BY SANI ABDULRAZAK Developmental strides of Senator Uba Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna central in the National Assembly, need no adumbration by now.
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