Nurudeen Dauda

PRODUCTION NOT STRONG NAIRA                               By:                   Nurudeen Dauda                   25th October, 2023 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogstop.com To start with, some people erroneously think that the "value" of "Naira" or any other country's "currency" is kept strong against other currencies by an executive fiat. It is apt to state that, the "value" of any country's "currency" is a "function" of its "productivity" and or state of its economy and not what the country "wants" it or "desires" it to be. The free for all fall of the value of "Naira" against the "Dollars" is a question of "demand" and "supply for "Dollars". There is a shortage of "Dollars" supply in the economy which needed to be addressed as a "short term" measure, but our "long term" solut...

@BAR. AL-ZUBAIR & MAL. GORAN NAMAYE: A PERSPECTIVE ON SIR EMIR MUHAMMAD SANUSI (I) (KBE) V. SIR AHMADU BELLO (KBE)                                By:                  Nurudeen Dauda                  11th October,2026 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com  nurudeendauda.blogspot.com To begin with, the late Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardaunan Sokoto; KBE and the late Sir (Khaliha) Muhammad Sanusi (I); KBE of blessed memories were the best of friends and of course In-laws who felt apart. Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardaunan Sokoto is from the royal Fulani house of the Torankawa clan of the Sokoto Caliphate while Sir (Khaliha) Muhammad Sanusi (I) is from the royal Fulani house of the Sullubawa clan of the Kano Emirate. Prior to becoming the Emir, Sir Muhammad Sanusi (I) held the title of Ciroman Kano and in 1947 h...

ON KADUNA STATE $350M FOREIGN LOAN REQUEST                                   By:                Nurudeen Dauda              October 24, 2017 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com In my advise, the foreign loan request presented by Kaduna state government should and or must be either approved or rejected on its "merit" not "politics". In my view, I completely agree that , due process should and or must be strictly followed. Debt in itself is not necessary "bad", but what you spend the money on makes it " bad" or "good". If you borrow to sustain an ostentatious government life style or its over bloated bureaucracy is a "bad" economics, but if you borrow for infrastructure is a sound economics. The United States of America is the most indebted country in the world yet the number one economy in the world. Lagos state is...

THE POLITICS OF ACCENT                                        By:                            Nurudeen Dauda                            October 22, 2022 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com "The accents of our presidential candidates are terrible. Peter Obi has the worst of them all. If it was based on accent, I will vote Al-mustapha, but it goes beyond that"---Muhammad Kabina I quite agree with you that it is beyond just ones "accent". Luckily for us the four major contenders in the presidential election of 2023 as opined by some analysts have held public offices in this fourth republic. Let our judgements for who to vote as electorates be guided by the track-records of these candidates based on the offices th...

AN OPEN LETTER TO BULAMA BUKARTI                             By                Nurudeen Dauda                 20th February, 2026 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com Dear Barr.(Dr) Bukarti, To begin with, I hope this letter gets to you in good health through the power of social media. Permit me to "comment" you on your many previous good works in terms of advocating for Justice, Good governance and Security in our dear country. We need strong voices like yours, but with moderation, neutrality , balance, unbiased and fair. Politics is a very complex game. It is a game of all possibilities. Yours requires neutrality always. It is apt to state that, Analysis should be on "issues" not on "personality". Legal analysis should be based on "facts/evidence" not on "personality" and Public Affairs...

DIRECT PRIMARY: MY THOUGHT                                 By:                 Nurudeen Dauda                 18th October, 2021 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com To start with, ideally political power is an ave CC  nue for bettering the lots of your people, but unfortunately in Nigeria it has largely become a business where you can invest and make a supernormal profit. Unless and until we largely change the situation to that of a service delivery we will hardly get out of the woods. The delegate system or indirect primaries have since become cash and carry. Our delegates for primary elections know that most of the candidates contesting for one office or the other are political investors who upon their victory will recoup their investments first and thereafter quintuple their retu...

ATIKU'S TARGETED SUBSIDY VS CNG BUSES & 30 DAYS FUEL SUBSIDY                        By:             Nurudeen Dauda            8th October, 2027 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com I am highly pleased to note that, for the first time in many years from the return to democracy in 1999 our electioneering campaigns for 2027 general elections is becoming an Issue- Based -Campaign rather than the usual years of unfortunate campaign of calumny especially, from 2014 through 2023 general elections. The present Subsidy debate clearly shows that it is possible as well as doable for commuters in Nigeria to get cheaper transport fares. It also shows that healthy political opposition is a necessary ingredient in democracy and is badly needed in Nigeria. Nigeria has waited for too long for Good governance due to weak political opposition...

WORLD TEACHERS' DAY: TEACHERS NEED THEIR REWARD ON EARTH                               By:               Nurudeen Dauda               5th October, 2026. nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudeendauda.blogspot.com To start with, in Nigeria there is a popular saying which states that teachers' reward is in the heaven. This literarily means that no matter the amount of money one pays to a teacher it will never be enough as compensation to a teacher when compares with the value of the services he or she renders to your child or children.  In my view, teachers should be paid as much as bankers in order to attract the best brains into the profession. They deserve to be well compensated. In deed , teachers deserve their rewards both "here" on earth and in the "hereafter". It is sad to note that, the welfare of the Ni...

NIGERIA@66: WHICH WAY FORWARD?                                 By:                  Nurudeen Dauda                  1st October, 2026  nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com To begin with, today marks an additional year for our dear country, in my view, a day like this should be a day for "sober reflection" instead of a day for "celebration" and or a day for "merriment". Permit me to say as a country and as a people let us "reflect" on the journey thus far and see where we have gone wrong and make "amends" and or "retrace" our steps. Certainly things are not really well. At sixty - six years of independence of our dear country we are certainly not at "where" we should be in view of our both abundant human and natural resources. Basic needs is still a major problem to the grea...

EMIRS' SANUSI II VS AMINU ADO BAYERO'S POWER TUSSLE: IS ANY SOLUTION IN SIGHT?                            By:                 Nurudeen Dauda                29th September, 2026 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com  nurudeendauda.blogspot.com To start with, the present "power tussle" on Kano emir's throne has lingered too much because of the politics involve in the tussle through both visible and invisible hands from within and outside Kano State. It is obvious that Kwankwaso vs Ganduje political rivalry is at the center of it from the onset. The Kano APC vs NNPP's politics sustains the tussle for a while.   Soon after the defection of Governor Yusuf many people thought the tussle will soon be over. Even more so, the commissioner of information of Kano State has earlier on hinted that following the defect...

THE POLITICS OF CNG BUSES                             By:              Nurudeen Dauda             19th September,2026 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com To begin with, the federal government has just announced its plans to provide a cheaper transportation system for commuters in collaboration with the Nigerian Governors' Forum using the Compress Natural Gas (CNG) Buses across the country from 1st October, 2026 as a counter reaction to the campaign promise made by the former Vice President Alh. Atiku Abubakar to restore a targeted fuel subsidy if elected in 2027. We really need a healthy political opposition in order to keep the government on its toes. So, commuters in Nigeria can now get cheaper transport fares? But why now? Courtesy of healthy political opposition. But food inflation is now a major issue as a result of fuel subsid...

EL-RUFA'I RAISED IGR FROM N11BN IN 2014 TO N58.09BN IN 2022                                         By:                          Nurudeen Dauda                          15th May, 2023 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com  To start with, it is sad to note that about 98% of our state governments including the so-called oil producing states rely on monthly revenue from Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for their basic survivals. It worries me to note that out of all the 36 states of the federation only Lagos can shoulder its monthly "personnel" and "overhead"costs without recourse to FAAC. Many states have more than 75% reliance on their entire annual budget on FAAC. It is an economic "suicide" for us to con...

97 COMPANIES/INVESTORS BROUGHT TO KADUNA STATE BY EL-RUFA'I                                 By:                     Nurudeen Dauda                     May 17th, 2023 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com To begin with, for us to "solve" or "manage" the problem of insecurity in our dear country we must create "jobs" to our teeming unemployed youth. In my thought, the "best" way to create "jobs" and generate more "revenue" are through both "local" and "foreign" "investments" in the various sectors of our economy. The role of governments in modern economies from America, EU, UK, Russia, India, and to China are "attracting" and "empowering" "investors" with favourable government policies in order to create "jobs" to their citizens.The responsibilities of modern governments from America, EU, UK, ...

SHEIKH GUMI'S WHERE I STAND NOW IN ARABIC TEXT                                By:                Nurudeen Dauda                6th September, 2025 nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com Permit me to "comment" Sheikh (Dr) Ibrahim Jalo Jalingo for translating this very important book written in 1992 by Late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi called "Where I Stand" (English version) and "Manufata" (Hausa version) which is already in circulation in both English and Hausaa Languages to now an Arabic version. Sheikh Jalingo has  also converted AL’AKIDATUS SAHIHA, AHALARI, IZZIYYA, RISALA and ISHMAWI from written texts to Poetry. These works of translation and Poetry by Sheikh Jalingo will surely expand readership and knowledge of these books. May the Almighty Allah bless Sheikh Jalingo and professo...

MAXIMIZING THE BENEFITS OF THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF ZUL- HIJJAH                             By:                 Nurudeen Dauda                 6th June, 2024 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com The month of Zul-Hijjah is the last month of the Islamic calendar. It is the month which one of the five pillars of Islam called "Hajj" is performed. In Islam there is a consensus among "scholars" that as for "days" the first ten "days" of Zul-Hijjah are the best "days". As for "nights" the last ten "nights" of Ramadan are the best "nights". As for "days" in a "week" "Friday" is the best "day" in a "week".  The first ten "days" of the month of Zul -Hijjah are among the most significant in Islam. Every muslim should take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity by offering as much more Ibaadah to Allah...

THE BENEFITS OF FASTING IN YAUMAL ARAFAH                             By:                  Nurudeen Dauda                 14th June, 2024 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com nurudeendauda24@yahoo.com nurudeendauda.blogspot.com Today is the 8th day of Zul-Hijjah and tomorrow will be the 9th day of Zul- Hijjah the day of Arafaat . It is called ‘Yaumal Arafah’ (The day of Arafah). It is the day when the Hujjaj (Hajj pilgrims) assemble in the plain of Arafat, six miles away from Makkah Mukkaramah, and perform the most essential part of the prescribed duties of Hajj which is the rite of wukuf, (that is standing before sunset on Arafat).  For pilgrims performing Hajj it is the high point of Hajj without which it would be considered incomplete. The Day of Arafah is the most significant day. As the Prophet (PBUH) said: “Arafah is the Hajj’ (Ahmed) ...

KADUNA STATE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME:  BETWEEN GOVERNOR EL-RUFA’I AND HIS CRITIQUES!                                                                                             PART (2)                         By:                                                                Nurudeen Dauda 27th February,2016 nurudeendauda24@gmail.com  nurudendauda24@yahoo.com  nurudeendau.blogspot.com                                          ...