He was reportedly named Best Performing House of Representatives Member of the Year 2026 at the 15th Democracy Heroes Award in Abuja on 9 October, with 699 of 1,000 votes
Category: Opinions
Gov Namadi and the politics of equal justice, opportunity in Jigawa
In a country where ethnic divisions and conflicts over land and natural resources continue to threaten peaceful coexistence, Governor Umar Namadi of Jigawa State is demonstrating that inclusive governance is possible when leadership is guided by fairness, practical policies and respect for every citizen
Gov Aliyu: Sokoto’s development index on steady rise
According to a statement signed Saturday by Abubakar Bawa, Director-General, Media and Publicity, Government House, , the Council approved a basket of projects that, taken together, comes to nearly N34 billion. What stands out is the range.
Gov Ahmed Aliyu: Sokoto have listened to you and believed in you
In Nigerian public life, the distance between a promise made and a promise kept is often wide enough to swallow whole communities. Politicians pledge at podiums and forget in their offices. Victims of disasters are visited, photographed, consoled and then left to their funeral. It is, therefore, worth pausing to acknowledge a leader who closes that distance, and in Sokoto State, Governor Ahmed Aliyu has just done so
Jigawa’s J-TEACH: Every classroom, a qualified teacher
Anyone who has grown up in a rural community knows the quiet arithmetic of a school with too few teachers. One teacher handles three classes. A subject is dropped because nobody can teach it. A child who might have become an engineer or a nurse drifts home early, having learned just enough to get by. Nobody announces this loss. It simply accumulates, one unfilled classroom at a time
Nigeria @66: How Sokoto’s Governor treats security as duty, not slogan
Sixty-six years after the Union Jack came down, Nigeria still wrestles with questions its founding fathers hoped we would have answered by now
Ibrahim Masari, grassroots connection and quiet political loyalty
Masari’s trajectory within the Presidency tells its own story. He joined in 2023 as Senior Special Assistant on Political Affairs, a position from which he quietly built a reputation for reliability and reach across Nigeria’s political terrain. His elevation to Special Adviser in March 2026 was not an accident of patronage; it was, by every visible indication, a recognition
How Gov Ahmed Aliyu’s transformation agenda is pulling political bigwigs to APC
In Sokoto State today, that capital is on full display, and its most recent dividend is the defection of Alhaji Umar Salah, former Director General in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) structure in Tambuwal Local Government Area, to the All Progressive so visitors Congress (APC)
Security First: Gov Ahmed Aliyu’s unrelenting war on banditry in Sokoto
When historians come to chronicle the turnaround of security architecture in Sokoto State, the tenure of Governor Ahmed Aliyu will occupy a defining chapter. In a time when banditry has ravaged communities across the North-West, displacing families, disrupting farming seasons, and eroding the very fabric of rural life, Governor Aliyu has chosen a path that few of his predecessors dared to walk with such consistency: sustained, well-funded, and strategically layered investment in the tools of security
Sokoto State: The noose is tightening around bandits
Speaking on Thursday while declaring open the 8th regular meeting of the State Executive Council, Governor Aliyu made a declaration that should resonate across every household in Sokoto and beyond: his administration will not relent in the fight against banditry until every displaced person returns home