To the governor of Jigawa State, Umar Namadi, leadership is not defined by the size of a convoy with traffic sirens, the elegance of an office, or the number of speeches delivered. His sense of leadership is demonstrated through a willingness to confront reality, demand accountability, and ensure that government serves the people it was elected to serve.
Category: Opinions
Trump, American power, and the call for a new world order
Donald Trump’s recent campaign in the Middle-East or precisely war on Islamic Republic of Iran has once again reignited a global debate about the enormous influence of the United States on international affairs.
Gov Namadi’s late-night inspection and lessons in leadership
There is a particular kind of leadership that cannot be legislated, budgeted for, or written into a service charter. It is the leadership that shows up unannounced, at an hour when officials least expect scrutiny, to see things as they truly are rather than as they are reported to be by the press.
Jigawa, UNICEF: A partnership worth emulating
When the new head of UNICEF Nigeria’s Kano Field Office, Mr Shafeeq Ur-Rehman, walked into the Government House in Dutse recently, he was not merely paying a y aourtesy call, but was stepping into a relationship more than three decades in the making, one that Gov Umar Namadi has not only sustained but deepened, giving it renewed clarity of purpose
Sokoto: Gov Aliyu’s food sufficiency drive
Governor Ahmed Aliyu’s food sufficiency programme in Sokoto State is a kind that rarely makes headlines beyond the normal agricultural bulletins, yet quietly, he is determined to ensure that Sokoto State’s population has enough food to feed
Barr. Mukhtar Shagari and the substance of public service
As public office comes to an end, so too, for many, does public spiritedness. It is a familiar Nigerian story: officials who commanded attention and resources in government quietly recede from view once the trappings of office are gone, their commitment to national development apparently tied to the privileges of a title rather than to the people they once swore to serve.
Community Food Bank: Oluremi Tinubu and Namadi’s shared vision
When the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Bola Ahmed Tinubu,touched down in Hadejia for the North-West launch of the National Community Food Bank Programme, she was not merely inaugurating a federal initiative, but was, in effect, endorsing a model of governance that Governor Umar Namadi has spent the better part of his tenure quietly constructing in Jigawa State.
How Namadi’s agricultural vision is transforming Jigawa
There is a particular kind of leadership that does not merely make promises but delivers programmes, not in the language of political rhetoric, but in the tangible currency of motorcycles, solar pumps, fertiliser, and trained hands ready to work the soil
Jubilee Fellows Programme and the focus on Jigawa youths
Their discussions centred on the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme, and the governor left that meeting both encouraged and more firmly convinced of something he has long believed: the greatest untapped resource.
In this country, is not oil, not land, not even capital. It is the energy, intelligence and ambition of our young people.
Gov Namadi’s quiet lesson in shared responbility and prosperity
There is an old Hausa saying that one hand cannot use a digger. It sounds, at first hearing, like a simple observation about tools. But Governor Umar Namadi, in invoking it recently while commissioning new excavators, loaders and load-bed machines for the Jigawa State Tipper Operators Association, was making a far larger point about how government ought to govern.
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