First to comment after the return of nairaland on nairaland's first page

I hausa/fulani from kano And Im now in full support of division of Nigeria. I figured it out this This ibos are just threatening us with the division of nigeria. LETS BREAK!!!

ilugun, berem or obiagelli will do

ilugun or berem will do

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Dr. Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso
Kano State Ministry for Higher
Education
No, Professor Julius Okojie: You got it
wrong
The attention of Kano state Ministry
for Higher Education has been drawn
to a statement credited to the
Executive Secretary, National
Universities Commission, NUC,
Professor Julius Okogie, regarding the
501 students the government plans to
sponsor abroad for post-graduate
programmes.
While we regard Prof. Okogie in high
esteem and respect, we are however
surprised and indeed shocked by his
unguarded and unpatriotic posture in
trying to disparage the good intention
of Kano State government.
Let it be known that it is not our
intention to join issues with Professor
Okogie but it is important to note that
the Ministry for Higher Education has
done a thorough check and is ready
to make further improvements in
making this laudable and
unstoppable programme a huge
success.
We will also like to inform Professor
Okogie and indeed fellow Nigerians
that the 501 students are going to 11
countries – United States, Jordan,
Cyprus, Egypt, UK, Turkey, Ukraine,
Malaysia, India, UAE, China and
Poland - Therefore, it is not possible
for 70 percent of them to go to one
country (Ukraine) as emphatically
stated by Prof. Okojie. We felt so much
devastated that an academic of Prof.
Okogie’s calibre and standing can
make such an unsubstantiated claim
and baseless assertion.
In fact, what can be more unpatriotic
than Okogie’s attempt to throw away
the baby and the bath water, perhaps
together with the container! Agreed
there could be mistakes here and
there but Prof. Okogie should, as an
elder and ‘the regulator’ of the
Nigerian university system, offer
advice on how to improve or correct
the mistakes. It was also noted that in
his desperation to put Kano people to
shame and or to show how disdainful
he is to the people of Kano, he tried,
though unsuccessfully, to connect
Kano with cultism.
While we have no intention of taking
legal action against him, we will
however, not restrain all those
agitating to do so from going ahead.
Also while we are waiting to see how
and where NUC under Prof. Okogie is
taking the 100 persons to be
sponsored by the Federal
Government and the distribution
pattern. Nigerians are watching the
conditions of Nigerian Universities
under his leadership. What has
become of Nigerian universities under
Okogie is part of the compelling
reason why we have to sponsor our
young men and women abroad.
We want them to graduate on time
with no break as a result of strikes.
These are postgraduate students who
will man the over 20 new Institutes
and even the existing ones. We are
determined to build strong, proper
and everlasting foundation for the
development of our dear state, Kano.
Certainly, where our attention was
drawn or where we discovered some
mistakes, a committee is working to
correct them and we find this not
unexpected as this is the first time
this huge programme is taking place
in Nigeria. In deed we challenge Prof.
Okogie to tell us which state or which
country in Africa has ever taken such
bold and courageous step of
sponsoring 501, as first batch, to go
for postgraduate studies aboard at
one go? We expect Prof. Okogie to be
fair and academic enough to thumbs
up this wonderful effort, and be bold
enough to acknowledge (as academic
ethics demand) that it is this Kano
idea that the Federal Government has
copied by deciding to send 100
persons abroad for further studies.
It must be stated that the Ministry for
Higher for Higher Education has taken
every step to ensure that not only
good and well rated universities are
selected but also involved the
embassies of the selected, countries
in order to make sure the process is
credible.
In fact we find it laughable that going
by Prof. Okogie’s postulation, the
Kano state government will spend 15
million USD without the ministry
checking and ascertaining the
reputation, history and antecedents of
the selected universities.
No doubt this generation of Kano
people and indeed future generations
will find it difficult to forgive Prof.
Okogie for not only labeling them
cultists which is against our religion,
culture and moral upbringing but also
for damaging the image of our
country Nigeria by saying that the
young men and women that will be
sent for their postgraduate studies
amounts Nigeria “exporting cultism
from here.” Does this not amount to
self-indictment that the Executive
Secretary of National Universities
Commission is admitting that he has
failed to find solution to cultism in our
universities in Nigeria? Is he saying
that all those coming out from
Nigerian universities are cultists?
However, it will not be incorrect to
assume that Prof. Okogie may be
playing politics and it looks like he is,
knowingly or unknowingly, into
alliance with the enemies of the
people of Kano. Otherwise how can
one rationalize Prof. Okogie’s action
by attempting to ridicule and
embarrass Kano people when he can
simply call those concerned, as head
of a regulatory body, to draw their
attention and express his view to us
on what he feels should be done on
how to make the programme better?
It must be stated that no amount of
blackmail, embarrassment or
hullabaloo will stop or discourage the
Ministry for Higher Education from
driving this laudable programme to its
logical conclusion. No doubt this is
one programme that will make Kano
to catch up with other states in the
country and certainly some people
will not be happy with this as they
drive certain benefits by the status
quo.
Let it be stated once again that the
objective of this programme is to
build a strong and durable
foundation for this and future
generations of our youths, the vehicle
of which is education. And for the
information of Prof. Okogie, the 501
means first batch as the Ministry for
Higher Education will soon start
screening of the second batch 502
and it will continue until the end of
this administration.
Not only this, 100 Secondary School
Leavers with good grades will soon be
sent also, to the amusement of Prof.
Okogie, abroad to go and study
medicine, while same number of
young men and women will be
sponsored to train as pilots.
Another 100 teachers will also be
selected and sent to China to learn
and study Chinese in preparation for
the opening of secondary schools in
Kano that will be completely
conducted in Chinese. We are also
happy to note that the state
government has gone into agreement
with the Republic of Niger to jointly
run a secondary in Niger where the
student intake will be shared 50 – 50.
This will open opportunities for not
only Kano youth but will make them
play responsible roles not only in
Nigeria but in the West African sub-
region in the nearest future
Finally while we find it not out of
place to forgive Prof. Okogie we will
also say amen to anybody that prays
for him to be delivered.
Signed
Umar Haruna Mohammed Doguwa
Honourable Commissioner,
Ministry for Higher Education,
Kano Sate

ViKtor1094:

What do u expect from them?? They should wait to confirm that d passengers are not suicide bombers after they detonate the explosives they are carrying? why will anybody in his sane mind try to jump a military checkpoint?
I feel bad for the victim but u can't blame the soldiers for what happened.

may this saner fate fall at the entire members of your family and you be at the grief receiving end. amen

oh that's something! lets see what gullible ibos will have to say here on nland. thank god he is hausa, I know their comments should be different from what they will have to say now

king arizona: An act of Bribery from kwankwaso to Niger so their BOKO - HARAM agent from Niger would cease fire from Kano state

All this APC people can fear eh


ODE Charity begins at home

look at this sample he is one of their kind, they would never appriciate what is not from the soth east, they are the haters of tinibu and fashola because he is not from their s.e they are the haters of buhari and co. because they are not from the s.e. ameachi from the neighboring s.s is not spared because..,....,..

ibos? ibos! must you always show your hatred on us? smh... the time will come when......... and the black gold ran down......... and........ hmm you will see!

Boy can This southern mor.ons be so idi.otic! they have never been up north yet they are acting as if they know they whole norh. I pity you sosai time will tell, we act not spread propagandas.

Ikengawo:

stop being so gullible.

ticket to Canada is 2000 USD
if he sends 200 children to canada, that's 400,000 USD.
with 400,000 he could have built whatever it is in canada that those kids are going to see right there an Kano, and train up to 2000 students a year with a 'canadian' education in Kano year after year while playing canadian teachers if he wanted to to stay there and teach

im not counting what they will pay for living for these students in canada (over 38,000 USD a year which is average in canada x 200 students)


African leaders like to throw this garbage at us and confuse us into thinking they know what they're doing with these unsustainable gimmicks

free laptops
painted schools
tickets and board in foreign countries

this is not education, these are not ideas or structural changes, these are not policies and more importantly they're not sustainable. They're gimmicks meant to deceive the people. Those kids you're sending to Canada will go to Canada and met hundreds of people from Kano that got the same education there but won't bother coming back because there's no work in their state and their skills won't be appreciated in Nigeria, and Kano's barbaric culture. Was it not a week ago that Okonjo Iweala was shouted at by an illiterate because she was sick when trying to propose a budget?

what about the women that go and get this free education? will they not be rendered are useless baby machines by their husbands in a sharia state? Stop these gimmicks. I even think it's trash when Rochas did his own free education gimmick in Imo state. The cost of school isn't a problem for anyone it's the quality.

just look at this moro.nic foo.l. the trouble with you igbos is most of you are...... must you criticize my able governor, if you can't appriciate just learn to envy in your heart. banza jaki.

Nafeesa AA: Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso

** Construction of three new flyovers, and the longest flyover in west Africa.

*** Construction of two Hydro electricity project at Challawa dam

** Look at the removal of ‘achaba’ (commercial motorcycle); people never thought it would be possible, but it is history now.

** Kano state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with a Chinese firm, CCECC, for the construction of a modern intra city railway system in Kano city.

** Northwest University. He has used the Ado Bayero House, which was abandoned for many years, as a temporary site for the university. It has taken off while the permanent site is under construction,

**1,000 post-secondary school leavers with nine credits are sponsored for their first degree in various specialized courses and first-class graduates for their master’s degree programme. Another 500 sent to Igbenidion university for degree programme in Medicine, nursery, pharmacy etc This is unprecedented in the history of Kano.
***

** Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state has commissioned 26 magistrate courts constructed and furnished by his administration at the cost of millions of Naira and laid the foundation stone for the construction of 27 Shari’a courts across the
state.

** Gov. Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state received the 2012 Zik Prize for Good Governance Award from Chief Sonnie Odogwu supported by the former Chairman of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan,

** Kano state government has spent over N250 million on the establishment of Kano Corporate Security Institute, as part of its effort to create job opportunities among the teeming unemployed youth and enhance security of lives and property in the state.

*** Apart from the recent free education at all levels he has re-introduced mass education at every local government. There is a centre where he has recruited people to teach basic education to housewives and traders, so that everyone can at least have basic education and be able to read and write. He has also brought a new concept of establishing crafts schools in every local government so that dropouts from secondary schools can go to the crafts school and learn a trade.

** If you go to Kano the streetlights are all functioning, the pavements and roads are working, rehabilitation of culverts and drainages is ongoing. In the night you feel like you are in Dubai. There is also general road infrastructure uplift; all the roads leading to Kano are being expanded with street lights and drainages.

** Construction of 3 new cities, Amana City, Kwankwasiya City and another one along Dambatta Road - all equipped with modern infrastructure that will decongest Kano. This is a laudable project.

** On the issue of youth employment, There is school of fishery, sports, ITC, entrepreneurship, poultry and all different trades where students will be trained and be given empowerment.

** Kwankwaso also received two prestigious awards by American Black Mayors at the at the 39th National Annual Conference of a Black Mayors for his "commitment to uplifting the well being of the citizenry as well as his transparency, prudence and accountability of public resources" in Atlanta, Georgia

Mind You all these and many mire in just 2 yrs

thanks nafeesa there are many more done by the great danmusa you have not mentioned but I am sure that no governor in nigeria will compete with only the above mentioned.

kwankwaso of kano for the following reasons:

taharqa: The Govt is not non-Performing. Far from it. A cursory look at d many physical projects going in many sectors (Roads, Rails, Seaports, Riverports and Jetties, Airports, Dams, etc) in d last 3 yrs shld tell u that. Plus, d FG usuali hv other sources of funding Capital budget, which are not usuali reflected in d main budget. For instance, d over #260bn SURE-P fund (about just less than #200bn of which wud go into such infrastructure as roads, rails and bridges) was not reflected in this budget. The #200bn 'ASUU' Fund deposited in d CBN and meant sorely for Capital projects in our Universities is also not reflected in this budget. The ova #150bn TETFUND, most of which is also meant for infrastructure developments in our Tetiary, was also not reflected in this budget; I am not sure but I doubt even UBEC was so included. There are other sources of course like International Funding, PPP Arrangements, Private Fundings for already privatised sectors like Power, etc..... Let me just say that d 72% Recurrent figure proposed for this yr is troubling and personali disappointing, esp as it is a very unwelcome reversal of this Govt's yearly reduction of d Recurrent from 77.1% in 2010 when it came in to 68% this yr. I wud hv loved to discuss furda but can't type more at d moment; wud just enjoy u guys disagree and hopefully agree at sm points ie Debate.....

where are the projects, kano with its meager allocation was able to send more than 2000 kano indigines to varuous universities in and out. of nigeria to pursue their undergraduate studies and more than 1000 for their postgraduate studies, it was also able to build 3 mega cities with with no less than 10000 houses respectively, 3 fly - over bridges are now under construction and 3 mre coming icluding an underpass road........

please mods move this to front page for other nigerians to see ho kwankwaso is effectively sailing kano state

! niggerz with their behaviors. that gay hated the sound of shit.ters which will make an aerospace clear 2015 reason. plural noun in the chemical reaction by newton and me my gland is running for help while the donkeys were debating.
#feeling sortta mad#. dont ban me

The Last Nazgûl: No. Obama of Bavaria. Obama of America's distant cousin.

oh I see!

wait!do you mean the obama of america?

Kano State government is to build its
own independent power plant in
order to reduce electricity shortage in
the state.
Speaking during a press briefing as
part of Democracy Day celebration in
Kano yesterday, the state governor,
Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, said
the state has been consulting with
some independent power companies
on the issue of power supply without
reaching a deal, saying however that
after careful analysis of the whole
issue the state decided to shoulder
the project’s responsibility alone.
“When we came into power, we made
several attempts to find credible
companies that we will collaborate
with to construct power plants at Tiga
and Challawa; but being that we work
with time and also we do not want to
start something that may end up with
problem either for the government or
the companies, we decided to make
provision in the next year’s budget to
solely construct an independent
power plant that will in a great deal
reduce the power supply shortage
being experienced,” he said.
According to the governor, the project
has already been captured in next
year’s budget and it is hoped that
when completed the power plant will
be utilized either by the water
treatment plants in the state or by the
companies.
Similarly, Kwankwaso had also
announced that the state government
has decided to relocate the state
central prison from its present
location to Janguza, adding that when
the relocation processes were
completed the site of the present
prison will be converted into a girls’
school.
The governor also stated that the state
has a policy that every National Youth
Corps member sent to the state will
be posted to school with the
exception of medical students. He
added that the state government has
already approved the construction of
200 houses in various schools within
the state to complement its decision
of using corp members in its schools

how I wish this will make front page.

The Kano State Government says it
has sponsored 450 students to study
various degree programmes in three
private universities in the country.
Gov. Rabi’u Kwankwaso said this
when he addressed the beneficiaries
at the Government House, Kano, on
Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports
that 250 students would study in
Igbinedion University, Edo, while 100
students each would go to Bells
University, Otta, and Crescent
University in Abeokuta, respectively.
‘’This is an opportunity for you, most
of whom are the children of the less-
privileged’’, the governor told the
students.
He urged them to be good
ambassadors of the state in particular
and the country in general.
‘’We will monitor your conduct and
academic performance at all times
because your success is our success.
‘’I will also like to assure our people
that our administration will continue
to live up to its expectation by
investing heavenly towards the
expansion, rehabilitation and
provision of infrastructure in our
educational institutions.
‘’This is necessary in order to create an
enabling environment needed by the
youth and good people of Kano State
to pursue and realise their potentials.’’
Kwankaso said the state government
would spend about N1 million on
each of the 450 students, annually.
He said the state government would
establish a special college for the
study of Chinese language in
Panshekara, Kumbotso Local
Government Area of the state.
Already, he said, the state government
had concluded the necessary
arrangement with the Chinese
government to train 30 teachers who
would subsequently train more
teachers before the take-off of the
college in 2014.

nice one my governor. islam is against begging. how I wish this thread will make fron page

Gov. Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano State
on Thursday in Kano signed the Street
Begging Prohibition Bill 2013 into law.
Kwankwaso said the law would,
among other things, prohibit child
and adult begging in streets,
roundabouts, motor parks and corner
shops.
He said the prohibition of begging in
Kano had become necessary in view
its negative tendencies and evils
associated with it.
Kwankwaso said the state government
would train 2,205 people with
disabilities in various
entrepreneurship skills to cushion the
effects of the law.
According to him, all those with
qualifications will be given offers to
work in the state civil service.
‘’The state government will give
N10,000 monthly to those with
disabilities that lack the wherewithal to
engage in any trade,” the governor
said. (NAN).

the greatest balewites!

The greatest balewites lets meet here, I Know that there are many fellow balewites that are on nairaland, I also learned that the great comrade Bello Nuhu Bello is a fellow Nairalander. so lets meet greatest Balewite! The first prime minister's univesity.

KWANKWASO INTRODUCES FREE EDUCATION SCHEME IN KANO
Fynest we kano nlanders are not gi en attention, is it because we are northerns?

Nutase: I used to have a great deal of respect for this dude until I watched an interview he granted to the BBC in 1960. If the likes of this guy continued in leadership position, this country would have been worse than it is today or probably been split into several entities.
They are the ones who sowed the seed of discord along religious and tribal lines.

If you really take your time to research on this country you will see Gods hand in everything that has happened from 1960 till date in keeping Nigeria as one united entity.

Because he said the truths? Because he said ibos's mission and vision is to dominate nigerians an be treated like mini gods? I know you are an ibo! that's why you are making such comments. My dream is to become a black hitler, I will not spare any of your race
bloody ibos.

Governor Rabiu Musa kwankwaso of kano state in his 2014 fiscal year presentation today in kano declared that students of kano origin will longer pay for education expenses. Governor kwankwaso said that his government will sponsor the students of kano from primary school level upto first their first degree.

happy birthday the general you will the only savior of nigeria