s was a senior creative designer at GM, until his appointment as the Director general of the Nigerian Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) in 2017 by Nigerian president
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The 55-year old was born in 1966 into the family of Alhaji Aliyu Haidar and Hajiya Sharifiyya Hauwa Aliyu. He was the fifth of the seven children in the family who were originally from Dogon-daji in Sokoto State. T
his was why young Aliyu was moved to Sokoto for his education. He studied at the Sokoto Capital School from 1971 to 1978 and then Federal Government College Sokoto where he received an outstanding award of the best graduating student in Technical Drawing.
Paul Obi
“A pragmatist turns away…from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions and from bad a priori reasons; from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy; towards facts, towards action and towards power.”
–––William James
To assess the viability of a democracy and its survival; start by measuring the number of political elites who oppose undemocratic policies. Then, x-ray the quality of debate within the civil space, specifically in times of a national crisis. Within that scope, it’s been a dicey situation for Nigeria. Since 2015, Nigeria’s continuous slide to monumental crisis has known no bound. Like a malicious orchestra, Nigeria’s prospects have turned 360° clockwise, from vibrancy to a national ailment. Deep at what ails Nigeria the most is the increasing spate of disunity, insecurity, hunger and clear abdication of leadership at the highest level – including the oval
‘In 2018, we treated victims of gunshot wounds every day’ – Doctor
‘Victims of violence end up perpetuating trauma’ – Psychiatrist
‘The world focuses on North East, Zamfara is bleeding’ – Momale
It is March 2020 and we are in Dogondaji, Kaura Namoda Local Government of Zamfara State, investigating the impact of violence on livelihoods and social wellbeing of families.
Ramatu Lawal, Project officer and Jibrin Gani, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, of The Pastoral Resolve (PARE) an NGO which has done a lot of work with rural communities and other stakeholders, in the context of conflict management. They are present to assist with interpretations and lead me to the various communities.