Jibrin Ibrahim, Author at The News Chronicle

Violence in Kaduna as Nigeria Bleeds

Jibrin Ibrahim Jul 31, 2020

On Tuesday, Governor Nasir El-Rufai addressed a high-powered meeting on the violent crisis in parts of southern Kaduna. He expressed his sadness at the needless pain several communities have been enduring in the cycle of violence that has been recurring in the state. He outlined the government’s engagement in seeking to improve the security situation […]

Ibrahim Magu: Ramifications of a Complex Story

Jibrin Ibrahim Jul 24, 2020

The Ibrahim Magu story is one that many Nigerians heard, sighed and muttered, it’s normal, we have heard it before. The story is that the apparently incorruptible, fearless over-achieving head of the EFCC has been caught with his hands in the till. The story is spicy, Ibrahim Magu who had been locking up the corrupt […]

COVID-19: Multiplying Narratives, As Nigeria Moves Towards Herd Immunity

Jibrin Ibrahim May 23, 2020

Herd immunity is an epidemiological concept that describes the state where a population, in this case a community, is sufficiently immune to a disease, either because a majority has been infected by and survived it or have been vaccinated against the disease. The idea of allowing a large percentage of the people to be infected by COVID-19 […]

Professor Ibrahim Gambari: Chief of Staff to the President

Jibrin Ibrahim May 15, 2020

The appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, a scholar-diplomat, as chief of staff to the president has been widely hailed as one of the best appointments made by President Buhari. He has had an illustrious career in the academy, where he was a leading professor of international relations for decades. He then went into international […]

Covid-19: The Wicked State, Kano and the Age of Citizen Action

Jibrin Ibrahim May 01, 2020

The most important universal shock that has flowed from the COVID-19 pandemic is that most governments in the world were unable and often unwilling to address the crisis in a manner that protected peoples’ health, welfare and lives. They have shown very poor governance abilities but demonstrated great skills in lying to the people. Their […]

Abba Kyari: The life and times of a gatekeeper

Jibrin Ibrahim Apr 24, 2020

Abba Kyari died last week Friday, 17th April from COVID-19 and his passage was followed with so much expression of hate and venom, clearly indicating that this society is so messed up in its African culture that it has lost its traditional respect that kept people away from speaking evil of the dead. But then, […]

Rising Insecurity: My Surprise At the President’s Surprise

Jibrin Ibrahim Jan 31, 2020

Following the president’s remarks that he is surprised at the growing insecurity in the country, what Nigerians are asking is: What have the security agencies been telling him? Are they telling him the reality that all ordinary Nigerians know that no part of this country is safe today and the situation is worsening? This is […]

Why France Kidnapped West Africa’s Eco Currency

Jibrin Ibrahim Dec 27, 2019

Last Saturday, France, through the instrumentality of their most faithful poodle in West Africa, Alasane Ouattara kidnapped the West African currency that was to be launched next year for the 15 countries in the region. In a press conference in Abidjan, Presidents Macron and Ouattara announced that the 8 West African countries using the CFA […]

The Kano Crisis: Open Letter to President Buhari

Jibrin Ibrahim Dec 19, 2019

Your Excellency President Buhari, I am one of the 200 million citizens in our country and I write to appeal to you to intervene in the political crisis that has engulfed Kano over the past six months related to the attempt by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to dismantle the Emirate system and remove the Emir. I […]

The State and the Acceleration of Human Rights Abuses

Jibrin Ibrahim Dec 13, 2019

Nigeria is undergoing a crisis of constitutionalism as our ‘grand norm’ is violated regularly by law enforcement agencies. The law is clear that suspects cannot be held beyond 48 hours, except on the basis of a court order, but this is not being respected. Investigations are often conducted using techniques of torture. The result is […]

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