Tag: Leadership

Leadership Beyond the Office: Why presence on the ground matters

Aminu Imam
IMG 20260630 WA0033

By Dr. Jumai Ahmadu In every organization, whether public or private, leadership ultimately revolves around one fundamental question: how can leaders ensure that plans are translated into results? For decades, leadership has been associated with the image of executives seated behind large desks, reviewing reports, attending meetings, and issuing directives. While these functions remain important, experience has consistently shown that some of the most impactful leaders are those who spend considerable time beyond the confines of their offices, engaging directly with operations, people, and projects. The difference between these two…

Read More

60yrs After Sardauna: Northern leaders, groups decry governance decline

Aminu Imam
Northern leaders, groups decry

…Plans April convention to tackle insecurity, shape future Northern leaders and civic groups have raised alarm over what they describe as a steady decline in leadership quality, governance standards and social cohesion in Northern Nigeria, 60 years after the assassination of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. The concerns were jointly expressed on Thursday in Kaduna by a coalition of Northern organisations, including the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Arewa House and several others, alongside a similar announcement on Friday in…

Read More

Senate Leadership: Presidency Clarifies VP Shettima’s remark

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Presidency on Monday made clarification on Vice-President Kashim Shettimas remarks on support forsouthern Senate President. Olusola Abiola, Director of Information, Office of the Vice-President, stated in Abuja that the vice-presidents remarks were taken out context. The vice-president met with senators campaigning for the emergence of Sen. Godswill Akpabio and Sen. Barau Jibrin to lead the 10th Senate on Sunday. Shettima said at the interactive session that the nations current political structure demanded the emergence of a southern Christian and a northern Muslim as the fairest balance to promote inclusivity…

Read More

Leadership: ‘Nigerians are unfortunate global citizens’ – Attahiru Jega

Aminu Imam

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, lamented that Nigerians belong to the category of the ‘unfortunate citizens of the world’. Prof. Jega stated this during the pre-Ramadan lecture, organised by the University of Lagos Muslim Alumni (UMA), with the theme: Leadership Recruitment The Missing Anchor in Our National Development. According to him, this is because the countrys leadership in the context of a civil democratic dispensation, leaves much to be desired”. Jega, who was Chairman of the occasion, further said Nigerian…

Read More