Northern-Nigeria Perspective

BIG BREAKING NEWS  Chinese Currency Goes Global  the People's Bank of China suddenly announced that the digital RMB (Renminbi, Chinese Yuan) cross-border settlement system will be fully connected to the ten ASEAN countries and six Middle Eastern countries, which means that 38% of the world's trade volume will bypass the SWIFT system dominated by the US dollar and directly enter the "digital RMB moment". This financial game, which The Economist called the "Bretton Woods System 2.0 Outpost Battle", is rewriting the underlying code of the global economy with blockchain technology. While the SWIFT system is still struggling with the 3-5 day delay in cross-border payments, the digital currency bridge developed by China has compressed the clearing speed to 7 seconds. In the first test between Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi, a company paid a Middle Eastern supplier through digital RMB. The funds no longer went through six intermediary banks, but were received ...

April 15, 2025  The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has summoned the Provost of 1 Police Mobile Force (MOPOL) Kaduna, along with DSP Aliyu Adejembi and his team, over a viral video that shows them collecting cash handouts from Chinese nationals. The officers were reportedly in Lagos on special duty with the Chinese businesspeople when the incident occurred. The video, which has since circulated widely online, shows members of the police unit queuing visibly as they receive money from the Chinese individuals, sparking public outrage and raising concerns over the professional conduct of the security operatives. A police wireless signal dated April 15, 2025, confirmed the development. It reads:  *“Professional misconduct x discreditable conduct x eye respectfully convey INGENPOL directive x that you warn x release x Provost 1 PMF Kaduna x to come along with DSP Aliyu Adejembi x and team x to interview INGENPOL x through PRESSFOR x unfailingly x on Wedne...

*Davidson Rotshak Lar,* a cleric & Superintendent of Police in the Nigeria Police Force died one year after posting about this Article         ________________ *We have been innundated with the word North. Northern Elders, Arewa Consultative Forum, Northern Governors Forum etc.* But really we are asking , "who are these Northerners?" Let us borrow a bit from History. *When Obasanjo as President gave Non Fulanis sensitive positions in his regime, the sultan of Sokoto went with some Fulani Irredentists like Ango Abdullahi, and confronted him, and made allegations that the North was being marginalized. Baffled , Obasanjo Querried them, "Are Non Fulanis in the North, not Northerners?" The sultan said,* "NO, they are not."✔️ *Gen Obasanjo nodded his head to learn what he probably* had not known before.  *So we ask, "Who really are these Northerners?"* *We have not finished excavation of the historical precedences on this Pyhrric qu...

FIRST Centenary Celebration Report OF GENERAL MURTALA MUHAMMAD COLLEGE, GMMC YOLA. BY SA'ADU ABUBAKAR GAMBE.   Chairman Adhoc Committee for the Centenary Celebration of the National Tiddo Yo Daddo Alumni Association of General Murtala Muhammed College, (GMMC) Yola.  PREAMBLE  General Murtala Muhammed College, GMMC, Yola is one of the oldest grammar schools in Northern Nigeria. It started in 1920 as Elementary School than later upgraded to Middle School Yola. It metamorphosed to Provincial Secondary School, PSS, Yola, a grammar school, with the enrolment into form (year) one of a six years secondary education system then, of the Ibrahim Alfa, Hassan Adamu, Alhaji Natiti, Sale Michika and others in January 1955. In 1976 the school was renamed Government Secondary School, GSS, Yola in memory of the slain Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed, who was assassinated during a failed military coup in February 1976. The school curriculum fashioned in 1920 was to suit the needs o...