Please let Women and Children Hospital Gombe be commissioned. We need it. Share this, talk about it, until those in charge do something meaningful about it. JEHDI............ For a better society.

WE ARE CALLING THE ATTENTION OF WHO EVER CONCERNED TO AS A MATTER OF URGENCY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPERANCY DO SOMETHING ON THIS OUR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS ARE BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE (JEHDI). LECTURER EXPOSES CORRUPTION AT ATBU BAUCHI. WRITES OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI. By Dr Idris Isyaku Abdullahi. Permit me to start by commending the courage of the Visitor ATBU cum President, Muhammadu Buhari, in fighting corruption which has been so embedded in the Nigerian society. The iconic Czar deserves all the support needed to tame the monster in all its ramifications. To start with, I wish to use this medium to draw the attention of Mr. President to the goings-on at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, where he is the Visitor. The ATBU is known all over the federation for its zero tolerance to exams malpractice and all other vices until the recent past. This is the only university known to me in the history of Nigeria where a son of the then serving vice-chancellor of the institution was expelled alongside a son of the then serving Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, due to exams malpractice cases involving the duo. However, the core value which has won respect for the citadel of learning appears to have been thrown to the dog with the coming of the current registrar of this prestigious institution as exemplified by his selectivity in punishing staff as well as issuance of queries indiscriminately even where they are not necessary. A very bad precedent was set recently and all efforts to make the university management to do the needful has remained an illusion. On February 7, 2017 I wrote a letter asking the head of Department of Accounting and Finance about the pending case of exams malpractice concerning one of the students with the following registration number (07/21423D/5), who was issued his statement of result after I left for my PhD programme in Malaysia in 2011. The head of department asked me to write to the Dean which I did on February 8, 2017. But the Dean offered explanation which I considered inadequate. This made me to write to the vice chancellor dated March 6, 2017, asking him to form a committee to further investigate the matter. After sometime the committee was not set up which made me to write another letter to the vice chancellor dated April 10, 2017, giving him a seven-day ultimatum within which an action must commence. The committee was eventually constituted and I was invited to appear before it on May 3, 2017 to state my case. The case was investigated. However, rather than taking action against the alleged perpetrators of the malpractice, they were instead rewarded with promotion to the ranks of Associate Professors and professors amidst the crisis. I wrote yet another later to the vice-chancellor dated July 11, 2017 reminding him of the need to act on the committee’s recommendation within the next seven days, hoping that they did justice, failing which I would inform the University Council about the matter. After I received no response, I wrote a letter to the Council’s chairperson dated July 19, 2017 informing her about the whole issue. I was reliably informed that the chairperson requested that the university management should look into this matter in their meeting which preceded the just concluded one in October, 2017. I have been equally informed that when pro-chancellor came for the said meeting, she enquired why action was not taken. Furthermore, ATBU branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), after receiving my petitions on the exams malpractice and other issues, invited me alongside other three doctors from my faculty including the invigilator that apprehended the said candidate during the exams. The meeting held on April 18, 2017 under Prof. I.H. Garba as the convener but was represented by Prof. Abdulazeez. No action is taken so far. Prof I.H. Garba was coincidently an ASUU representative on the committee. He asked me why raising the matter which happened since 2012 now. I told him that it was started with me but when I left for my PhD programme, the matter was frustrated. I wonder how a true academic professor could ask such a question as though criminality has expiry date. From the look of things, university management is not ready to do anything to the alleged perpetrators of the case and is like the management has ganged up against me for insisting that justice must prevail because they asked the registrar to illegally query me in order to scare me so that truth could be concealed. The letter of query was dated October 18, 2017 not October 19, 2017 as claimed by the registrar though it was received by me on October 20, 2017. Furthermore, the registrar issued me with a warning later which I received on November 1, 2017 though, as usual it was back dated to October 30, 2017. It is important to draw attention of the Visitor on the need to retrain the Registrar of ATBU to be doing the right thing, considering the fact that it is quite unfortunate that Registrar of a Federal university cannot quote dates of correspondences correctly and could not distinguish between an ultimatum and a notice. The warning letter was full of grammatical errors e.g; paragraph three, line two refers. I think the registrar should go back and read reply of my query well with a view to comprehending it. I just comply with his request by giving the university notice on my readiness to resort to litigation as soon as the commissioner of police, Bauchi state, command concludes his investigation into the matter following my petition to his office. According to Edmond Burtt ”for evil to succeed good men have to do nothing.” Therefore, I will not stand by and watch evil succeed. Furthermore, I was approached by group of Post Graduate students in our faculty who claimed anonymity for fear of victimization. They complained that they were compelled to pay the sum of N20,000 as conference fees regardless of whether a student is presenting a paper in the conference or not. Investigating further on the matter, I realised that the money collected was not lodged into the TSA account as directed by Mr. President. The fact that PG students including M.Sc and PhD pay compulsorily this is considered an extension of school fees which must go into TSA. I wrote to the vice-chancellor dated May 10, 2017, drawing his attention on the need to ask the faculty to direct the purported account to TSA, which according to the students is domicile in GTB account No.1072422045. In view of the aforementioned points , I wish to appeal to Mr. President as the Visitor to the university who, by law, is considered the highest authority in the university hierarchy to urgently set in motion investigation into the issues of exams malpractice in which the university issued a statement of result to a student despite pending case of exams malpractice as well as the refusal of management of ATBU to comply with the presidential directives on TSA in the interest of salvaging this prestigious university from total collapse by some anti-Change elements. Dr. Idris Isyaku Abdullahi, ATBU. Culled from Ahmad M. Salihu.

We congratulate Nigeria and Gombe state on this special day day as we celebrate their 57th and 21st years of existence respectively. We pray for unity progress and above all PEACE for the development of our country. SO HELP US GOD.

Happy weekend Nigerians, let's continue to live in peace with one another. There is beauty in diversity. Peace, peace and peace Nigerians. The labour of our heroes fast shall never be in vain. ..... JEHDi for a better society.

We congratulate all Muslims for celebrating Eid el Fitr, hope it was done peaceful and happily. To the workers prepare and face the work ahead.

We wish our children a Happy World Children Day Celebration. Hope it will be celebrated peacefully globally. To other stakeholders is not about celebration it is about reflection and provision of necessary ingredients that will make life better for our FUTURE LEADERS. JEHDI......... for a better society.

In our efforts toward making education better, Jewel Health and Development Initiative JEHDI has recently organized a one day round table discussion with Islamiyyah school teachers and scholars from the academia with a view of establishing a unified curriculum for these schools. The meeting was well attended and there was enough contributions from both sides. At the end of the program it was unanimously agreed that the issue be written to the Gombe State Ministry of education and SUBEB who were equally represented. This will be done soon. If you have additional input to this please inbox us with your suggestion/contributions. Together we will make life better.

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On behalf of members of the Board of Trustees (BOT), Board of Directors, Staff and the entire volunteers we wish to congratulate our own Yakubu Pela Aliyu Deputy Chairman Board of Trustees (JEHDI) on his recent victory as the newly elected National Treasurer Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU). Your election testify the confidence people have on you. CONGRATULATIONS SIR. Allah ya taya riko.

A madadin ma aikata, mambobi da kuma Yan sa Kai na wannan kungiya muna taya Shugaban kwamitin amintattu na JEHDI Alh. Engr. Usman Maina (Mainan Dukku) murnar aurar da Yar sa da yayi jiya 4-3-2017. Mu a JEHDI muna fatan Allah ya basu zaman lafiya. A daya bangaren kuma muna Mika godiya ta musamman ga Wanda Suka halarta, da Wanda basu samu zuwa ba Amma sun taya mu da Addu'a. Da fatan kowa ya koma gidansa lafiya. MUNGODE.

On behalf of the the entire members, volunteers and staff of JEHDI we wish to congratulate our hardworking Chairman Board of Trustees Alh. Engr. Usman Maina (Mainan Dukku) for the marriage of his daughter Fatima Usman Maina (Fauziya). We @ JEHDI wishes the new couple happy marriage. At the same moment we wish to thank all that attended, contributed and prayed for the success of the event. We hope you have all returned safely. Once again THANKS

Please someone should come to rescue these pupils from learning in this condition. The school needs our collective effort to make it convenient and conducive for learning. What can you do?