Ahmed Dodo

    By Bashir Bello, Abuja.    The ACO Nigeria, a solar energy company based in Nigeria has announced its plan to provide energy solution to the Nigerian energy sector. This was disclosed by Mr. Ayman Azzam, the Nigeria country Manager, in an exclusive interview in Abuja. The company which has been providing solar energy to millions of people around the world said it is set to provide world standard energy solution to Nigeria as well.   According to him ACO Nigeria has the exclusive partnership with Suntech panels one of the biggest brands in solar panels in the world and has been doing this for more than 10 years.    The company which is an expansion of ACO Egypt and ACO Sudan is set to provide services and solution to various sectors in the country, especially to government sector, business sector as well as residential sector. He said one of their major lines is to supply solar panels and developing the project.  The company he ...

Who Betrayed Nigeria? The Nigerian nation no doubt is one of the naturally endowed nations under the sun with vast concentrations of anything made by God. It’s been 58 years since the British colonist packed their baggage, filled with their culture, ideologies and vision out of the rich black nation. They left the heterogeneous country in the hands and tricks of the people. But something glaring seemed to have bedeviled Nigeria since then – underdevelopment in all facets of the country’s socio-economic and political structure. Who betrayed this giant and still holding it to ransom despite its size, strength and strive? Could it be the under listed? •The Nigerian bogey politicians and their bogey policies and visions? •The Nigerian judiciary and their arbitrary segregated and discriminatory laws? •The self-centered and self-fortified Nigerian elites and their returnees of offspring and stooges? •The colonist, the capitalist and the new modern invaders? •The politicized Nigerian...

Ahmed Dodo: Ahmed Bobboi: the Man who changed the Face of PEF : ‘’The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.’’ -- Brandon...

‘’The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.’’ -- Brandon Sanderson By Ahmed Ali Among the first positive things Ahmed Bobboi did when he took over the mantle of leadership at the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) was to introduce a staff posting and deployment policy, the first of its kind in the history of PEF. It was a sign that the Petroleum Equalization Fund was into a new dawn. Not many people, even among the staff envisioned the remarkable positive change that was to take over the running of affairs of this important government agency when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ahmed Bobboi as the Executive Secretary of Petroleum Equalization Fund (Management) Board in October 2016. Although many who worked with him or have came in contact with the unassuming public servant described him as a man full with ideas and very passionate in doing his job. Ahmed Bobboi no doubt has etched ...

‘ ’It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.’’ -George Santayana   Photo:  Top, Alhaji Abbas Idriss , DG,FEMA Bottom: Vice President  Osinbanjo, middle, FCT Minister  Muhammed Bello , left & Abbas Idriss By Ahmed Dodo In an interview he granted SEE Magazine few years ago, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, the Director General of the FCT Emergency Agency (FEMA), made a statement that has remain indebted in my conscious.   Responding to a question on an initiative he was credited to have mused as a professional disaster manager on the need to have a Local Emergency Management Committee with a strong grassroots footing, he said: ‘’ The general belief and emphasis is that emergency management cannot be done by this single agency and it must involve everybody and for you to really meet the requirement and get proper results , you need to go deep down the grassroots. That is the reason why the idea ...

‘’He gives twice who gives promptly.’’   - Publilius Syrus (1st century BC ) By Ahmed Dodo The current refugees’ flights from Syria and other part of the earth have once again exposed our claim to be the most intelligent creature in the world as mere fallacy of the human imagination. The daily migration of human species is a sign that all is not too well in our celebrated planet; because unlike few fortunate once amongst us with roofs, clothes and steamy food to grub on our tables, other humans like us are daily trekking through thick and thin to survive under the sun; thus exposing a compelling sketch of the reality of the battered world we live in and the glaring truth on the ground. The veracity is the fact that upon all our intelligence, celebration of power, position and intellectualism we are still yet to get the gears of life on the right course. We have failed to glance back to the past and comprehend the reality before us that we are slowly sneaking onto anothe...

By Ahmed Dodo As a kid growing up in Africa in the 70s, I was lucky to be among the fortunate kids in my community to have the privilege to come across the TV. Then, television was one of the most expensive awed striking man-made devices on earth. And to many of us in the then developing and still developing Africa continent, the TV was not only a privilege to own or have the opportunity to view, it was also a magical box with some hidden mysteries in the eyes of many of us. The television to me was something out of the ordinary, just like the telephone and I could remember those tiny TV toys and imagined being able to speak back to the static images that stared back lifeless at me. And true to some of my imaginations the world today could speak back to each other via SKYPE and other 21 st century technological inventions across the globe. The power of tweeting ourselves across anywhere our spirits decides to prod us to and see first-hand in visual some of the wonderful thi...