Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen of the Federal Republic of Recycled Officials:
Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has just appointed Hadi Sirika — yes, that Hadi Sirika — as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University.
You heard right.
The man who once gave us Nigeria Air, the most expensive “borrowed airplane” in world history, is now in charge of a university.
Education, my friend, is now officially under turbulence.
Professor Sirika, Dean of Aeronautical Deception
Let’s remember his thesis:
“How to Launch an Airline Without Owning a Plane.”
It was a brilliant experiment. Billions of naira vanished into thin air, and when Nigerians demanded evidence of their national airline, Sirika presented one majestic Ethiopian airplane — painted with our flag for the weekend, like makeup on a corpse.
Two days later, the plane quietly flew back to Addis Ababa, wiped off the green and white, and resumed normal service.
Nigeria Air: Gone with the wind — and the budget.
Now this same man, this modern-day aviation Picasso, has been chosen to teach our youth integrity and leadership.
See the joke?
The man who borrowed a plane now wants to borrow credibility from a university.
New Curriculum: Lootonomics 101
With Professor Sirika at the helm, expect a radical shift in university education.
Course 1: Introduction to Aviation Propaganda (AVN 101) — How to land with no runway.
Course 2: Public Fund Disappearance Techniques (PFDT 204) — How to spend billions and still smile on TV.
Course 3: Crisis Communication for Scandals (CCS 311) — Sponsored by “We Did Nothing Wrong Ltd.”
Course 4: Advanced Nepotism (GOV 401) — Because merit is for amateurs.
By graduation, the students of UMYU will not only earn degrees — they’ll earn experience in “strategic mismanagement.”
From Minister of Missing Airplanes to Chancellor of Missing Morals
You’d think a man whose last project ended like a disappearing magic trick would be quietly reflecting. But no.
In Nigeria, failure is not punishment — it’s promotion.
Steal well, steal big, and someone will find you another office with your name on the door.
Imagine the irony: while students sit under leaking roofs, their new university chairman once spent billions to paint a plane that never flew again.
Nigerian politics has officially become a recycling plant for corruption.
You finish defrauding aviation, they post you to education.
You mess up health, they move you to housing.
You embezzle from housing, they promote you to the Senate.
It’s like musical chairs, except the chairs are made of taxpayers’ bones.
Governor Radda could have appointed a scholar, a reformer, a visionary.
But no — he chose the man who took our national pride for a test flight and returned it with an Ethiopian accent.
This appointment is not about education — it’s about indoctrination.
Teaching young Nigerians that you can burn a nation’s funds, destroy a ministry’s credibility, and still end up sitting at the head of a university council — smiling.
This is the Nigeria where crime graduates with honours,
and corruption becomes a department of study.
Soon, we’ll see Sirika’s portrait in the university hallway, with the caption:
“For Outstanding Service in the Field of Fraudulent Aviation and Educational Irony.”
Nigeria is a country that punishes honesty and rewards shamelessness.
And every appointment like this is another slap in the face of students who still believe in merit, lecturers who still believe in integrity, and citizens who still believe in redemption.
So when the next scandal erupts — don’t ask how.
Ask which university trained them.
Because if this continues, the next generation won’t just be unemployed — they’ll be unemployable, armed with degrees in deception and postgraduate certificates in impunity.
And the man who once borrowed a plane for a photo-op will be proudly signing their diplomas.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 