Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the new pope of the Catholic Church. Prevost is the first American to be elected pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic church. The 69-year-old new pope adopts the name Leo XIV. White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney this afternoon, announcing the election of a…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, has commended Aliko Dangote Foundation for its unrelenting commitment to the fight against hunger and poverty in Nigeria. Sani made the commendation on Thursday while flagging off the distribution of 35,000 of 10kg bags of rice to the 23 Local Government Areas of Kaduna state by the foundation. The…
Twenty-two civil society organisations under the aegis of Coalition Against Mass Atrocities in the Middle Belt have asked President Bola Tinubu to end the attacks and mass killings by bandits in the region. Address a press conference on Thursday in Kaduna, Gloria Ballason, Executive Director of House of Justice, and spokesperson of the coalition, expressed…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has recently sought to downplay the disquieting resurgence of Boko Haram, a stance that has understandably ignited considerable alarm amongst Nigerians, especially those from Borno State acutely aware of the enduring and brutal threat this group continues to pose. This attempt to…
The federal government has set up a committee to carry out major changes to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Inaugurating the committee on Tuesday in Abuja, the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, noted that the NYSC has played an important role in building national unity and helping young people since it was east…
By Abdul Mahmud First, a few necessary disclosures about one of the subjects of this reflection, the Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara. We have shared the bonds of friendship for over thirty-six years, having once walked the same academic corridors at the University of Jos, where we both studied law, and later at the Nigerian Law…
