National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu has condemned the Canadian government for denying visas to the Chief of Defence Staff, (CDS), General Christopher Musa, and other top military brass. Speaking on Thursday at the maiden annual lecture of the National Association of the Institute for Security Studies in Abuja, Ribadu described the denial of the visa…
Southern Kaduna People in Diaspora – Europe (SOKAPDAE) have lauded President Bola Tinubu for the establishment of the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia, Kaduna state. The group also commended the Kaduna state governor, Senator Uba Sani, Sunday Katung – the senator representing Kaduna South senatorial zone, and Danjuma La’ah a former senator who represented…
The establishment of the Federal University in Kachia is a potential game-changer for the lives of citizens in Southern Kaduna, a region long marginalised from the state’s mainstream social, economic, and political activities. This development offers a promising opportunity to address the historical imbalances that have contributed to the region’s lagging human development indices, political…
In this column, last week, I wrote about “The madness which manifests as nothing more than a sickness, to borrow from Michel Foucault, that points at the abnormality that had seized the mind of Abuja, and elsewhere”. I posited, among others, that the madness which manifests in the officialdom has turned our quarters of political…
Amos Magaji, a member of the house of representatives, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Magaji represents Zangon Kataf/Jaba federal constituency of Kaduna state. The speaker of the house, Tajudeen Abbas, announced Magaji’s defection in a letter read on the floor of…
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the North-west zone has expressed disappointment over the exclusion of indigenous Christian representation on the board of the North West Development Commission (NWDC). President Bola Bola Tinubu recently constituted a 14-member board for the NWDC. In a statement on Tuesday in Kaduna, North-West Zonal Chairman…
