The Labour Party (LP) has reportedly won the Bogoro Councillorship Election in Lusa B Ward, Bauchi State, without fielding a candidate. Local government elections in the state, held on Saturday, with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sweeping all the Chairmanship positions amid allegations of manipulation by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). According to…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria is presently plagued at all levels by a band of self-centred leaders who lack the idea of what a true leadership style entails. Speaking on Saturday at the Leadership Empowerment International Conference (LIEC), which held in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, he asked Nigerians to stop electing transactional…
Fuel scarcity has hit Kaduna with along and chaotic queues at filling stations. The product which is being sold at some few filling stations, costs between N760, N880, and N950 per litre, depending on where the filling station got its supply. For instance, at Omosco filling station, located along Yakowa Way, Kaduna, petrol sell for…
Makama Danjuma Agribusiness Coordinator, Horti Nigeria, has called on government initiative policies make farming attractive to the youths to curb the increasing rate of unemployment and crime. He also called for the introduction of Agriculture as a compulsory subject in secondary schools. Danjuma spoke in an interview with journalists on Saturday in Zaria, Kaduna state,…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika- Zaria, has given the Kaduna State government and security agencies a 10-day ultimatum for the unconditional release of their colleague, Dr. Ganiyat Popoola. Popoola, a mother of five and medical practitioner at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, was abducted alongside her…
Bandits on Friday abducted 20 medical and dental students alongside a house officer travelling to Enugu. The students were said to be on their way to attend the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) annual convention in Enugu when they were ambushed around 5.30pm in the Otukpo area, Benue state. The victims are…
