By Shu’aibu Usman Leman_ The recent flurry of defections to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria has ignited a fervent and often acrimonious debate concerning the true motivations underpinning these significant political realignments. While some observers might readily interpret this discernible trend as a resounding endorsement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s nascent administration and…
Governor Uba Sani has received some prominent chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state. Among the prominent PDP decampees are Muktar Ramalan Yero, a former governor of Kaduna state, Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone, Suleiman Hunkuyi, former senator…
The wife and daughter of the Plateau state Commissioner for Environment, Usman Bamaiyi, have been abducted by gunmen. The incident, according the Punch newspapers, was said to have occurred in the early hours of Saturday when the gunmen broke into the commissioner’s residence in Gindiri, Mangu Local Government Area of the state. According to the…
The Kaduna state government has signed an agreement with UNICEF to fund the “Reaching Out-of-School Children Project” aimed at reintegrating 200,000 out of school children back to the classroom. Speaking while signing the agreement on Friday at the Government House, Kaduna, the deputy governor of the state, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, said one of the challenges…
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…
The Nigeria Police Force has intercepted a notorious arms supply syndicate responsible for arming bandits in Benue and other North-Central states, recovering a cache of weapons including a rocket launcher, multiple AK-47 rifles, and thousands of rounds of live ammunition. This breakthrough, which followed a series of coordinated intelligence-led operations by operatives of the Force…
