The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on governments at all levels to take urgent against the menace of anti social behaviour and criminal acts going on in schools across the country. The forum made the call in a statement on Saturday, while condemning the killing of a five year old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar by…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman Nigeria’s democratic journey is often measured through national politics, presidential elections, legislative contests, and elite power struggles. Yet democracy does not take root at the centre. It begins at the grassroots. It is within local councils, wards, and communities that citizens experience governance most directly. Unfortunately, grassroots governance has long been…
Survivors of the recent attack that occurred in Plateau state have returned to Ondo. Over commuters traveling from Bauchi to Ondo state were killed in an attack along Rukuba road, Jos, August 14, 2021. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the deputy governor of Plateau state, Prof. Sonni Tyoden, accompanied the survivors of…
The federal government has dismissed reports claiming that it ordered the closure of unity schools nationwide due to insecurity. There has been renewed attacks on schools and mass abduction of schoolchildren across the north-west and north-central regions with two major incidents last week. The attacks prompted the federal government to order a temporary closure of…
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Group Managing Director (GMD)of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu on charges of money laundering. Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on February 3, 2017, raided the Kaduna property of Yakubu and recovered the sum…
The Plateau state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has congratulated the immediate past governor of the state, Simon Lalong over his victory at the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in the state. The tribunal had on Monday declared Lalong, who is the minister of Labour as the winner of the Plateau South Senatorial…
