Chairman of Farmers Herders Initiative for Peace and Development Africa (FHIPD – Africa), Salim Umar, has said that the high level of insecurity has crippled the implementation of the nomadic education programme. In a paper he presented on Friday in Kaduna at a workshop for staff of the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) from…
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), has condemned the persistent abduction and killing of Christian clerics by terrorists. In a statement made available to journalists on Sunday in Kaduna, President of the PFN, Bishop Francis Oke, called on the federal government and security agencies to put an end to such dastardly acts. The statement condemned…
The famous English poet, Laurence Binyon, described hunger both as “a shadow who sits down by each man’s side” and as a silent killer, invisible, known only to “naked things”, like “the tide that buries the playground of children”. Is Binyon right? Well, only to the extent in which he captures hunger as a pervasive,…
Two clergy men- Evangelist Nuhu Bakwa and his pastor friend, abducted on Monday by gunmen in Bisichi, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state, have been freed by their abductors. It was learnt that the two victims were released Thursday night after their relatives paid an undisclosed amount as ransom. The abductors were said…
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its strike. The union announce the suspension of the 65- day strike in a statement on Wednesday The Polytechnic lecturers have been on industrial action for more over the failure of the federal government to meet their demands some of which include non-implementation of the 2014…
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…
