The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has picked senator Kashim Shettima, as his running for the 2023 elections. Tinubu disclosed this to journalists on Sunday shortly after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina state. Shettima, who served for two-term as governor of Borno state, is…
The Nigeria Citizen Watch for Good Governance (NCWGG) has dismissed the Special Investigator on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Related Entities by describing it as concocted stories aimed at misleading Nigerians. The report by Jim Obazee, the CBN special investigator, had alleged that Godwin Emefiele, former CBN governor, illegally lodged billions of naira…
Eleven of the children abducted from an Islamiyya school in Tegina, Rafi LGA of Niger state have been released. Mary Noel-Berje, spokesperson to the Niger state governor, said in a statement that the bandits released the children who could not walk because they were too small. The bandits had invaded the school on Sunday and…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the closure of schools by the Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, and Kebbi state governments. In a statement on Monday, the National Public Relations Officer, the students’ union body, Samson Adeyemi, described the closure as an infringement on the right of every student to uninterrupted education The four…
Majalisah returns with another hard-hitting political conversation examining Nigeria’s deepening security crisis and the growing distrust between citizens and the state. Hosted by Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum, this episode features Honourable Abubakar Chika Adamu—former Member of the House of Representatives, former Niger State Commissioner, and former lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic—offering one of his most uncompromising assessments…
The federal government has declared Jigawa as the first state to become open defecation free in Nigeria. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, disclosed on Thursday at a “world news conference”. The conference was part of activities to prepare for the 2022 “world toilet summit”, scheduled…
