The federal government has commenced the payment of outstanding allowances to 9,066 participants of the batches A and B of the 2016 and 2018 N-Power programmes. This was disclosed in a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mr. Bashir Alkali.The statement said the federal government had in March…
Maiduguri is once again in the news. But this time, the headlines carry a familiar and unsettling tone—one that many Nigerians had hoped belonged to the past. On a recent evening, multiple explosions tore through parts of the Borno State capital. The blasts, reported around the Monday Market and near the University of Maiduguri Teaching…
By Abdul Mahmud This new year scarcely requires a seer to reveal its gravity. It stands as a decisive threshold for both Nigeria’s political class and the country itself. As the final full year before the 2027 general election, it unfolds within an atmosphere markedly defined not by open contestation but by cooptation, not by…
“The only thing Kwankwasiyya has in common with NEPU and the PRP is mimicking wearing the red cap.” – An Anonymous Elder of Kwankwasiyya. In this month, seventy-five years ago, a momentous event unfolded in Sabongari, Kano: the founding of the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) by eight radical young patriots. On…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has disowned the “clerics” who attended the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Kaduna state chapter of CAN, said the supposed Christian clerics who attended the programme appeared like Nollywood actors CAN is opposed to the…
A total of 76 Senate and House of Representatives aspirants in Kaduna state are being screened by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), National Assembly Screening Committee for the 2023 general elections. Chairman of the Screening Committee, Yusuf Dingyadi disclosed this in Kaduna. According to him, there are 63 aspirants for House of Representatives seats while…
