The remaining 29 students of the abducted students of Federal College of Forestry, Afaka, Kaduna have regained their freedom after 55 days in captivity. Chairman of the Forum of Parents of the 39 Abducted Students, Abdullahi Usman, confirmed the release of the students in an interview. Yes, they have been released. “They did not sleep…
UNICEF’s Child Protection Specialist, Dr. Wilfred Mamah, has appealed to the Kaduna state government for more funding for the implementation of the child right protection law. Mamah made the appeal at the weekend in an interview with journalists in Kaduna during the training of lawyers for the implementation of the law. Kaduna state passed the…
The students wing of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG- SW) has called for the deployment of security to campuses. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday in Kaduna, Hassan Adamu National Cooratnator of the CNG- SW expressed concern over growing insecurity in campuses in the North. He lamented that banditry attacks and kidnapping of students…
Elder statesmen and seasoned public administrator, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, is dead. Joda, 91, died on Friday in Yola, Adamawa state. His death was confirmed in a statement on Friday by Humwashi Wonosikou, spokesman to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa state. Born in 1930, Joda attended Yola Elementary School and Yola Middle School before proceeding to…
By Gondina Musa Sambo With the collection of Certificate of Return by former governor of Plateau State, RT. Hon. Simon Lalong, it is now obvious that the former chairman of Northern Governors Forum, has made up his mind to relinquish his position as minister for labour and employment in the federal cabinet to head to…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Plateau state has asked Christians to get their permanent voter cards (PVCs) to participate in the 2023 elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the State Chairman of association, Rev. Fr. Polycarp Lubo, gave the advice at the 2022 lenten campaign launch of the Catholic Diocese…
