The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has decried the growing cases of abscondment among academic staff of various Nigerian universities sponsored for training abroad. TETFund, has been intervening in the training of academic staff in Nigerian universities by sponsoring lecturers for further studies abroad. Speaking during an interactive session on training utilisation at the Gombe…
The President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the famous journalist and writer, Abdulhamid Babatunde who died on Thursday in Kaduna. Babatunde who served as editor of several newspaper titles including the defunct, Kaduna-based Democrat passed on following an illness. He was aged 66. In a condolence message signed by Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, On Thursday in…
The National Judicial Council, NJC, has constituted panels to investigate eight judges for alleged judicial misconduct. The Council, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said its Preliminary Complaints Assessment Committees filtered 35 petitions that were written against the judicial officers and found them to be meritorious. The statement said other petitions that were brought…
Kaduna state governor, Senator Uba Sani has asked the North West Development Commission (NWDC) to work closely with governors in the region to ensure the success of developmental initiatives. Speaking when members of the Commission’s Board of Directors, led by its Chairman, Lawal Abdullahi, the governor emphasised the need for collaboration with the governors for…
The Kaduna State House of Assembly have asked some former appointees of Nasir El-Rufai, ex governor of Kaduna state, to deploy their energies towards answering charges of malfeasance, abuse of office, disrespect for the law and due process leveled against them. The house was reacting to a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by some former…
The governor-elect in Kaduna, Senator Uba Sani has said that he will govern for all regardless of religious and ethnic differences and how people voted. In his acceptance speech on Tuesday following his declaration on Monday as the winner of the governorship election in the state, Sani said, he will focus on continued progress, peace…
