Former deputy senate president, Ibrahim Mantu is dead. He was said to have died in the early hours of Tuesday in a private hospital in Abuja following an undisclosed ailment. He was aged 74. Mantu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was elected as the senator representing Plateau central senatorial district in 1999….
Governors of the 19 northern states, under the aegis of Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) have resolved to invest massively in education, skill development, health care and social services in order to address the menace of out of school children in the region. In a communique issued at the end of its meeting on Tuesday…
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has described the N307 billion debt profile he inherited from the immediate past administration in the state as intimidating and worrisome. A statement by the spokesman to the governor, Gyang Bere said Mutfwang spoke while receiving reports from the Committee on a Four-Year Strategic Development Blueprint for Plateau State and…
Sixteen people have died while four others were seriously injured in a fatal motor accident along Kano- Zaria highway. The accident was said to have occurred on Sunday at about 11:30am. The passenger bus, which took off from Kano, was heading to Markudi, Benue state, when it crashed at Taban Sani Junction, Tashar Yari, along…
Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani has congratulated Al’amin Idris, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Interface Africa for emerging the overall winner of the 2025 NextGen Innovation Challenge held in London, United Kingdom. The event, organised by the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) and UKALD Management Consultancy, featured over 3,000 participants from…
The federal government said it would prosecute Daily Trust Newspaper for falsehood and inciting journalism capable of causing disaffection. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a joint briefing with the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Abubakar Bagudu to shed light on the Samoa Agreement….
