HortiNigeria, an agricultural programme funded by the Dutch government, says it has trained over 1000 farmers in Kaduna state on best practices in agronomy and techniques. The four year project is being implemented by the International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC). The training which held at the Sustainable Development Goals Partnership (SDGP) learning site, Faculty of…
The apex socio-cultural organisation in Igbo land, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has lashed out at Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, over his comment on a former Governor of the state and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi. The Igbo group also said it had dragged Soludo to two…
The Labour Party (LP) has reportedly won the Bogoro Councillorship Election in Lusa B Ward, Bauchi State, without fielding a candidate. Local government elections in the state, held on Saturday, with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sweeping all the Chairmanship positions amid allegations of manipulation by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). According to…
The Plateau State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has urged security agencies to fish out perpetrators of Thursday’s ambush on Senator Nora Dadu’ut and her entourage in Namu, Qu’anpan Local Government Area of the state. Dadu’ut who represents Plateau South Senatorial District, was said to have been attacked by a mob shortly…
Two people were critically injured and several houses were burnt down during clashes between the Tivs and Jukuns on Wednesday. The incident according to the Punch newspaper, happened at a riverside beside a rice mill around a New Bridge at Wurukum in Makurdi, Benue state capital. The crisis was said to have made a traditional…
The Kaduna state government is to contruct 10,000 affordable housing units in the next four years. Mallam Rabiu Yunusa, permanent secretary, Kaduna state ministry of housing and urban development, disclosed this on Monday at a meeting of the National Council Lands, Housing and Urban Development which held in Kaduna. Yunusa said Uba Sani, governor of…
