Ben Kure, Kaduna state chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Ibrahim Ahmed, the state legal adviser, have been removed from office for alleged anti- party activities. Their removal was announced on Tuesday in a statement in Kaduna by Albehu Gora, the state publicity secretary. Gora said Kure had been replaced with Nuhu…
President-elect, Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria after staying abroad for over one month. Tinubu arrived Nigeria around 4:30 pm on Monday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The trip was trailed by speculations and controversy about the state of health, even when his aides explained that he traveled to Paris to rest and…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched “The Neem Tree Dialogue”, an initiative aimed at preventing violence against children and promoting positive parenting in five communities in Zaria, Kaduna state. Speaking at the launch on Thursday in Zaria, Dr. Gerida Birukila, UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office, Kaduna, said the initiative would strengthen families and…
In this powerful episode, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum speaks with Mercy and Prof Solomon Tarfa about the long and painful struggle to secure the release of children taken from their orphanage in Kano, Nigeria. They reveal disturbing allegations of: • Children being forced into conversions and given new identities. • Orphans taken from Asaba and transported…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has warned that the implementation of the cash withdrawal limit by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), will result in the catastrophic collapse of the informal sector. In a statement on Friday in Kaduna, the forum said the CBN may have the best of intentions while initiating the policy, but failed…
By Solomon Selcap Dalung Since the passage of His Royal Majesty, Chief Edward Zhattau, the second Ponzhi Tarok the first to be selected under enacted legislation, unity has eluded the descendants of Vwarka, the ancestor of prototype Tarok who migrated from Tal in present day Pankshin Local Government Area to Lagan hills currently in Langtang…
