Former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu, has said that the nation’s corrupt electoral process has made it impossible for honest people to contest for elections. Aliyu stated this on Saturday in Kaduna while speaking as a guest at the annual lecture and General Meeting of the Kaduna State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of…
The federal government has pegged the minimum age for tertiary school admissions at 16 years. The minister of education, Tunji Alausa announced this on Tuesday at the 2025 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which held in Abuja. Alausa said Nigeria has officially adopted 16 as the minimum age for tertiary…
Special Forces under the 271 Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Detachment, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna state, have rescued seven Chinese expatriates abducted by terrorists. The Chinese expatriates were believed to have been kidnapped in June 2022 by terrorists while working on a mining site in Ajata-Aboki, Shiroro Local Government of Niger State. The rescue operation, according to…
President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, left Nigeria for Europe on a working visit ahead of his swearing in on May, 29. A statement on Wednesday, signed by Tunde Rahman, media aide to the President elect, said Tinubu will use the opportunity of the trip to finetune the transition plans and programmes, and his policy options…
Chairman of the Kaduna state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Joseph Hayab, has that there is no sense in celebrating June 12 when the leaders are undemocratic. According to him, Nigerians cannot be governed by intimidation and still celebrate June 12 as Democracy Day. In an interview on Saturday, Hayab said,…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that Twitter must be registered as a business entity in Nigeria before the ban imposed on the social media by the federal government can be lifted. He also disclosed that the management of Twitter has reached out for a “high-level discussion” to resolve the…
