The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has declared that President Bola Tinubu must be allowed to serve out a full eight year tenure to sustain the power rotation arrangement between the North and the Southern parts of the country. The group, in a statement issued Sunday in Kaduna by Mohammed Danlami, its spokesperson, cautioned political actors…
The Kaduna state government has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on Kaduna and Zaria. Governor Uba Sani had on Monday imposed the 24 hour curfew on the two cities to avert breakdown of law and order following the violent activities of some hoodlums who vandalised and looted public and private property. In a statement on…
The minister of youth and sports development, Mr. Sunday Dare, has announced the dissolution of all boards of the national Olympic sports federations (NSF) in Nigeria. In a statement on Friday, the minister said a caretaker committees had been constituted to run the affairs of the federations pending elections. The minister noted that within the…
A coalition of 40 social cultural groups across the north, under the umbrella of “The unified Northern Nigeria Youths Forum”, have called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Godwin Emefiele to contest for the 2023 Presidency. Addressing a press conference on Sunday in Kaduna, after a procession in support of…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), alongside 176 concerned Nigerians have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to the ECOWAS court over the ban on Twitter in Nigeria and for criminalising Nigerians still using the social media platform. The suit was filed by counsel to the plaintiffs and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on Tuesday…
The Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday, received a former governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, back to its fold. Shekarau dumped the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), three months after joining the party, citing “betrayal of trust”. He had earlier partted ways in May 2022, with the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje of the…
