It is expectedly, a confounding idea, that former President, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan would contest the 2023 election. More unsettling, of course, is the possibility that the President would be running on the platform of the APC against his party, the PDP. Naturally, his party should be perplexed with such a prospect and unexpectedly, a…
The federal government has declared Jigawa as the first state to become open defecation free in Nigeria. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, disclosed on Thursday at a “world news conference”. The conference was part of activities to prepare for the 2022 “world toilet summit”, scheduled…
The Kaduna state government has promised to ensure the release of the remaining 83 students of the Bethel Baptist High School still being held in captivity by bandits. The Commissioner for Education, Dr. Shehu Muhammad stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Kaduna. He also said the state government will ensure that those students…
The Kaduna Chamber of Commerce has expressed concern over what it described as “dire and disastrous implications” of the recent increase in electricity tariff by the Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). In a statement on Thursday in Kaduna, Ishaya Idi, president of the chambers, said the increase is ill timed considering the fact that businesses are…
THE Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Mejabi Yemi-Esan, on January 17, 2022 announced that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is not a trade union. I am not sure if this magisterial pronouncement is a result of ignorance, sycophancy or a fascist scheme to clamp down on the academics…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’Aziz Yari, as part of investigations into the N84bn fraud involving the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. Sources told The Punch newspapers, that Yari and the Chairman of a firm, Finex Professional Services, were arrested around 5pm on Sunday…
