The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has condemned those using smear campaign to demand for the sacking of the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mamoud Yakubu. Addressing a press conference on Friday in Kaduna, President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, said those masquerading as campaigners for electoral sanity and accountability in INEC are…
A federal high court in the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja has sentenced a former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara state, Prof. Magaji Garba, to seven years imprisonment for N260 million fraud. Garba was jailed on Tuesday after the court presided by justice Maryam Aliyu, found him guilty on all five counts…
President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the redesigned naira notes on Wednesday in Abuja. The redesigned notes are N1000, N500 and N200 denominations. In attendance at the event was the governorof the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari…
Several people have been reportedly killed while over 30 others were said to have been abducted by bandits in Suka Kahuta village, along Jere -Abuja road. The incident was said to have occurred on Friday night when the bandits raided the community located near the SCC banana farm on Jere-Abuja road. It was learnt that…
The abducted registrar in the department of ophthalmology at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, Dr. Ganiyat Popoola has been released after ten months in captivity. Spokesperson of the Nigerian Association Of Resident Doctors (NARD), Omoha Amobi, announced her release in a statement on Thursday. “The president, Nigerian Association Of Resident Doctors (NARD ) Dr. Osundara Tope…
Leaders in the north-central geopolitical zone have called for urgent steps to address the security challenges plaguing the region. The leaders, including Tanko Al-Makura and Abdulfatah Ahmed, former governors of Nasarawa and Kwara respectively, said the north-central must regain its place as “the domain of peace and tranquillity”. They spoke at a meeting organised on…
