The federal government has declared December 26 and 27 as well as January 2, 2023, as public holidays. The ministry of interior announced the festive season holidays in a statement signed by Belgore Shuaib, the permanent secretary, on Friday. The public holidays are to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. Rauf Aregbesola, the…
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…
A Kano Upper Shari’a court has convicted Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara, a cleric, for blasphemy. Nasiru-Kabara was charged over alleged blasphemous comments against Prophet Muhammad. The charges were preferred against him by the Kano state government. Suraj Sa’eda, the prosecution counsel, said the defendant committed the offence on August 10, October 25, and December 20, 2019. Delivering…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), appealed to politicians to focus on issue based campaigns and avoid personal attacks and character assassination. Chairman of the association, Rev. Yakubu Pam, made the appeal at a three -day special prayer summit on Thursday in Kaduna, ahead…
The chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in Kaduna state, Ben Kure, has resigned from the party over alleged overbearing interference by the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi. Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Kaduna, Kure alleged that since the nomination of Hunkuyi as the party’s flag bearer in Kaduna state, the…
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa The senate is set to provide the much needed legislative framework to enable th!e federal government pursue its diversification policies to improve on the Nigerian economy. The upper chamber, accordingly, seeks to achieve same with the passage of the Nigerian Economic Diversification Bill 2022 presently before the National Assembly. A public hearing on…
