A former national chairman of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Ambassador Yusuf Mamman, has commended Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state for giving every section of the state a sense of belonging through his inclusive governance policy. Speaking with journalists in Kaduna, Mamman, a former ambassador of Spain and The Vatican, said Sani’s “community engagement…
Disengaged staff members of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who were laid off in a mass redundancy last year, have taken the apex bank to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja. The Punch newspapers reports that the aggrieved former staff members, according , in an originating summons filed on July 4, 2024,…
The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to reconsider its decision to reduce its workforce. In a statement on Sunday in Kaduna, the group said, the sacking of workers at this time of economic hardship will throw the affected workers into hardship and psychological trauma. The AYA in a…
Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani, has restated his administration’s continuous support to security operations to achieve lasting peace for sustainable development in the state. According to a statement on Sunday by Ibraheem Musa, spokesperson to the governor, Sani spoke on Saturday, during the 2024 annual cultural activities of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF)…
A mother, Khadija Ali has been arrested by the police in Abuja for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby. Ali was reported to have dumped the baby along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind the uncompleted Red Bricks Market in Mpape, Abuja. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command, in a statement on Sunday by…
The famous English poet, Laurence Binyon, described hunger both as “a shadow who sits down by each man’s side” and as a silent killer, invisible, known only to “naked things”, like “the tide that buries the playground of children”. Is Binyon right? Well, only to the extent in which he captures hunger as a pervasive,…
