No More Empty Rhetorics: Twenty Issues That Will Confront The Next Governor of Kaduna State
By Yusuf Goje 1. The State has 8.04 million multidimensionally poor with an incidence of above 70% – Source: Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (2022) 2. Kaduna State has high dependency Rate with 49% of the population below 14 years, , while 67% are less than 24 years – Source: Kaduna State General Household Survey, 2020 […]
CBN Debunk Claims Of Inadequate Materials To Print More Notes
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has the capacity and materials to print new currency notes amid a shortage of cash in the country. Multiple reports quoted the apex bank’s Governor Godwin Emefiele as admitting that the CBN does not have enough materials to print the new naira notes. But the Bank has debunked […]
UTME registration deadline will not be extended – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board revealed on Saturday that over 1.16 million admission seekers have registered to take the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry examinations. Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB registrar disclosed this on Saturday, during a monitoring tour of some computer-based test centres in Abuja. Oloyede, during the tour visited […]
MFM Football Club Disbanded After 16 Years In Nigerian Football
Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) Football Club of Lagos also known as ‘Ólukoya Boys’, have finally left the Nigerian football scene. The club which was wholly owned by Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, a Pentecostal Christian Organization came into existence in 2007. In 2013, MFM participated in the Nigeria National League after they […]
South African rapper AKA shot dead in Durban
South African rapper Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, Popularly known as A.K.A, was reportedly shot dead in a drive-by shooting on Florida Road on Friday night. The South African police department has confirmed the shooting incident, which took place in Durban’s Florida Rd. According to an eyewitness, A.K.A was shot five times at 8pm and was the […]
Do Not Give Out OTP Sent To You, EFCC Warns Nigerians
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned Nigerians to beware of fraudsters sending messages and calling citizens, asking to help individuals update their Sim card from 4G to 5G. According to the antigraft agency, sending scammers an OTP could see individual lose all the money in their accounts. In a brief communique, the […]
Buhari reiterates support for Asiwaju…as presidential candidate promise to eliminate corruption, boost agric, create jobs
By Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto The ruling All Progressives Congress PCC train led by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday stormed Sokoto , the seat of the caliphate with its right foot amidst ovation by mammoth crowd of supporters hailing the formal defection and
ASUU disagree as FG shuts varsities
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has condemned the directive of the National Universities Commissions to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities that universities should be shut to enable students to participate in the forthcoming general elections. It can be recalled that The National Universities Commission (NUC) had ordered universities across the country to […]
Confusion as CBN deadline ends today
Nigerians, especially bank customers, were gripped with confusion and uncertainty over whether today’s deadline by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the phasing out of the old naira notes still remains or it has been suspended following the Supreme Court injunction obtained by some northern governors. The Supreme Court had on Wednesday ruled that the […]
2023 Election: FG Directs Closure Of Utniversities In Nigeria
The federal government has directed the closure of all universities in Nigeria. The directive came via a letter from the minister of education through the National Universities Commission (NUC) which ordered the closure of universities across the nation to enable students to participate in the 2023 general elections In a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities […]