Facebook planned digital currency Libra a risky project – Zuckerberg concedes
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded that the company’s planned digital currency Libra was a risky project, but sought to reassure skeptical United States’ lawmakers that it could lower the cost of electronic payments and open up the global financial system to more people. Sporting a suit and tie, Zuckerberg also fended off aggressive questions […]
Completing Ajaokuta steel coy will revive Nigeria’s automotive industry – DG
Mr Jelani Aliyu, Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), on Thursday, applauded the Federal Government over moves to ensure the completion of Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill. Aliyu made the commendation at the annual conference of Commerce and Industry Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CICAN), in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari and his Russian counterpart Vladimir […]
Tambuwal hands over to Sokoto police comand retrieved arms from repentant bandits, recommends dialogue for their states
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has called on states affected by activities of bandits to embrace and encourage a robust synergy that would enable dialogue as a tool to fight the trend in order to have lasting peace.” We have to arrive at a common stand to actualise a responsive approach that […]
Climate Action: Christian Aid trains Environmentalists on disaster risk reduction
EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna Following increased vulnerability of the people to wide-ranging hazards in communities across Kaduna state, leading members of civil society organizations in the state, during the week underwent a two-day training on Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR), with emphasis on disaster management systems to augment and stimulate participatory tools of the targeted stakeholders. The training, […]
EFCC , Universities Registrars set to restore, protect integrity of institutions
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto IN its bid to strengthen institutions to perform robustly, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday said the agency is set to ensure active collaboration in partnership with the Association of Registrars of Nigeria Universities (ARNU) with a view to restore and protect the integrity of universities in the […]
COAS says protecting country territorial integrity is a must, seeks soft, more proactive approach
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has said that the Nigerian armed forces must bear in mind that they owe the country the noble task of protecting its territorial integrity while being proactively involved in aid of the civil authority as their prime responsibility. Similarly, the COAS […]
Borders closure, good omen for Nigeria’s economy, says RIFAN President
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, National President , Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria(RIFAN), has said that, the closure of the country’s land borders is a good omen for Nigeria’s blossoming economy. This, the RIFAN National President says , has began to bolster the nation’s economy, hence, it is now becoming more formidably robust […]
APPEAL COURT AFFIRMS UBA SANI’S ELECTION
The Court Of Appeal sitting in Kaduna on Monday affirmed the victory of Senator Uba Sani of the APC, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the March 23, 2019 National Assembly Elections. In a unanimous lead judgement read by Justice Adefope O. Okojie, unbehalf of the Chairman of the Appeal Panel, Justice Mukhtar Hassan, the […]
NIGERIA’S OPPOSITION IS MISSING
By Garba Shehu Last week, the Nigeria’s senate majority leader reintroduced anti-sexual harassment legislation to parliament, following a serious exposé by the BBC of a sex for grades scandal at the University of Lagos. The bill had been tabled before – in 2016 – but it was not passed: some members of our party, working […]
Buhari’s House of Commotion and Mamman Daura’s “Glass House”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. (Twitter: @farooqkperogi ) A few days before it became grist for Nigeria’s overactive social media rumor mills, a retired general and contemporary of Muhammadu Buhari’s told me, in the course of a 30-minute phone conversation, that Mamman Daura, Buhari’s nephew who is nonetheless older than him by three years, had made […]