3rd OSOM Games Brought Lots Of Excitement – Are

The third edition of the One Service One Medal (OSOM) Games was filled with excitement for all stakeholders. Director Grassroots Sports Development, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Dr. Ademola Are expressed this while fielding questions from newsmen on the sideline of the Games closing ceremony at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on night […]

2019: INEC must strengthen its electronic system devices for a free, fair credible elections

INEC

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto A University Don, Professor Mohammed Junaidu has urged the Independent Electoral Commission(INEC) to strengthen its electronic system device (Card Reader) to achieve a more acceptable and credible results during the 2019 general elections. Professor Junaidu made the call in Sokoto while presenting a paper titled: ” Ensuring a Violent Free and […]

Tambuwal appoints Abubakar Director Press deputy governor’s office

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has approved the appointment of Aminu Abdullahi Abubakar as Director Press Affairs to the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mannir Dan Iya. Abubakar had before his appointment worked with Radio Deutch Welle hausa service as its Sokoto correspondent after which he served as Special Assistant on ICT in the […]

SOSG expend over N3bn on Scholarship

Sokoto State

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Sokoto state government says it has expended over spent three billion Naira on scholarship from 2015 to date. Hon. Altine Shehu Kajiji , the Executive Chairman, Sokoto State Scholarship Board disclosed to reporters in Sokoto. According to Kajiji, the money were spent in paying tuition fees, accommodation, feeding and pocket money to […]

It’s Ignorance to Say South East Governors Shunned Sokoto PDP Rally —-PPCO

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Presidential Organization has dismissed reports by a section of the media that governors elected on the platform of the party from the South East geo-political zone were absent at the party’s rally in Sokoto on Monday, because they have no support for the aspiration of its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. […]

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“Evil triumph when good men/Women do nothing.” It is a well know fact that the reason why evil triumphs and prevails in the land is because good men have chosen to keep quiet. We complain of the decadence of our institutions and systems because those who were supposed to speak out have kept mute. We […]

National Assembly Summons US Ambassador over Visa Denial to Nigerians

The National Assembly has summoned the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, over the alleged high rate of visa denial to Nigerians. The invitation was said to be at the instance of an activist, Kayode Bello, who petitioned the House of Representatives over the matter. Many Nigerian students seeking to study in US […]

World Bank to Invest $200Bn to Combat Climate Change

By Fatima Sule The World Bank Group has announced plans to double its investments in the fight against climate change to around 200 billion dollars for more than five years. “Climate change is an existential threat to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. These new targets demonstrate how seriously we are taking this issue,” World […]

World Assembly of Youth honours Titi Abubakar, NAPTIP DG

The World Assembly of Youth (WAY) has honoured the Director General of National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Barr Julie Okar-Donli, and the founder and Chairperson, Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), Hajia Titi Abubakar, for her pioneering role in the advocacy against human trafficking. Comrade Preye Ketebu-Brown, Vice President […]

WEEP NOT FOR DEJI ADEYANJU, WEEP FOR NIGERIA

By Chief Femi Fani-Kayode I do not agree with him on everything and I deplore his views about my friend and brother, the lion of the east, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yet the truth is that I love and admire my younger brother Prince Deji Adeyanju. I consider the outrageous things that the Buhari government is […]