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INTERVIEW with Hon. Dahiru Yusuf Yabo on the Sokoto APC crack

A 2011 Gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change(CPC) in Sokoto state and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state, Alhaji Dahiru Yusuf Yabo bore his mind on the politics playing out in the state chapter of the party. The ardent supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari is also a frontier […]

Tambuwal seeks ban on codeine, other cough syrups against addiction

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Sokoto state Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has called on stakeholders to support the drive on the ban and use of codeine substances and cough syrups. Tambuwal made the call Monday at the opening of a 2 day Internatuonal workshop organised by the Green Crescent Health Development Initiative in collaboration with the […]

WHO CAN STAND ATIKULATE ATIKU?

ALL FROM THE NORTH! WHO CAN STAND ATIKULATE ATIKU?  – By Muhammad Abubakar I choose to write as an outsider but a close observer of the activities of this quintessential civil servant, consummate businessman, exemplary politician, a prototypical bridge builder and a consummate family man. People Democratic Party in its ‘wisdom’ has zoned the choice of […]

Murder: Supreme Court Affirms Death Sentence on Imo Teacher

…7 Others Yet to be Decided Kingsley Obot The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja has affirmed the death sentence on a primary school teacher in Imo State, Mrs. Chifoanu Virginia Okorie, over her involvement in the gruesome murder in 2005, of a community leader and retired police officer, Nze Dominic Ohamadiaku Duru in Izombe, Oguta […]

World Happiness Report: Most happy Africans live in Mauritus, Libya and Algeria

 By Bas Vlugt What is the ultimate goal of people? Wealth? Yes. Health? Of course. Security? Yes. Access to education? Living in freedom, democracy? Family, religion? All true. Put that together and you come to this conclusion: people want to be happy. This is why the World Happiness Report (United Nations) is important. So is […]

EXECUTION COULD BURST PRISONER’S TUMORS, CAUSING EXTREME PAIN AND CONSTITUTING TORTURE: HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS

BY JOSH SAUL The pending execution of a Missouri man convicted of murder would constitute torture because he has a medical condition that puts him at risk of painfully choking to death during a lethal injection, human rights groups said Wednesday. The push to halt the execution by the American Civil Liberties Union and Inter-American Commission […]

THE IDOMAS & THE BURDEN OF MINORITY

BY CHARLES OBULU All animals are equal but some are more equal than others- George Orwell (Animal farm.) The Idomas, Tivs, Etulos, Akweyas and other minority tribes have cohabited in the entity called Benue State since the creation of Benue from the defunct Benue-Plateau on the 5th of January 1976. Since it’s creation, there has […]

Under-aged Children Used in Hard Drug Peddling, NDLEA Raises Alarm

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State Command, has raised alarm over the use of under-aged street children in the sale of hard drugs in the state. Mrs Mutiat Okuwobi, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, raised the alarm in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday […]

WE HAVE LOST OUR COUNTRY

By Albert Akanbi I met an elderly retired military officer from Otukpo, Benue State, earlier in the week. He told me point blank that “we have lost our country”, that the security situation, especially in Benue, his home state, was deeper than communal clashes. Powerful forces with age long agenda, in the guise of communal clashes […]

Police nabs Nigerien, two others for possession of firearms, impersonation in Sokoto

By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Police in Sokoto state on Thursday confirmed the arrest  of a suspected alien, Idi Abdullahi of Dogon Dutse from Niger Republic impersonating as a military  ‎personnel. Abdullahi who was intercepted by a police crack team(SARS) was found in possession of a pistol‎ and pump action with 7 rounds of live ammunition […]