Device better option of engaging government rather than strike action- Tambuwal to ASUU
By Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto THE Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU) has been advised deploy better option of engaging the Federal Government rather thanthe strike actions embarked upon in pressing home its demands. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who gave the advise Thursday in Sokoto while receiving the newly elected executives of the Sokoto state […]
Another Look at Kaduna’s Rising Debt Profile
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE As at 31st December, 2020, the total public debt of Kaduna state stood at N284,398,612,174. The breakdown shows that external debt was N215,644,251,090 – 75.8%, while domestic debt was N68,754,361,084 – 24.2%. A chunk of the debt of the state come under unpaid liabilities, while the remaining is loan. Borrowing in […]
CEP Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Norway Attack
(New York, N.Y.) – It has been 10 years since Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by detonating a car bomb in central Oslo, before shooting dead 69 people attending a summer camp on the island of Utøya. The attacks represented the deadliest violence in Norway since World War 2. Before carrying out the attacks, Breivik disseminated a […]
Obi Cubana and the Oba burial, By Reuben Abati
My point is about taste, class and values, not melodrama, or the right of persons to live as they wish The Oba burial is over now, but the only thing anybody will remember is the Bacchanal orgy of money. I am not sure half of the people at the event even know who Cubana’s mother […]
El Rufai is Wrong
By Babafemi Ojudu (Senator) I love reading my friend Mallam El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State. You may not always agree with him. You may not like his style. Some even think he talks too much. But here is a man who is passionate about Nigeria, and about governance. He fears no foe and […]
COVID 19: Kaduna State Under Red Alert To Curtail Third Wave Delta Variant
KADUNA UPDATE: Statement from the Kaduna State Taskforce on Covid-19 FG RED ALERT on COVID-19 THIRD WAVE: An Appeal to Residents to take responsibility and adhere to the FORWARD campaign The Kaduna State Government wishes to alert citizens that the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is already in our country, and the Delta variant […]
Lugard as Pastor Adefarasin’s Electoral Act amendment devil
By Festus Adedayo Seventy six years after his death on April 11, 1945 and cremation at the Woking Crematorium, Woking Borough in Surrey, England, poor Frederick John Dealtry Lugard has been killed many times thereafter by Nigerians. Though he died peacefully at the age of 87, having been born on January 22, 1858, this soldier, administrator and […]
Why APC politicians are terrified by e-transmission of votes
… Buhari and APC henchmen obviously love ballot snatching that favours them. FAROOQ KPEROGI The political elites of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have chosen to regress to the stone age in matters of election at a time that Nigeria is relentlessly digitalising in every other sphere. Banking is now almost entirely digitised, POS […]
Civil Defence To Commence Recruitment Exercise On 2nd August 2021
PRESS STATEMENTNSCDC 2019 RECRUITMENT EXERCISE The Commandant General and Management of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, in compliance with the directive of the Board of Civil Defence Correctional Fire and Immigration Board hereby notifies the public of the commencement of the 2019 nationwide Recruitment Exercise into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. […]
APC Senators Vote Against Electronic Transmission Of Election Results
Senators under the All Progressives Congress who were present during plenary yesterday have all voted against the electronice transmission of results. The senators voted on Thursday.The Committee had, in the report, recommended in Section 52(3) that, INEC “may transmit results of elections by electronic means where and when practicable.” But an APC senator from Niger […]