Entrepreneurship: Recipe for Poverty Alleviation – Tambuwal
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has described entrepreneurship as strategic recipe for alleviating poverty as well the promotion of self reliance among Nigerian teeming population. Accordingly, the Governor urged people of the state to take advantage of the empowerment money of N20,000 each being disbursed to them to engage […]
Crime: Sokoto Police Ban Okada, Tricycle Operators, Tea Vendors Between 11pm-6am
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto IN its renewed measures to further fortify security in Sokoto metropolis and environs against the spade of crimes, the State police command, has banned movement of commercial motorcycles , tricycles as well the shutting of tea vendors from 11pm to 6am.Those exempted from the stiff directive are persons on essential services […]
Coronavirus: Prayer to heal our land
The Interfaith Mediation Centre, (IMC), is using this medium to call on all faith based organizations, institutions and nations of the world concerning the Coronavirus, also known as Covid 19 which is still claiming lives across the world and subsequently affecting religious gatherings/practices, businesses, government activities in both private and public sphere, and plunging the […]
SERVICE FOR SIGHT: National Eye Centre Providing World Class Eye Care Services For Nigeria and West Africa
Commissioned in 1992 with the mandate to provide preventive, curative and rehabilitative eye care services to all Nigerians and even patients from the West African sub-region, National Eye Centre Kaduna has being fortunate to have reputable managerial teams who ensured that the Hospital maintain its lead in eye care services. An over view of the […]
Senate President commiserates with victims of Lagos explosion
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has commiserated with victims of the explosion that occured on Sunday morning at Abule Ado, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. Lawan condoled with all those who lost loved ones in the incident. He also sympathised with those who are injured and those who lost property to […]
Don’t make Lagos your home, return to North, Oodua group warns Sanusi
PRESS STATEMENT Deposed former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Mohammed Sanusi has been warned not to contemplate living permanently in Lagos. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) the Pan Yoruba group said the Sanusi’s plan of relocating to Lagos, one of Yoruba chief cities is unhealthy for the culture and heritage […]
Abuja Lawyer Cries Out Over Police Not Obeying Court Order To Reinstate, Pay Her Client Over N23m
Months after Justice E.N. Agbakoba of The National Industrial Court, Abuja Judicial Division ordered the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to reinstate Mr. Simeon A.E. Ajisafe who was wrongly dismissed in June 2011, the order is yet to be obeyed. Counsel to Ajisafe, Barrister Victoria Echobu-Dickson decried this, when […]
Ganduje is a Monster, But Sanusi Is Not a Victim
Notes From Atlanta By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Governor Abdullahi “Gandollar” Ganduje is no doubt a contemptibly philistine monster of avarice and debauchery who dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano because he couldn’t stomach the former emir’s disapproval of the electoral fraud that brought him to power. There is also no […]
A TALE OF TWO STATES IN NIGERIA
In 2015, figures obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Abia to have generated IGR of N13+ billions, with Kaduna trailing with N11+ billion. This meant that Abia was doing better than Kaduna as at then in terms of Internal revenue generation (IGR) Fast forward to 2019 and the story became different. Figures […]
Kaduna CSOs move to track 2020 Budget implementation
An elaborate template for budget tracking and monitoring of the 2020 budget – with special emphasis on procurement status, level of compliance, budget source documents and payments – have been put in place to identify bureaucratic bottlenecks, militating against optimum budget implementation in Kaduna state. This renewed impetus of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), was […]