Month: July 2017

  • Shekau’s Capture and Implication for National Security

    Shekau’s Capture and Implication for National Security

    If I had any doubt that it is end game for Boko Haram madman, Abubakar Shekau, it has disappeared with the vow of a 37-year-old Islamic cleric, Ali Ahmad to trek the whole 844 kilometers from Maiduguri to Abuja. Recent history teaches us that people make such declarations when they sense a definite outcome. Chief…

  • Nigeria, UN sign 5-year Sustainable Development Partnership Framework

    By Joseph Pius Nigeria and the United Nations (UN) on Thursday signed a five-year Sustainable Development Partnership Framework (UNSDPF) (2018-2022) which is a successor programme to the current United Nations Development Assistance Framework III (UNDAF III) (2014-2017) in Nigeria. The signing ceremony, which was done in Abuja, was the result of the joint effort between…

  • CVR: 22, 156 males, 12, 099 females additional voters to vote in Niger state in 2019

    CVR: 22, 156 males, 12, 099 females additional voters to vote in Niger state in 2019

    BY MAIRIGA Juliana, Minna A total of, 34, 255 eligible male and female voters have registered in the first quarter of the on-going Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR) which took place in all the 25 local government headquarters and 8 additional voting centres in Niger state between April 1st and July, 20th 2017. Apparently to express…

  • African Parliaments Must Stop Dictators By Building Strong Institutions – Dogara

    African Parliaments Must Stop Dictators By Building Strong Institutions – Dogara

    By Aaron Ossai Executive hardly reciprocates National Assembly’s gesture of cooperation Our citizens have little patience for squabbles between Executive  and legislature Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has urged legislatures across the African continent to break their people free from dictatorship by building strong institutions that will drive socio-economic development and…

  • Dogara Seeks Coordinated Approach To Needs Of IDPs, Refugees and Migrants

    Dogara Seeks Coordinated Approach To Needs Of IDPs, Refugees and Migrants

    By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has urged the executive to adopt a workable policy for internally displaced persons in Nigeria. This is just as he condemned the lack of inter-agency cooperation among government ministries, departments and agencies and disclosed that the House is in the process of amending…

  • Paris Club Refund: Gov Ahmed Releases More Fund To LGs

    Paris Club Refund: Gov Ahmed Releases More Fund To LGs

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin  In fulfilment of his pledge to ensure that backlog of salaries of all categories of workers in the state becomes a thing of the past, Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has approved the release of additional N1billion to local government areas to enable them pay a month salary.  According to the…

  • UNIBEN Post Graduate Students Protest Hike In School Fees

    UNIBEN Post Graduate Students Protest Hike In School Fees

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City  Activities at the University of  Benin was on Tuesday disrupted  as   post-graduate students and security operatives in the institution clash. The post-graduate students were protesting introduction of what they termed payment of oral defence fees (External examiner fees) by the school management. They gathered at the school gate to block the…

  • London Based Newspaper Honours Unical VC, Prof Zana

    London Based Newspaper Honours Unical VC, Prof Zana

    A London based news platform, ‘The Nigerian’ and the ‘Nigeria Print Journalism Magazine’ have selected the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Calabar, Calabar (Unical), Prof. Zana Akpagu as their “Best Performing” VC in Nigeria in the last one year. In separate letters dated 12th and 13th of July respectively and signed by the…

  • Buratai: A Patriot “Numero Uno”

    Buratai: A Patriot “Numero Uno”

    I thought deeply about a suitable caption to appropriately capture my elations when I reflected on the Nigerian army and the anti-terrorism campaigns in the last two years. After much thought, in the light of another heroic celebration of the Army boss, I was also careful enough to adopt a choice that would fairly represent…

  • Niger Gets New CP

    Niger Gets New CP

    BY MAIRIGA Juliana, Minna The new commissioner of police in Niger state, Mr. Austin Iwero Agbonlahon has taken over command from, Alhaji Zubairu Mu’azu, warning mischief makers and people with criminal intents to steer clear of the state in their own interests. The out-gone commissioner of police in Niger state, Alhaji Zubairu Mu’azu said the…