Month: September 2017

  By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi The Igwe Igbo in Bauchi, Eze Jude Imagwe has described as ‘primitive’ the ongoing agitation for the creation of the republic of Biafra as a wrong way of drawing government attention to the plights of the agitators. According to him, calls for Republic of Biafra is being orchestrated by those…

By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Bauchi state government is set to engage 5,049 cooks for the Federal Government’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme‎. This was disclosed by the Special Assistant to governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Social Investment Programmes (SIPs), Mansur Manu Soro. According to him, 3,261 cooks and 307,013 pupils have been…

By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi The Nigeria Air Force has commissioned projects at their newly established base in Bauchi. The projects commissioned include an office complex of the Special Operations Command, the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) resident and some other senior officers housing units. Speaking during the ‎commissioning, the chief Of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar represented…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has approved the release of N937, 572, 974.09 to contractors handling various infrastructural projects across the State. The amount represents the third quarter payment under the Kwara Infrastructure Development (IF-K) payment grid for completed, ongoing and new projects. News of the approval was contained…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State House of Assembly and Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressives Union (IEDPU) have raised the alarm over the proliferation of hotels and guest houses in the state. The legislature and the socio- cultural group were unanimous in their views that proliferation of hotels, especially in Ilorin, the state capital was…

  By Aaron Ossai The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has assured constituents on the completion of all projects attracted by him. This came on a day he also announced the arrival of underground water drilling equipment, a move he said was geared towards providing immediate succour to various communities in Enugu…

  By Steve Oni, Ilorin Basking in the euphoria of its new found unity, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state, says it is battle ready for the November 18 local government election in the state. Addressing journalists shortly after a stakeholders meeting at the party’s secretariat in Ilorin, the Chairman of the caretakers…

  By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State House of Assembly has restated its commitment towards recovering state government’s properties in private hands, to ensure equity, probity and accountability in government owned companies. The Speaker, Dr. Ali Ahmad gave the assurance in Ilorin, while inaugurating an ad- hoc Committee to investigate allegations of misappropriation, relating…