Month: January 2018

  • CBN disowns fake Emefiele Twitter handles

    CBN disowns fake Emefiele Twitter handles

    By Joseph INOKOTONG The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that the Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele has no twitter handle account. The CBN pointed out that the twitter handles bearing the name and photographs of Mr. Emefiele are fake and targeted at misleading unsuspecting members of the public. A statement issued Tuesday in Abuja…

  • Kwara Gov Advocates Review Of UBEC Counterpart Funding

    Kwara Gov Advocates Review Of UBEC Counterpart Funding

    By Stephen Oni, Ilorin The Kwara state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has advocated a reduction in the counterpart fund payable by state governments as matching grants for the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) programme. The governor, who made the call while receiving members of the UBEC monitoring team led by its Deputy Director of Planning,…

  • BASG  Proposes N167, 9bn 2018 Budget

    BASG Proposes N167, 9bn 2018 Budget

    From Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Governor Muhammad Abdullahi Abubakar of Bauchi state has last week presented a budget of N167,957,420, 800 .00 for its services in the 2018 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly for approval. The budget is made up of a recurrent expenditure of N68, 077, 930, 725 and a capital expenditure…

  • New Board Member to contest Bauchi governorship seat in 2019

    New Board Member to contest Bauchi governorship seat in 2019

    By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi The newly appointed board chairman of Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Ibrahim Lame has disclosed his intention to re contest for Bauchi governorship ticket in 2019. He made the intention known while addressing his supporters who came to facilitate with him at his residence in Bauchi over his appointment by President…

  • Bauchi Govt. releases N17m for 2018 Ou’ranic recitation competition

    Bauchi Govt. releases N17m for 2018 Ou’ranic recitation competition

    By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Governor Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi has called on parents, guardians and other stakeholders in the state to enroll their children into Islamiyyah schools to enable them have sound moral education and grow up as trustful members of the society. Just he described the Holy Quran as the holiest Book of Islam…

  • 40% of Bauchi population lacks safe drinking water

    40% of Bauchi population lacks safe drinking water

    By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Bauchi State Rural Water and Sanitation Agency with the support of the state government and donor agencies has embarked on new measures to provide 1.5 million people with adequate portable water this year. The General Manager of the Agency Engr. Garba Babaji Magaji who said that the figure represent about 40%…

  • N7. 8b Remittance To FG: JAMB Registrar Justifies Board’s Position

    N7. 8b Remittance To FG: JAMB Registrar Justifies Board’s Position

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede has said that most of first class graduates from the nation’s universities were not exceptional but merely average at their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) scores. Oloyede disclosed this over the weekend at an interactive session with journalists…

  • Sokoto Jihadists: Senator Wammako Advocates Education Summit

    Sokoto Jihadists: Senator Wammako Advocates Education Summit

    By Najem Francic, Sokoto Sokoto State former Governor, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has advocated an educational summit to brainstorm on the possibility of integrating the works of the founding fathers of the Sokoto Caliphate into the existing education curricula in the country. He said that doing so would go a long way in revitalising education…

  • New Year Attack: Gov Ahmed Vows To Prosecute Perpetrators

    New Year Attack: Gov Ahmed Vows To Prosecute Perpetrators

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has assured Kwarans of his readiness to deploy the law and public fund to achieve peace, unity and progress in the state The governor made this commitment in Ilorin on Tuesday in separate meetings with leaderships of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Kwara State…

  • Gov Ahmed Directs SUBEB To Implement Teachers’ Promotion Arrears

    Gov Ahmed Directs SUBEB To Implement Teachers’ Promotion Arrears

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has directed the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to release all outstanding promotion letters to primary and junior secondary school teachers in the state. Governor Ahmed, who gave the directive during a meeting with officials of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Kwara…