Month: February 2018

  • Dogara offers free medical treatments to 50,000 patients in Bauchi

    Dogara offers free medical treatments to 50,000 patients in Bauchi

    By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has commenced his annual medical outreach offering free medical services to over 50,000 patients in Bauchi State. A team of medical doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and surgeons have started attending to hundreds of patients who turn out for different medical needs. The doctors…

  • Ajaokuta Steel: We Will Resist Concessioning Moves – Dogara

    Ajaokuta Steel: We Will Resist Concessioning Moves – Dogara

    By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives has disclosed that the parliament will resist any move to concession Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, saying doing so would amount to concussing Nigeria’s future. The speaker, who said it is a collective shame to all leaders that the project is yet to be completed after so…

  • Governor’s Wife Empowers 1,600 Rural Wome

    n By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Wife of the Bauchi state governor Hajiya Hadiza Abubakar the founder of Bauchi Sustainable Women Economic Empowerment and Peace Initiative, B-SWEEP, a nongovernmental organization, has empowered no fewer than 1,600 rural women selected from the 20 local government areas of the state to enable them be self reliant and sustaining.…

  • 95 butchers infected with Brucellosis disease in Bauchi – official

    By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Bauchi State Government said on during the week that 95 butchers in the state have been infected with animal related diseases known as Brucellosis in Bauchi state. The Deputy Director, Veterinary Services, Bauchi State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Istipanus Irimiya said this in Bauchi in an interview with…

  • CBN pumps $210m to boost Forex Market

    CBN pumps $210m to boost Forex Market

    By Joseph INOKOTONG The inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market has received the sum of $210 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to meet customers’ requests in various segments of the market. Figures obtained from the Bank on Monday, shows that in its determination to meet the customers’ needs in the sundry segments of the…

  • IVTEC: Gov Ahmed Approves 70 Percent Scholarships

    IVTEC: Gov Ahmed Approves 70 Percent Scholarships

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved seventy per cent scholarship for indigenes of the State at the International Vocational, Training and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase-Ipo, as the institution commences academic activities on March 1, 2018. Governor Ahmed announced this during a meeting with the College’s Board of Trustees…

  • Gov Ahmed Assures Contractors Of Prompt Release Of Fund

    Gov Ahmed Assures Contractors Of Prompt Release Of Fund

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has assured contractors handling various projects in the state of prompt release of funds through the Kwara Infrastructure Development Fund (IF-K). Governor Ahmed who gave the assurance on Monday in Ilorin while inspecting the 9 kilometres Kulende junction-Sango-UITH-Oke-Ose road in Ilorin, the State capital,…

  • Dogara mourns John Shagaya

    Dogara mourns John Shagaya

    By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has commiserated with the government and people of Plateau state over the death of Senator John Shagaya. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser Media & Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan, Hon. Dogara, described the late General Shagaya as a fine gentleman, reputable…

  • Not All Herdsmen Are Killers – Gov Obaseki

    Not All Herdsmen Are Killers – Gov Obaseki

    By Ikhili Monday EBALU, Benin City Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State Monday admonished farmers and residents not to be deterred by activities of some bad eggs among nomadic herdsmen, declaring that not all herders are killer. The Edo governor said: “Not all herdsmen are killers. Some of them are doing genuine business. We should…

  • Defunct CPC Members Cry Out Over Alleged Maginalisation

    Defunct CPC Members Cry Out Over Alleged Maginalisation

    By Najem Francis, Sokoto Former Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) gubernatorial candidate for Sokoto State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar, has appealed to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu reconciliation committee to address alleged injustices by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state against the former members of the defunct CPC. He told a press conference…