Month: September 2018

  • Kwara: PDP Condemns Attacks On Ilorin Residents By Suspected APC Thugs

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state has condemned an alleged attack on residents of Ilorin, the state capital, by some suspected thugs loyal to a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Waziri Yakubu Gobir. The PDP made the condemnation in a statement signed by…

  • Borno governorship: APC Chair Lauds Gov Shettima For Providing Level Playing Field.

    Borno governorship: APC Chair Lauds Gov Shettima For Providing Level Playing Field.

    .. Says multiple aspirants a Plus for APC. BY Ali Musa MAIDUGURI Amidst fears in some quarters that the race for the governorship in Borni State was getting over crowded, the State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Borno, Ali Bukar Dalori has allayed such fears. While commending Governor of Borno State, Kashim…

  • 2019: Bolaji Abdullahi Joins Kwara Guber Race

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Former Sports Minister, Mallam Bolaji Abudllahi haa joined the Kwara state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship race. Abdullahi, who is also an ex-spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made the declaration on Wednesday in Ilorin, the state capital at a well attended event by PDP bigwigs and top government functionaries…

  • New Kwara CP Admonishes Politicians To Play By The Rules

    New Kwara CP Admonishes Politicians To Play By The Rules

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The new Commissioner of Police in Kwara state, Bolaji Fafowora, has allayed fears that he was posted to do the bidding of any political party in the state in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday, the new police boss said that his posting was part…

  • APC GUBER: PROF ZULUM EDGES TOWARDS TICKET IN BORNO

    APC GUBER: PROF ZULUM EDGES TOWARDS TICKET IN BORNO

    By: Ali Musa, Maiduguri Borno Concerned Citizens (BCC) and residents have vowed to rally round the Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RRR), Professor Babagana Umara Zulum to emerge as the Gubernatorial Candidate under the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC in the state come 2019 general elections. The Group with thousands membership…

  • Yobe APC Primaries: Bomoi Poise To  Battle  Buni

    Yobe APC Primaries: Bomoi Poise To Battle Buni

    BY Ali Musa DAMATURU Barely 72 hours after the outgoing governor of Yobe State, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam nominated, Mai Mala Buni to succeed him, another aspirant, Ibrahim Bomoi opened a campaign office to slug it out with him. Buni is the current National Secretary of the Ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. As it is, Gaidam…

  • Borno Governor orders immediate recruitment of 2,000 teachers, 300 others

    Borno Governor orders immediate recruitment of 2,000 teachers, 300 others

    By Williams Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima has given approval for immediate recruitment of two thousand teachers who will teach in more than 40 newly built and other reconstructed schools, Architect Yerima Saleh, the State’s head of service has announced. Saleh, in a public announcement, said forms are already available at the State civil service commission…

  • Why Jack Ma is retiring at 54 from Alibaba

    Why Jack Ma is retiring at 54 from Alibaba

    Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education. Ma was an English teacher before starting Alibaba in 1999 and built it into a multibillion-dollar internet colossus, becoming one of the world’s richest men and a revered figure in…

  • POWER SHIFT IN BORNO IS SHERIFF’S AGENDA

    POWER SHIFT IN BORNO IS SHERIFF’S AGENDA

    A two-time commissioner in Borno State and former spokesman of erstwhile National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Inuwa Bwala, x-rays political developments in Borno state, especially the clamour for power rotation amongst its zones and and concludes that his former boss may not fit into the calculations of 2019: Your voice seem…

  • China Development Bank, Afreximbank in $500m agreement to Support Africa’s trade infrastructure

    China Development Bank, Afreximbank in $500m agreement to Support Africa’s trade infrastructure

    By Joseph Inokotong China Development Bank (CDB) yesterday in Changsha, China, signed an agreement providing a $500-million facility to the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to enable the African trade finance bank support trade enabling infrastructure projects across the continent. The facility will also be used to support Afreximbank’ s trade finance intermediaries to provide medium…