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By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi The Chairman, Senate committee on Poverty Alleviation Senator Ali Wakili has promised not let his people down and pledged to be good representative of his Constituency,”my people mean a lot to me, and I would do everything possible to see that they are assists in all sphere human endeavours.” Speaking  yesterday…

By Sule Aliyu, Bauchi Bauchi State emerged overall winner of the just concluded 2017 U-17 North-East Youth Games elimination held in Bauchi. According to results made available to the press after 3 days of the competition by the technical committee of the games, Bauchi State recorded five gold, one silver and two bronze medals to…

By Sule ALIYU, Bauchi Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar has called for the adoption of judicial activism in resolving issues of misunderstanding of the powers conferred on the executive and legislature by the constitution. According to a press release signed by the Press Secretary to the governor, Malam Abubakar Al-Sadique, Governor Abubakar a copy of which…

By Sule ALIYU,  Bauchi Four thousand and eight hundred Bauchi State N-Power youth volunteers have each received the N30,000 stipend for the month of August, 2017. A statement from the Bauchi State Social Investment Programmes Office (BSSIPO) a copy of which was made available to national trail in Bauchi disclosed that the stipends were disbursed…

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 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 Najem Francis, Sokoto The ESAE University (Ecole Superieure D’ Administration D’Economie, De Journalisme  Et Des Metiers de l’Audiovisuel), in Benin Republic, has conferred a Honourary Doctorate Degree,  Doctors of Science, Honoris Causa   in Leadership and Community Development on the immediate past governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko. This was contained in a…

By Najem Francis, Sokoto A few months after commissioning a new fertiliser plant, Sokoto state government is poised  to establish a textile factory in partnership with a private firm. The factory which will have the capacity to produce 20,000 metric tonnes of finished products and  provide employment opportunity to about 2,000 people, is to be …

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara youths have shunned all entreaties by the associates of the publisher of Sahara reporters to throng the Kwara state high court complex, Ilorin on Wednesday in solidarity with the online media man, over a suit between him and the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Instead, both the vicinity and the…

By Aaron Ossai Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has hailed the national female basketball team, D’Tigress, on their victory over Senegal in the 2017 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket tournament in Mali and for qualifying for the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Spain. The Speaker praised the doggedness of the team,…