Category: Featured
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Tackling Brain Drain in Nigeria’s Healthcare Sector
Nigeria has been grappling with a significant brain drain across various sectors, particularly in healthcare. The migration of health workers, often termed “brain drain,” involves the movement of healthcare professionals seeking better living conditions, higher wages, access to advanced technology, and more stable political environments in other parts of the world. This challenge is driven…
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Troops Neutralize Boko Haram Commander Tahir Baga in Sambisa Forest Sweep
By Milcah Tanimu In a significant development in the fight against insurgency, the troops of Theatre Command, North East, under ‘Operation Hadin Kai,’ have accomplished a major victory by eliminating a top commander of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, widely known as Boko Haram. The commander, identified as Tahir Baga, met his demise on…
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Comedian Ali Baba Criticizes VP Shettima for Alleged Disrespect Toward Christian Religion
By Daniel Edu Veteran Nigerian stand-up comedian and actor, Ali Baba, whose real name is Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, has taken issue with Vice President Kashim Shettima over what he perceives as disrespect for the Christian religion. Ali Baba shared a photo collage on his Instagram page that featured Shettima at a church event alongside Muslims…
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The judges have returned to resume today’s legal proceedings.
Following a brief recess, the judges have reconvened, resuming the day’s critical legal proceedings. The courtroom buzzes with anticipation as both sides present their arguments in a pivotal electoral dispute. Tension grips the air as the election’s destiny remains uncertain. 12:18 The petitioning political party aims to nullify all APC votes, citing irregularities and electoral…
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KASHIM SHETTIMA, The Bookworm
By Yakubu Ahmed-BK Are you desirous of knowing why Kashim Shettima, the APC Vice Presidential candidate is a fresh air in Nigeria’s pre-2023 politics? Have you ever wondered why he is so educated, eloquent, urbane and an egghead? Yes, he was educated at the University of Maiduguri and University of Ibadan. To cap all, he…
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TRIBUTE: FOREWORD TO THE GARLANDS FOR THE GOLDEN BOY OF KORONGOSO @56
By:Inuwa Bwala Very often, when Kashim Shettima reflects upon his own life, he says; that, nobody gave him the chance: a Kwayam boy from Nimeri Korongoso, the chance in his meteoric rise to stardom. Not in a society where one’s progress is largely determined at the whims and caprices of the rich and the mighty:…
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Why Nigerians don’t go to zoos again— Experts
Some experts have decried what they called disappearing zoo culture in the country, attributing it to poor maintenance of most zoological gardens and the current state of the nation’s economy. Answering questions during a survey with our correspondent, the experts said that the poor state of the economy had compelled most Nigerians to consider visiting…
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Harnessing tourism potential of Nasarawa Waterfall
There was jubilation in Kwarra, the host community of the 450 metres high Farin Ruwa Waterfall in Wamba Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, that the once moribund dam was being brought to life. The torrential force of gushing water from the fall earned the fall the name `Farin Ruwa’( white water). Located about 120…
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All Chinese schools now have access to Internet
All Chinese schools now have full access to the Internet, and 95.2 percent of them are equipped with multi-media classrooms, according to a senior official with China’s Ministry of Education (MOE). The country has been constantly accelerating informationization of teaching, and sees it as underpinning the modernization of education, said Zhong Denghua, vice minister of…
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My Journey into the Writing Court
My desire to write was born in 2014 when I entered into a congenial partnership with Bedford Iniye to run a magazine company. Then the two of us, novice in myriads of subjects, didn’t know how to handsomely put words together to produce an insightful article to grip a reader’s attention, nor do we have…