Category: News

  • Dymistifying The Benue Leadership Myths: Sam Ode & The Politics Of 2023.

    Dymistifying The Benue Leadership Myths: Sam Ode & The Politics Of 2023.

    Oftentimes, when I interact with my brethren of Idoma extraction, there is this usual pride, apparently hinged on a passive fixation of being an “effective minority.” This is what I call positive ego, but that posture is unhealthy, particularly in the face of many unconquered political challenges.This complex remains ridiculous until deliberate steps are taken…

  • Civil Society Groups For Good Governace (CCSGGG) Demystifies The Fadama Project

    Civil Society Groups For Good Governace (CCSGGG) Demystifies The Fadama Project

    A coalition of Civil Society Organizations under the aegis of Civil Society Groups for Good Governance (CSGGG), has waded into the FADAMAaffair in a definitive attempt to balance the narrative in the public domain. Addressing the nation during a press conference on Tuesday the 6th of April 2021 at the nation’s capital, president of CSGGG…

  • Kwara Gov launches KWASSIP Command Centre

    Kwara Gov launches KWASSIP Command Centre

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin. Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has affirmed that thousands of lives are being touched with the social investment programme of his administration which targets the vulnerable and the poor. AbdulRazaq, while launching the automated command centre for the social safety net of the administration on Tuesday in Ilorin, the state capital,…

  • We are fixing infrastructure to attract investments: Kwara Gov

    We are fixing infrastructure to attract investments: Kwara Gov

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has stated that his administration is committing huge resources into fixing basic education, healthcare, roads and water infrastructure to attract massive investments to all parts of the state. “Here in Kwara South, as in everywhere across our state, we are battling with the dearth of basic…

  • China issues white paper on poverty alleviation to share experience

    China issues white paper on poverty alleviation to share experience

    In a white paper issued Tuesday, China has detailed its rich experience in poverty alleviation from the past century since the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1921. China’s experience is to be shared in an effort to contribute to global poverty reduction, which experts said fully demonstrates China’s pursuit of common…

  • Only All-Inclusive Security Strategy Can Guarantee Peace -Middle-Belt Group

    …warns against profiling of Fulani The Middle-Belt Heritage Group has called for an all inclusive security strategy to end the warring spade of insecurity in the country. The group in a statement entitled, ‘The Security Conundrum in The Benue Valley:The Time For An Alternative Narrative ForNational Cohesion’ and signed by its convener, Wilfred Terhide Bula…

  • Emir’s wife charges wealthy people to support the needy

    Emir’s wife charges wealthy people to support the needy

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The wife of the Emir of Ilorin, Hajiya Rafat Sulu-Gambari, has called on well-heeled individuals and corporate organisations to assist the less privileged in the society to enable them to also live quality lives. Hajiya Rafat Sulu-Gambari made the call at the Maoulud Nabbyyi and the Turbaning of Sheikh Abdullahi EL-Hassan…

  • KDSG denies appointing intermediaries to negotiate with bandits – Commissioner

    KDSG denies appointing intermediaries to negotiate with bandits – Commissioner

    The Kaduna State Government has refuted media reports that it had appointed intermediaries to negotiate with bandits, on its behalf.Mr Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for  Internal Security and Home Affairs, made the clarification  in a statement on Sunday, in Kaduna.“The attention of the Kaduna State Government, under the leadership of Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, has been drawn…

  • NSF: Traders make brisk business at Games Village

    NSF: Traders make brisk business at Games Village

    Traders dealing in beverages, clothing, and food items from across the country have on Sunday, besieged the games village of the ongoing 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) in Benin, to make brisk sales, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.Our correspondent, who visited the village on the University of Benin campus, reports that as a…

  • Auditor General’s appointment, Obaseki lauds Buhari for considering merit

    Auditor General’s appointment, Obaseki lauds Buhari for considering merit

    Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Sunday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for considering merit above everything in appointing the new Auditor General of the Federation, Mr Adolphus Aghughu. Obaseki gave the commendation in Ewatto, Esan South East Local Government Area of the state, at the Thanksgiving Mass at St. Anthony Catholic Church on the appointment…