By Daniel Adaji Hajia Bintu Ali, a 53-year-old mother of ten, fled to the Abuja Area One Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp for refuge after a deadly Boko Haram attack in her community in Gwoza local government area, Borno state. Everyone fled for safety. Many persons were killed, and several others are missing to date. […]Continue Reading
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By Faith Igbudu Benue State Examinations Board (BSEB) has expressed dismay at some of its staff who elected to defraud the board, saying it will not take responsibility for the losses. The staff who were identified as mostly being casual staff had forged tax receipts, issuing same to unsuspecting principals who paid monies to them […]Continue Reading
Kaduna residents have turned to petrol filling stations for salvation in their desperate search for cash to satisfy their pressing needs, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). This development is sequel to scarcity of cash in Automated Teller Machines (ATM) of most banks in the metropolis, just as PoS operators have closed shop for […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji On the average, the number of youths with PVCs is 40 million, a figure that is higher than the number of votes cast in any of the presidential elections since 1999. If the majority of Nigerian youths who are registered voters would march to their polling units to cast their votes […]Continue Reading
Players in the 2023 political game are agitated at former President Obasanjo’s New Year letter to youths, but multiple data prove that Obasanjo was nationalistic by writing it. By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Key points: Media focus contributed to the misreading of Obasanjo’s letter to youth Youths, who constitute to highest voting population, suffer from bad […]Continue Reading
Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, is expected to literarily come alive on Thursday as former President Goodluck Jonathan and other top dignitaries converge on the city for the public presentation of The Letterman, a book on the ‘secret’ letters of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. The book, written by the Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed, will be Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji The National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), has lamented the slash in the budget for Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) from N103 billion in 2022 to N58 billion in the 2023 Appropriation Bill. The NCWS made this known at a press conference held at the headquarters of the NCWS in Garki, Abuja […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji Claim: On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, in an interview on Arise TV, claimed that he was up-to-date with salaries payment in the state. He also claimed that his administration did not owe any civil servant salaries. According to him, “Most times… we question and query these […]Continue Reading
By Balogun Ibrahim The seemingly ingrained tendency for human beings to so easily forget their antecedents, repay evil for good and seek to destroy those God chose to use as their benefactors never ceases to amaze me. As a passionate member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I am saddened at the concerted, coordinated and […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji Despite the turbulence being encountered by airlines in Nigeria due to the scarcity and high cost of aviation fuel, foreign exchange, and the increasing cost of operation, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the apex regulatory authority, has beefed up surveillance activities on operating airlines to ensure no operators engaged in under-cutting Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji Attah Ameh Oboni was a revered Igala King. At a particular meeting held in Kaduna which consisted of all paramount traditional rulers in Nigeria and which had the queen of England in attendance, Attah Ameh was asked to remove his cap to greet the Queen of England as others had done. Though […]Continue Reading
By Theophilus Abbah In the years and seasons that I farmed and cultivated sources under torrential rains and harsh sunshine for seductive headlines that would turn the heads of newspaper adherents and squeeze few hundreds of Naira from the pockets of those who could part with money for stories, I hunted for Father Mathew […]Continue Reading