In 2012, then governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, floated a multi-billion naira Model Schools Project to fill the infrastructure deficit in the state’s education sector. Ironically, the project has been abandoned eight years down the line, widening the…
“In the 1970s, many will recall that in Kano when you go towards Bompai and you pass the Central Hotel, the sounds and sights and smells of industries were so pervasive,” said Engineer Ahmed Mansur, President of the Manufacturers Association…
Dan Shayi is a community in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano State, some 40 kilometers away from the state capital. From the bad access roads to a lone health facility built some two years ago with only one…
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education sector has been one of the worst hits with 1.9 billion children globally unable to attend school. Amidst the pandemics, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, shut universities in the…
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, raised the alarm that Nigeria had reached a critical level where hospital capacity could no longer cope with more serious COVID-19 cases. According to him, health workers may…
Uba Bala Ringim, a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), was a Commissioner of Police when the dreaded Boko Haram was in its infancy in Borno State. In this interview, he spoke on the steps he took towards curtailing the…
‘We pay about N250,000 to police to drive against traffic’ We’ll report culprits to IGP – Sanwo-Olu Over 500,000 containers trapped Despite many actions taken by the Federal Government, including the disbandment of the Presidential Task Team for the Decongestion…
The 36 states of the federation have pegged N8.272 trillion for spending in 2021, just as 22 of them have raised their budgets by N1.3 trillion, while 14 cut theirs by N1.4 trillion, an analysis of the records have shown.…
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) was established by the NIMC Act No. 23 of 2007 with the mandate to establish, own, operate, maintain and manage the National Identity Database in Nigeria. Read more :
Weeks after insurgents killed dozens of rice farmers in Koshobe village near Mafa Council, Maiduguri and Zabarmari have turned into a Mecca for condolence visits. Daily, dignitaries, including a presidential delegation, governors, ministers, legislators, development partners, and traditional rulers throng…
