The untold story of controversial Yoruba youth leader Sunday Igboho
Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, is a different person to different people. To many, he is a thug. Igboho is a traditionalist to some and a Christian to others. Read more:
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Insecurity in North-West: Need for new approaches
Why is insecurity in the North-West getting out of hand by the day? What purpose do joint security operations in the North West serve? Endless, daily news of banditry, kidnapping and illegal tax collection from innocent villagers raise these questions.…
Borno man who quit bank job to fight Boko Haram
For eight years, Mu’azu Alhaji Misiya worked in the comfort of a bank. But in 2014, to save his native Bama and his state, he dropped his pen and picked up arm to help hunt down insurgents. Read more:
Kano community where girls relocate to attend secondary school
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…
How strike, COVID-19 wrecked education calendar
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…
Agric projects FG will fund in 2021
The total budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector, which includes the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and its 43 agencies, is about N280.415 billion. Read more :
Rivers, Zamfara, Bayelsa, Imo fail FG’s transparency test
Rivers, Zamfara, Bayelsa and Imo states did not get a kobo from the N123.348 billion grant the federal government shared to states because they failed a transparency test, which seeks to encourage those in positions of authority to be accountable.…
Despite COVID-19 Emergency: FG Budgets N5.8bn For Vaccine Institutes
The Federal Government has allocated N5.84 billion in the 2021 budget to key agencies saddled with pharmaceutical research and vaccine development, in spite of the global rush for home-grown vaccines, Daily Trust findings show. The agencies are the Nigerian Institute of…
COVID-19 spike: We’re running out of treatment facilities, FG cries out
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…
How fight against Boko Haram was mismanaged – DIG Uba Ringim (rtd)
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…