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Borno, a frontline state worst hit by insurgency, is set to rise again, writes ABDULRAHMAN A. ABDULRAUF The scary image of 2018 or thereabout when the erstwhile Chief of Army Staff, General Yusuf Tukur Buratai, invited some editors to join him on an official trip to the war-torn Borno state,…

Yobe Government has completed the construction of a six-tonne per hour capacity sesame cleaning and processing factory in Machina town. The Commissioner for Commerce, Alhaji Kaigama Umar, made this known in Machina on Wednesday while conducting journalists round the facility. He said three other sesame cleaning, packaging and processing factories are at various stages of

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed Bigerians on alert, following response to reports of diphtheria cases in Lagos

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, slammed the administration of President Bola Tinubu over allegations the Federal Government secretly maintained the fuel subsidy it had publicly abolished. Tinubu, during his inauguration on May 29, 2023, announced the end of the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also […]

Nigerian labour unions shut down the national power grid and disrupted flights Monday as they launched an indefinite strike that closed schools and public

A grave social epidemic plagues Nigeria. It is in the form of sexual and gender violence and state governments seem overwhelmed by it. This gnawing situation further tears down the social fabric.

Kingsley Wali is a prominent All Progressives Congress chieftain in Rivers State and leader of the Unity House Foundation. In this interview with OLAJIDE OMOJOLOMOJU, he assesses the first year in office of President Bola Tinubu and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara

KANO is at a precipice of a conflagration due to the contentious return of Muhammad Sanusi II as emir. Governor Abba Yusuf reinstated Sanusi and deposed his predecessor on May 24 after a new law. But Aminu Ado-Bayero holds sway as emir at the Nasarawa mini palace in the state capital weeks after his deposition. Yusuf should restore the peace in the state.

The portentous stand-off between labour and the federal government in the minimum wage negotiation is a sad reminder of the grueling dilly-dallying that kept Nigerian workers waiting for 12 eternal years for the federal government to inch up minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000 in 2015.Labour and the federal government…

Since taking oath of office on May 29, 2023, as Governor of Jigawa state, Umar Namadi Danmodi has carefully and strategically taken agriculture to the next level as one of his priority areas aimed at upscalling farming and youth empowerment.  Commiting his time and state resources to agriculture development is…