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Daily Post Nigeria Published A story was told of Suzanne who was an excellent salesperson, regularly exceeding her targets, winning awards, and outselling the competition even when they had arguably superior products. She loved her work, and to a great extent her work was her life-possibly too much so. And she was superstar when it came to selling (“someone who could talk a dog off meat truck”, as one of her Texas-based customers put it). And so the twist happens in the story when after som...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Just before this year’s Valentine’s Day celebrations, the first set of service Chiefs appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari few months after he was sworn in on May 29th 2015, voluntarily disengaged. Since their disengagement, a lot of waters have passed through the bridge. Also the Nation’s security climate has further taken a nose-dive thus demonstrating without any doubt that purging the service chiefs out of their commanding positions was never going to b...

FILE PHOTO: Dr Ngong Cyprian receives his first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine from Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, at the National hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo Our Correspondents Governors Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, Simon Lalong of Plateau State, Inuw...

They made the appeal in Jalingo after undergoing some training on alternative feedstock for animals. The training was undertaken by the Centre for Social Change and Economic Development (CSCED), in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). x Alhaji Bello Kuri, spokesman for the herders, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that the new feeding method was the best approach toward ending herders/farmers crisis. Acco...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: •Motorists queue for Premium Motor Spirit on the outer northern expressway in Abuja... on Friday. Photo: NAN Published 13 March 2021 Panic buying of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, and long queues of vehicles were witnessed at many filling stations across many states in the country on Friday after a reported increase in pump price from N162 to N212.16 by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency. The PPPRA had early Fr...

Punch Newspapers Sections John Charles Published 13 March 2021 Mrs Winnifred Anongo, a retired nurse, is the mother of Terhemen Anongo, a 43-year-old medical school dropout who now works in Gboko town, Benue State as a porter, pushing a wheelbarrow. In this interview with JOHN CHARLES , the mother speaks about the nature of his son’s problem and the efforts she has made to get help for him Tell us about yourself. I am Mrs Winnifred Anongo Korna, mother of Terhemen. He is my second child but...

Of ethnic profiling and the need to rescue Nigeria (III) By Fri Mar 12 2021 Today I conclude this article, aimed and considering the hard policy issues around the clash between herders and farmers, and the incursion of deadly bandits all over Nigeria. Whereas it is easy to interpret alternative opinions on this matter as ethnic profiling, it is important to remember that these bandits are merciless and have killed far more innocent people up north than down south. I also make a point to disting...

Punch Newspapers Sections Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo Published 12 March 2021 Five persons, who were abducted along the Wukari Ibi Road in Taraba State on Monday, have regained their freedom. The Chairman, Wukari Local Government Council, Mr Daniel Adi, disclosed this in a telephone interview with our correspondent. Adi said the victims were freed after their families paid N1mn to the abductors as ransom. He stated, “The victims were freed in the early hours of today (...

The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the 10-year jail term passed on a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who was convicted of criminal misappropriation and criminal breach of trust.

Share Members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Taraba State chapter, under the umbrella of concern Teachers, were on Friday denied entrance into the NUT house, Jalingo to pray for God intervention over the non-payment of six months salaries. Comr. Muhammed Lawa who spoke for the vulnerable teacher explained that they have written a letter to the NUT chairman, Comr. Peter Julius and the security to use the NUT house to pray for God intervention in their plight. Lawa on behalf of the teach...