2023: Muslim Group Says Power Shift To South East Non Negotiable

By; NDUBUISI NWOGHA ANDY, Abakaliki As the clamour for who succeeds the ongoing Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC), administration gets tensed, the South-East Muslim Elders Council (SEMEC) has called for power shift to the South-East geopolitical zone in the 2023 presidential election to ensure equity and social justice.The call is contained in a communiqué…

Army Says News That Its Troops, Illegal Miners Died In Gun Duel In Katsina False

By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna The  Nigerian Army has unequivocally stated  that a story  alleging that two soldiers and seven illegal miners were killed during a gun duel, arising from a disagreement over gold nuggets in Magama village in Jibia LGA of Katsina State is baseless, unfounded, untrue and a mere figment of the writer’s imagination, aimed…

Kaduna Parents Urged To Present Children For Polio Vaccination

By KATO P. LADAN, Kaduna Parents and caregivers have been charged to ensure they make their children available for vaccination as Kaduna State commences another round of polio immunization campaign.  The exercise is scheduled for 10th – 13th January, 2022 and would be conducted through House-to-House visits, on the streets and markets, motor parks among others.  This…

A Peep Into Governor Inuwa Yahaya’s Mid-Term Score Card: Education Sector In Focus

By YAKUBU BAYAMBE Throughout human history, the concept of development- whether social, economic or infrastructural- has been a subject of intense debate and interest, especially in our clime. Since the return of Nigeria to democracy in 1999, the country has witnessed several attempts by successive administrations aimed at short, medium and long term social, economic…

UN Report Says 3m Nigerians Engaging In Drug Abuse

By; DAHIRU SULEIMAN, Dutse A recent report worldwide on drug abuse has indicated that over 36 million people  suffered from drug abuse disorders, while in Nigeria, released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had placed 14.3 million drug users of which three million population suffered from drug abuse related cases in the…

Ortom And A Nation Of Contradictions

By; JEROME-MARIO CHIJIOKE UTOMI ‘The greatest problem of man is that man is the problem’-Anonymous Aside from the time-honoured belief that the poverty (intellectual, economic, social, psychological and cultural) of any country is felt by the quality and quantity of its citizens, this piece primarily stemmed from barrage of intra, inter, trans and cross reactions…