Governor Ahmad Aliyu and former Vice Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have sympathised with traders and shop owners at the Sokoto Timber Market over the fire incident that destroyed their businesses. Speaking in separate messages to the traders, Gov. Aliyu and Atiku described the fire incident as unfortunate and painful. Praying that…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU The newly appointed Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Aisha Garba, has assumed duty with the promise to deploy strategies to advance delivery of quality basic education for the millions of school-aged children in Nigeria. Garba who spoke during a meeting with members of management and…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The National Universities Commission (NUC) says it has upgraded some medical-related programmes in Nigerian universities from Bachelor’s degree to doctoral status. The NUC disclosed this in a statement signed by its Acting Director of Public Affairs, Mrs. Franca Elochi Chukwuonwo. According to the statement, the decision was driven…
By Louis Achi Democracy thrives on a multiplicity of perspectives. It would arguably lose its defining egalitarianism if it foreclosed the free expression of viewpoints by its adherents – including insufficiently researched or deliberately tweaked ones. Against this backdrop, perspectives which flow from diligent, rigorous, balanced efforts that genuinely inform…
By Tunde Jacobs BudgIT Foundation, a Lagos-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has made a name for itself by using information technology tools to render national and state budgets in a format that makes them easy to understand, by ordinary people, across literacy bands. As part of its work, the low membership…
By Chidimma UCHEGBU Two major labour unions at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the National Association of Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), have thrown their weight behind the proposed increase in allocation for staff feeding in the 2025…
Gov. Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto state has inaugurated the state and senatorial zones projects and contracts monitoring committees, with a call on them to be honest and sincere in the discharge of their assignment. He said the setting up of the committees is aimed at ensuring that people of the…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite has said the commission achieved its zero-tolerance policy on abscondment during recent pilgrimage exercises. He made this disclosure during the airlift of the third batch of Christian pilgrims at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede has expressed concerns over the misrepresentation of figures in the 2025 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly Joint Committee on Finance on Monday. Fielding questions from newsmen at a sideline of an event in…
Governor Ahed Aliyu of Sokoto state has stated his resolve to revive the mining sector in the state and make it serve the growth projections of the state. The governor states this while receiving members of the National Miners Association during an interactive meeting with officials of the state government.…