UNESCO will launch the second phase of its project to empower illiterate girls and women in low Performing Junior Secondary Schools through Information Communication Technology in Bauchi State on Tuesday, an official has said. The project is targeted at 50,000 girls and women, Mr Olushola
The Kogi and Enugu Governments have inaugurated a 10-man technical committee to resolve the lingering boundary disputes between the two states. The committee, which has five members from each state, is to be co-chaired by the Surveyors General of both states – Michael Abolorin, Kogi and Ishiwu Godwin of Enugu. A statement signed by the […]
Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has accepted to lead a national discourse against violent extremism championed by Boko Haram terrorists and similar groups in the country. The forum is being championed by Club de Madrid (CdM), in collaboration with the Office of the National Security Adviser to the President (ONSA) with the support of Preventing […]
The Sokoto State Government says it will sell its houses to civil servants occupying them on owner-occupier basis. Alhaji Bello Gwiwa, the Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Survey, disclosed this in Sokoto on Sunday, at a ministerial press briefing to mark Gov. Aminu Tambuwal’s second year in office. He listed houses to be sold to […]
Borno residents have appealed to the military to intervene in the increased suicide bomb attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in the state. Across section of those interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri made the appeal on Sunday in Maiduguri. Malam Bakura Modu, a local hunter said that the wave of […]
The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has condemned street begging by children, popularly known as Almajiri, saying the act is unIslamic. Speaking on Sunday while presiding over the pre-Ramadan meeting of JNI’s Central Committee, held at the JNI headquarters in Kaduna, the Sultan
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