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Nigeria Promotes Multi-Pillar Mining Sector Expansion Strategy at African Mining Week (AMW) 2025

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Nigeria unveiled a multi-pillar mining sector expansion and beneficiation strategy at African Mining Week (AMW) 2025, aimed at shifting the country from exporting raw minerals to producing value-added products. Presenting the plan, Yusuf Farouk Yabo, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Mines, said the strategy is designed to unlock Nigeria’s mineral wealth while driving
COLUMNS

The Poisoned Cup: Harold Smith & Nigeria’s Story

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By Azu Ishiekwene On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in Nigeria. And that’s probably to be expected for a man whom the British establishment ostracised for decades for daring to be different, before his death. He was everything the British colonial authorities didn’t want […]
EDUCATION

Governor Sule rewards Executive Secretary scholarship Board with prime plot of land for returning excess N122m

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flags off scholarship disbursement for 18, 762 indigent students In a bid to offset the backlogs of bursary allowances to indingents students of Nasarawa State studying in institutions of higher learning within and outside Nasarawa State, Governor Abdullahi Sule has flagged off the disbursement of the 2023/24 scholarships to 18, 762 students amounting to N592, […]
NEWS

Senator Detained Over Alleged Rape of 13-Year-Old in Abuja

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Former Senator representing Adamawa North, Elisha Abbo, has surrendered himself to the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja after being accused of raping a 13-year-old secondary school student. The parents of the minor told journalists that Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, popularly known as Binani, a former governorship candidate in Adamawa