Day: October 26, 2021
2023 ELECTION: One Plate, Many Eaters
By Rilwan Muhammad The 2023 general election is, if you would permit the cliche, round the corner, at least if one considers the nature of the Nigerian electioneering where a considerable amount of time is spent on strategic midnight meetings and daylight calculations to win the favour of the voters. One may, going by […]
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OPINION: Between Bandit and Terrorist
By Mahmud Jega The latest clamour in Nigeria, which has been gathering speed like a tornado in the past month, is for the Federal Government to declare the bandits that have infested so many Northwestern and Northcentral states as terrorists. At the weekend, the Speakers’ Forum, the umbrella body of 36 state House of […]
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Nura Manu Soro: The Rise of Nigeria’s Young and Courageous Philanthropist
By Adamu Yalwa Gabi There is no compromise that history and posterity would continue to remember as well as judge the northerners that were known to have made their hard earned money right from time immemorial. This could be attributed to the period when cotton processing and groundnut pyramids were the major business activities […]
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Minimum Wage: Zulum pledges to pay 30k Minium Wage to primary school teachers, Rules out sack of unqualified teachers
All qualified teachers in primary schools across Borno State will soon begin to enjoy N30,000 minimum wage, as against current situation in which some number of teachers receive as low as N11,000 due to activities of ghost teachers, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has said. Zulum stated this on Monday, at the Government House in […]
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Gombe Gov. partners NDIC To Boost Investment Drive
Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has commended the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC for bringing stability to the banking sector and by extension the Nigerian economy and the polity. The Governor who gave the commendation when he granted audience to management of Corporation, led by the Managing Director and chief executive officer, Bello […]
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