Katsina state government has released N1.3b counterpart funding for the implementation of UNICEF’s Girls Education Project GEP3. The state’s commissioner of Education Dr. Badamasi Lawal who disclosed this during the GEP dissemination meeting in Katsina said some focal areas of the intervention shall be on Training of teachers, School census and enrolment campaign drive among
Yobe government has closed down the only remaining camp it officially established for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Damaturu, the state capital. The Permanent Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Musa Idi Jiddawa, said the camp, which was officially established in Pompomari area by the state government on March 27, 2015 had hosted six
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said the number of Nigerians with the National Identity Number (NIN) is now 30.5million. The commission said the gradual acceptance of NIN as a means of identification by some agencies of government in the country was driving up the numbers of Nigerians with the unique numbers. The NIMC
President Muhammadu Buhari says it is unfair for people to accuse him of not reprimanding suspected gun-wielding herdsmen because he looks like them. Buhari said this on Tuesday during an interactive session with stakeholders in Plateau state. Simon Lalong, governor of the state, Abubakar Bagudu and Abubakar Bello, governors of Kebbi and Niger states, accompanied
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has been granted an administrative bail after five days in DSS custody. The Special Adviser to Abaribe on Media, Mr Uche Awom, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. He said Abaribe, who is the Chairman of the South East Senators Forum, was released at about 6.32 p.m. “Senator
ECOWAS is set to enhance sustainable electricity access through solar in 19 countries in West Africa and the Sahel region to promote development in the region. This is the outcome of a meeting of stakeholders from the energy sector, at a regional workshop to develop modalities to implement the Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP) which
Three suspects arrested in connection with weekend’s killings in 11 villages in Plateau have been paraded by the military. Two of the suspects are herdsmen and one Berom– one of the minority ethnic groups in Plateau. They were arrested by the special military task force, “Operation Save Haven. The suspects in Jos alongside 14 others.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday decried how desperate politicians have increasingly cheapened human life in their quest to establish a reign of instability and chaos in the country for political gains. President Buhari, who was reacting to recent clashes in Plateau, which left scores dead, said in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on
“Trends in global security denote that cyber crimes is the latest form of terrorism and corruption and this is a growing concern affecting all nations in the 21st century”. This was stated by the acting Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Monday at the Commission’s Head Office, Wuse II, Abuja, during a
An inmate of the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos has enrolled for a doctorate degree (PhD) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Abdalla Adamu NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor says. Adamu disclosed this in his remarks at opening ceremony of the 1st International Conference of Social Sciences –ICOSS’ 2018– held on at NOUN’s headquarters on Monday