Senator Ibrahim Lamido (APC-Sokoto East) has offered a joint N40 million scholarship to 1,315 indigent students from his constituency studying various courses at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.Lamido, addressing the beneficiaries at the screening exercise in Sokoto, said the gesture was part of his commitment to ease the current hardship
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About 10 children between the ages of three and 13 have died from a yet-to-be identified suspected respiratory tract-infection disease in Kafanchan, Jema'a local government area of Kaduna State.The chief medical director (CMD) of Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa Memorial Hospital, Dr Isaac Nathaniel confirmed the disease outbreak in Kafanchan.The chairman
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The House of Representatives Ad- hoc Committee on International Boundary Dispute Between Nigeria and Cameroon said it might consider a fresh application to appeal the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judgement that ceded Bakassi to Cameroon.The Ad hoc Committee gave this indication at a resumed hearing yesterday. It was set
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Bauchi State government in collaboration with the state Police command is to establish a mobile court for the prosecution of Sara-Suka offenders and perpetrators of other forms of crime and criminality in the state.The state governor Bala Mohammed gave the indication while receiving in audience the newly posted commissioner of
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Ten countries which include the United States of America (USA), France, India, Morocco, Nepal, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago among others will participate in the 6th edition of Kaduna International Film Festival.The film festival which is slated to commence from the 22nd- 26th August, 2023 is themed: "The Globalisation
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The Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) on 17 July,2023 killed about 22 terrorists mostly foot soldiers of the deceased notorious terrorists’ kingpin Alhaji Abdulkareem Lawal, aka Abdulkareem Boss, in air strikes at Batsari and Sola Poi II in Batsari and Jibia local government areas of Katsina State.Military sources
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Kwara State government has keyed into the $59million federal government-led agroprocessing initiative.The chief press secretary to the state governor, Alhaji Rafiu Ajakaye, disclosed this at the Media Parliament of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) held in Ilorin, the state capital yesterday.Ajakaye who said that the
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Following alleged leakages, Niger State governor Mohammed Umar Bago has directed the termination of appointments of all consultants, service providers, and contractors in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) enforcement and collection currently engaged by the State Internal Revenue Service and Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) in the state.It was gathered that
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Benue State governor Hyacinth Alia has disclosed that at the conclusion of the first phase of an extensive staff verification and payroll audit for all teachers and local government staff, over 2,500 ghost workers uncovered have already been removed from the payroll. The governor who disclosed this through the chief
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Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaThe dictatorship of some governors in Nigeria knows no bounds. They have scant regard for the opposition. In their quest for power by all means they set out to suffocate the opposition. This exists at the national level but it gets worst in the states.Some of the worst
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