Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs, has reassured the Nigerian people that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic reforms will help the country get out of its economic slump. At a news conference held on Saturday at the Bauchi office of the Tuggar Foundation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs pleaded with the people … Read more
A Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Egbe, Yagba East Local Government Area, has been commissioned by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, to combat insurgency and insecurity in Kogi State. Senator Sunday Karimi, who represents Kogi West in the legislature, constructed and donated the recently commissioned FOB in Egbe. During Saturday’s commissioning … Read more
Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, has slammed the House of Representatives on the proposed Bola Tinubu University bill. The suggestion, according to Effiong, is a sycophancy, and he called it a concern for the country. To educate Nigerian languages, the representatives want Bola Tinubu University to be established, according to the Gistcon. Eight additional … Read more
Nearly 200 students from Jigawa State who fled to India and Cyprus from the civil war in Sudan to pursue degrees in medical science have begun to graduate with honors. Saidu Magaji, the Executive Secretary of the Jigawa State Scholarship Board, made the announcement while welcoming back six of the ten students who had studied … Read more
Mr. Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has announced that the FCT Administration will complete two of the three bus and taxi terminals currently under construction by January. When the current projects in Abuja are over, no bus or taxi would be able to use FCT road again, according to Wike, who … Read more
Dan Bello Galadanci, a well-known comic and satirist, has criticized Bala Mohammed, the governor of Bauchi State, for putting his own agenda ahead of much-needed healthcare and education improvements. Galadanci said in a series of videos that went viral that the state’s hospitals and schools are in terrible shape, despite the governor’s claims of infrastructure … Read more
Senator Monday Okpebholo, the newly-elected governor of Edo State, has received an impassioned call from Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin, who urges him to keep his campaign pledges. According to Gistcon, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, was officially proclaimed the victor in the September 21, 2024, election … Read more
Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has announced the framework for the federal government’s comprehensive vision for a statewide nutrition initiative to combat malnutrition and food insecurity in Nigeria. The planned programme, “Nutrition 774 Initiative,” is targeted at improving nutritional outcomes throughout all 774 local government areas (LGAs) in the country. While speaking on Tuesday at … Read more
In light of the current situation in Rivers State, veteran writer Dele Momodu expressed his sympathies to Governor Sim Fubara on Tuesday. The confrontation between Fubara and Wike is strange, according to Momodu. This statement was made by the PDP chairman in response to a video showing Wike scolding his former employer, the late Rotimi … Read more
A measure that aims to create two federal universities—one in Ogun State, Ilaro, and one in Kaduna State, Kachia—passed third reading on Tuesday. The Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND had already submitted a report with that objective, and the Senate subsequently passed both measures after considering them. The report given by Senator Dandutse … Read more