By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna Northern Star Youth Empowerment Initiative, a Northern youth pressure group that seeks to protect the interests of the region has kicked against the seeming close romance between France and the Tinubu led administration. Northern Star Youth Empowerment Initiative is a non political, non religious pressure group that fights to protect the interests of the North and promote good governance in the region In a statement issued to newsmen in Kaduna Wednesday, December 24th, 2024, Director General of the movement, Dr Abdullahi Idris recalled that during his recent state visit to France, President Bola Ahmed signed many…
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Says Nigeria was eating its children’s future | Insists economy on course to recovery | Declares no going back on tax reforms | ‘I won’t sack any of my ministers’ President Bola Tinubu has defended his administration’s decision to remove the fuel subsidy from the outset, describing it as a necessary reform to safeguard Nigeria’s economic future. During his first presidential media chat on Monday night, Tinubu said: “I have no regrets whatever removing subsidies. It was necessary.” The President explained that the subsidy regime was unsustainable, likening it to mortgaging the country’s future for present consumption. “We were not…
On behalf of myself, my family and the good people of Kano State, I am writing to extend my appreciation to the President and Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, for finding me suitable for an appointment at the Hadejia Jamaare River Basin Development Authority. It is an honor for the Kano people in general and especially members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to be saddled with the responsibility and a clear indication of the positive vision of the president towards our dear state and the nation at large.…
By Zubairu Idris The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a gender mainstreaming initiative aimed at increasing immunisation uptake by engaging male parents in routine immunisation and other primary healthcare-related issues. Mr Rahama Mohammed-Farah, the Chief of the UNICEF Kano Field Office, described Wednesday in Katsina as a momentous day for all involved. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the initiative was introduced in collaboration with the office of the wife of the State Governor, Hajiya Zulaihat Dikko-Radda. Mohammed-Farah was represented by UNICEF Health Specialist, Hajiya Saudat Basheer. According to him, for the first time in the…
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Otunba Segun Showunmi, has advised Nigerians against money politics for the country to move forward and fulfil its potential as one of the most endowed nations on earth. Shwowunmi, who is the National Coordinator of the National Opposition Movement Coalition (NOMC), codenamed “The Alternative,” gave advice in a town hall meeting on Thursday in Kano. The former PDP governorship aspirant in Ogun said bad governance persists in the country because politicians have bought over democracy with their ill-gotten money and have planned to sustain the trend. He urged electorates to shun moneybags…
No fewer than 40 special detectives from the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbedokun monitoring team have intensified search for the arrest of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa. The IGP men who were deployed from Abuja to arrest Bature on the instruction of acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje were said to have been lodged at Tahir Guests Palace in the last two weeks to execute the mandate. Ganduje had petitioned the IGP over the controversy surrounding his suspension from his Ganduje ward in Dawakin-Tofa local government of the state,…
The Headquarters Theatre Command, Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), has issued a counter statement saying that there is no French Military Base in Maiduguri as alleged by an activist, Mahdi Shehu. The statement is issued by Capt. Reuben Kovangiya, the Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Headquarters Theatre Command, Operation Hadin Kai, recently. Mahdi Shehu on his X handle had alleged the establishment of a French military base in Maiduguri, North East Nigeria, where he also placed a video clip of the Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the Nigerian Army and a foreign…
1. Anytime an official denial is issued by Tinubu’s spin doctors, on any subject, take that denial as an official confirmation. 2. Last week, Chief of Defense staff denied any plan to establish France military bases in Nigeria. 3. Yesterday, the Chief of Army staff received the first contingent of French soldiers and immediately deployed them to maiduguri to ” HELP NIGERIA IN FIGHTING BOKO HARAM” . The same boko haram they claimed to have decimated and are scamping for safety. 4. Before the blinking of an eye, a FRANCE military base will be physically seen in Maiduguri, perhaps before…
The Kano state government, under the Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) in partnership with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Lives and Livelihood Project (LLP) has initiated an enlightenment program for farmers against the use of some chemicals as pesticides. This was revealed Tuesday to newsmen in Kura local government of Kano state by the Community-based Facilitator, DanAsabe DanGambo working with the projects in ten villages in the area. He explained that initially, the farmers are not aware of the right chemicals to use as pesticides and have no idea how to use them, and are also ignorant of…
The largest grains market in Africa, located at Dawanau in Dawakintofa local government of Kano state has been renovated by the state government in partnership with Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Lives and Livelihood Project (LLP) through the provision of roads, Secretariat, Police Post, streetlights and drainages. This was revealed by the Infrastructural Engineer of Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project, Zahraddeen Zarewa, while addressing newsmen at the market on Tuesday. “This is a project being carried out by the Kano state government with the support of the Islamic Development Bank to boost the area of agriculture, precisely the values…