Twenty-four hours after criticizing the policies of President Bola Tinubu administration and disclosing its choice of candidates in the next 2027 elections, the apex northern sociocultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has suspended its chairman of the National Executive Council, Mr. Mamman Mike Osuman, SAN. Reports have stated that ACF held its NEC meeting on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at its headquarters in Kaduna. In a statement jointly signed by Alhaji Bashir Muhammad Dalhatu (Wazirin Dutse) and Alhaji Murtala Aliyu (Matawallen Gombe), ACF Board of Trustees chairman and Secretary General, respectively, they noted in particular, that Mr. Osuman was quoted…
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The Federal Government has finally issued a termination letter to Julius Berger PLC over the construction of Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road project reviewed at N740 billion naira. The termination letter, signed by the Director Legal Services, Federal Ministry of Works, Barr. C.O Assam, said the decision was in accordance with Clause 63 Standard Condition of Contract (Road Works) Volume 1, 1999 Edition with effect from the date of service of the letter. The letter recalled that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in its meeting held on September 23, 2024, approved that the contract be re-scoped and reviewed to the sum of N740,797,204,713.25…
A leading member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kano, Ilyasu Kwankwaso, has called on the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), to focus on resolving the myriads of problems faced by the North that including banditry and kidnapping instead for attacking the federal government on political issues. He advised the ACF to initiate a roundtable discussion, that would involved religious, traditional and political leaders of the region irrespective of their affiliations to find a way forward in tackling myriad of problems in the north. He made the assertion on Thursday, in Kano while reacting to the recent outcome of ACF…
Following the state of emergency on education declared by the Kano state Governor Abba Yusuf, some principals have advised the government on how best to overhaul the system and achieve a better output. Speaking to Leadership on Wednesday in Kano, the Headmaster of Garindau Primary School, in Warawa local government area of Kano, Murtala Aliyu expressed hope that if those things are implemented the state of emergency on education will succeed. Speaking particularly on his school, he explained that the entire school is flooded annually during the raining season, adding that the school also lacks security guards, a situation that…
The level of deterioration of education in Kano that led governor Abba Yusuf to declare a state of emergency on the sector has started picking up as seen in some of the primary schools. A visit to some public primary schools on Tuesday in Kano where such actions are being taken tells a lot of stories and exposes what the state government needs to do as well. Already, at the Sabon Layi Primary School, located in Bichi local government area, a beneficiary of the state government’s intervention of building a one storey building with four classrooms and offices across all…
An Upper Shari’a Court in Kofar Kudu, Kano State, has discharged and acquitted the Jigawa State Commissioner of Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, of allegations of adultery brought against him by one Nasiru Buba. Buba had accused Sankara of having illicit affairs with his wife, Tasleem Baba Nabegu. News reports have shown that Sankara was arrested by operatives of Kano State Hisbah Board in company of Tasleem at one of his properties in Kano. Delivering the ruling, the presiding judge, Ibrahim Sarki Yola, stated that investigations conducted by the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police found no evidence…
A youth group in Dokan Karji, Southern part of Kaduna State, has appealed to the military authorities to urgently intervene in their communities following incessant devastating attacks that have led to the sacking of about 14 communities by terrorists with no fewer than 50 killed, 170 kidnapped, N700m ransom paid within a period of 7 months. This was stated by the leader of the group, Aminu Khalid, who alleged that persistent attacks have rendered their communities vulnerable, with the region suffering from unchecked violence for years. According to Khalid, Dokan Karji, the largest community in Kauru Local Government Area of…
The Center For Information Technology And Development (CITAD) has initiated the training of 27 selected individuals from communities across Nigeria on local solution to lack of internet service as well as epileptic internet service. This was made known, Monday, by the National Coordinator of the CITAD Community Network, Haruna Adamu, while inducting the new trainees on local solutions to internet services and lapses in communities across Nigeria. The trainees are expected to become experts at their community levels who can provide solutions, deploy and manage their own community network. “The essence of this is just to bridge connectivity gap in…
…A giant stride that led to a sudden dead of the catastrophic calamity. By Shariff Aminu Ahlan The power outage that led to devastating impact in the Northern part of the country was a disheartening occurrence which lead to the pathetic scenarios in which some companies decided to close operation, while small scale business that rely on electricity to operate capitulated into extinction. It’s a horrific and painful experiences in the last two weeks and one can’t precisely place numbers in predicting the figures on the colossal loss suffered by thousands of businesses. Hospitals suffered greatly and patients were…
By Zubairu Idris The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has embarked on sensitisation campaign to create awareness on the dangers of irregular migration among youths in Katsina State. The exercise is designed to enlighten youth and women on the risk of irregular migration and encourage them to be wary of migrant smugglers. Mr Alkasim Inusa, the Comptroller Migration Directorate, NIS headquarters, stated this at the inauguration of the exercise on Thursday in Katsina. He said the world recorded increase in transborder crimes, a trend which prompted countries to adopt proactive border security measures,. According to Inusa, smuggling of migrants and trafficking…