Less than 12 hours after the release of students and staff of Government Science College Kagara and their arrival in Minna this morning, bandits have launched a fresh attack on Kagara and some neighbouring villages, killing four people and kidnapping 25 others including a Chief Imam. A community leader in Kagara, Musa Kwabe, said eight…
Kano State Government has ordered the closure of some tertiary institutions in the State with immediate effect. The State Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure announced this in a statement on Saturday. Earlier on Friday, the government ordered the closure of 12 boarding secondary schools in the outskirt of the metropolis over increasing…
Kwara State Government has released the cutoffs for the ongoing teachers’ recruitment exercise at the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM). A total of 40,652 applicants sat the recent examination for the two categories. The cutoff for SUBEB is 50% for Kwara indigenes from across the 16 local government…
Atiku Support Organisation has condemned the continued intimidation and arrest of Nigerian youths for voicing out against insecurity in the country calling on President Muhammadu Buhari and the nation’s security apparatuses to focus their strengths on fighting banditry and terrorism. The statement reads: The Atiku Support Organisation observed with great displeasure the continued intimidation, arrest,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the release of the abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State. The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Saturday, commended the nation’s security and intelligence agencies and the government of Niger state for their responses in securing the release. “We are happy they…
Latest events have proved that neither Gumi’s intervention nor military deployment can be a solution to our escalating security and economic crisis. No solution, in my view, can work until the undeniable drift in equality is addressed. Government, as a matter of urgency should think and act on the followings: Reverse the trend towards inequality…
The National President of the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU),Alhaji Aliyu Otta Uthman, fsi,has urged parties to the recent controversy surrounding the wearing of Hijab in some secondary schools in Ilorin to allow peace to prevail by conforming themselves with the decision of the Kwara State Government. Alhaji Uthman stated this in a statement…
