Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University (KASU), Professor Muhammad Tanko, has argued that religious manipulation and bastardisation of cultural pluralism were responsible for crises and backwardness in Nigeria. He made this known, while speaking during a research dissemination conference on ...
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Nigeria seeks AfDB’s intervention on ICT infrastructure for Industry 4.0
The ongoing leadership tussle in the African Church may have taken an ethnic dimension, as the South-South leadership of the Church in the region has allegedly ordered bishops of South-West extraction to relocate to their states. An insider who spoke ...
Read More »Nigeria seeks AfDB’s intervention on ICT infrastructure for Industry 4.0
Telecoms operators lose 342,101 subscribers in February The Federal Government has asked the African Development Bank (AfDB) to intervene in building the trans-Saharan optic fiber backbone/national broadband backbone and develop ground station for Nigeria Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) and other critical ...
Read More »Presidency explains N42 billion Special Economic Zones fund
The Presidency yesterday explained operations of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which raised concerns at a recent public hearing in the Senate. Its clarification followed concerns that Federal Government’s plans to facilitate the country’s industrial development through SEZs, was being ...
Read More »Air Force loses officer to parachuting in Kaduna
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) yesterday announced the death of one of its men, Corporal Meshach Iliya Komo, in a parachuting accident in Kaduna. Its Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore, Ibikunle Daramola, in a statement in Abuja, ...
Read More »AU endorses president’s initiative for peace, corruption
The African Union has endorsed the Buhari Unity Band, a not-for-profit initiative that articulates the president’s commitment to peace, unity and fight against corruption. In a letter presented to Dr. Abayomi Oyekoya, the body’s convener, in Abuja at the weekend, ...
Read More »Unions disrupt operations of helicopters’ firm
A coalition of aviation workers’ unions has grounded operations of Caverton Helicopters in Lagos and Port Harcourt over alleged indebtedness to former workers and anti-labour activities. The picketing exercise, led by the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and ...
Read More »PDP decries Cameroonian tag on Atiku Abubakar as Wike seeks forgiveness
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday dismissed what it called “reckless and groundless claim” by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its standard-bearer, Atiku Abubakar, was a Camerounian as a calculated attempt to “trivialise and divert attention from the compelling ...
Read More »Reports raise fear of imminent epidemic outbreaks in Nigeria, others
Reasons have come to the fore why the next outbreak of epidemic in Nigeria and some other African and Asian nations might not be far off. Recent reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United States Centre for Disease ...
Read More »Legal practitioners back call for President Buhari, governors to account for security votes
Lawyers have backed the request by rights body, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), urging President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors to provide specific details of spending of security votes between 2011 and 2019. The Dean, Faculty of Law, Lagos ...
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