Cash crunch, low patronage mar Christmas shopping

Chicken market Nigeria’s inflation has risen for the 15th consecutive month to 14.89 per cent in November this year, from 14.23 per cent in October. According to a report released last Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), there was a spike in food inflation to 18.30 per cent last month from 17.38 per […]

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ASCAB blasts Buhari’s men for mocking crime victims

The Federal Government through its utterances compounds the prospect of early release of over 300 students abducted in Katsina State, Alliance for the Survival of Covid 19 and Beyond, (ASCAB) said on Friday. ASCAB welcomes the release of the students but cautioned against feeding Nigerians with fake news. The coalition said in a statement signed […]

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Boko Haram release video showing kidnapped Katsina schoolboys

Boko Haram on Thursday released a video showing that it has custody of the students abducted from a government secondary school in Kankara, Katsina State, Humangle reported. In the six-minute-and-30-second footage, tens of young boys could be seen behind him, all covered in dust and appearing to be within a forest area. The relatively older […]

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2023: Atiku inaugurates campaign support groups

Ahead of the 2023 presidency, former Vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has inaugurated Atiku Support Groups across the 36 states of the Federation. The Atiku Support Group was launched in Abuja under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Kabir Babawo as Director General and Atiku Aminu Mohammed as Chairman of the organization. The mission of the […]

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Protests in North over schoolboys kidnap

A Kankara Town road sign is seen, after gunmen abducted students from the Government Science school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina state, Nigeria December 15, 2020. – Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed the abduction of hundreds of students, marking its first attack in northwestern Nigeria since the jihadist uprising began more than ten years ago. […]

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Ogunsanwo: The editor’s life and times

By Olatunji Dare There is not much to add to, or take away from, Tatalo Alamu’s judicious “critical appreciation” of Gbolabo Ogunsanwo, the dashing editor and dazzling new newspaper columnist, who died two weeks ago, aged 75.  Still, I feel obliged to enter some personal reminiscences on a person I counted as a friend. Ogunsanwo […]

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Katsina abduction: 17 students found, says Masari

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has disclosed that 17 students of Government Secondary School, Kankara, have been found and reunited with their parents. He made the disclosure in an interview with a German radio, Deutsche Welle(DW). The interview which was in Hausa was aired Monday evening. The Governor said, “As at today (Monday), information available […]

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2023: Tinubu’s men seek Alaafin, Olubadan’s support

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, some politicians including former senators and federal lawmakers under the auspices of South West Agenda (SWAGA 23) on Monday stormed the palaces of Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji and Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi to woo the traditional rulers to support Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu in […]

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