Author: EDITOR I

KADUNA (North-West, Nigeria) — A Kaduna based group, Initiative for Fight Against Drug Abuse and Enlightenment, IFADAE, has said that Kaduna State is gradually witnessing reduction in all forms of crimes such as thuggery and drug abuse. The group’s State Coordinator, Hafsat Ibrahim Ali made this known while speaking with newsmen in Kaduna. Hafsat attributed the reduction recorded in the fight against crimes to joint efforts of the sister agencies such as National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Army, Federal Road and Safety, FRSC, Police, Anti-Daba, Fushin kada, Nigeria Immigration Service, Kaduna State Vigilance Service, KADVIS and the Nigeria Security…

…Unveil Plans To Venture Into Other Businesses KANO (North-West, Nigeria) — A Kano based oil magnate and Chief Executive Officer, Abunasty Nigeria Limited, Abubakar Nasir Tsanyawa has narrated how he quit banking to run Keke Napep transportation business and grew to become owner of multiple filling stations, fleets of trucks, real estate and import and export of commodities. Tsanyawa while celebrating 10 years of existence of the company in Kano, went memory lane on how he sold his Keke Napeps to buy a Daf truck without a body and afterwards got support from a close ally who gave him…

By Abbas Bamalli UNESCO, in collaboration with the Katsina State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and the European Union (EU-UNESCO), is assessing teachers’ ICT capacity aimed at improving quality of teaching in Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the assessment exercise which took place on Friday in some selected schools, is part of the EU-UNESCO project: “Education and Youth Empowerment in Nigeria, Phase II”. The 4-year project, which commenced from 2024-2028 and funded by the EU is titled: “Expand, Integrate, and Strengthen Systems (EISS) to Build Teachers’ Capacity and Resilience”. During…

KANO (North-West, NIGERIA) — As the Constitution amendment process intensifies, over 45 women-led groups and civil society organisations have called on the 10th National Assembly to prioritise the passage of the Additional/Reserved Seats for Women Bill, demanding more representation for women in the National and State Assemblies. Led by Habiba Ahmed, Senior Program Officer at the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), the coalition submitted a consolidated memorandum at the North-West public hearing, pressing for constitutional reforms that would create dedicated legislative seats for women at all tiers of government. The women are proposing the creation of one senatorial…