The Yobe State government is finalising a 25-year development plan tagged ‘‘Yobe Development Planning 2050’’ for the economic recovery and growth plan.   The Commissioner of the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Hon. Muhammad Garba Gagiyo, stated this at Town Hall/Consultative Meeting with Citizens in Preparation of Yobe State 2025 Annual Budget held in Damaturu. He said the ...

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has granted amnesty to no fewer than twelve inmates across five custodial centres in Nasarawa as part of celebration marking the 64th independence celebration and twenty-eight years of the creation of Nasarawa State. Governor Sule who granted the inmates freedom in Lafia, the state capital, admonished them to make the best use of their stay in the ...

The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Bashir Muhammad Dalhatu, has warned that the current situation of insecurity in the North is not only frightening but also threatening the existence of the northerners. The ACF board chairman gave the warning yesterday in Maiduguri when he led a delegation to visit and  sympathise with the people of Borno State over ...

Local divers and officials of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday recovered 20 more bodies from water after a passenger boat conveying Mawlid celebrants capsised at Gbajibo, Mokwa LGA of Niger State. The recovery brought the total number of deaths to 36, according to the Niger State Emergency Management Agency.  Daily Trust ...

Former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, said Nigeria cannot fight corruption and injustice to a standstill if  women are silenced. Just as he expressed concern that voices and leadership of women have been overlooked for too long in the country. Osoba spoke in Lagos at an event organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) to celebrate the ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday vowed that there would be more offensive military onslaught against terrorists, bandits, oil thieves and other criminals wreaking havoc in some parts of the country if they don’t quit their nefarious activities. This is just as the former head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd) pointed out that poverty and unemployment in the land as well as weak and ...