Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe

Olivia has held the No. 1 spot since 2019, according to the Social Security Administration. The second most popular “O” name on the list is Oakley, coming in at 157.

We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue this way? Is it the fault of the system or the operators of the system? Should we scout for a better system or better operators? Should we look inwards? Will a system in tandem with our inner being be the answer to our multifaceted and ever-growing problems as a nation?” We signed off with this thought: “Perhaps we have been imposing on ourselves systems that are alien to us, to our culture, to our souls.”

Irrigation farmers in Sokoto state, Northwest Nigeria are currently converting their pumping machines from the use of petrol (PMS) to LPG (cooking gas)-powered engines, ASHENEWS reports.

The former Nigerian military Head of State, and leader of the ECOWAS high-powered delegation to Niger Republic, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), has said that they met with the head of the military junta, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, and the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.

The military staff of the three countries met in the Nigerien capital Niamey to decide on “concrete measures” in case ECOWAS chooses to “escalate a war,” according to local media reports on Saturday.

ASHENEWS reports that the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has alleged that the Nigerian judiciary is killing the Shariah Court of Appeal by failing to appoint qualified judges and compose the Shariah panel at the federal level.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL), Abbas Umar Masanawa.

ASHENEWS reports that Nigeria’s former military president, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Sultan Muhammadu Saad Abubakar, have again visited Niamey, capital of Niger Republic.

ASHENEWS reports that the Borno state Commissioner of Information and Internal Security, Prof. Usman A Tar has said that with normalcy now restored, the biometrics data capture of repentant Boko Haram insurgents resumed on Friday.

The maize lines have been developed by CIMMYT’s Global Maize Program through a multi-disciplinary team of scientists in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia.