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.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
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.
The Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned one of the country’s renowned activist, Ahmed Douma.
An eight-year-old boy (name withheld) narrowly escaped being lynched by residents of Olola area of Odo-Ona in Ibadan on Friday for allegedly stealing plastic materials.