ASHENEWS reports that the Senator representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has again sponsored 15 Sokoto state students to study various graduate, and postgraduate courses at the University of Lahore in the Republic of Pakistan. ASHENEWS further reports that Wamakko who presented the admission letters to the successful and qualified candidates implored them to ensure total commitment to their educational pursuits as well as focus on their studies in order to come out with flying colours at the end of their courses. He further challenged them to use the opportunity given to them to be of good conduct…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The four-day AFRIMA culminated Sunday evening at an awards ceremony on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, and included performances from some of Africa’s most popular musicians such as Nigeria’s P-Square and Tiwa Savage, Mali’s Rokia Kone and Senegalese singers, Youssou N’dour and Baaba Maal.
Flocks of white, black and brown ducks hunt for snails and bugs as they patrol the grapevines at a vineyard in South Africa’s winemaking town of Stellenbosch.
ASHENEWS reports that the Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has approved the creation of six new ministries, assign commissioners to man them, and redeployed others.
ASHENEWS reports that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Mahmud Jega as Special Adviser (Public Affairs), and Abdulaziz Abdulaziz as Special Assistant on Media and Publicity.
By Fatima Zahra Muhammad ASHENEWS reports that the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has called for the allocation of a budget line to tackle the menace of drug abuse in northern Nigeria. The group made this known on Sunday during a sensitization lecture on drug abuse and the proliferation of dangerous substances among the youth organized by the Zaria local government students association. Speaking during the event, the spokesperson of the group, Abdulazeez Suleiman said that the current situation of drug abuse in northern Nigeria requires a deviation from the already established protocols in tackling the menace. “I should like…
ASHENEWS reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Kwara Central, Saliu Mustapha has said that President Muhammadu Buhari administration has done well for the people of Kwara state and Nigeria in general.
Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has condemned the setting ablaze of the Catholic Priest of St. Peter’s and Paul, Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi by bandits at his residence in Kaffin Koro, Paikoro local government area.
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has imposed a 6:00 pm to 6:00 am curfew on the Lambata community in the Gurara local government area of the state.
ASHENEWS reports that bandits in the early hours of Sunday set ablaze the chairman of the Paikoro local government chapter of the the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Niger state, Rev.Fr Isaac Achi.