Amina Yusuf Garba, mni, is a Member of Niger, MON, and at present, the Registrar of Sokoto State University. She had her First School Leaving Certificate from St. Paul Primary School Sokoto and her West African School Certificate from Federal Government College Sokoto. She went to Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto graduating with B. A. English and proceeded to Bayero University Kano where she graduated with Masters Degree in English Language. Fondly referred to as The Amazon within the academic circle, Mrs Garba has been a beneficiary of recognition by worthy organs. First, she got the Federal Government Scholarship Award. Amina…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Balarabe Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed announced the appointment in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. He said Mr Ilelah’s appointment was for five years tenure in the first instance. The statement was signed and made available to newsmen by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture.
The Kaduna state government has confirmed the kidnap of two lecturers and eight students by bandits in an attack at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, also confirmed the death of one student in the incident in a statement on Friday in Kaduna. Aruwan said that security agencies had briefed the state government on the incident which took place at the main campus of the polytechnic in Zaria on Thursday night. He said the bandits invaded the institution’s staff quarters in the campus, shooting sporadically and in the “process, two…
Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas (NIDOA), USA Chapter, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari on some issues affecting the country and suggested the way forward. In the letter, jointly signed by its President, Dr Eromonsele Idahosa and other officials of the association, NIDOA expressed concerns over the security situation in the country. NIDOA’s letter said that growth and development could not occur without security. It described NIDOA as “a non-partisan group of incurable patriots fully invested in the continuing corporate existence of our dear nation as an indivisible entity based on equity, justice, harmony, and progress. “We are reaching out…
The corpse of a baby girl, suspected to be a day old, has been recovered in a well at Tsalle village in Gezawa local government area of Kano state. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, was confirmed in a statement by Saminu Abdullahi, the spokesman for the Kano State Fire Service. Abdullahi said the service received a distress call at about 12:25 p.m. on Thursday from one Abubakar Ahmed-Dandago. “On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene at about 12:43p.m,” Abdullahi said. He said the baby girl was brought out of the well dead. Abdullahi…
Nigeria’s Super Falcons lost their first game to Jamaica by a lone goal in the four-nation tournament in the United States. Goal by Deneisha Blackwood in the 51st minute in the game played at the BBVA stadium, Houston, late Thursday night was enough to hand new coach, Randy Waldrum, his first defeat with the African champions. Efforts by Oluwatosin Dimehin, Onyinyechi Zogg, Roosa Ariyo and Vivian Ikechukwu, who received their first international cap for the Falcons were not enough to secure a victory. The team definitely missed the absence of players like Asisat Oshoala, Onome Ebi, Halimatu Ayinde, Osinachi Ohale and…
The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya has in a major shake up, appointed a new spokesperson, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu as the Director of Army Public Relations, who will take over from Brig. Gen Mohammed Yerima. In the same vein the COAS has approved the appointment of Major General CG Musa as New Theatre Commander Of Operation Hadin Kai North East Region. He takes over from the Chief of Army Staff. According to a statement by Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yerima on Thursday, the postings by the Chief of Army Staff of other senior army officers, are in line…
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) says the country loses up to 400,000 hectares of forest annually to environmental degradation. The NCF Director-General, Muhtari Aminu-Kano, disclosed this in Lagos on Thursday at a seminar to commemorate the Word Environment Day. The theme of the seminar was “Ecosystem Restoration’’. Aminu-Kano also used the occasion to appeal to Nigerians not to pollute the waters anymore. “Our waters and lands have been destroyed by soil erosion and oil pollution and in all of these; we are doing damage to the natural environment. “Nature is the basis for our existence, nature gives us air, fresh…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says Nigeria’s proven natural gas reserve stood at 206.53 trillion cubic feet (tcf) as at January 1, 2021. Mr Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR, made the announcement on Thursday in Abuja at the 2021 Nigeria International Petroleum Summit. The new figure represents an increase of 3.37tcf, representing 1.66 per cent percentage increase over the 203.16tcf recorded in the corresponding date of Jan. 1, 2020. He said that the growth of gas reserves was a critical lever to achieving Federal Government’s “Decade of Gas Initiative’’, aimed at transforming Nigeria to a gas-powered economy by 2030. Auwalu…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the commercial services of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project, describing it as another milestone in railway transport revival in Nigeria. The president spoke at the inauguration of the service, which took place at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station in Ebute Metta, Lagos. Buhari described the feat as “another milestone in the drive of this administration to revitalise the railway system and establish it as a choice mode of transportation for both passengers and freight’’. He pledged that his administration would continue to prioritise the railway system as a transportation backbone that could transform industrial and…