Kebbi state governor, Abubakar Bagudu says his administration has secured a $70 million World Bank grant, to strengthen adolescent girl-child education. He disclosed this on Saturday, in Birnin Kebbi at the 5th Kebbi State Women Ramadan Lecture Series themed: “The Fundamental Role of Women in Islam.” The lecture’s sub themes included: Innovative Islamic Ways of Home Management in COVID-19 era, Family Obligations of Wives in Times of Economic Hardship and Curbing Gender Based Violence. Bagudu said that with the grant, women in the state, especially adolescent girls will be taught more skills, coupled with both formal and non formal education.…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Friday approved Plateau State University, PLASU, Bokkos as one of it’s Computer Base Test, CBT, center. The news was unveiled by the University Registrar, Mr Amos Mallo, in a statement. Mallo explained that the nod was given recently after JAMB successfully accredited the University for the yearly exercise exercise that serves pathway for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. “Already the registration of candidates for the 2021 JAMB UTME begins at the centre on Thursday April 16 upon the payment of a fee of N4,700 only for the JAMB pin, Study materials…
Some residents of Northeast, have attributed the rise in price of cement to the widening gap between demand and supply of the product. A survey carried out in Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa as well as Jigawa states, indicate an average of 40 per cent increase in price. Respondents to the survey said several challenges affected production in factories, one of which is the outbreak of COVID-19, thus reducing supply, while demand kept increasing. Some of the respondents also condemned the activities of middlemen, saying such people capitalised on the development to further worsen the situation. They called on government…
The University of Ibadan (UI) has released the results of its Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening exercise for candidates who chose the institution. This is contained in a statement by the institution’s spokesperson, Mr Olatunji Oladejo, in Ibadan on Saturday. He stated that the Registrar, Mrs Olubunmi Faluyi, announced the release of the results via the university’s official bulletin No. 4372 of Saturday, 17 April, 2021. Candidates were advised to check the admission portal for the results. The computer-based screening exercise took place from Tuesday, April 6 to Saturday, April 10, 2021. NAN
A cross-section of Ilorin Emirate indigenes on Friday offered special prayers for the emergence of Salihu Mustapha as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Chief Missioner of Ilorin Central Mosque, Yakubu Aliagan, led the brief prayer session shortly before the commencement of the Juma’at service. Aliagan prayed God to grant the politician’s heart desires as he had made contributions to Ilorin Emirate and toward the maintenance of the central mosque. Also speaking, Baba Isale of Ilorin, Abdullahi Sadiq, expressed confidence in the ability of Mustapha to deliver, if given the mandate. He said the community decided…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Friday commenced training of its heads of Electoral Operations across the 36 states and the FCT on modalities for the expansion of Polling Units (PUs). INEC National Commissioner, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu said the two -day workshop in Abuja was to build the capacity of officers on the proposed conversion of voting points to PUs across the country. Ibeanu, who is the Chairman, INEC Committee on Electoral Operations and Logistics, said the workshop was critical in the implementation of the process aimed at deepening voters’ participation in future electoral processes. He said the training…
In the study of federalism in political science, the basic knowledge is that federal societies develop into federal states when they agree on the basis of a constitution they have negotiated to share power in a way that no component feels marginalised or excluded. In Nigeria, the 1951 Macpherson’s Constitution was adopted on the basis of an elite consensus. The regional elites were suspicious of each other, had no trust in the other and therefore decided that federalism is the best collective protection for all of them. As has been explained: “True Federalism implies power sharing, abandoning the notion of…
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state has waded into the dispute between Dangote and BUA companies owned by two business moguls from the state. This is in order to resolve the lingering conflict among the two Kano State prominent indigenes Aliko Dangote and Abdussamad Isyaka-Rabi’u over the establishment of a Sugar plant by BUA. A statement by Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor on Thursday in Kano, said the reconciliation meeting took place on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that Alhaji Aminu Dantata, Kano Emirate and the Kano State Council of Imams joined the governor in the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will establish a N100 billion Strategic Health Impact Fund for Transformation (SHIFT) to support the fight against COVID-19 in the country. The Director-General of SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, said this at the first 2021 post-Capital Market Committee virtual news conference in Abuja on Thursday. Yuguda said the fund would be invested in the healthcare assets of the country. He noted that the capital market community would not relent in the support against the pandemic, as the market had earlier contributed to the fight. ”The pandemic and its attendant lockdown had negative effect on the…
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says internet access and broadband penetration will become existential in the nearest future and will determine Nigeria’s competitiveness in the global economy. The vice president said the recognition of the importance of internet access and broadband penetration, among others, was the driving force behind Federal Government’s initiative on broadband connectivity for all. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice president virtually inaugurated the Ogun State Digital Economy Empowerment Project. “Making digital technology available to all our citizens and businesses is the most farsighted action any government can take today.…