ASHENEWS reports that the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Rt. Honorable Abdulmalik Sarkindaji has said that government need to prioritize funding public vasities in order to arrest the rising crime rate and youths restiveness across the country. According to him, the proliferation of private universities has made education expensive as several youths cannot afford to go to private universities. The Speaker who spoke after he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree in political science by the ESCAE University, Cotonou in Benin Republic said that by not funding the public universities, the universities will not have the necessary tools…
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Girls Beyond Reach Foundation, also known as Daddys Girls, has awarded N2 million in educational scholarships to girls residing in Angwan-Shao, Karimo, Abuja
100 unemployed women and youths in Kaduna state have been empowered to turn waste into furnitures, shoes and menstrual pads.
Niger state government has declared that it will not embark on window dressing projects insisting that it would embark on quality projects that will stand the test of time.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria has described the incessant attacks by armed herdsmen in dozens of communities in Kaduna as no longer acceptable.
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been appointed as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Climate Action Platform for Africa
The granddaughter of former South Africa President, Zoleka Mandela is dead.
ASHENEWS reports that Road Safety Advocates around the world have written a letter to Heads of States and Governments attending the 2023 UN SDG Summit in New York calling for action to reduce road deaths and injuries by 50 per cent by 2030.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted illicit drug consignments in different parts of the country. According to the Spokesman of the Agency, Femi Babafemi who made this known in a statement on Sunday, September 17, the illicit drug consignments were concealed in different items. The statement disclosed that an intending passenger going to Oman, Ugwu Peter Tochukwu at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Tuesday, 12th September was intercepted with 7.50 kilograms of skunk which was concealed inside crayfish mixed with dry bitter leaf while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight. “In the same vein, NDLEA…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives in Imo state has patrolling successfully intercepted five pregnant teenage girls believed to be potential victims of child trafficking in a suspected “baby factory”.