For retired Colonel Sani Bello, a former Nigerian Military governor of Kano state and founder of the Sani Bello Foundation, comparing Nigeria’s past to its present is both a nostalgic and sobering exercise. In this interview with ASHENEWS, he shares his views on the nation’s decline, his passion for philanthropy, and his personal journey of choosing service over extravagance.
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Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala has been reappointed as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Stakeholders in the health sector have called on the Taraba Government to prioritise the timely release of health budgetary allocation to key budget lines that seek to promote child health.
A student of Glorious Covenant School, Rivers State, Master Ikenna Ikechukwu, on Saturday, emerged as the champion of the 2024 MTN Nigeria mPulse Spelling Bee Competition.
Staffers of the Ahmad Sani Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau, have appealed to the Zamfara Government to address irregularities in the salary structure and N30,000 minimum wage implementation.
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Saturday in Abuja started free medical outreach at the Mamusa community, Aco, Lugbe, Abuja.
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the service of the Kogi State Government has expressed their displeasure over the non-implementation of the approved new salary structure, CONMESS 2024.
A sobering report recently released by the UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveals that in 2023, 140 women died daily in alleged femicide. According to the report, no fewer than 140 women and girls die every day allegedly at the hands of either their partners or close relatives. Femicide, the killing of women and girls, is a pressing social and health issue globally. It is one of the violence against women and girls under-reported. This means that one woman is killed every 10 minutes. That is why in the UN report, released on the…
Two organisations, Solidaridad and the Sustainable Trade Organisation (IDH), say they are committed to identifying actionable solutions to the traceability gaps in Nigeria’s palm oil supply chain.
“Money doesn’t change men; it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, arrogant, or greedy, the money brings that out; that’s all.” – Henry Ford. Last week, while extending our birthday wishes to the Governor of Yobe State, we underscored his honourable character and concluded by asserting that this was but one facet of what makes him a truly admirable leader, promising to substantiate this claim with further examples. Let us, however, not dwell on his commendable efforts in reforming and repositioning Yobe’s education sector since declaring a state of emergency on it upon assuming office on 29 May 2019.…