The North and its leaders seem happiest and satisfied when led by the nose. As in every election cycle, vote…
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The topic on everybody’s, well, almost everybody’s, lips now is tax reform. Everybody has become an expert, so everyone is discussing it:…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says all is set to train 4,500 health workers on Straightening Access to Reproductive and Adolescent Health (SARAH) in Adamawa, Kwara and Sokoto States.
The Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, has expressed deep concern over the rising cases of out-of-school children, poverty, and other socioeconomic problems in the North, warning that the region is on the brink of collapse if leaders do not unite to find solutions to these challenges.
“We are resorting to treating patients on mattresses on the floor because our facilities are full. Children are dying. If immediate action is not taken, more lives hang in the balance.
With good leaders, the North can harness its agricultural potentials, leverage on its population size, standardize its international markets and tap its mineral wealth to grow rapidly. Northern Nigeria has over 37 million hectares of arable land, but Thailand – with 17 million hectares – records nearly three times the entire Nigerian rice production.
The initiation of the 614 km-long Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline, a part of Nigeria’s Gas Master Plan, will enhance the energy infrastructure in the region. His administration provided substantial support for the rehabilitation of the Kaduna Refinery, and he ensured the Kolmani oil field project in Bauchi and Gombe reached a point of no return but to continue.
The Northern Governors’ Forum (NSGF) led by Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has called for urgent action in advancing the economic and…
ASHENEWS reports that the minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle has asked political appointees in the Tinubu-led administration from the north to either take a stand for the federal government or take an exit.
Northern Nigeria’s response to the food crisis has been to play the ostrich and effectively act the role of the Dog in this time of famine. This, it is doing by stylishly and selfishly ethnicising the food crisis situation. The North’s stand is always predictably selfish, as if it is destined to go the way of the self, as against the collective.