Felix Duru Mbah

*100 Others Receive N50,000, Items By Samuel Tyav, Makurdi No fewer than 20 women farmers have been empowered with N20 million to boost their agricultural activities in Benue State. Besides, the Federal Government (FG), which handed them the incentive, also gave 100 other Benue women involved in small-scale businesses the sum of N50,000 each to expand their ventures. FG also presented 400 bags of rice, 10 bags of clothes, 200 ladies' cloth-wrappers, four grinding machines, and four sewing machines to female victims of gender-based violence (GBV). Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, who disclosed these interventions…

By Rosemary Ameh, Sokoto Two motions were presented on the floor of the Sokoto State House of Assembly today, highlighting the need for urgent infrastructure development in key areas in the North-West state. Moving a motion calling for reconstruction of Shehu Kamba Road, which links several residential areas, schools, and business districts in Sokoto North Local Government Area, Hussaini Tukur Faru, lawmaker representing Sokoto North II constituency, described the proposed reconstruction work as vital. He said that not only would it speed up socio-economic development of the area, but would open up contiguous areas for overall development. The motion was…

The issue between muckraking newspaper publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore, and the Department of State Services (DSS) may land both parties in court in Nigeria. Recall that Sowore, the 2023 presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), took strong exception to a statement made by President Bola Tinubu during his visit to Brazil where the president said corruption in Nigeria had ended under his regime. Apparently believing the statement to be false, Sowore reacted by posting a statement on social media platform X in which he made his feelings known in a tweet. The tweet read: "This criminal @officialABAT actually…

By Felix Durumbah, Abuja For the third time in nine months, resident doctors employed by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have proceeded on strike. Their umbrella Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) today declared that public hospitals run by FCTA are being shut, unless the Administration,headed by FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, accedes to their demands for better welfare and provision of basic working assets,among others. ARD FCT, president, Dr. George Ebong, disclosed news of the strike while addressing journalists in Abuja, the nation's capital. This year alone, the FCTA has witnessed two previous strikes in that sensitive sector. In January,…

*Kicks Off Work Towards 2027 By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna A political support group for Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, the Benue Divine Mandate, has visited Saint Peter's Catholic Church, Kaduna, donating the sum of N500,000 to the parish in the process. The body made similar donations to some groups in the church, including the choir. The occasion in church, on Sunday, September 7, was an elaborate thanksgiving celebration by the church's Divine Mandate group under the parish priest, Rev. Fr. Joshua Achie. The parish is renowned among Benue Catholics in Kaduna as the incubation centre where the idea to make…

By Okerafor Athanasius, Jalingo National Deputy Women Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Hajiya Zainab Abubakar Ibrahim has tasked the people of Taraba State on the need to participate actively in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s ongoing  Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise. Hajia Ibrahim spoke during a one-day sensitization and mobilization program on exercise, at conference hall of C2C Events Centre, Jalingo, the State capital. Disclosing that the exercise has national significance, Ibrahim, who is also the Chairperson, Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Gombe State, said the power of democracy rests not only in the hands of political parties but…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State governor, Dr Peter Mbah, has approved a comprehensive restructuring of the State Forest Guard as part of his administration’s drive to strengthen security in the state. The reform includes an upward review of salaries of the operatives to a minimum of N80,000 in line with the state's new minimum wage. The governor also ordered a clampdown on illegal logging, directing that anyone caught felling immature trees or engaging in deforestation across the state’s forests, be arrested and prosecuted under existing laws. The measures were announced by the State Commander of the Forest Guard, Dr.…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Relative calm in southern part of Kaduna State was punctured today (Sunday, September 7) as gunmen, suspected to be terrorists, struck in Kachia Local Government Area (LGA), killing eight persons, injuring 20 and kidnapping several others. The incident reportedly occurred in the morning in Wake village of the LGA. These were contained in a statement today by the former Chairman, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Kaduna State branch, Comrade Isaac Tanko. According to him, "8 were killed, 20 injured while several persons were kidnapped." Lamenting the apparent increasing return of bloodletting in Southern Kaduna, he stated: "It's…

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Federal Government (FG) workers have demanded an urgent review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current N70,000 is no longer sustainable. They made the demand following the bold steps taken by several states across the country to increase the minimum wage of their workers above the N70,000 benchmark, in response to the prevailing economic realities. The labour unions and workers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews contended that in the face of galloping inflation, rising costs of food, transportation, housing, and other essential services, the N70,000 minimum…