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By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna University teachers in Kaduna State University (KASU) have expressed gratitude to the State Governor, Uba Sani, for approving land for their Academia Mass Housing Estate project. They took the position under their umbrella Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). A statement issued by Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Malam Ibraheem Musa, disclosed that ASUU, in a letter dated January 23, 2025, said that the project will ‘’enhance staff welfare and provide civil servants with an opportunity to own homes through a rent-to-own/mortgage financing scheme.’’ The letter, signed by the president of KASU-ASUU Multipurpose Cooperative…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Commissioner for Information in Ekiti State, South-West Nigeria, Taiwo Olatunbosun, has described calls by many Ekiti indigenes for Governor Biodun Oyebanji to seek re-election in 2026 as "a reflection of the confidence that Ekiti people have in his leadership." Speaking in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on a radio programme tagged 'People's Platform', the Commissioner noted that the people of Ekiti State on different political, social and religious platforms, had been calling on Oyebanji to seek re-election following what the Commissioner described as his sterling performances in the last two years of his administration. Olatunbosun, who stated…

By Felix Durumbah Agitators for creation of additional states in Nigeria have more home work to do. This is because their proposals for 30 new states have not met the required constitutional provisions. These much were disclosed by Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Ben Kalu, on Friday, February 7, in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. In a statement issued by his media office, the Deputy Speaker said the 30 proposals fell far short of Section 8 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended),which deals with State and Local Government (LG) creation, boundary adjustment and similar matters. Contrary to media reports (not…

By Okwudiri Okafor, Umuahia Abia State government and land owners housing the proposed Abia airport project have agreed on certain previously contentious areas in a bid to get the project off the ground. Consequently, they have inaugurated a joint technical committee to make further progress on the project. This followed a crucial meeting between the government and community leaders, village and compound heads of land owners as well as the technical team of the Nsulu Airport Land Owners Forum, held on Thursday at Government House, Umuahia, the capital of the South-East Nigerian state. In a communique signed by Chief of…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Kaduna State Government has intervened in the ongoing industrial dispute between electricity distribution firm, Kaduna Electric, and its workers’ union, which resulted in outage in all its franchise states for five days. The state's Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, who hosted the meeting at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Thursday, pleaded with the union to restore electricity to consumers as soon as possible because the outage has impacted negatively across all sectors. Dr Balarabe implored the management and the union to find a common ground to ensure the resolution of their differences, as the lack of…

By Prosper Okoye Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have raised the alarm over alleged human rights violations against Nigerian migrants being deported from Germany. During a press briefing in Abuja,the Nigerian capital, on Thursday, February 6, the groups, including the Civil Society Network on Migration and Development (CSOnetMADE) and the Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse, and Labour (NACTAL), called for urgent government action to address flaws in the deportation and reintegration processes. Recounting a recent incident, National Coordinator of CSOnetMADE, Dr Emeka Obiezu, lamented the inhumane treatment of a Nigerian deportee, Bright Obasuyi. He recounted: "On 22 January 2025, a plane…

Shock -and some relief -enveloped Anambra State on Thursday, February 6, when the fate of missing member of Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon. Justice Azuka, finally came to light. His decomposing body was recovered on Wednesday night, February 5. The body was recovered by a combined security team at the Second Niger Bridge,Onitsha, the Anambra commercial nerve centre. The lawmaker, who represented Onitsha 1 North constituency, had been declared missing since Tuesday, December 24 (Christmas Eve), 2024, when unidentified gunmen kidnapped him as he returned home on Ugwunaobankpa Road, Inland Town, Onitsha. Elected on the platform of Labour Party…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, February 5, led a strong delegation to condole with Governor 'Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, South-Western Nigeria, who lost his elder brother recently. The delegation comprised two former governors in the former G-5 Governors' Forum, Senators and a former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives. Wike, who arrived Makinde's Ikolaba, Ibadan residence in company with the former governors of Abia and Benue states, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu and Samuel Ortom, commiserated with the governor, stating that "whatever affects him also affects the G-5 Governors." The delegation…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Worrying developments seem to have,once again, cropped up in Kaduna State,which has witnessed rare calm in about one-and-a half years now, as fresh violence was unleashed in the key North-Western State on Wednesday, February 5. During the incident, a deadly attack was launched by bandits on Majagada community, Lere Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, leaving in its wake deaths, injuries and abductions. In January,2025, the State government, through the Senior Special Assistant to the State Governor on Public Affairs, Victor Bobai, issued a statement where it accused Gov. Uba Sani's "political adversaries" of recruiting…