Perspectives
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Following the unfortunate attack on Ungwan Gamu, and two other villagies near Maro in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna last Sunday, the Adara Development Association(ADA) has challenged the Nigeria Air Force to conduct a thorough investigation on the incident to determine if the helicopter and the crew belong to the Nigeria Air Force. The […]

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday began the search for their running mates. The spokesman for the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Mr Bayo Onanuga, in an interview with Journalists said the APC presidential candidate would meet the APC governors […]

Kaduna State PDP Governorship aspirant and former Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Alhaji Sani Sidi has pledged his firm commitment towards supporting the party and its candidates in winning the 2023 general elections at all levels. Sani Sidi made the pledge on Wednesday through the Chairman of the Sani Sidi Campaign Council, Mr […]

A group under the aegis of Kaduna State Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Ambassadors has called on Kaduna State PDP leadership and the Governorship Candidate, Right Honourable lsa Ashiru Kudan, to choose a retired consummate banker and former Commissioner of Finance, Dr. John Ayuba, as running mate to make a formidable team that will launch […]

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will on Wednesday, face parliament in his first appearance before lawmakers since escaping a damaging no-confidence vote from his own Conservative Members of Parliament. Critics, however, have warned the political crisis is not over for the prime minister after more than 40 percent of his own Members of Parliament voted […]

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday presented Certificates of Return to the 26 state Governorship Candidates for the 2023 general elections, while the governorship candidates of Kano and Ebonyi States await theirs due to legal issues arising from the primaries. The governorship candidates emerged after the party’s primaries were conducted […]
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have seen prospects in the removal of trade barriers and incentives for higher production as the risk of inflation spreads across the global community. This comes as the World Bank raises Nigeria’s 2022 economic growth prospect to 3.4 per cent – 0.9 percentage points higher than […]

The Chief Executive Officer, Pan African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) Afreximbank, Mike Ogbalu, said African businesses lose over five billion dollars every year to charges, payments and other related costs to intra-African trade barriers. Mr. Ogbalu stated this at the breakfast meeting of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) with the theme: “One […]

The Bauchi office of the Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has sanctioned fifteen filling stations for allegedly violating operational rules and regulations. The coordinator of NMDPRA, Malam Abdullahi Iliyasu, made this known in an interview with the newsmen, on Wednesday, in Bauchi State. According to him, the agency has increased efforts to intensify […]

The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, said the ongoing 2022 National Personnel Audit (NPA) is not aimed at increasing taxes. Dr. Bobboyi made this known in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on the progress of the process, which began on Monday, June 6. He said the exercise was meant […]