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Sokoto government-owned Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic has been granted approval by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to begin National Diploma programs in Building Technology and Civil Technology/Institutional Administration. Disclosing this in an interview in Sokoto, the Rector of the Polytechnic, Prof. Aminu Ibrahim, said the accreditation was secured because it was fully funded […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said the era of Boko Haram terrorism is gradually drawing to end, with the narrowing of the recruitment base of the insurgents, and renewed onslaught by the Nigerian Army. Receiving the Letter of Credence of Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to Nigeria, Most Rev. Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi, […]

Apparently in a bid to find the mysterious snake that swallowed N36m in the Benue office of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Sen. Shehu Sani on Tuesday, stormed the headquarters of the board with snake charmers. The senator who represents Kaduna Central in the National Assembly said, the visit, was with a view […]

www.www.aso.rocks search engine understands that Brigadier General John Shagaya Rtd, a former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria died in a lone auto crash, which occurred at about 14.45 hours on Langtang – Pankshin road, on his way to Jos. Bisi Kazeem, spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC), made the disclosure in […]

Participants at a symposium held recently in  Lagos unanimously   agreed that common sense has a limit in public leadership and should not be the sole requisite for public leadership consideration; a position that supports sound education as an indispensable ingredient for achieving a people-purposed leadership. The symposium which had as its theme; Leadership And Performance In […]Read More

I am inviting our country’s popular-democratic forces, especially the Nigerian Left, to join me in looking back once again. We have to look as the Nigerian state and the various fractions, factions, groups and blocs of the ruling class now begin to take the country through another political turbulence that will end in a reconstitution […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the tragic accident that took the life of Sen. John Shagaya, and condoled the family over the loss. President Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Sunday, also offered his heartfelt condolences to Shagaya’s friends, the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s extended family has been struck by the loss of two senior members who died within a few hours of one another. Hajiya Halima Dauda who was buried in Daura on Saturday morning is the President’s niece and younger sister to his close associate and nephew Malam Mamman Daura. She died at about […]

The phone rang and it was Bimbola on the line calling from the popular network CHANNELS TV. She asked if I could participate in the February edition of The Core. I promptly agreed. The subject, the now world famous herds men/farmers clash, was, as they say, right up my alley both as a reporter and […]

In the last six days, I have gone through traumatic experience when I was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police. By the strength of that unprofessional declaration, I was treated like a common criminal and fugitive until I showed up at the Police Headquarters Abuja to physically present myself. After what the Police termed a […]

Hundreds of local Fulani young men and old have been arrested on Kaduna-Abuja express road in the past three years, heavily armed with war weapons, and their trade is not cattle rustling but “armed robbery” and “kidnapping.” The kidnapping and armed robbery in and around Kaduna became a problem after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the […]