Windstorm kills one, renders 100 homeless

Windstorm kills one, renders 100 homeless

Gusau — At least one person was confirmed dead and many others injured, following a windstorm that was accompanied by a heavy rainfall  in Maradun and Talata Mafara towns of Zamfara State.
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Worsening environmental disorders as Nigeria marks WED

Worsening environmental disorders as Nigeria marks WED

By Jude Njoku TO say that  Nigeria  is under siege is not an understatement. The Sahara desert is expanding at an increasingly alarming rate with whole villages in the North disappearing under sand dunes. Affected villagers have become refugees in their own country.

Bye-bye Soludo and welcome Lamido: Vision or mission impossible?

Bye-bye Soludo and welcome Lamido: Vision or mission impossible?

As Professor P. Ekeh once noted in “Government and Development in Nigeria” that, ‘whatever other gifts the Fulani aristocracy possess (and there are few other groups that are so well endowed in Nigeria indeed elsewhere in Africa), economic production has not been one of its strong points’.

70-yr-old, 12 other detainees freed in Kwara

70-yr-old, 12 other detainees freed in Kwara

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin — A septuagenarian, Mallam Tanko  Suleiman, was among the lucky 13 detainees released, yesterday, by the  Kwara State Criminal Justice Committee led by the Acting Chief Judge of Kwara State, Justice Fola Gbadeyan.