Kwara and Kaduna: Contrasting faces of governance
I AM writing this week’s piece in Ilorin, Kwara State. In recent weeks, I have travelled back and forth between the three cities I live in: Abuja, Kaduna and Ilorin. These cities elicit contrasting emotions for me. As I have always argued, there is a soul-less character to Abuja, and an impersonality that is underlined at weekends or public holidays, when it empties as people travel to other parts of Nigeria.
ECOBANK VS HONEYWELL: Court adjourns firm’s appeal till Feb 10
lagos—The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till February 10 to hear an appeal by Honeywell group, seeking to vacate an order limiting it’s financial transaction.
CHAN: I got my tactics right, Oliseh insists
Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has explained that his team’s failure at the African Nations Championship was not a matter of tactical deficiency.
El-Rufai using N1.8bn free school feeding programme to score cheap political point – Laah
Senator Danjuma Laah, yesterday faulted the recent free feeding program introduced for the 1.8 million primary school pupils of Kaduna state at N50 per meal by the Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led government.
Edo 2016 and the war of succession
THE Statesman-Columnist bears a heavy burden. Quite often, he is torn between two worlds: even where he constantly has an opportunity to privately advise on critical issues – and that’s the extent to which the political class expects him to go – his audiences still want to know his stand, if only as a pointer to the direction they should be looking at.
Genotype Foundation tasks youths on genotype/blood group tests before marriage
Genotype Foundation, a charity, non- governmental organisation, has called on Nigerian youths to know their genotype/ blood group before going into marriage to reduces cases of sickle cell disorder in the society.
