Mallam Dauda Lawal was born on 2 September 1965 in Gusau, Zamfara state. He bagged a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.Hons) Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1987 and earned a Master of Science (M. SC.) in Political Science/International Relations from the same university in 1992. Until September 2017, he was Executive Director, Public Sector Group, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, a bank he joined as a manager in 2003. He spoke on his governorship bid in an interactive session with the media recently.

When you keep on borrowing for consumption, it gets to a stage when you cannot control it. Some people take the simplistic approach of comparing debt to GDP; but our GDP is low. Therefore, we should be looking at debt to revenue

Nima Elbagir, a senior correspondent with the CNN recounts her experience hunting for stories, the risks involved, what drives her and what other career choice she would have made.

After emerging winner of a beauty pageant in Abuja (name withheld), Okolie Isioma Gift‘s crown was withdrawn because she turned down the demands of the organizers. Determined to alter the stereotypes and chauvinistic treatment meted to women in Nigeria, Isioma’s  El-Beulah Development Foundation, which aims alleviates the lives of vulnerable young girls in the society sheds light on the need for resilience.

Former governor of Kaduna state and one of the presidential aspirants of the people Democratic Party, Ahmed Makarfi recently spoke with Journalists  on the forthcoming presidential primaries of the party and his expectation from his party. He also spoke on the allegation by the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike that the Opposition All Progressive Congress has planted some moles as presidential aspirants in the PDP.