By Waziri Mahdi Isa Experts have expressed concerns that the 2025 budget’s projected 4.6% gross domestic product (GDP) growth may not be enough to reduce poverty and create jobs. According to Professor Chiwuike Uba, a development economist and public accountant, “While Nigerians are struggling with a high cost of living,Continue Reading
By I. M. Lawal [email protected] In the annals of Nigeria’s security failures, one incident will go down as both tragic and absurd: the fundraising campaign by retired and serving military officers to pay ransom for the release of a kidnapped Brigadier General. According to a letter dated April 4th, 2025,Continue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa & Muhammad Baqeer Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has lost a very popular staff, Malam Ibrahim Shuaibu, popularly known as Danjuma. Malam Danjuma, who died on Saturday, 5th April, 2025, aged 58, passed away after a protracted illness that arose from a stroke. Danjuma, who was buriedContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa & Muhammad Baqeer Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has lost a very popular staff, Malam Ibrahim Shuaibu, popularly known as Danjuma. Malam Danjuma, who died on Saturday, 5th April, 2025, aged 58, passed away after a protracted illness that arose from a stroke. Danjuma, who was buriedContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Transportation, Daura, Prof. Umar Adam Katsayal, has advocated for sustainable transportation education as a pathway to Africa’s green economy. Professor Katsayal stated this while presenting a paper at the 3rd Africa Education Summit in Zimbabwe, titled “Sustainable Transportation Education:Continue Reading
The Federal Government has urged the country’s tertiary institutions to tailor their academic programmes to meet local economic, social, and environmental needs while tackling the challenges of unemployment and climate change confronting Nigeria. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, who stated this during an interactive session with Rectors of federalContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa The Federal Government has approved the establishment of Zamaki College of Health Sciences and Technology Yola. With this historic approval, the College becomes the Pioneer Private College of Health Sciences and Technology in Adamawa state. The approval which was communicated to the Proprietor of the college,Continue Reading
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar has revealed that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is actively working to shape a political agreement aimed at persuading Egypt to accept the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza—a plan originally proposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump, and widely rejected by Arab states, especially EgyptContinue Reading
The French newspaper Le Monde has exposed what it described as a deceptive façade maintained by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) regarding the Gaza genocide and its strategic alliance with Israel, which continues to undermine the Palestinian cause and Arab consensus. In a powerful op-ed titled “The UAE’s Gaza Trilogy”,Continue Reading