President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday outlined measures by Nigeria to reverse biodiversity loss, expressing concern that most indigenous flora and fauna commonly found within the country are facing extinction. President Buhari…
By GARBA SHEHU As we mark the 60th Anniversary Day, the record-setting, mega roadways infrastructure development projects by the Buhari administration numbering up to 600 that are undergoing major upgradation…
Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum has revealed in Maiduguri, that at different times, some Governors had spoken to Governor Babagana Umara Zulum about his safety and…
Public and private schools in Kwara State are to resume normal academic classes from Monday October 5, a government statement has said. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Communications…
By Muhammad Khalid Idris As a people of a common race, whose land and social progress lies in the quality of their peaceful coexistence, it is a matter of necessity…
By Usman Abdullahi Koli Nigeria became a British protectorate in the year 1901. The country was liberated from the sheckles of colonialism in 1960 when a strong movement of patriotic…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sympathy for the victims of the Hadejia floods which, according to received reports, destroyed over 100,000 hectares of rice farms in Jigawa State. In a…
Bauchi State Government on Tuesday declared total commitment to harness other sectors of the economy in a bid to boost its Internally Generated Revenue for sustainable development. The State Commissioner…
By Usman Abdullahi Koli It’s worrisome, pathetic and disgusting how several attacks by the so called Boko Haram/ISWAP groups on Borno State Governor, Babagana Ummara Zulum’s convoy where at the…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Days passed by, weeks passed by and weeks turned into months. With the chilly winter, the wind was blowing. It was already dark, moons and…
By Ismail Omipidan Today, Tuesday, September 29, 2020, is the 66th birthday of my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola. To celebrate him, I have elected to speak about a few of his…
Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the behest of their Chairman, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, may confer again to discuss…
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has visited the families of policemen and civilian JTF volunteers ambushed on Friday while on their way to Baga. Zulum was at headquarters…
By Sulaiman Maijama’a With due respect, Your Excellency, as established in the voluminous 1999 constitution, every citizen is entitled to seek an official statement from authorities or officials concerned on…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER SEVENTEEN It is one week now after the occurrence of everything. Farida is to resume work today since she was given a week off. What could…
Organized labour, in the early hours of Monday, suspended the proposed strike over increase in prices of petrol and electricity tariff. The suspension was contained in a communique jointly signed…
President Muhammadu Buhari condemns ambush on entourage of Governor Umar Babagana Zulum of Borno State, which led to the death of security men and some operatives of Civilian-JTF. In a…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum is saddened by the killing of 11 security personnel made up of eight policemen and three civilian JTF members ambushed on their way to…
The PDP National Campaign for Ondo Governorship Election counsels the embattled governor of Ondo state and candidate of the rejected All Progressives Congress (APC), Rotimi Akeredolu, to engage in issue-based…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER SIXTEEN “What the hell did you think you were doing”? Dr Hassan yelled at Bello. Get lost before I will be forced to hand you over…
Bauchi State Governor Senator Bala Muhammad Abdulkadir has called for justice and equity in the distribution of COVID-19 Palliative materials in Alkaleri Local government area of the state. The Governor…
Bauchi State Government on Friday inaugurated a 15 member high powered committee to clarify the fate of its houses allocated under the 6th phase owner-occupier housing scheme in BSADP quarters,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his single desire is to make sure that innocent Nigerians don’t suffer regardless of party affiliation. Speaking Friday when Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo…
The Chairman of Governors Forum who is also the Ekiti State governor, Chief Kayode Fayemi, Acting National Chairman of the APC and the Yobe state Governor Mai Mala Buni along…
Sex workers in Onitsha, Anambra state have threatened to go on strike over the hardship they are experiencing as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, petrol, and electricity tariff increase.…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER FIFTEEN The next morning, Farida was too weak to get off the hospital bed. She though of ways she could convince her boss that she was…
Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the reopening of all public and private Schools in the state closed some months ago due to the covid-19 Pandemic. By…
By Garba Adamu Bauchi State house of assembly has been call upon to come up with legislation that will guarantees Child right act. Minister of women affairs Pauline Tallen made…
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has called on the new District Head of Kware, Malam Muhammmadu Dan Iya to use his talent and experience to promote unity and brotherhood among his…
The Adamawa State Government has announced Monday October 12th 2020 as date for the reopening of both Public and Private Schools across the State. In a statement signed by the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the death of 23 people, as confirmed by the Federal Road Safety Commission, “represents another disturbing and saddening incident in the litany of tragedies…
Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed today recieved in audience, officials of the Nigerian Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre based in Bayero University Kano who visited him at his…
The Federal Government is to meet meet again with the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress on the threat by the organised labour to proceed on an indefinite strike…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER FOURTEEN “And you” Farida said referring to Bello. He was so ashamed he couldn’t look at her in the face. A quick recap will remind you…
Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has yesterday refused to accept the naming of an orchard after him by the Ministry of Environment and directed the orchard located at the Borno…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is shocked and deeply grieved by the devastating petrol tanker accident that claimed the lives of no fewer than 25 compatriots including a whole family,…
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State on Tuesday received a presidential delegation consisting of ministers and other officials to commiserate on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Government and…
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Tuesday announced a donation of a befitting house and 20 million Naira to the widow and orphans left behind by late Col.…
By a Concern Citizen The oppositions should bury their heads in shame over their botched agitations on payment of salaries in Bauchi state. It is a known fact that this…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER THIRTEEN Farida suddenly felt a coldness sweep through her body. She endured the burn in her throat as she held onto the door knob and turned…
By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde The last colonial Governor of Northern Nigeria, Sir Bryan Sharwood Smith, was the District Officer (D.O.) of Zaria when the Emir of Zazzau, Ibrahim Kwasau,…
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State on Monday inaugurated a committee that will verify retired workers across the 27 local government areas of the state in preparation for payment…
By Yushau A. Shuaib It is baffling and hard to believe that the Nigerian Army under the current leadership of Lt. General Tukur Buratai would recruit the service of publicists…
By Comr Doji Doji To outsiders, Bauchi state is a developed state when they are discussing the level of political awareness of the citizens. But in reality, Bauchi is far…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER TWELVE Farida on the other hand left the company immediately after the call and drove home. She was thinking of getting some rest, a day off…
By Sulaiman Maijama’a I was surfing Facebook in the last week when I came across a post by Lawal Mu’azu Bauchi, the Special Assistant on New Media to the Bauchi…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his condolences to the government and people of Ebonyi State over the motor accident on Akaeze-Ukwu River Friday night, in which several passengers were feared…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has stated that feeding over one million Internally Displaced Persons without having access to the means of livelihood is no longer sustainable. The Governor…
Federal Government in partnership with the Bauchi State Government is to commence fresh construction of four thousand housing units in the state worth billions of naira targeting lower income earners…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER ELEVEN “Good morning” He said to her. “Morning sir”. He headed towards Khaleel’s office but she quickly let him know the situation at hand. “He is…
Former Senator representing Bauchi Central, Isah Hamma Misau, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formally defected to APC. The Director General, Press and Media Affairs to Gov. Mai Mala…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER TEN The next morning, Khaleel woke up with a severe headache. All night he had cursed his secretary. He managed to pull himself out of the…
By ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER NINE “Mama why are you doing this to me, do you want to see your only son suffer”? Bello asked Mama but she turned her face…
The Emir of Biu Emirate in Borno State, His Royal Highness Mai Umar Mustapha Aliyu is dead. The Emir was reported to have died Monday night at the Federal Medical…
By Maryam Shetty Mr President is in the eye of the storm recently for bravely realizing the inevitable expungement of the fuel subsidy in Nigeria, brave due to the extreme…
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno state has approved the engagement of 84 medical doctors, 365 nurses and midwives, 45 pharmacists and 100 health technicians and other supportive staff, making…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER EIGHT They had decided to go back home while the nurse maid come back to look after Umma since Sufyan will be moving to their house…
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum was on humanitarian visit to Damasak, the headquarters of Mobar Local Government Area, on Friday. The Governor entered Damasak from Diffa in Niger Republic.…
By Sulaiman Maijama’a If justice is to prevail, one can not point an accusing finger to the citizens of Bauchi State, who have been registering their discontent and throwing a…
By Adamu Mai-bödi We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the…
By Rilwan Muhammad In what would seem as a joke to the Nigerians, who voted in president Muhammadu Buhari to office in 2015 and 2019 general elections, Dauda Kahutu Rarara,…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER SEVEN Farida was filled with an undescribable sadness as she sat down facing the doctor alongside Bello. Madam you have to take heart…….Dr Hassan started but…
By Mohammed Ibrahim Hush this Hush that; fraud star, scammer, schemer and what not; Nigerians never cease to amaze and entertain in equal measures. If Dauda Kahutu (Rarara) is seen…
National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) has called on federal government to review downward the price of petroleum in the country. The Chairman, Bauchi Central Motor park Branch of…
By Bin Isah Having a respect for somebody as a chief administrator and supporting his government doesn’t mean not seeing him as fallible. And there is no government that is…
Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson has visited Bauchi state governor, for a crucial discussion on advancement of mining activities in the state. During the session,…
By Rilwan Muhammad When Herbert Marshall McLuhan, the recondite Canadian media and communication theorist coined, in the early 1960s, the term “global village” to denote or describe the phenomenon of…
By Sani Adamu Hassan Few days after a clash between Herders and Farmers in Zadawa, Hardawa District of Misau Local government area of Bauchi state, Governor Bala Muhammad Abdulkadir has…
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday received in audience at State House, Abuja, the newly re-elected President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, telling him: “I congratulate you on your…
Fire broke out today, Thursday September 10,2020 at the Ondo State Head Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Akure. The inferno, which gutted the container housing Smart Card…
Jigawa state Government says it would soon embark on execution of water project to boost its supply in Jahun and Aujara towns Similarly, the government says it would also desilt…
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has called on the federal government to desilt Goronyo and Bakolori dams to forestall and checkmate the problem of perennial flooding that occur…
The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Murtala Muhammadu International Airport, MMIA, Command has handed over a suspect with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine, ATM, card to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission,…
Borno State Government on Thursday resettled 750 households, who are residents of Kawuri, a community in Konduga Local Government Area. Each household comprising not less than 6 family members. Governor…
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the level of preparedness of nations to shocks of food security, explaining that the Federal Government’s wisdom in promoting…
BY ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER SIX His bossom friend and colleague, Khalid went close to him and whispered to his ears, “I think this meeting need to be adjourned, you should…
By Firdausi Bakondi Bauchi State First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Bala Mohammed has advocated for the establishment of a mobile court for speedy trial of perpetrators of sexual and gender based…
BY: ZEE ASLAM CHAPTER FIVE Every monday morning is the beginning of a new fruitful and busy week for every worker. To Farida, it is like a half day to…
By Muktar Sani Saulawa Gombe state government and the United Nations have been called upon to provide more assistance to over Fourteen Thousand Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the state.…
The Administrative Committee on Inquiry into land disputes between Herders and Farmers has submitted its report to Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi State. Presenting the report at the Council…
