Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian Finance Minister and leading candidate for the director-general of the World Trade Organisation job, has urged the Federal Government to do everything possible to bring back the over 300 schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State. Okonjo-Iweala, who described the unfortunate incident as a recurring nightmare,…
…says we need more Tony Elumelus to take our children off the streets The Sultan of Sokoto, Sultan Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, commended the Tony Elumelu Foundation and its Founder, Tony O. Elumelu for their contribution to entrepreneurship and creation of jobs for young people in the North. The Sultan made this commendation during a…
President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Sa’ad Abubakar, who doubles as the Sultan of Sokoto, has declared Wednesday, July 6, 2016, as the Eid el-Fitr day in Nigeria. The Sultan, while making the announcement on Monday, explained that the new moon of Shawwal had not been sighted anywhere in Nigeria. According…
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday, paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan for the first time since his ascension to the exalted Kano throne. The monarch was at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja, for the breaking of Ramadan fast with…