Opinion

Ongoing needless criticism of Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s message on prevalent insecurity and other current ills reflects a deliberate effort to ignore the message and attack the messenger, Honourable Teejay Yusuf has said. In his Christmas message on the state of the nation, the Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah lamented the endless…

By Aminu Isa On Sunday, 27th December, 2020,Danko Development Forum(DDF) a Non Governmental Organization committed to science education and primary health care will commission Science Laboratory at Government Girls’ Secondary school(GGSS), Sarkin Noma, Lokoja. GGSS was identified as its next focus of intervention as a fallout of a public lecture on Girl Child education during…

By Faruq Ndamadu Musa Greeting’s in the spirit of National Peace and Unity. I commence my writing in a dictum with total submission to the will of Almighty, the giver and the taker, the living and the ever living. Any Community such as Lokoja who fails to build the Youths is burning the bridge it’ll…

By Abba Dukawa Nigerians were completely certain that Mr President as a retired General, a war veteran and only Army officer who Commanded three of the then four Divisions for the Nigeria Army, GOC Commanding, 2nd Mechanised Infantry Division, GOC, 3rd Armed Division and GOC, 4th Infantry Division. All these positions we are firmly relied that Mr president attained…

Again, Danko Development Forum, Lokoja, a renowned socio-cultural forum, whose fame is manifested from its profound contributions to science education and primary health care, is preparing to handover a yet another painstaking project to GGSS Sarkin Noma. Sarkin Noma is a suburb in Lokoja, along Lokoja – Abuja road that is visibly distant from basic…

By Danko Development Forum, (DDF) Lokoja Yet again, the ancient city of Lokoja was thrown into mourning, as one of its illustrious sons; Dr. Godwin Thomas Ndaman Ajakpo, Galadiman Lakwaja, bid the world a farewell on Friday, December 18, 2020. His demise has created another huge vacuum towards the development of the ancient town. A…

Professor Olayemi Akinwumi PhD, FHSN, AvHF, MNAL is a Distinguished Professor of History at Nasarawa State University,Keffi,  Nigeria since 2005. He had his higher education at the University of Ilorin where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 1985 followed by Master’s and PhD degrees in History in the same university.  He is a Fellow of…

The Executive Director in charge of Risk Management, Keystone Bank and Sadauna of Kakanda,Alhaji Tijjani Aliyu, was on Saturday 13, December 2020 honoured with Award of Excellence/ Humanitarian by Lokoja Indigenous Newspapers Publishers and Bloggers (LINPB). The Award was presented by the vice Chairman of Nuj Kogi state Council, Comrade Abubakar Sulaiman on behalf of…

:PROTOCOL APG! PROGRESS, PROGRESS, APG! I wish to welcome you all to this year’s end of year party, Award day and lauching our maiden almanac we thank almighty God for taken us this far and all praises and adoration to him. Amalgamated progressive group (APG) was established in the year 2010 by likemind, friends and…

Nigeria Governors forum (NGF) is reportedly planning to borrow the sum of N17 trillion from the pension fund for infrastructural development. A communique from the 22nd NGF  teleconference meeting said the forum was adopting a proposal by the National Economic Council (NEC) ad hoc committee on leveraging a portion of accumulated pension funds for investment….