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By OBINNA EZUGWU Since the end of Nigerian civil war in 1970, a select team of now retired military generals, namely, General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General T.Y. Danjuma, General Aliyu Gusau, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, among few others, have been influential in deciding who becomes the country’s president. But ahead of 2023, their camp…

By Muhammed Sani Inuwa It was the afternoon of Monday, 6th December 2021 when that call came in from your closest and dearest friend and brother, Alaranma Jibril Darda’u while I was far away in the Chief Magistrate Court, Egbe, Kogi State. It was indeed ‘distressful’ in the real sense of the word as it…

… Fixes 29th, 30th December 2022 For Wake Keep, Funeral. The burial program for late Mr. Benjamin Ubitogwale who died on the 16th December, 2022 has been released. Mr. Ben Natty as he is popularly referred died at the Federal Medical Centre Lokoja after an illness, last Friday. According to the burial program slated for…

By Musa Tanimu Nasidi Crowther Old Students Association, (CMC-OSA),has condoled with the family of late Benjamin Obitogwale a former Student of Crowther Memorial College,(CMC) who died on Friday 16th of December 2022, few days to his 59th birthday,at federal medical center Lokoja. This was contained in a condolence message signed by the National Publicity Secretary…

By Musa Tanimu Nasidi The death has occurred of Mr. Benjamin Ubitogwale, a former student of Crowther Memorial CollegeCMC ( “83 set). Ubitogwale died Friday at the Federal Medical Centre Lokoja after a protracted illness. Mr. Ubitogwale hails from Ibaji LGA of Kogi State, died at the age of 58, is survived by his wife…

By Our Reporter A Kano-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, has been convicted for blasphemy. The cleric was sentenced to death by hanging Thursday by a Kano Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Kofar Kudu, Kano State, and presided by Mallam Ibrahim Sarki Yola. Reading his verdict, Sarki Yola said, “I am convinced that the…

By Musa Tanimu Nasidi The Light Up Movement rejects the current bills being distributed by AEDC for the Month of November. This is because the bills grossly do not reflect the services purportedly provided by the Disco during the period under review. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the chairman Comrade Iliyasu…

By Alfaki Nasidi With forex scarcity biting and the dwindling fortune of the Naira at the foreign exchange market, Nigeria’s power sector is facing a herculean task meeting the electricity needs of Nigerians as most of the equipment needed for their smooth operation are imported. As at the time of compiling this report, the exchange…

Musa Tanimu Nasidi The Minister of state for the FCT Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu has assured that the FCT Administration would bolster enabling environment for young producers of locally made goods to continue to excel in the Territory. Aliyu, who made the assertion at the weekend, during the 2022 Locally Made products exhibition held in…