Brought to you by Chukwuemeka Chimerue , Jacqueline C. Nnadigwe , Chief Emeka Onuma. Smart City Estate: ‘If you live in this kind of house, you won’t be anxious to die’ — Dr. Okereke, MD Lion Business Park Business developers, investors and dignitaries from different walks of life, yesterday, converged at the Lion Business Park,…

I can walk, recognise people, poisoned Navalny confesses Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny says he is still unable to use his phone properly or pour himself a glass of water, but is on a “clear road” towards recovering from his near-fatal poisoning. Navalny posted a picture of himself walking down a staircase on Saturday, writing…

Bello Matawalle carries on the legacy The administration of Hon. (Dr.) Bello Mohammed Matawalle has in the first instance been able to maintain and steadfastly sustain all the perceived good things carried out by the immediate past administration of Alhaji AbdulAziz Yari Abubakar and has succeeded in improving upon them in most cases. A noteworthy…

Torch-bearer Tambuwal lights up Sokoto   Upon assumption of office as the sixth Executive Governor of Sokoto State, Tambuwals revolutionary imprints were first noticed in the states education sector when it first prioritised through the allocation of highest budget. The latest sectoral allocation of N47, 880, 096, 366 .25 to education, being 24 per cent…

  Jigawa: Badaru remains focused on education Provision of qualitative and functional education is one of the cardinal objectives of the Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar administration, considering the role of education in societys economic prosperity, technology advancement, social cohesion and political stability. Education The Jigawa State Universal Education Board has recorded numerous achievements, including construction…

  Kano’s Ganduje still battling old shadows A man whose achievements have been blighted by the Gandollar scandal and his ugly feud with the former Emir of Kano Lamido Sanusi, Governor Umar Ganduje has weathered his storms really well. Infrastructure Completion of various ongoing construction works, as well as rehabilitation of bridges across the state,…

Kebbi stands to get counted under Bagudu A lot of pundits look and perceive development to mean building sky scrapers, bridges and other structures forgetting a critical aspect of capacity development. Efforts have been put in the area of human development. Although it will be almost impossible to capture the multitude of the glaring giant…

                Hemmed in by bandits, Aminu Masari strives on..               The times have really not been kind to Katsina State; not since the time of YarAdua, its governor in the era of President Olusegun Obasanjo. While Masari, who was Speaker of the…

Jubal Kanayo writes The administrators in Northwestern Nigerian states of Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna and Jigawa, join the LEADERSHIP Scorecard queue to have their works weighed, to see how they have fared in office,                   Divisive Nasir el-Rufais achievements are overshadowed by storms. From his…

Nigeria @ 60: Revisiting the Nigeria social contract Titi Sanni There is a local saying that if one compares children, some may be beaten to death. This perhaps best captures the sentiment Nigeria evokes put side by side with post-independence contemporaries. Nigeria at independence was a vibrant promising entity that was on a clear path…