All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
No fewer than 12 people have been killed following a cholera outbreak in Kubau local government area of Kaduna State recently.
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
from All Africa There are calls being made for a state of emergency for the northern part of Uganda. - Kale by Abdulraheem Aodu Kaduna, - The Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukuma Soludo has asked federal government to declare the poverty level in the north, a national crisis situation which may stall the realization of the country's goal to achieve the target of one of the fastest developing...
NigerianMuse Articles (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Chad Basin: NNDC, AFC Partner on Oil Exploration -Thisday From Reuben Buhari in Kaduna, 07.21.2008 Northern Nigeria Development Company (NNDC) and the African Finance Corporation (AFC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will ensure full oil exploration activities around the Benue trough and the Chad basin next year. This was disclosed when the Group Managing Director of NNDC,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nigeria: NGF Wades Into FG/NUT Feud (Abuja)Abdulraheem Aodu & Murjanatu Mohammed AbbaKadunaAs part of efforts to end the ongoing nation wide teachers' strike, Northern Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday met with officials of the Nigerian Union of Teachers to see how it could resolve the impasse between the union and Federal Government and end the strike.NGF also approved the setting up Sir Ahmadu...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
... billion which can do only three. So we earlier planned to site them in areas like Jalingo, Abia, Kaduna and other places," Mrs. Ibrahim said.Permanent Secretary of the Energy Ministry (Power) Dr. Abdullahi Aliyu also said N56 billion out of the N115 billion provided in the 2008 budget for the power sector has been released.He said, "President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has directed the Ministry...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on the issue, said NEXIM was currently making a presentation to the Northern Governors Forum in Kaduna.Spokesman of the President, Mr. Segun Adeniyi could not be reach for comment also.Another marketer who spoke on condition of anonymity said "the government is refusing to sign as the guarantor but we don't know the reason because Nigerians are suffering."Since the presidency has refused...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... of the pipelines allowed the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), Warri and the Kaduna Refinery to come back to life after it went comatose after the attack and stoppage of work in 2006 following the destruction of the lines by militants.But the spokesman for the militant group, Jomo Gbomo in a statement, maintained, "MEND is aware that huge payments have been made to some criminal...
NigerianMuse Articles (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
TRIBUNE Soludo raises alarm over poverty in the North - Says poverty is a Northern phenomenon Hassan Ibrahim, Kaduna - 20.07.2008 The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has said in Kaduna at the weekend, that poverty is a Northern phenomenon, insisting that the crippling poverty in the North is a national crisis just like that of the Niger Delta....
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... highs.NNPC's Chanomi creek pipeline feeds from the Escravos terminal into refineries in Warri and Kaduna.Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell, whose facilities have been amongst the worst hit by MEND's campaign of sabotage, also has a pipeline in the Chanomi creek which feeds into the Forcados oil export terminal."SETTLING THE BOYS"The government of President Umaru Yar'Adua is under immense...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Defenders: Taye Taiwo (Olympic Marseille, France), Onyekachi Apam (OGC Nice, France) Adeleye Ayodele (Sparta Rotterdam, Holland), James Monday (Bayelsa United), Adefemi Olubayo (Hapoel Jerusalem, Israel), Ambrose Efe (Kaduna United), Chibuzor Okonkwo (Bayelsa United)
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Indications have emerged that about eight applicants died during the 2008 Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise which took place at the Ahmadu Bello stadium in Kaduna recently.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Nigeria: National Sports Festival Gets DateFemi SolajaAfter several months of uncertainty, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 16th National Sports Festival (NSF) has finally fixed a date for the 10-day sports fiesta that is expected to bring together youths all over the federation.A close aide to the Kaduna State Commissioner for Sports Shehu Adamu confided to THISDAYSports that all...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... was speaking at a workshop titled, "Funding Diversification in Polytechnics", organized by the Kaduna-based National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in Abuja.Lawan who said that the workshop was critical for the development of education, said "The slogan of vision 2020 will not make any meaningful impact if we cannot fund the polytechnic sector that has the key to driving us into that...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Kaduna-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said that the "high and persisting level of poverty in the country is a northern phenomenon."
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... N4.09 billion.He named the five participating states as Lagos, Kano, Cross River, Enugu and Kaduna.Babandi said that both the Federal government and CADP were seeking an additional N5.8 billion from the World Bank to accelerate the project.He said that the additional fund was needed to support the food security programme of government and bridge the gap in production and processing.The Coordinator...
