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In a bid to inject a fresh pair of hands to run the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has submitted Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman’s name to President Muhammadu Buhari to take over as the new managing director of NPA, THISDAY has learnt. Should Buhari approve the recommendation, Ms. Bala Usman, 40, will become the first female chief executive of a top tier federal government agency and of the NPA. She shall take over from Alhaji Habib Abdullahi, who was reinstated by Buhari in August 2015 as the managing director of NPA, after he had been shown the exit by former President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2015. Sources in the presidency, who confirmed that Ms. Bala Usman’s name had been sent to the president, said Amaechi had decided to make the changes in order to overhaul the NPA. Amaechi, it was gathered, is not particularly impressed with the way the NPA was being run and has decided to effect a change of the executive team as soon...

The administration of His Excellency, Rt. Hon Aminu Bello Masari has been marked with ups and downs in the past and that’s true in any government regardless of good intentions. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that Katsina State is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in the Masari Led Administration; who still questions the Confidence of the Masari led Administration, here are your answers... At a time when our economy is still recovering from the Great Recession, The Masari led Administration atop priorities has to be jobs and growth. That has been the focus plan of his administration. .  It’s a plan to reward small businesses and manufacturers that create jobs within state, not outside the state or overseas.  It’s a plan to give people the chance to get the education and training that businesses are looking for right now. It’s a plan to put folks back to work, reconstructing our roads and o...

In this interview with  JOHN ALECHENU , National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, speaks about the challenges of managing the nation, President Buhari’s policies and other national issues. Excerpts The opposition Peoples Democratic Party has accused your party of being responsible for its leadership crisis. How do you respond to this? All I can say is that they cannot eat their cake and have it. When their factional chairman left us, they were celebrating, they were happy saying oh, we’ve got a big fish. Now that they see the kind of man he is, they are crying wolf. We have nothing to do with the travails of the PDP because in reality; we want a virile opposition. We want an opposition that is responsible, that has ideas to contribute. They have failed to do this so far. So, it is not of any value to us that they are heating up and that they are losing the little bit of the sense of direction they had left. They are just looking for a sca...

  Tension rooted between the social media communities and His Excellency The Executive Governor Of katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari shortly after a publication made by some unscrupulous people within the state in a bid to create tension and distress. Quoting, and presenting the governor’s Sallah message to katsina people in the wrong way. I know there's been a lot of publicity about this speech by the misinterprets. But the truth is, So long as the relationship is between Governor Masari and social media community remains. The relationship still remains the same. A relationship that was based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that the social media community are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, the social media communities overlap and share common principles. Principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. So let there be no doubt -- let there be no doubt: Social ...

The pres. Voice Of The Youth Comr. Abdullahi Kabir Faskari,wishes to felicitates with all Nigerians, especially the Muslim Ummah, on the occasion of this year’s Eid El Fitr.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is considered a national icon and an elder statesman in Nigeria’s politics and a respected former president in the continent. In this open letter to the former president, Bada Yusuf points out that in spite of the successes and recognition Obasanjo may receive, his work is incomplete if the Yoruba’s don’t benefit from it. Excellency Sir, Chief Oluṣẹgun Mathew Okikiọla Arẹmu Ọbasanjọ; as it is pertinent to note your achievement in our national politics especially in the area of installing democracy in Nigeria. You remain the longest serving Yoruba leader at the national level, your transition of power from military to civilian and much later from one civilian to another remain a feat that should forever be celebrated in the Western part of the country, but unfortunately, the Yorubas appear to be the casualties of your political achievement. I am writing this letter to you because of the state of affairs in the Yoruba nation, this is not for partis...

A former president of the country, Olusegun Obasanjo has warned Nigeria and anad African countries on the hazards of the lingering and increasing youth unemployment. Olusegun Obasanjo made this call while receiving the newly appointed President of ECOWAS Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza at his Abeokuta residence. Obasanjo during the visit said: “On the issue of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, I have maintained that all of us in West Africa, in our different countries and indeed in Africa, we are sitting on a keg of gun powder for as long as we do not pay adequate attention to youth unemployment.” He further added: “A situation where more than 50 per cent of our youths are unemployed is extremely dangerous. We now have a situation in part of West Africa where people now are dying of starvation. “Is it that we are not producing enough food or if we are producing what we produced evenly, whatever it is it is shameful, it has led us to be begging interna...