The escalating incidence of petrol smuggling across Nigeria’s borders is put at a whopping 42 million liters per day, raising Nigeria’s estimated daily consumption of 60 million liters to 102 million. This has forced the country to spend between N140…
Tough times have caught up with most Nigerians as they lament the rising cost of foodstuff and other commodities due to inflation. From insecurity to job losses and salary cuts, many say their purchasing power is on the decline while…
The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is a federal government-initiated school feeding programme that aims to improve the health and educational outcome of pupils in public primary schools in Nigeria. The programme, which successfully took off in many…
Discordant tunes have continued to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive on the revival of grazing routes with state governments across the country taking different positions on the president’s pronouncement. The president, in an interview with Arise Television last week, said…
In March this year, the Federal Government said it was set to commission the 10 Megawatts to wind farm sited at Lambar Rimi area of Katsina State. The Minister of Power, Engr Sale Mamman, who announced the development via a…
Many patients are losing their lives in hospitals because they cannot afford medical oxygen, investigation by Daily Trust Saturday revealed. Patients with certain complications like acute pneumonia, COVID—19, heart disease among others sometimes require the support of medical oxygen to…
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, said the series of attacks on the commission’s facilities may undermine its capacity to organize elections and negatively impact the country’s electoral processes. Yakubu made the…
Patients and caregivers at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) have described the recent electricity blackout in the hospital as very pathetic as the problem lingers. Despite generating millions of Naira in revenue, the situation in the hospital, according to some…
All those close to late Flt. Lt. Taiwo Olufemi Asaniyi and Major Nura Hamza, among others, are still living in anguish and recalling the importance of the deceased to them The ill-fated crash occurred on Friday, May 21, and claimed…
The multi-billion naira Independent Power Plant (IPP) project in Kano State, which was said to have reached 95 percent completion in July 2020 and scheduled to be commissioned in October of the same year, is yet to see the light…
