Category: Features

Youths under the auspices of Mr. Synergy have honored the virtues of their principal, Barr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) as the man of the year. According to the founder and national leader of Mr. Synergy group, Comrade Musa Usman Terrang (Jagaba Kulinyi), the New Year Bash was organised to […]

As Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Barr  Boss Mustapha is a busy man, but when it came to being with his kit and kin in Hong, Adamawa State, earlier in the week, the top federal government official put everything else aside. At the Hong Economic Summit on Tuesday, December 27, Boss Mustapha […]

An eight-year-old girl was found in a pool of blood at Gada-Walowal in Yolde-Pate, a suburb of Yola town in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State sometime last year. She was suspected to have been raped by an unknown person while she eased herself outside her parents’ uncompleted building where she lived with […]

Girls in parts of Adamawa State recount why they had to drop out of school and how they returned after a while to complete their programmes through the intervention of a pro-education NGO “My parents said I couldn’t go back to school because I had a child,” says a teenager who stopped school after she […]

  The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) suspended its strike on Wednesday after being at it for over two months. JUSUN had on April 6 ordered its members all over the country to shut all courts to push its demand for financial autonomy for the judiciary. Premium Times reports that the 64-day-old strike is […]

Behold the words of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State at the commissioning of a township road in Numan on Wednesday: I am glad to be back in my second home Numan, the cradle of the Fresh Air Movement, to commission the IZALA-GWEDA MALLAM-RAFA-WAYAM Road. In my Government’s typical responsiveness to the yearnings of the […]

Courtesy of the hurriedly assembled new government in Chad on Tuesday, Mahmud Ibn Idriss Deby Itno is now the President of Chad. Rather than President, however, Mahmud Deby takes the title of Chairman, to lead Chad through the freshly constituted Transitional Military Council. The 37-year-old military officer shot into global limelight and into the office […]

A lecturer and author of a book on Kilba folklore, Prof. Cletus Emmanuel Sharndama, has advocated concerted synergy between parents and language teachers to safeguard languages and foster linguistic diversity. Prof Sharndama who is with the Federal University Wukari, said at a public presentation of his book, ‘Aspects of Kilba Folklore’ held in Hong LGA […]

  The New Nigerian Newspapers (NNN) Ltd was a bold legacy, an authoritative media house established by the North 55 years ago. This was when Sir Ahmadu Bello, a giant in the sun at the time and in memory, when he was the Premier of the Northern Region. The Northern Regional Government is long gone, […]