The governor of Niger state, Muazu Aliyu has identified youth idleness across the northern part of the country as the major cause of the recent security challenges in the region. Governor Aliyu made this observation during the official flag off of the training of 300 youths in modern livestock and fish farming in Minna, Niger state. He lamented the rising level of unemployment in the north which according t ...

The Governor of Niger State, Muazu Aliyu, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a political party that cannot be defeated by any merger of opposition parties. The governor made the remark when he received some members of the PDP’s Board of Trustee (BoT), who paid him a visit in Minna. The guests were led by the chairman of the party's BoT, Chief Tony Anenih. On the newly formed African Pro ...

About $500 billion had been lost to corruption in the country from 1960 till date. This was the submission of former Minister of External Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi during the one day Minna National Discourse on corruption. According to the former envoy, the raising insecurity in some parts of the north, the militancy in the south- south and the kidnapping for ransom in the south-east are all the co ...

The Governor of Niger State, Muazu Aliyu, has stated that the present attempt at amending the Constitution by the National Assembly is unnecessary. The governor said this when declaring open the 39th Conference of Chief Judges, Grand Khadis and Presidents, Customary Courts of Appeal of Northern States and the Federal Capital Territory in Minna, the Niger State capital. He explained that rather than amending ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians owe former President Olusegun Obasanjo an “enduring debt of gratitude” for his contribution to the development of the nation. In a letter congratulating the former Head of State on the occasion of his 76th birthday, President Jonathan extended felicitations of behalf of his family and the country. “On behalf of my family, the Government and people of the F ...

The Governor of Niger state, Muazu Aliyu, has said that the merger of opposition parties to form the All Progressive Congress (APC) is a wake up call to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The governor who stated this during the swearing in of new members of the State Executive Council at the Government House, Minna explained that the merger of the opposition political parties will lead to the forma ...

The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has described the bomb attacks on the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, in a military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji, Kaduna state, as "cruel and wicked."   The twin bomb attacks claimed 11 lives and injured 30 others. Commiserating with the Nigerian military over the bomb blast, Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger state, Alh ...

Military authorities have confirmed that two suicide bombs hit a church inside a military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji, Kaduna state, killing 11 people and injuring 30 others. A military source confirmed that a bus entered the barracks and was driven into the wall of the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, where it exploded and ten minutes later another car blew up outside th ...

The governor of Niger state and former chairman of Governors Forum Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has revealed that all the state governments in Nigeria are unable to meet all their financial obligations as he called for an urgent review of the revenue sharing formula. Dr Babangida revealed this in a question and answer interview, published by a financial magazine, Economic Confidential, on Sunday. Responding t ...