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President Muhammadu Buhari will be visiting China on Friday to participate in the 7th Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) scheduled to hold September 3 – 4, 2018 in Beijing. The President will be accompanied to Beijing by his wife, Aisha, who is scheduled to participate in a Spouses’ Programme on China-Africa at the Great Hall of the People, under the theme, ‘‘Joining Hands for a Future of AIDS.’’ Also on the President’s entourage are Governors Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, Akinwunmi Ambode, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar and Rochas Anayo Okorocha of Bauchi, Lagos, Jigawa and Imo States, respectively. Others are Senators Abdullahi Adamu, George Akume, Godswill Akpabio and Aliyu Wamakko representing Nasarawa, Benue, Akwa Ibom and Sokoto States. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi; Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Minister of FCT, Muhammad Bello; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, O...

#NotToYoungToRun Bill : A Reinforcing Pillar For “Monarchical Democracy ”! Jubilation was all we did when the NotTooYoungToRun bill was signed into law, less did we know that it was just a deceptive tool that will enable – with precision – the reinforcement of what I call “Monarchical Demcracy”. An average youth in Nigeria surely can’t contest given the current debilitating exorbitance in the cost of running. You don’t get a nomination form for less than a million naira (for offices affected by the #NTYTR bill) , how do you expect an average Nigerian youth to afford that when he is busy thinking of what to eat tomorrow or where to get school fees from. I was once engaged in a conversation with a friend where he opined that the key code to this country’s success and development is for the youths to actively partake in active politics, he absolutely was right but out of rational thinking, I sarcastically asked “Do we have money? ” , and we all laughed off. The devastating M...

Supporters of the Kwankwasiyya group, under the auspices of Tricycle Riders Association of Nigeria, Kano State chapter, have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for All Progressives Congress (APC). The defection coincided with the day, the national leader of Kwankwasiyya, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, declared his ambition, in Abuja, to run for president in the 2019 general elections. The defectors, who were received at the Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium by the APC state chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, burnt hundreds of red caps, one of the symbols of the Kwankwasiyya movement. The leader of the defectors, Sani Sharu Dala, said they dumped the PDP and Kwankwasiyya courtesy of the laudable youth empowerment programmes the APC-led government had been introducing since it assumed office in 2015. Receiving the defectors, Abbas, who told them that the APC is their home, added that they were misled to join the PDP for someone else’s personal interest.

A former Minister of Special Duties and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, has said President Muhammadu Buhari does not have 12 million ‘solid’ votes come the 2019 general elections.  Turaki, who obtained his expression of interest and nomination forms at the PDP National Secretariat yesterday in Abuja, said the claim that Buhari already has 12 million votes in the North has been proven wrong by time. The ex-minister, who was represented by his Campaign Director of Publicity, Sola Atere, said, “What they are saying was way back in 2015. Things have changed. When you have not been in power, you can make all sorts of forecasts. Now the scenario has changed. Nigerians have seen to what extent the APC government can perform.”  Source : . Daily trust

A former governor of Kano State, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday declared his presidential bid on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2019 general elections. Kwankwaso, a former Defence Minister, while delivering his address in Abuja, blamed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for not putting an end to Boko Haram and herdsmen killings in the country.  “There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for killings by Boko Haram insurgents, herdsmen, crop farmers, kidnappers, human traffickers and abductors. We will provide an atmosphere where there will be security, safety, serenity and sanity. “Nigeria in recent years has witnessed a weak economic performance due to tight economic policies and failed institutional supervision, especially as it relates to growing small enterprises that should in the long run result in larger ventures to anchor our economic prosperity. “The constant misuse of security apparatus will stop immed...

A former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has said there is no need for consensus among the increasing number of presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Speaking with newsmen yesterday at the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja where he obtained his expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the presidential ticket of the party ahead of the 2019 general elections, Bafarawa said the number of presidential aspirants showed the party was waxing stronger.  He added that the aspirants would accept the outcome of the primaries and work with the candidate with the collective goal of defeating the APC

  1.3 million children under the age of five and 300,000 pregnant women are expected to receive free health and nutritional interventions in Bauchi state. This was disclosed by Wife of the Bauchi State Governor, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed Abubakar during the flag-off of the 2018 Maternal Newborn and Child Heath (MNCH) week. Speaking at the event held at Yelwa Domiciliary Clinic in Bauchi metropolis, she said that the MNCH week was a strategy to improve the health and nutritional status of children and women. Mrs Abubakar disclosed that the week is a bi-annual event approved by the National Council of Health and World Health Organisation (WHO) and supported by child welfare organisations like UNICEF. She said that a comprehensive free health package will be delivered at  free cost to the under five children and pregnant women which include high impact health and nutritional interventions during the MNCH week. "These interventions include vitamin A supplement...

Change and leadership in Nigeria                     In a strive to fulfill human needs as world’s largest black Nation, Nigeria’s 58 years has been a period of mixed happenings; the military coups, civil wars and other  social, political and economic instabilities. Back from the issue of structural Adjustment Programme of 1983, Annulment of June 12 elections; the Obasanjos third term Agenda, there was never an issue that generated as many waves in Nigerian politics like the change slogan of 2015. Several writers defined change in their own terms, but simply put change is a process of moving from one thing to another, it could be from good to worst or vice –versa while leadership is ideally service to humanity, but change in the context of Nigerian leadership is an agitation for effective governance. With respect to this, my write up will focus on the present administration and way forward. From available data, it could be d...

What I told Buhari in Daura, by Shehu Sani Daily Nigerian August 23, 2018. Shehu Sani, on Thursday, paid Sallah homage to President Muhammadu Buhari at Daura, Katsina State, and thanked him for intervening in the crisis facing the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State. Mr Sani, representing Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, who spoke to journalists after a closed door meeting with the president, said they deliberated on issues bordering on strengthening the APC through resolution of all internal strife in the party. According to him, he used the opportunity to assure the president on the support of his constituency to his re-election bid in 2019. He said: “I am also here to fully assure him of the support of my constituency, Kaduna Central, to his aspiration for the second term. “I’m also here to assure him of my own wholehearted support to the success of his administration and his return to office for the second term. “Those were the basic issues that we ...

President @MBuhari yesterday 23/08/18, received Dr. Orji Uzo Kalu in Daura, Katsina State and congratulated him on his turbaning as the Dan Baiwan of Daura.

Youths are the back-bone of any society. They are the main labour force – productive force – upon whom almost the entire social activities rely. Thus, they are cardinal to societal survival and determinant of its future. For if you want to know the future of any society, look at its youths. Nigeria, a blessed nation, is said to have the highest number of youths on the basis of 15 years to 35 years of age in the world, even though in Nigeria the age range is 18 years to 35 years, amounting to almost 67 million (NBRRI, 2017) of the estimated 182-190 million of the population of the country (NPC, 2017; NPOPC, 2017). This statistics may excite an analyst that Nigerian future is ascertain and bright. But this is just from the surface. Taking a deeper look is hard not to come to grief. In the dawn of ‘not too young to run,’ youths – leaders of tomorrow – are almost completely absent in the political scene or rather, at least far at the periphery; relegated to mere voting and thuggery; embe...

Global business magazine, Bloomberg has ranked Nigerians working in the United States as the eighth most hardworking foreigners in that country. In a 2018 report released yesterday, Nigerians scored 71.0 percent in the list of the hardest and most skilled immigrant groups in the US which was topped by Ghana with 75.2 percent. Bulgaria and Kenya were ranked second and third with 74.2 percent and 73.4 percent respectively. Other African countries in the report’s top 10 are Ethiopia (4th), Egypt (5th), and Liberia (9th). This makes Africans in general the most productive immigrants in the US ahead of those from Mexico and Central America, who constitute more than 70 percent of foreign nationals in that country. Mexico is by far the most common country of origin, but the population of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. (both documented and undocumented) actually fell 6 percent from 2007 to 2015, according to the Pew Research Centre. The numbers of Salvadorans, Honduran...

The Emir of Zazzau, Dr Shehu Idris, on Tuesday called for a holistic fight against drug abuse among the youth to guarantee a brighter future for the society. Idris made the call when he addressed citizens of the emirate who converged on his palace in Zaria, Kaduna State, to mark the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The monarch, who is also the Chairman, Kaduna State Council of Emirs and Chiefs, said the call became necessary in view of the negative consequences of drug abuse on youths and the society.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has ordered the President of Senate, Bukola Saraki, to resign his position immediately or be forced to do so. According to Punch,the national coordinator of the association in Benue State, Alhaji Garus Gololo, gave the warning in an interview in Makurdi Gololo said Saraki had created numerous problems for the administration of President Muhammad Buhari, which he said had affected the economic and social growth of the nation. “It is on this note that we are saying that Saraki ought not to be in office again as Senate President, more so, Saraki has failed to coordinate and organise the National Assembly to offer quality legislation that Nigerians need. “Nigerians are in dire need of people that have the interest of the masses. Miyetti Allah is looking for a leader that would preside over the affairs of the Senate with ultimate respect for the executive and the judiciary, not someone like Senator Saraki that would always sc...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday joined thousands of Muslim faithful to observe the two raka’at Eid el-Kabir prayer in Daura, Katsina State. File: Buhari walking/inspecting his farm Reports have it that the president arrived the Eid Praying Ground in company of his aides and relatives at about 9.48 a.m. Buhari performed the annual sacrifice of slaughtering a ram immediately after the prayer session. He trekked for over 800 metres from the prayer ground to his private residence amidst chanting of `Sai Baba’ by well- wishers. Earlier in his sermon, the Chief Imam of Daura, Safiyanu Dansanwai, who led the prayer, stressed the need for peace. He called on the Muslim ummah  to pray  for peace, harmony and development of the country. Newsmen report that the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Farouk Umar was among the  thousands of faithful who performed the two raka’at prayer.

The former president of National youth council of Nigeria and also Executive Director centre for  Good governance and public Accountability  Comr. Abdullahi Abdulmajid join partisan politics and ready to run for member house of representative representing Offa/Oyun/Ifelodun federal constituency. He made the official declaration yesterday via his Facebook handle after the eid prayer . "I hereby officially declare to my dear friends and associates that I have joined the race to contest for the position of Member representing the good people of Offa/ Oyun/ Ifelodun federal constituency of Kwara State at the National Assembly .This ambition is driven by my passion to join the league of active citizens who have transited from speaking up about bad governance and its consequences in our society especially on young people to working the trenches of the struggle movements to participate in the critical decision making needed to achieve the liberation and emancipation of our peopl...

  AREWA ELITES MAGAZINE organized emerging political aspirant summit, which gives all the political aspirant within sabon gari local of Kaduna state opportunity to manifest their agenda and the reason forvtheir aspirations not leaving their vision and mission.  The event was held at ZARIA recreation club in the heart of ancient city of zazzau on nineteen of August 2018. It was attended by many youth leaders, Religion leaders, Royal leaders and aspirant among others. It was first of its kind since in the history of democracy in the northern part of Nigeria. Arewa Elites magazine truly mouth piece of northern elites.

Hausa  ( / ˈ h aʊ s ə / )    ( Yaren Hausa  or  Harshen Hausa ) is the  Chadic language  (a branch of the  Afroasiatic language family ) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 27 million people, and as a  second language  by another 20 million. The total numer of Hausa speakers as of 2018, totals about 150 million people. The ancestral language of the  Hausa people , one of the largest  ethnic groups in Central Africa , Hausa is commonly spoken throughout southern  Niger  and northern  Nigeria . It has developed into a  lingua franca  across much of  Western Africa  for purposes of trade.