Month: August 2024

The UN Sustainable Development Goals SDGs in accordance with its 17 goals had strived to ensure the impact of the UN provided goals is felt both at the national , sub national and global levels.   Hence, the quest to address the decade of action 2010-2030 agenda had become a major drive towards addressing all the goals in line with global pursuit and domestic requirements.   In Nigeria under the leadership of Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire as Senior Special Assistant on the program, soon after the migration from Millennium Development Goals…

This week, Yobe State will become 33. On August 27, 1991, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida sliced Yobe State out of the old Borno State, which was itself carved out of the North Eastern State that was hewed from the Northern Region.   The IBB regime thought it better to situate its capital in Damaturu. The British chiselled this sleepy, hazy, whistle-stop settlement out of the Alagarno district as a colony in 1902 when they conquered the Bornu Empire. It was no more than a little big village.   Yobe, then…

Have you ever read Heidi Holland’s Dinner With Mugabe? It was published in 2012 by a Zimbabwean journalist and columnist who worked with Illustrated Life Rhodesia magazine. The book is a very penetrating portraiture of Robert Mugabe. It is a psychobiography of a freedom fighter, liberal lawyer and revolutionary who later became, first Prime Minister and later, President of Zimbabwe. The book’s title was a product of a 1975 sudden call from a Holland friend. He wanted her to arrange dinner and meeting with a friend she had no idea…

Twice in two months , the National Assembly management under the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Sani Magaji Tambawal has not only prioritised capacity building, but technologically driven and automation along with digitization so as to consign the psyche of staff of the National Assembly to modern technology. Since technology advancement is the demands of the 21st century, the management of the National Assembly has developed the template of ensuring staffers from the intermediate level to the top echelon, developed the skill of application of the new order into…