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After attending a closed-door, classified briefing on the war with Iran, Sen. Chris Murphy says the Trump administration’s plans are far more incoherent than the public has been told. Murphy said lawmakers spent two hours in a classified briefing reviewing the administration’s strategy. While he emphasized he cannot reveal classified details, he said what he heard raises serious concerns about the lack of clear objectives and planning. President Tinubu Congratulates US 47th President Elect Trump Here is Sen. Chris Murphy’s full thread: I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because…

The Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has relieved the State Head of Service, Abdullahi Musa, of his appointment with immediate effect. The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday evening by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa. Abuja on Standstill as Wike Heads to Court Over Workers’ Strike According to the statement, the decision forms part of ongoing efforts by the state government to reposition the civil service for greater efficiency, discipline and improved service delivery across government institutions. Governor Yusuf expressed appreciation to the outgoing Head of Service for his contributions and dedication to…

The Federal Government has emphasized the importance of a unified communication framework among government institutions to strengthen national security coordination and effectively tackle terrorism and banditry in the country. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, in Abuja. Igboho Seeks FG Approval for Iru Ekun Security Network Idris said improved collaboration and strategic communication among ministries, departments, and agencies of government would enhance coordination of security efforts and ensure Nigerians are well informed about government policies and reforms. He explained that the…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with partners has organized a “Yes! Girl” Podcast Watch Session in Kano as part of activities marking the 2026 International Women’s Day. The session brought together adolescent girls, government partners, civil society organizations (CSOs), and members of the media to listen directly to girls’ voices, reflect on their experiences, and explore solutions aimed at strengthening their rights, wellbeing, and leadership. FG, UNICEF Launch $406,000 Solar Vaccine Storage in Borno Speaking at the event, UNICEF Adolescent Development Specialist, Ngozi Izuora-Songu, said the gathering marked the official launch of the “Yes! Girl” Podcast, a…

Munir I. Publisher There are political ideas that arrive in their time and there are political ideas that arrive before their time, ideas whose significance is not fully understood until the moment has passed and history, with its characteristic unhurried clarity, has arranged the evidence into a pattern that the present could not see. The philosophy of Malam Aminu Kano was, for much of its duration, one of the latter. In the political environment of mid-twentieth century Northern Nigeria, dominated by the patrician certainties of the NPC and the conservative social order that sustained them, Aminu Kano’s insistence that politics…

Saminu Umar Ph.D There is a particular loneliness that attaches itself to leaders who choose the harder path. It is not the loneliness of isolation, of having no one around them, because such leaders are almost always surrounded by people, by aides and advisers, by supporters and well-wishers, by the constant human traffic of political life. It is a deeper and more demanding loneliness, the loneliness of the person who must make decisions that others will not fully understand until long after the moment has passed, who must absorb criticism that cuts personally while continuing to serve publicly, and who…

Abdu Saidu Across the long and complicated history of Nigerian governance, the distance between a governor’s stated vision and the lived reality of the citizens that vision was supposed to serve has been, with depressing consistency, vast. Manifestos have been written with eloquence and abandoned with ease. Slogans have been coined with creativity and hollowed out with indifference. The political vocabulary of people-centered governance, of putting citizens first, of development rooted in the needs and aspirations of ordinary men and women, has been deployed so frequently and so cynically by successive administrations that it has, in many parts of the…

Sufyan Lawal Kabo The most valuable counsel a leader can receive is rarely the most comfortable. It does not arrive wrapped in flattery or delivered through the careful diplomacy of those whose proximity to power has made honesty a professional risk. It comes, instead, from those who have no personal stake in the leader’s approval, whose only investment is in the success of the larger cause, and who understand, from the clear-eyed distance of genuine civic concern, what the leader’s inner circle is too close, too cautious, or too compromised to say plainly. It is in that spirit, with deep…

Saminu Umar Ph.D Kano does not need to be invented. That is a truth so fundamental, so historically self-evident, that it should not need to be stated at all, and yet the circumstances of recent decades have made its restatement not merely appropriate but urgent. There is a tendency, in the discourse of Nigerian development, to treat every governance initiative as a beginning, as though the society being governed had no prior history of achievement, no accumulated wisdom, no tested traditions of institutional excellence on which new efforts might be built. This tendency is not merely intellectually lazy, but it…

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund  AECF through its Investing in Women in Nigeria (IIW-Nigeria) programme supports women-led businesses in agricultural value chains in Kano State. AECF, a development funding institution that supports businesses to innovate, create jobs, and leverage investments and markets to build resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalised communities across Africa, has supported over 400 businesses across more than 40 value chains in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. AECF Leads Push for Women’s Economic Inclusion as Kano Unveils WEE Policy The Investing in Women in Nigeria (IIW Nigeria) programme is a five-year, gender-transformative and economic inclusion…