Comic relief

Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal has said some states may struggle to survive if the tax reform bills before the National Assembly are passed and signed into law. The new tax bills introduced by the current administration have faced criticisms and opposition from many including the 36 state governors. Also, the 19 governors in northern…

Sudan has become the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded" after 20 months of devastating war between rival generals, the International Rescue Committee said in a report released Wednesday.

In a virtual gathering on Saturday, December 7th, 2024, the House of Eleanora Foundation convened a critical stakeholders' consultative meeting to address a rarely discussed and deeply troubling issue: violence against women and girls with disabilities (WGWDs) perpetrated by other persons with disabilities. While conversations about violence against people with disabilities often focus on external…

Aminu Umar Kofar Mazugal, a Kano State civil servant, displayed an act of integrity by returning a bag containing U.S. dollars valued at over N40 million he saw at the Abubakar Imam Urology Centre in Kano to its rightful owner. Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed, the owner of the bag containing money, had sat near the mosque…

Roaming the opulent Damascus home of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Abu Omar felt a sense of giddy defiance being in the residence of the man he said had long oppressed him.