The emergency meeting northern governors should be holding

Left to our 19 Northern States’ governors and Nigeria’s Education Minister Adamu Adamu, the over 1.5 million candidates that sat this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) would have probably waited for another year before taking the exam.  We owe the West African Examination Council (WAEC) thanks for sticking to its timetable in […]

Will Northern governors’ ban on Almajiri system be the game-changer?

The Coronavirus pandemic has proven to be the masterstroke game-changer as the northern governors have decided, for the first time to take a decisive measure on the social menace- the Almajiri system. Hitherto, the northern establishment had only played lip service to the menace and even an outspoken traditional ruler paid the price for his […]

One North!

It is on public domain that the Northern States Governors’ Forum, in a meeting recently conducted via teleconference and chaired by the forum’s Chairman, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, discussed the impact of coronavirus in the region as well as measures adopted by individual states to deal with the disease. The governors according to […]