To make it simpler for civil servants to travel to their various places of employment throughout the state, Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno State, has unveiled a new fleet of 70 buses for metro transportation.According to a statement on Monday by the governor’s spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, the initiative is aimed at alleviating the burden of commuting for both government employees and the general public.The unveiling ceremony took place at the premises of the Born...

A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has advised the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) not to consider military intervention in Niger Republic.The chairperson of ECOWAS, President Bola Tinubu, had said the bloc had resolved to use force as a last resort if the Niger coup leaders do not relinquish power to the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.After a meeting of the bloc’s defence chiefs in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, ECOWAS said on Thur...

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Muhammed Sanusi, has said Nigeria has never been this divided since the Civil War of 1967 to 1970.He said the country, because of the elections, was now “dangerously divided along ethnic and religious lines”, adding that it had put the integrity of public institutions in question.“The people now have suspicions about policies, policing, judiciary and the election umpire,”Sanusi made the remarks on Tuesday at the th...