Category: Government

By: Bashir Hassan Abubakar The African Hub for Community Progress Initiative in Nigeria (AfriHUB), in partnership with the World Bank-assisted Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment – Accelerated Funding (AGILE-AF) Project Bauchi , has officially commenced activities under the Project’s Social Norms Component with a high-level one-day inception meeting in Bauchi State. Speaking at the event, the Bauchi State AGILE Project Coordinator, Hajiya Ladi Hamma Mohammed, emphasized that sustainable educational progress requires looking beyond infrastructure development to actively reshape the social, cultural, and community-level factors influencing girls’ retention and…

By: Bashir Hassan Abubakar The newly inaugurated Zonal Chairman of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, BON Zone B, Malam Umar Muhammad Shira, has pledged a renewed commitment to unity, professional excellence and development-focused broadcasting in the North-East. Speaking shortly after the inauguration of the new leadership of Zone B, which covers the six states of the North-East, Shira thanked the national leadership of BON for the confidence reposed in the new executives and lauded colleagues across the zone for their support. He said the inauguration was not merely a change…

By Bashir Hassan Abubakar The Society of Nigerian Broadcasters (SNB) has called on media professionals to elevate their standards and actively counter the growing wave of misinformation threatening the nation’s democracy. Speaking at the SNB’s third Annual General Meeting in Bauchi, industry leaders and government officials emphasized that strict fact-checking and responsible reporting are vital to maintaining public trust, especially as the rise of artificial intelligence makes fabricated audio, video, and text increasingly difficult to detect. Representing the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Voice of Nigeria DG Mallam Jibrin…