Index to Nigerian Newspapers

Babatunde Fashola, the minister of works and housing, has urged drivers on the nation's freshly built roadways to stay below the posted speed limit of 100 km/h so that they can reach their destinations safely. He made the accusation while inspecting the Kano-Abuja road project during a trip to Kano State on business to evaluate the progress of the Kano-Katzina and Kano-Zaria-Abuja motorways' ongoing construction. This is the reality of providing infrastructure in a built-up environment, he declared. If you pay attention, you'll see that we have to move electrical poles, trucks are parked by the side of the road unloading cargo, and farmers are distributing their harvest next to the highways.

A group, Northern Youth Forum (NYF) based in the Southern part of Nigeria has called on the 19 Northern States' governors to secure the release of their people held in correctional centres in the South. In addition, its chairman, Dr Ibrahim Ya'u Galadanci, alleged that northerners were being subjected to inhuman treatment in the centres and some parts of the Southern region. He asked the governors and all other stakeholders in the north to wade into the matter and rescue such detainees who are sufferings from deliberate humiliation. Galadanci made the demand at a press conference the Northern Youth Forum (NYF) organized at the Conference Hall of Aminci Radio in Kano, yesterday. He said the northerners formed more than 75 percent of the total inmates in Lagos and others southern states correctional centres and these are people that were either arrested based on tribal or ethno-religious sentiments while going about their lawful businesses. Galadanci said the Northern Youth Forum under his watch had so far sought for and secured the release of 501 inmates especially those Found to be free of any criminal charge. however, Galadanci said Nigerians the northerners by law have the right to traverse across Nigeria and do their legitimate businesses anywhere they chose to do so without any hinderance. He alleged that the northerners are hindered from exercising this right in the south.

The former commissioner for work in Kano State has been detained by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in connection with an alleged scheme by the Kano State government to violate his fundamental human rights with the aid of the police. I have just received an official invitation to the police SIB political unit, and I'm waiting to learn about Kano on charge, the man stated. The police public relations officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna KIyawa, responded to the new development by confirming that the former commissioner was actually invited due to a complaint made against him.

The late Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, the defunct presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), exhibited true democratic culture and acts of sportsmanship when he conceded defeat and congratulated the late Chief MKO Abiola for winning the June 12, 1993 presidential election, according to All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who escorted the former governor of Lagos State to each person's home for condolences, hailed Tinubu as a godman who never forgets to intervene when people are in need following a disaster that befell them.

The late Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, the defunct presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), exhibited true democratic culture and acts of sportsmanship when he conceded defeat and congratulated the late Chief MKO Abiola for winning the June 12, 1993 presidential election, according to All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who escorted the former governor of Lagos State to each person's home for condolences, hailed Tinubu as a godman who never forgets to intervene when people are in need following a disaster that befell them.