Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11
President Muhammadu Buhari celebrates with Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (Rtd), on his 69th birthday, September 9, 2022.
By Eric James Ochigbo (Agency News Reporter)
The Postmaster-General (PMG) Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) Dr Adebayo Adewusi, has called for an intervention from the Federal Government to save the service from shutting down.
By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)
About 20 workers of Edati Local Government Area of Niger state, mostly women has been served with query letters over alleged involvement and participation in rallies organised by opposition parties in the state.
By Micheal Jegede (In Abuja)
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) has signed a Memorandum Of Agreement (MOA) with RAHAD Global Investment Limited, RAHAD RVD Industries and Mesencell Biotech for the advancement of Biotechnology in Nigeria.
National Patron of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ambassador Eze Ebere, on Monday, led a team of NANS officials on a courtesy visit to the Special Adviser to the president on Media Publicity, Femi Adesina, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, with a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, on how to resolve the Federal Government vs ASUU imbroglio.
In spite of huge investment in the education sector in Nigeria, the Federal Government, on Monday, revealed that about 31 per cent of the nation’s population cannot read and write.
By Taiye Agbaje (Agency News Reporter)
A Competition and Consumer Protection (CCPC) Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered John Ugbe, the Managing Director of MultiChoice Nigeria Ltd, to produce its 2021 audited financial report on Sept 8 for breaching its restraining order on tariff hike.
The Federal Government has again set up a 14-man committee to look into the grey areas of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) demands.
By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)
The National Directorate of Employment, (NDE), on Tuesday, commenced training of 30 unemployed graduates in Sokoto state on interlocking, flowering and plaster of Paris (POP).
By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)
The Launch of citizen-based Presidential Delivery Tracks (PDT) and Central Delivery Coordinating Unit (CDCU) websites is a further reflection of the transparency the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has brought to governance.
By Ankeli Emmanuel (In Sokoto State)
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), on Monday, flagged-off a 5-days training for 50 unemployed graduates on Post-Sustainable Agricultural Development Scheme (Post SADTS) in Sokoto State.
Flagging-off the training, the Director General of NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said they are geared towards designing and implementing programmes that will combat mass unemployment in Nigeria.
Fikpo who was re-presented by the Sokoto State Coordinator of NDE, Mrs Eunice Danmallam, said the Post-SADTS programme will empower beneficiaries to establish, grow and expend Agric-enterprises of their choice on sustainable basis.
Danmallam further added that, ""POST-SADTS is one of the extension of sustainable agricultural development training scheme (SADTS) in which one hundred (100) unemployed youths were trained in poultry production for three (3) months"".
She also maintained that the scheme will help in providing more food, reduce poverty, encourage youths to embrace agriculture as a means of livelihood and remove drudgery from the practice of agriculture.
Earlier, the HOD Rural Empowerment Programme, of the NDE, Malam Yusuf Suraju, admonished participants to concentrate and make judicious use of the knowledge to be acquired.
Reacting on behalf of participants, Rukayya Usman, thanked the NDE for giving them such unique opportunity, just as she assured that they will step down the knowledge for others to benefit.
The training which was held at the College of Agriculture and Extension of Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto State had in attendance, the Director of the College, Dr Musa Dalhatu and Dr Abubakar Abdullahi Ngaski, Dr Murtala Attahiru and Dr Abdullahi Abubakar, as resource persons respectively. NNL.
By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, Minna)
The National Union of Pensioners (NUP) Niger state chapter has made a passionate appeal to the Governor Abubakar Sani Bello led administration to look into the plight of retirees and ensure settlement of all their gratuities before handing over power next year.
