Northern Nigeria

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has sounded a stark alarm over escalating hunger in northern Nigeria, linking a surge in militant violence to what it describes as the worst food insecurity the region has faced in…

President Muhammadu Buhari and 19 northern state governors will meet on Monday (today) in Abuja to find solutions to the problems facing the region. Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong,…

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, has attributed the low attention given to education in north Nigeria as reason for the poverty in the region. Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, made this…