Click-on Kaduna Data Science Fellowship Program 2025
The Click-on Kaduna Data Science Fellowship Programme 2025 is accepting applications from emerging data science professionals. This fellowship provides aspiring practitioners with the chance to develop their expertise, acquire hands-on experience, and contribute to impactful real-world initiatives. As part of Kaduna State’s comprehensive Data Revolution Plan, this program seeks to enhance coordination in data […]
10 Best Businesses to Start in Kaduna
Kaduna, situated in the state that bears the same name, is the second largest city in Northern Nigeria. Like many of the country’s larger urban centres, it’s a melting pot that attracts people from across the country, including tourists and merchants. People who have found and run the best businesses to start in Kaduna […]
Do You Know? Jeremiah Aluwong And The LightWK Team
Literally, you can see the passion of Jeremiah Samuel Aluwong and his team. The manner in which they strive to reach out to people at the grassroots—in the oddest of places—is a testimony of their passion. Images shared on their social media (IG: @spokesman001 and @lightwkonline) capture them with young people that could be easily […]
Analysis: The Unfair VAT Benefit by Sharia States
There has been a lot of restrained sentiment in the past about Sharia states in Northern Nigeria benefiting from the portions of Value Added Tax (VAT) which they did not contribute towards. It is public knowledge now that Sharia states which include Zamfara, Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kebbi, Yobe, Kaduna, Niger, Gombe, have […]
Men You Should Know: Tijani Babangida
Tijani Babangida was born on the 25th September, 1973. Babangida, who was fondly called and nicknamed “TJ”, was born into a large family in the city of Kaduna. He was married to Rabah (now his ex), the sister of Daniel Amokachi‘s wife. Read more about Men You Should Know Career as a Footballer TJ was […]
Crazy About the North West: 3 Things to do in Kastina
Kastina was carved out of Kaduna in the ’80s. As a state of historical monuments, it beckons to tourists. It is home to one of the oldest teaching colleges in Northern Nigeria and the home of the country’s current President, Muhammadu Buhari. If you ever find yourself in Kastina State, here are three things you […]
These Teenage Filmmakers from Kaduna are Going Places
Nine teenagers in Kaduna who go by the name, The Critics, went viral last week. From a small compound in their area, they produce films with better video, audio, and content quality than a lot of local home videos. Their films are short and dramatic science fiction stories about things like aliens, superpowers, futuristic technology, […]
Miyan Kubewa, The Northwestern Delicacy from Kaduna
Culture is directly related to human experiences. It forms people’s everyday life, their views, lifestyles, basic assumptions, their perceptions. Above all, culture shapes our individual relationships. Nigeria is inhabited by various ethnic nationalities; these nationalities have different languages, modes of dressing, eating, dancing and even greeting habits. But in spite of these differences in cultures, […]
ThrowBack Thursday: When 151 Military Officers Died on a Hercules C-130 Flight (1992)
Amidst all the intricacies and collisions happening between the military and politics in the early 90’s and especially in 1992, a tragedy befell Nigeria and particularly the families and friends of about 151 military officers and civilians who perished on a Hercules C-130 flight. The flight, which was meant to ferry mid level officers from […]
The Second African And Black Festival Of Arts And Culture: Festac ’77
The second African and Black Festival of Arts and Culture, otherwise known as Festac ’77. was held in Lagos from the 15th of January, 1977 to the 12th of February, 1977. The festival was intended to showcase to the world the richness of African culture and to expose African music, fine arts, drama, religion and […]
Top 10 Cities Recommended For Tourism By Nigerians
Every time you hear of tourism in Nigeria, it seems its centred on Lagos. So we took a survey to hear people’s opinions of the other states tourists can have fun besides Lagos. Below are the top 10 cities, other than Lagos, recommended by Nigerians for a great tourist experience (arranged in no particular order): […]
Mira Mehta, the American Entrepreneur Building a Tomato Business in Northern Nigeria
You’re a smart young woman living in the United States, with an MBA from Harvard and billion dollar corporations offering you jobs that many could only dream of getting. What do you do? Mira Mehta has an answer to this question: settle in a Northern Nigerian village and start a tomato farm there. It’s an […]
Did You Know? How the name of the State Kaduna came about?
Kaduna State is a state in central northern Nigeria. It is both popular and populous; it is also a representative of a montage and a collage; multi-religious, multiethnic etc. kaduna state puts not only the Northern Nigeria on the Map; but Nigeria at large. It has been an academic and intellectual hub for Nigeria; not […]
Social Media Roundup: Top Trends Of The Week
Another Cause For Senator Adeleke To Dance In a dramatic turn of events, Senator Ademola Adeleke of the PDP was declared the winner of the Osun Governorship election which held on Saturday, September 22, 2018. The verdict was passed after a three-man panel led by Justice Ibrahim Sirajo began delivering judgment on the case on […]
Tribes in Nigeria- The Ham Tribe
The Ham Tribe speak a language called the Hyam language. A language spoken in more than 100 villages and 27 districts in Nigeria.[1] In times past, the Ham tribe were a people popularly referred to as the Jaba people, until more recently that the nomenclature ‘Jaba’, began to be looked down upon, especially by the natives. […]
Tribes in Nigeria- The Gbagyi Tribe
The word Gbagyi or Gbari refer to both a people and the language of the people. With an estimated population of about 15million, the tribe is regarded as probably the most populated ethnic and indigenous group in the middle belt and the Federal Capital Territory. They are predominantly found in Kaduna, Niger states and the […]