EID-EL-FITR celebration – Muslims across Northern Nigeria mark occasion

Lawmaker laments about northern Nigeria as 8th Reps warps up.

It's January and harmattan is biting hard in Nigeria, especially Northern Nigeria. Harmattan is a season in the West African subcontinent, which occurs between the end of November and the middle of March.

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On Inside Suff today, Martin Oloja discusses the high level of insecurity in Northern Nigeria and the effects on Nigerians.

Governors of 19 states across northern Nigeria ban informal Islamic madrassa schools where students are taught the Koran but have to beg on the streets. The students, most of them underaged, live in squalid and cramped accommodations which makes them more vulnerable to the virus. Kano habours the largest number of the around 10 million child beggars in the north, according to UNICEF. Their wanderings across the city for alms potentially aids the virus to spread, according to officials, which has prompted the officials to act despite several failed attempts to end the practice.

Nigerians have lost count of the casualty figure arising from the cyclical violence, which has continued to ravage the country lately. The massacre being masterminded by bandits, insurgents, armed herdsmen, kidnappers among other elements, contradicts the promise of security as a cardinal plank the current administration rose to power in 2015. And as the figure continues to rise, here are a few ways to reduce the rising insecurity in Northern Nigeria

Workers protest across Northern Nigeria over plan to move minimum wage to the concurrent list

The Nigeria Meteorological Agency, NIMET, said the harmattan experienced in Northern Nigeria is normal

Teenage girls in Kano, a socially conservative Muslim city in northern Nigeria, are learning robotics, computing and other STEM subjects in an innovative project to "open their minds". In a part of the world where many girls are expected to marry young and their education is not prioritised, these girls are being supported in their endeavour to develop skills and independent thinking by their parents and even by a member of the local emir's traditional court

International Beer Day is marked around the globe on August 6 every year. “Burukutu” is a popular alcoholic beverage prepared from sorghum. It is widely consumed in rural areas of northern Nigeria and in the low-income neighbourhoods of the region’s urban centers.