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Zamfara, Kwara, Benue listed as Nigeria’s poorest-managed states
Zamfara, Kwara, Benue listed as Nigeria’s poorest-managed states
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A new governance performance review has ranked Zamfara, Kwara, an Benue as the worst-performing states in Nigeria between 2023 and 2025.
The ranking was contained in a midterm report released on Monday in London by the Good Governance Rating Index (GGRI), a UK-based organisation that tracks and evaluates leadership quality, service delivery, and accountability in developing democracies.
According to the report, the three states, under the leadership of Governors Dauda Lawal of Zamfara, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara, and Hyacinth Alia of Benue, performed abysmally across major governance indicators such as health, education, infrastructure, economic opportunities, transparency, and security.
GGRI said its findings were based on data gathered from official government reports, independent audits, field surveys, and citizen feedback mechanisms between May 2023 and August 2025.
“The performance of Zamfara, Kwara,...
Kwara college graduates 5,000 health workers in maiden convocation
Technology tamfitronics The Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, will on Saturday graduate 5,000 students at its maiden convocation ceremony.The provost of the institution, Aliyu Alabi, made this known at a pre-convocation news conference on Tuesday in Ilorin.He said the convocation will be a combined one, as it will include graduates from the institution who finished five years ago.He explained that the college was established in 1976, adding that due to its peculiarity, graduation of students used to be a departmental affair.Mr Alabi pointed out that the state government embarked on reorganisation, reformation and rebranding crusade of the college, which did not only affect the college’s physical infrastructure but also its staff development.He said the reorganisation included training and re-training, which also involved inculcating discipline in the students.The provost said some of the achievements...
Kwara: A Crossroads of Growth and the Attract of Regressive Politics | Babajide FADOJU
Politics tamfitronics The Yoruba persons are corpulent of proverbs, shiny sayings which would be no longer appropriate wisecrack whips on the ground, they're words that rings across the halls of reasoning.My people will state, ti o ba n tan eniyan je, o n tan ara e je ni, translated, it plan “While you lead anyone off beam, you’re main your self off beam too.” This adage encapsulates the folly of reverting to outdated, detrimental political practices—a folly embodied by the recent actions of the Kwara Enlighten chapter of the Folks’s Democratic Birthday party (PDP).The irresponsible behavior of the Kwara PDP, as evidenced by their strive to manipulate the tutorial neighborhood for political invent, is a stark reminder of the dusky period dominated by the Saraki dynasty—a time marred by corruption, nepotism, and political subjugation.Treasure the...
