The Kaduna State Coordinator of Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project, Maryam Dangaji, has disclosed that over 40,000 girls have enrolled in the programme. In an interview with journalists on Friday in Kaduna, Dangaji said the girls also received conditional cash transfers of between N5,000 to N10,000 paid through their caregivers. She…
The federal government on Friday arraigned the detained President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, before an Abuja Federal High Court. Bodejo was arraigned on a three-count criminal charge bordering on alleged establishment of an ethnic militia in Tudun Wada, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa state. Bodejo however pleaded not guilty to the…
The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar, has assured that the abducted pupils of Kuriga Secondary and Primary Schools in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State will soon be rescued. The minister also said the killing of officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army in the Okuama community of Delta State won’t be swept…
The Katsina state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has distanced itself from a suit challenging alleged prohibition of Christian fellowship on the campuses of Federal University, Dutsen-ma and the state owned Yar’adua University. The Christian body was reported to have file the suit at a high court in Katsina, through its counsel,…
Callistus Agwaza, Jalingo The Ayatutu Cultural and Social Development Initiative (AYACASODI), has called on the federal government to tackle the incessant attacks on Tiv communities in Benue Taraba and Nasarawa states by bandits. National president of AYACASODI, Chief Timothy Baaki, made the call in a statement on Wednesday in Jalingo. Baaki said the continued attacks…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state, has asked community and traditional leaders to deal decisively with the menace of informants undermining security in their localities. In a statement he shared on his X handle, after an emergency security meeting on Wednesday with stakeholders from the seven Local Government Areas worst hit by insecurity, the governor…
