The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna state has nominated former President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Hon. Jonathan Asake, as its governorship candidate for the 2023 elections. Asake, a former member of House of Representatives member, recently resigned his position as the SOKAPU President to join the governorship race. He picked the party’s…

Seven of the remaining 39 abducted passengers of the March 28, Abuja-Kaduna train attack have been freed by the abductors. Tukur Mamu, Media consultant to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a Kaduna based Islamic cleric who has been in the forefront for mediating for the release of the victims, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in…

A coalition of Christian groups under the aegis of North Central Youths and Women Forum, on Tuesday, took to the streets in Abuja in protest against the appointment of the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, as the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council. The protesters who are members of the APC…

Despite the seeming friction with between him and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the state would always party. Speaking on Monday at the inauguration of the Orochiri-Worukwo flyover in Rivers, Wike said, Rivers state must benefit from anybody that it will support. Wike said: “If you say…

Six members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as ‘Shiites’ were reportedly killed on Monday in Zaria, Kaduna state, during their annual “Ashura Day” procession – a religious ritual. Abdulhamid Bello, leader of the movement in Zaria, confirmed the killings on Monday night, alleging that a combined team of security operatives attacked…