Uba Sani, governor of state has called for the complete overhauling of the nation’s security architecture to tackle the security challenges. Sani made the called on Thursday at the 6th Annual Interfaith Peace Conference which held in Kaduna. He said security institutions must be reformed to align with global best practices. Sani said the present…
Sani Abdullahi, a teacher at Government Secondary School Kuriga, Chikun LGA of Kaduna state has disclosed that one person was killed in while about 280 pupils including teachers were abducted by bandits who invaded the secondary and primary schools in the community. The bandits were said to have invaded the schools located in the same…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo At least 19 persons have died of Lassa fever at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jalingo, Taraba state, in the last two months. The state commissioner of health Gbangsheya Buma, disclosed this on Wednesday in an interview with journalists in Jalingo. He said eight out of nine suspected cases that…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo The Taraba Tiv Youth Development Forum (TTYDF) has said that the Tiv people are not settlers but part of the indigenous ethnic groups in the state. In a statement in Jalingo, President of the forum, Torkuma Moses dismissed insinuations by the Jukun Youth and Cultural Development Association (JYCDA) that the…
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has asked government appointees to explore ways of sourcing funds for investment and development of the state. The governor stated this, in Jos, at the swearing in of heads of government agencies, constituencies liason officers and special advisers. He said government officials must to put on their “thinking caps because…
President of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, (SCSN), Abdurrasheed Hadiytullah, has called for concrete steps to address the issue of endemic corruption and wasteful spending in Nigeria. Hadiytullah made the call on Tuesday in Kaduna at the annual Pre-Ramadan meeting of the SCSN. According to him, “corruption is like a cancer, which destroys…
