The Sunday Katung, the senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Sunday Katung, has secured a partnership with a United States-based humanitarian organisation, Project CURE, to supply medical equipment valued at over N6.8 billion to 10 general hospitals across the district. Katung disclosed this in an interview with journalists after conducting a needs assessment tour of…
Ahmed Makarfi and Sule Lamido, both, former governors of Kaduna and Jigawa states respectively, met on Tuesday in Kaduna, behind closed doors to chart a new pathway for reconciliation and unity within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The two PDP chieftains who briefed journalists at the end of the meeting, which held at Makarfi’s residence…
Residents of Danhonu II community in New Millennium City, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis, on Monday protested against what they described as recurring attacks and kidnappings by bandits in the area. The protest followed the abduction of seven persons during an attack on the community at about 11.30 pm on Sunday. The aggrieved residents marched…
The Southern and Middle Belt Leadership Forum (SMBLF) has insisted that mandatory electronic transmission of results remains critical to credible and transparent elections in Nigeria. In a statement on Monday, the group called for the retention of Clause 60 of the Electoral Amendment Bill, which mandates real-time electronic transmission of election results. It warned that…
Three people have been killed while 11 others, including a Catholic priest, have been abducted in an attack on Karku community in Kauru LGA of Kaduna state. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday, barely two days after Governor Uba Sani received 172 christian worshippers abducted in Kurmin Wali, Kajuru LGA , on…
Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani, on Thursday received all the 172 Christian worshippers abducted by bandits during coordinated attacks on three churches in Kurmin Wali community, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on January 18. The governor received the victims at the Government House, Kaduna, following the release of the last batch…
