The Kaduna state government has disclosed that 214 people were killed while 746 others were abducted by bandits from January to March 2023. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs made the disclosure on Wednesday while presenting the first quarter of 2023 security report to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, at the Government House,…
Eight people have been killed by gunmen in Kuru, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau state. The bandits were said to have opened fire at a mining site on Friday night, killing eight persons with several others who sustained injuries. In a statement statement by Governor Simon Lalong, through his Director of Press,…
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that the preliminary number of registered voters in Nigeria is 93.5 million. Yakubu made the disclosure on Wednesday at the third quarterly meeting with political parties in Abuja. Yakubu, said after cleaning up the voter data using the automated biometric identification…
Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state has flagged off the distribution of 7,000 motorcycles loans to civil servants in the state. Four hundred of the motorcycles are 400 electrically powered. Speaking at the event on Friday in Kaduna, Sani, said the initiative is to alleviate the suffering of workers. Represented by Hadiza Balarabe, his deputy,…
President Bola Tinubu has suspended the managing director and chief executive of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, indefinitely. Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and publicity announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Also suspended indefinitely, are Olaniyi Netufo, executive director, corporate services, Barka Sajou, executive director, technical…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended Channels Television for violating the broadcast code. The station was also fined N5 million for the offence. The NBC, in a letter signed by its Acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba and addressed to the Managing Director of Channels Television, said on April 25, 2021 at…
