Sixteen people have died while four others were seriously injured in a fatal motor accident along Kano- Zaria highway. The accident was said to have occurred on Sunday at about 11:30am. The passenger bus, which took off from Kano, was heading to Markudi, Benue state, when it crashed at Taban Sani Junction, Tashar Yari, along…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has commended the Kaduna state governor, Senator Uba Sani for restoring peace in the state. Speaking when he paid a courtesy call to the governor on Friday, Oluyede said Kaduna state has become safer and more peaceful since the governor assumed office in 2023. The army…
The Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has sacked 19 political appointees including Mr. Ben Kure, his Political Adviser. A Government House issued on Wednesday in Kaduna said the 19 disengaged appointees are the first phase of public servants disengaged in continuation of “rightsizing” of the state government workforce. Besides Kure other top aides affected…
The Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has deposed four traditional rulers, including the Ohimege-Igu Koton-Karfe, Alhaji Abdulrazaq Isah Koto, a first class traditional ruler and Chairman, Lokoja/ Kogi Local Government Areas Traditional Council. According to reports by The Punch newspapers, Koto was banished to Rijau Local Government Area of Niger State, while Mallam Saidu Akawo…
Kaduna state governor, Senator Uba Sani, has said that military and law enforcement strategies alone are not sufficient to curb the growing threat of violent extremism in Nigeria’s north-west. The governor stated this on Tuesday in Kaduna while declaring opened a two day summit on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in North West zone. Sani,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that perpetrators of the Shiroro attack in Niger state will be fished out and brought to justice. Four Chinese and several Nigerian workers were on Wednesday abducted by gunmen at a mining site in Ajata Aboki village in Shiroro. About 17 of the soldiers mobilised to the area were reportedly…
