A father and his son have been arrested by the police for impersonation during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Wednesday after inspecting the Kaduna State University University (KASU) Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre. Oloyede…
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has announced the dissolution of Local Government Transition Committee in the 17 LGAs of the state. Gyang Bere, spokesperson of the governor announced the dissolution in a statement in Jos. He said the dissolution takes effective from September 6, 2024. The statement directed Directors of Personnel Management (DPMs) to assume…
The Kaduna state government has revoked all sales and land allocations of institutional houses within major legacy schools across the state. The secretary to the state government (SSG), AbdulKadir Mayere, announced the revocation in a statement issued on Tuesday in Kaduna. Mayere said the affected schools include Alhuda-huda College, Zaria; Queen Amina College, Kaduna; and…
Two hundred suspected terrorists and 20 suspected armed robbers were on Wednesday, paraded by the Kaduna state police command. Mohammad Jalige, spokesman of the command, paraded the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Kaduna on behalf of Mudasiru Abdullahi, the commissioner of police. He disclosed that 18 AK47rifles, 2000 live ammunitions of different calibre, 11…
In this interview with Daniel Dauda in Jos, the President of Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Rev. Stephen Panya, speaks on the recent public hearing on the amendment of the 1999 Constitution and the need for Christians to change their perceptions about politics: Excepts. You have been talking about insecurity, the Church has also raised…
The senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Sunday Katung has said that his recent defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was informed by the “unprecedented federal attention to Southern Kaduna.” Speaking with journalists at the weekend, Katung said that even if he had remained in the PDP, he…
