Ben Kure, Kaduna state chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Ibrahim Ahmed, the state legal adviser, have been removed from office for alleged anti- party activities. Their removal was announced on Tuesday in a statement in Kaduna by Albehu Gora, the state publicity secretary. Gora said Kure had been replaced with Nuhu…
Artists and designers from five African countries are expected to attend the Kaduna Fashion and Cultural Exhibition slated for November 10. Ganiyat Sani, founder and director of the Kaduna Fashion and Art Exhibition, disclosed in Kaduna. Sani said the exhibition is aimed at promoting culture, fashion and art among African countries. “We are inviting artists…
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has kicked against the relocation of some key departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to Lagos. In a statement on Friday in Kaduna, Yerima Shettima, president of the forum, said the relocations undermines the status of Abuja as the…
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has said that with the declaration of bandits as terrorists, the army now have the necessary legal backing to deal with the criminals. According to him, the Nigerian military was reluctant to bomb the bandits because of concerns about facing the International Criminal Court (ICC). A federal high court…
The National Coordinator of Igede Progressives Forum (NAIPF), Elder Sunday Oibe, has asked Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state to sack political leaders in Oju and Konshisha Local Government Areas of state, if the bloody communal clashes in the areas persists. Speaking with journalists on Saturday in Kaduna, Oibe condemned the bloody clashes between Bonita…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Taoreed Lagbaja on, Tuesday visited Tudun Biri community, Igabi LGA, Kaduna state, to commiserate and tender unreserved apologies to the victims of the accidental bomb that claimed over 80 lives on Sunday. The army chief also visited the injured victims at the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna and donated N10…
