The Chadian President, Idriss Déby has died suddenly in clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, according to reports by the BBC. According to the BBC, Deby’s death came shortly after provisional election results which projected he would win a sixth term in office, with 80% of the vote. The…
The Kaduna state police command has warned Nasir El-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna state to desist from frivolous and malicious allegations against any security agency. El-Rufai had on Thursday accused the Kaduna state government of using the police as Governor Uba Sani’s “kidnapping gang” to arrest Ja’afar Sani, a former commissioner in El-Rufai’s government….
Kachalla Tukur Sharme, a notorious bandits’ leader, linked to the abduction of 121 students of Baptist Bethel High School Kaduna in July 2021, has been killed in a clash with a rival bandits group. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state Overseeing Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. “After…
A federal commissioner of the National Population Commission (NCP) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdulmalik Durunguwa, has applauded Kaduna state for proving that free, fair and credible elections are possible with electronic voting. Durunguwa spoke in an interview with journalists in Kaduna shortly after he led APC stakeholders from Kachia…
The senate, on Wednesday, passed the electricity bill 2022, allowing states to generate and distribute power as well as solve the challenges in the sector. Chairman of the senate committee on power, Senator Gabriel Suswam, said the bill will provide an ideal legal and institutional framework to leverage the modest gains of the privatisation phase…
Minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has warned politicians against destroying the “ladder” they used to get to exalted positions. Wike spoke on Sunday when traditional rulers of Ogbaland visited him at his Port Harcourt residence to felicitate with him on his 56th birthday. In the past few weeks, Wike and successor,…
