The Birnin-Gwari Emirate Progressive Union (BEPU) has raised the alarm over the imposition of levies on farming communities in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna state. In a statement on Thursday in Kaduna, Chairman of BEPU, Ishaq Kasai, said besides imposing taxes on farmers, the bandits have intensified their attacks on communities. The statement…
No fewer than 10 have been reportedly killed by gunmen in attacks on five communities in Bokkos Local government Area of Plateau state. The attackers were said to have invaded Mangor Tamiso, Daffo, Manguna, Hurti, and Tadai communities on Wednesday afternoon, destroying several houses. In a statement on Thursday, chairman of Bokkos Cultural Development Council…
The Sunday Katung, the senator representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, Sunday Katung, has secured a partnership with a United States-based humanitarian organisation, Project CURE, to supply medical equipment valued at over N6.8 billion to 10 general hospitals across the district. Katung disclosed this in an interview with journalists after conducting a needs assessment tour of…
By Callistus Agwaza, in Jalingo The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Federal University, Wukari Teaching Hospital (FUWTH), Prof. Daniel Egah, has lamented that delays in the release of takeoff grant for the hospital by the federal government is stalling its progress. Speaking in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Jalingo, Egah lamented that…
An armed gang, suspected to be assassins have killed Ahmad Abubakar Kotorkoshi, welfare officer of the Gusau chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Zamfara state. In a statement on Wednesday in Gusau, chairman of the chapter, Junaidu Abubakar, said the deceased, popularly known as Ahmed Kotorkoshi, was gruesomely murdered at his Kotorkoshi residence, Bungudu…
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has trained 720 out- of -school adolescent boys and girls in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna state in various skills to empower them. Speaking during their graduation on Wednesday at the palace of the emir of Zazzau, Amb. Ahmed Bamalli, UNICEF’s representative and child rights specialist, Dr. Wilfred Mamah,…
