The Kaduna State government has asked residents living in flood-prone areas to immediately relocate to safer places. Usman Mazadu, Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), gave the directive in a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna The action follows Monday’s flood that reportedly destroyed property and many houses in Sabon-Gari and Zaria…
Parents of the 29 remaining abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna, have appealed to well meaning Nigerians to help raise fund for the release of their children. Addressing a press conference on Friday in Kaduna spokesman of the parents Mr. Friday Sanni said the bandits had threatened to marry the…
The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF), has donated N180m to the victims of the bomb incident in Tudun Biri community, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The donation was announced in a community issued after the meeting of the governors on Friday at the Government House, Kaduna. The forum commiserated with the government and…
The umbrella body for ethnic nationalities in the Southern part of Kaduna state, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), has accused the federal and the Kaduna state governments for allegedly abandoning victims of herdsmen attack in the area. In a statement on Saturday in Kaduna, spokesman of the union, Luka Binniyat, said many communities were…
Plateau state governor Caleb Mutfwang has Mutfwang warned that the government would not tolerate lawlessness or mob action by any group or individuals. The governor issued the warning on Friday at the end of an emergency security meeting at the government house, Jos. He also ordered an immediate clampdown on rising insecurity and unauthorized roadblocks…
Rampaging protesters demanding the release of suspected killers of Deborah Samuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto (SSCOE), on Saturday vandalised and torched two of the parishes of the Catholic Dioceses of Sokoto. The two parishes are presided over by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah. Deborah was…
