The Kaduna state government has signed an agreement with UNICEF to fund the “Reaching Out-of-School Children Project” aimed at reintegrating 200,000 out of school children back to the classroom. Speaking while signing the agreement on Friday at the Government House, Kaduna, the deputy governor of the state, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, said one of the challenges…
Jonathan Ishaku, a chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state, has resigned his membership of the party, citing the exclusion of the state from the federal executive council as reason for his action. In a statement published on his Facebook page on Friday, the veteran journalist, said he is disappointed with…
The chief branding and communications officer of Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina, has said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has not commenced lifting of petrol from Dangote refinery. In a statement on Thursday, Chiejina said the company was yet to finalise its contract with the NNPCL. “We would like to state that NNPC…
The Kaduna state police command has arrested 11 suspected bandits, including the abductors of a district head in the state. The district head (name withheld), was abducted on August 14, 2024, and released two days after. In a statement on Wednesday, Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in…
The Niger state police command has denied reports that bandits have threatened to invade M.I Wushishi housing estate in Minna, the state capital Sources in the estate had alleged that the bandits, believed to be miners operating around the area attacked the estate in broad daylight, breaking cars and windows of houses in broad daylight…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on the federal government to consider other strategies, including unconventional measures in addressing the security challenges in the north. In a communique issued on Wednesday at the end of the meeting of its board of trustees (BoT) in Kaduna, the forum said, the current approaches to fighting insurgents…
