A Kaduna State High Court on Monday ordered the Directorate of State Services (DSS) to “immediately” charge Tukur Mamu to Court for offences he is being alleged to have committed. Mamu, publisher of Kaduna based Desert Herald and media consultant to a controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, was arrested by the DSS in Cairo,…
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, resolved to invite Deposit Money Banks, also known as commercial banks, on Wednesday over the scarcity of new naira notes. The Punch reports that the Managing Directors/Chief Executive Officers of the banks, under the auspices of the Bankers’ Committee, are to meet with an ad hoc committee of the…
The Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom on Monday, inaugurated the state secretariat of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Makurdi, the state capital. The governor also laid the foundation for the construction of a 30- room guests house for the association and announced a donation of N50 million by the state government as its…
The court of appeal sitting in Markurdi, Benue state, has ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) to conduct fresh governorship primary in 11 LGAs. A three-member panel of the appellate court delivered the judgment on Monday, in an appeal filed by a governorship aspirant of the APC, Terhemba Shija, who lost at the primary election…
The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA), has congratulated Chief James Ume, Founder and Chairman of Unubiko Foundation for his nomination as The Sun Newspapers’ Humanitarian Service Icon Award for 2022. In a statement on Monday in Kaduna, the group also announced the conferment of a traditional tittle- “Garkuwan Matasan Nijeriya”. The statement signed by Mohammed Danlami,…
The Speaker of the Kaduna state House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani and a federal lawmaker representing Igabi Federal Constituency, Zayyad Ibrahim, have jointly distributed fertilizer and cash totaling N30 million to the 12 wards in the Igabi LGA. Speaking at the distribution of the the fertilizer and N10,000 cash to beneficiaries on Sunday in Kaduna,…
