Tag: Kaduna state
PDP wins 22 of 23 councils in Kaduna polls
BY FEMI ADI/KADUNA Peoples Democratic Party has displayed superiority over the major opposition Congress for Progressive Change in Kaduna State…
Low turn out mars Kaduna council poll
Delay in the distribution of materials and low turn-out of voters marked the commencement of Saturday’s local government elections in…
Athletes Groan Over Menu At Unilag Hostel
The Kaduna State contingent to the 18th National Sports Festival (NSF) have decried the poor menu provided by organisers of…
Bombing Is Wicked —Northern Govs
The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has described Sunday’s bomb blasts that killed 11 persons at St Andrews Protestant Church,…
Ex-council boss arrested for illegal enrichment
Operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Kasimu Lawal Abubakar (a.k.a Abasco), the former Chairman…
Kaduna family slaughtered by herdsmen
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Unidentified gunmen just after midnight today attacked villagers at Madauchi village in Zonkwa, Zango Kataf Local government…
Boko Haram Can’t Force Me Out — Yakowa
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Thursday said he would not resign his position because of the spate of…
10 dead, many wounded in Kaduna’s day of violence
The suicide bombing of Kaduna’s St Rita Catholic Church and the counter attack that it has spawned has Nigerian church…
Bloody Sunday as Bomb blast rocks Kaduna
FEMI ADI/KADUNA Correspondent Just when Nigerians thought it was going to be a violence-free Sallah weekend, a bomb blast has…
Criminals As Law Enforcers
The detection of a criminal suspect among recruits at the Nigerian Police College in Kaduna State few weeks ago was…
Nigerian Worshippers’ killers dressed in police uniform
It has been revealed that the murderous gang that opened fire on worshippers outside a mosque in the Kaduna village…
20 shot dead in Nigerian village
Twenty persons have been shot dead by an armed gang in the Nigerian village of Dogon Dawa in Kaduna state.…
Protest in Kaduna after cop kills printer
By Femi Adi/Kaduna An overzealous Nigerian policeman today killed a commercial printer along Forcados Road, by Bonny street in Kaduna…
2 die as bomb explosion, gun fire rock Zaria
An explosion and gunfire shook an area around an Islamic school in Zaria, Kaduna state Sunday, leaving two suspected attackers…
Thousands Protest Anti-Islam Film In Kaduna
Shiite Muslims in their thousands trooped out in Kaduna, Kaduna State in Northcentral Nigeria today to protest the widely-condemned anti-Islam…
PDP wins Zaria bye election
Alhaji Shehu Malami Nuhu-Babajo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won Saturday’s by-election into Kaduna State House of Assembly for…
N5,000 Note : Sagay, Makinde, Musa Slam Jonathan, Sanusi
Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay, former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, Prelate Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr. Ola Makinde and…
Sanitary inspectors coming to Kaduna
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State has ordered the state Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to re-introduce sanitary inspectors.…
Nigeria’s Army uncovers bomb factory
The Nigerian Army in Kaduna on Saturday announced the arrest of a suspected member of a terror group after raiding…
Balarabe: Jonathan Is Confused And Incompetent
Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former governor of Kaduna State, explains to JAMIU YISA and ISA ISAWADE why the country will remain…
Bloody Week In The North-east
Apart from the violence that engulfed parts of Kaduna State last weekend, three other northern Nigerian states were hit in…
Bombed Nigerian state relaxes curfew
By Femi Adi/Kaduna After observing that relative calm has returned to Kaduna state, Kaduna State government has relaxed the 24…
Kaduna police detonates bomb
Femi Adi/ kaduna Democracy Day in the Nigerian city of Kaduna would have been a bloody affair but for the…
Fake Certificates: 1,840 Teachers Sacked
The Kaduna State government has sacked at least 1,840 teachers in secondary and primary schools for allegedly possessing forged certificates.…
Speeding Driver shot in kaduna Governor’s House
By Femi Adi/ Kaduna A man who drove dangerously into Government House in Kaduna state was shot by soldiers today,…
Idika Kalu, Balarabe, Clark Call For N/Conference
Prominent Nigerians including Chief Kalu Idika Kalu, Edwin Clark, Kaduna State second republic governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, today called for…
Kaduna Relaxes curfew as Protesters Pour Out
Kaduna State government today relaxed the 24-Hour curfew imposed on the state Tuesday evening after hoodlums hijacked the fuel subsidy…
Reps Member Wants Kaduna Community To End Attacks
A federal lawmaker, Alhaji Garba Shehu, has cautioned against reprisal attacks by aggrieved communities in the crisis in Kafanchan, Kaduna…
Reps Member Wants Kaduna Community To End Attacks
A federal lawmaker, Alhaji Garba Shehu, has cautioned against reprisal attacks by aggrieved communities in the crisis in Kafanchan, Kaduna…
National Sports Festival: Team Rivers Are Double Champions
Hosts of the just concluded National Sports Festival Rivers State, emerged winners of the men and women basketball event at…