Tag: Kaduna
Alleged ThisDay bomber For Trial
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A man accused of participating in last April’s bombing of a building occupied by Nigeria’s This…
Nigerian Court Sends Ex-council Boss To Prison
A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has remanded the former Chairman of Lere Local government and four other employees…
Nigerian troops kill 5 Boko Haram suspects
The Nigerian Army said it had killed five suspected Boko Haram members and destroyed a bomb making factory in Rigasa…
Education Minister Tasks Teachers On Performance
Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai has called on both primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers to give their…
Sani: Nigeria’s North Will Rise Against Jonathan
Kaduna-based human rights activist, Comrade Shehu Sani gives reasons why President Goodluck Jonathan should not contest in 2015 The North…
Dead Nigerian Governor Yakowa for burial Thursday
The newly sworn-in Governor of Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna, Alhaji Mukhtar Yero on Sunday said the remains of late…
11 killed as suicide bombers hit Nigerian army church
The Nigerian army said that the two blasts today at a church in the military barracks in Jaji, Kaduna state…
Bombing: Catholic Church leader calls for true dialogue
The Kaduna Catholic Archdiocese, on Monday called on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to dialogue with the Federal Government…
Kaduna: Residents indoors as troops patrol city
Nigerian soldiers patrolled the streets of Kaduna Monday, a day after at least 10 people were killed and 145 wounded…
Kaduna: Christian mobs in counter attacks
Christian mobs with machetes and sticks took to the streets of Nigeria’s Kaduna state targeting people they suspected to be…
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…
Nigeria resumes hajj flights after Saudi row
National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Sunday resumed flight operations to Saudi Arabia in five centres for this year’s…
Murder of Kaduna motorcyclist by cop ignites tension
A Nigerian mobile police officer on Wednesday, at close range twice shot a commercial motorcyclist in the head in Kaduna,…
Bombs kill 2 Boko Haram bombers, one passerby
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers met their end today as the bombs they were carrying on…
3,000 Teachers Benefit From Learn African Project
Foremost learning resource company has trained over 30,000 teachers in over 100 workshops held in different states of the country…
Child Birth: 5 Women Die Daily In Kaduna
No fewer than five maternal mortality rate is recorded in Kaduna state daily, says an expert on reproductive health system,…
Fears of bomb attacks trigger Panic in Kaduna
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Speculations that members of the Boko Haram sect were planning a massive bombing of the troubled Nigerian…
One person injured in Kaduna blast
The Nigerian Army has confirmed an explosion from an improvised explosive device along Kaduna-Zaria road. The explosion which occurred between…
Another bomb explodes in Kaduna
By Femi Adi/Kaduna Few weeks after three churches were bombed in the cities of Zaria and Kaduna , another bomb…
Jonathan commissions bullet proof factory, APC
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan said in Kaduna on Monday that henceforth , the country would not import military equipment that…
Xtian, muslim leaders parley with Kaduna governor
Gov. Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State on Saturday met with Christian and Muslim leaders to discuss the protracted crisis in…
Strife torn Nigerian state relaxes curfew
By Femi Adi/Kaduna To allow Muslims and Christians worship, Kaduna State government has relaxed the curfew only on Friday and…
Strife-torn Nigerian states stable, says NSA
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja General Owoeye Azazi, the National Security Adviser has said government is not considering declaring a state of emergency…
Boko Haram: 2 Nigerian cities in a state of war
Gunfire and rioting rocked two northern Nigerian cities on Tuesday in a fresh round of unrest, prompting authorities to slap…
Kaduna Curfew Relaxed
After observing that relative calm had returned to the state this afternoon, Kaduna State government has relaxed the 24 hours curfew…
Official: 36 dead, 101 injured in Nigeria blasts
Bomb attacks on five churches in Nigeria’s Kaduna State and subsequent rioting by Christian youths targeting Muslims killed at least…
3 churches bombed in Kaduna state
Bombs have exploded in three churches in the volatile Nigeria’s North western Kaduna state, two of them in Zaria and…
Kaduna police detonates bomb
Femi Adi/ kaduna Democracy Day in the Nigerian city of Kaduna would have been a bloody affair but for the…
Jonathan declares Air Force Expo open
By Femi Adi/ Kaduna President Goodluck Jonathan today in Kaduna formally declared open, the 2012 Nigerian Air Force Expo, an…
Kaduna records a Second bomb blast
A second bomb has exploded in the city of Kaduna, about five hours after the blast at the office of…