The decision of relevant stakeholders of the People’s Democratic Party in Kaduna State to present Hon. Isa Ashiru Kudan as the party flag bearer for the second time simultaneously since 2015 is no doubt an expected choice that many believe, will yield the desired result for the state. Alhaji Isa Ashiru’s poise, great personality and charisma which has contributed to Read More
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will be a guest of the Arewa Joint Committee interactive session with presidential candidates on Saturday in Kaduna. The event is meant to x-ray the policy positions of presidential candidates of six respective political parties, and will feature Atiku at 1:00 pm. Several groups Read More
A Kaduna based Information Communication Technology (ICT) expert Najeeb Ibrahim, founder of the ICT firm called ‘Najeeb Digital Dynamics’ has unveiled an online learning platform for skills acquisition. Najeeb in a press release issued to our correspondent yesterday in Gombe explained that the online class tagged ‘Skillclass’ is a platform for e-learning noting that unlike the Massive Open Online Courses Read More
By AbdulRaheem, Kaduna Ahmadu Bello University Alumni Association has started engaging members of the Ahmadu Bello University branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on how to end the prolonged strike action, national president of the association, Alhaji Ibrahim Sani Khalil, has said. Addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Saturday ahead of the 15th Alumni Annual General Meeting Read More
Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said terrorists are consolidating their grip on communities in the state with a “parallel” government and “permanent operational base” in the North-western state near Nigeria’s capital Abuja. The governor said this in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, exclusively obtained by Premium Times. El-Rufai warned the president of the terrorists’ consolidation in a late July Read More
Terrorists, Friday night, attacked Shika community in Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna state and kidnapped a house wife, Rakiya Isa Umar, and her three children. A resident of the community Mallam Shehu Nagero told Blueprint that the terrorists stormed the community at 11.15 pm on Friday and went straight to the house and kidnapped their victims. He said Read More
Some Christian youths and elders in Kachia local government area of Kaduna, Monday, joined Muslims from their community to help clear the bushes at Eid prayer ground where Muslims will pray on Saturday. The Eid prayer ground is usually not a mosque where Muslims gather to pray daily but an open space. Social media users hailed the move including a Read More
Former senator representing Kano central, Senator Shehu Sani, has declared interest to join the planned protest by family members of Kaduna-Abuja train attack, to force federal government to hasten action to secure the victims’s release. The human rights activist promised to be physically present during the protest to lend his voice to the call on government to act now and Read More
The Nigerian government Thursday said the fatal attack on a Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state, was likely carried out by a terror group, the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP). Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola said this while briefing journalists after the National Security Council meeting presided by President Muhammadu Buhari. “The Council is quite concerned about the Read More
A Kaduna-based lawyer has dragged the Director, Department of State Security (DSS) to Court over alleged five months detention of a suspect without trial in a Court of law. According to the lawyer, Mr. Onjefu Adalache, while speaking to newsmen, his client, John Boyi, was arrested on January 13, 2022 and detained by the DSS since January 16, 2022 till Read More
The suspension of train services along the Abuja-Kaduna rail route following terrorist attack on the a Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) train enroute Kaduna from Abuja has travellers stranded as the road and airport had not been spared of similar attacks. In this report, KEHINDE OSASONA echoes the question in the minds of many: How do we go to Kaduna? Gunmen Read More
Kaduna state government has declared 24 hours curfew in Jema’a and Kaura local government areas of the state to enable security agencies restore law and order as well as bring an end to the killings and reprisals taking place there. A terse statement signed by the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Monday urged residents Read More
Gunmen in the early hours of Friday shot to death the director of operations of the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS), Malam Dauda. Dauda was killed at his residence in Barakallahu community along the Kaduna – Zaria highway some kilometres out of Kaduna metropolis, Igabi local government area of the state, when five men stormed into the area and shot Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Governor Nasir el-Rufai for the urban renewal infrastructural development across the state, noting that he can hardly find his way home within the Kaduna city. Speaking while commissioning the redesigned and redeveloped Murtala Mohammed Square Kaduna, President Buhari said he was constrained to move Daura to Kaduna but with the new infrastructural developments, the governor Read More
Centenary: Kaduna Golf Club commences celebrations with kids clinic
Two of the 66 worshipers abducted on Saturday, October 31 at Emmanuel Baptist Church Kakau Daji, Chikun LGA of Kaduna state have been killed by their captors. Rev Joseph John Hayab, Chairman of CAN kaduna chapter, confirmed the development to journalists on Sunday. He said the bandits opened fire on five of their victims on Saturday, killing two while three Read More
Many people were killed and houses were burnt following separate attacks on Yagbak and Ungwan Ruhugo communities both in Zango Kataf local government of Kaduna state. A statement by the state government on Friday did not, however, specify if the attacks were carried out by bandits or if it was reprisal attacks. The statement signed by the Commissioner for Internal Read More
The United Nations African Convention on Disabled and physically challenged people (UNACDCP) has commended the National Ear Care Center (NECC) Kaduna for embarking on reforms which has turned around the fortunes of the center. Speaking at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) which held in Nairobi Kenya, host, Dr Mutavi Evans Mutavi, the organisations Charge d ‘affairs in Kenya said NECC Read More
The Veteran Journalists Forum (VJF) has lent its weight to the bid by Senator Sani Musa (APC Niger state) for the national chairmanship of the All Progressives Congress (APC). At a press conference in Kaduna at the weekend, group’s Secretary-General, John Femi Adi, said Senator Musa has been a “detribalised Nigerian” with “powerful connections beyond ethno-geographic barriers and religious persuasions”. Read More
Ondo state governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has warned that the various criminal activities of kidnapping, bombing and assault on the people in some parts of the country which are being referred to as banditry must be appropriately addressed as terrorism. Governor Akeredolu said that infiltration of the country’s borders and burning down of railway are activities that must be Read More
Nigerians have taken to the social media to condemn the Wednesday night attack of a Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) coach with explosives by yet to be identified persons between Rijana and Dutse along the Abuja-Kaduna rail track. Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Engineer Fidet Okhiria on Thursday confirmed the attack and said the explosives destroyed part of the Read More
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended indefinitely train services along the Abuja –Kaduna route following reports that armed men attacked and destroyed parts of the rail line, using explosives. Passengers heading to Kaduna from Abuja returned to the nation’s capital after a delay which lasted at least two hours on Thursday. The NRC in a statement on its website Read More
A voluntary think-tank group of the All Progressives Congress, known as APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APC-LAC) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is backing long overdue efficiency and transparency to the management of Nigeria’s oil and gas resources with action. The group added that the President will not slow down or relent in his efforts to transform the Read More
Gun-wielding bandits Sunday stormed a weekly market in Goroyo local government of Sokoto state, killing 30 people, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has confirmed. But another report from Goroyo, though unconfirmed, said about 60 people were killed by the bandits during the attack. The tragic incident occurred barely 12 days after the gunmen in yet another attack hit Unguwar Lalle market in Sabon Birni local Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Moh Lukman, has said opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others are presenting false narrative to paint President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party in bad light. The PGF boss also described as “politically scandalous” for an APC state like Lagos to Read More
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