The Kaduna State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), has commended Gov. Nasir El-Rufai for raising the minimum pension in the state from N3,000 to N30,000 monthly. A statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna by Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser on Media and Communication to El-Rufai, said the union’s commendation was conveyed in a […]
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Workers in Kaduna State, have confirmed that they had started receiving the N30,000 minimum wage. Reports had it that the state council on August came to agree that they will start paying the N30,000 minimum wage. Some of the workers started receiving salary alerts for the month of September and they’ve started jubilating. Governor Nasir […]
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The national body of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Shehu Sani remains its senatorial candidate in Kaduna central. Yekini Nabena, acting national publicity secretary of the party, gave the clarification in an interview with NAN in Abuja on Sunday. He said Sani was the only senatorial candidate from the zone duly recognised by the […]
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The death of the Saturday afternoon raid by suspected bandits at Gwaska in Birnin-Gwair Local Government Area of Kaduna State has risen from 27 to 45 on Sunday. The Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance said no fewer than 45 bodies were recovered by vigilantes and volunteers with the assistance of soldiers on Sunday […]
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Some political thugs invaded the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council on Sunday, injured journalists, vandalised properties and disrupted a press briefing by some APC chieftains in the state. The thugs were said to have over powered policemen at the entrance to the NUJ secretariat where Senators Shehu Sani and […]
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The spokesman of the House of Representatives, Abdulrazak Namdas, says Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, only published the security budget of the state and not his security votes. The governor had released details of his state’s expenditure days after Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, challenged governors to release their expenditure. However, in a chat with […]
Continue ReadingThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on the Nigerian Government to drop all criminal charges against journalist Jacob Dickson and release him without delay. According to a statement made available to the press in Dakar on Wednesday by the CPJ, Dickson has been held in pre-trial detention on incitement charges since Friday. […]
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BY AYO OLOWO Cattle rustlers in Kaduna State have once again been bettered by security operatives. Some cows, numbering 1,232, were recovered in the combined operations by the military, police, the State Security Service (SSS), and some other agencies in the Kamuku and Kuyanbana forest ranges that straddle the borders of Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Niger, […]
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Beggars in Kaduna state under the aegis of Kaduna State Beggars Association have vowed to bring down Governor Nasir El Rufai‘s government should he fail to list the embargo on beggars in the state. The beggars, who addressed a press conference in Kaduna on Monday, July 27, said they used their proceeds from begging to […]
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