President Muhammadu Buhari has openly supported the move of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, to sack 21,780 teachers, who failed the competency test conducted by the state government. Speaking at a special retreat of the federal executive council (FEC) on the challenges facing the education sector, Buhari said it was no longer a secret […]
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The Kaduna State government has released the answer scripts of some teachers who participated in the competency test set by the government. Basic questions like the full name of the governor, the name of the minister of Education, the three state of matter and so on were found difficult to answer by some of the […]
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About 21,780 out of 33,000 teachers failed the primary four test administered to test their competence by the Kaduna State government. The state is therefore shopping for 25,000 new teachers as one of the plans to restore dignity and quality to education. Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State unveiled the planned recruitment when he received […]
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The Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has vowed to rescue the assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Emmanuel Adeniyi, who was kidnapped in the state on Wednesday. Adeniyi was kidnapped with his driver on Funtua-Birnin Gwari road. Muktar Aliyu, the command spokesman said, “our men are on ground day and night to make sure […]
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Residents of Maiyola, a community of 3,000 residents in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have said that they lose an average of one pregnant woman monthly due to absence of antenatal services. The residents said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria that they also lose a lot of children under […]
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday inaugurated the Army forward operation base in Kafanchan, Kaduna State. The base was established to tackle ethno-religious crisis, banditry and cattle rustling in southern Kaduna. Buratai said the base was designed to serve as a critical staging area for effective conduct of operation by troops […]
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In furtherance of its commitment to empower female entrepreneurs across Nigeria Access Bank has extended its Womenpreneur Business Workshop to Kaduna State. To give the women in Kaduna a professional business capacity-building experience, Access Bank’s W Academy partnered with the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC); the Entrepreneurship arm of Lagos Business School to drive this workshop. […]
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In a direct response to the challenged posed to him by the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El- Rufai has published his monthly salary which reflects a gross pay of N555,926.74 and take home pay of N470,521.74 The governor also published his security vote and budgets of […]
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The first 100 houses constructed under the Public Private Partnership initiated by Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i for low income earners in Kaduna State have been completed. The News Agency of Nigeria [NAN] reports that the ”Affordable Housing Scheme” was inaugurated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Jan. 12, 2016 in Kaduna. NAN reports that a total […]
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The Kaduna State Government has barred personnel of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) from erecting checkpoints in Kaduna and other urban centres in the state. The directive is contained in a statement issued in Kaduna on Wednesday by Mr Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant to Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i on Media and Publicity. It said that […]
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