The 1 Division Nigerian Army Kaduna, on Sunday said its troops neutralised armed bandit in Kidandan and arrested an informant at Doka-Rijana road both in Birnin Gawri and Kachia Local Government area in Kaduna State. The 1 Division, Deputy Director Army Public Relations, Col. Muhammad Dole disclosed this in a press statement issue in Kaduna […]
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The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in both Katsina and Kaduna States, while 30 others were missing in the last four months. Mr Ishaya Chonoko, North West Zonal, Coordinator of the agency, gave the figures in an interview with the News Agency […]
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No fewer than 52 cattle have been killed by a train in Kasarami – Jere axis in Chikkun Local Government Area in Kaduna State. The Kaduna State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the accident. The Commissioner, Malam Ahmad Abdulrahaman refuted reports that the cattle were killed by other means. ” There is nothing like attack […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari believes the establishment of dairy farms will go a long way in curbing clashes between cattle herders and farmers in the country. He said this when he received the outgoing Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark, Mr Torben Gettermann, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to the President, […]
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Hosea Akuchi, a pastor of a Baptist Church, Guguwa, Nasira, Igabi local government area of Kaduna state, was on Sunday killed while attempting to resist kidnappers. The suspected bandits, however, abducted Talatu, the deceased’s wife, after killing the clergyman. The incident was said to have occurred when the gunmen attacked the community. Witness said the […]
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The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has invalidated the suspension placed on Senator Shehu Sani by the party executives in his ward in Kaduna State. In a statement signed by the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Sunday, the party directed the state APC chairman […]
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Three men of the Nigeria Police Force were reportedly killed along the Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna highway during an ambush by suspected bandits on Tuesday. The vehicle in which the deceased officers were in was also set ablaze, according to the Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance. The group said the incident occurred near Labi village in Birnin-Gwari […]
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Sen. Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna) said he has not defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to another party, according to a statement he made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday. He said that consultations were still ongoing with regard to his future in the party. “I am yet to […]
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Dr Ibrahim Hamza, the Commissioner for Water Resources in Kaduna State, says the state’s monthly revenue from water rate has increased from N30 million to N130 million. Hamza said this on Friday in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on the sidelines of the International Conference of the Nigerian Water Supply Association in […]
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The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Raji Fashola, has said the collapsed bridge on Mokwa-Jebba road will be repaired within 72 hours. Fashola told newsmen in Zaria, Kaduna State, shortly after he paid homage to the Emir of Zazzau, Dr Shehu Idris in his palace on Sunday. He explained that the ministry had deployed […]
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