Trial of the Accountant-General of Bauchi State, Sirajo Muhammed Jaja continued on Monday, September 21, 2026 at the Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Obiora Egwuatu with a witness revealing how Jaja diverted state funds to a private company. Jaja is facing prosecution by the Economic...
Bauchi State
A Jos-based legal firm, Wholesome Attorneys, has petitioned the Bauchi State Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), urging the agency to enforce a Federal High Court judgment ordering the release of a 17-year-old Christian girl, Faith Barnabas, to her mother. The petition, filed on behalf of Mrs....
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), headed by National Chairman, Interim National Working Committee (INWC), Barr. Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has arrived in Bauchi State to attend the 2026 Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF) Democracy Dialogue, scheduled for August 11, 2026. This year’s dialogue, centered on the...
Bauchi State has secured a $91.6 million financing package from the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to fund the construction of 24 strategic roads and bridges across the state. Governor Bala Mohammed disclosed this while addressing journalists after returning from the formal signing of the Bauchi State...
Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) has called on the chairmen of Bauchi, Dass and Alkaleri Local Government Areas to allocate more funds to nutrition programmes as part of efforts to tackle malnutrition and reduce child stunting across Bauchi State. The appeal was made on Wednesday during...
Justice O.A. Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, rejected the application filed by Bauchi State Accountant General, Sirajo Muhammad Jaja for permission to travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Muslim pilgrimage, hajj and medical check-up. Jaja is facing...
Former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has donated ₦10 million to the Malikiya College of Nursing Sciences in Bauchi State as part of his continued support for healthcare and education development in Nigeria. Obi disclosed this in a post shared on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, detailing his engagements...
There was widespread celebration in Mansur, Alkeleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State, on Wednesday, 22 April 2026, as residents returned en masse to reclaim their ancestral homes after months in exile. The community had been deserted since 26 February 2026 when armed terrorists overran the village and forced...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has resigned as Nigeria’s Minister of Affairs ahead of 2027 politics. Alkasim Abdulkadir, Special Assistant on Media and Communications Strategy to Amb Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, announced this in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. In his letter of resignation, the Minister...
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued a four-day ultimatum to the Federal Government, demanding immediate implementation of the newly approved salary structure for university lecturers nationwide. ASUU President, Professor Christopher Piwuna, made the announcement on Thursday during a public lecture at Sa’adu Zungur University, Yuli Campus, Bauchi...
APC National Youth League has thrown its weight behind Bauchi born oil and gas technocrat Bala Wunti, urging the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to rally behind him as the party’s most formidable candidate for the 2027 Bauchi State governorship election. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday,...
Another cameraman with the Bauchi State Television Authority (BATV), Kabiru Ahmed Ilaleh, has died from injuries sustained in a recent ghastly road accident in Bauchi State. He was 56 years old. Kabiru died in the early hours of Sunday, March 1, 2026, at the New Surgical Complex of the...
North East Development Commission (NEDC), has donated equipment to journalists who were involved in a motor accident during an inspection tour in Bauchi State. Receiving the items, the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Alhassan Abdullahi, appealed to the Commission to pay the health insurance...
While giving the order for reassignment, Justice Nwite stated that the matter was returned to the Chief Judge because it was a vacation matter which needed to be reassigned to a substantive judge to handle. Adamu was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alongside Balarabe Abdullahi...
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday, January 5, 2026, turned down bail applications of Yakubu Adamu, Bauchi State’s Commissioner of Finance and three others. The three others are Balarabe Abdullahi Ilelah, Aminu Mohammed Bose and Kabiru Yahaya Mohammed. They were arraigned on Wednesday, December 31,...
Arewa Joint Initiative for Peace has urged Nigerians to reject what it described as attempts to seek public sympathy over serious corruption and security-related allegations involving officials of the Bauchi State Government. In a statement signed by its President, Julius Danlami, the group drew attention to the recent arraignment...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arraigned Yakubu Adamu, Commissioner of Finance, Bauchi State, and his co-defendants on alleged $9.7 million terrorism financing. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Adamu, the 1st defendant, was arraigned...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 arraigned Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance and former Branch Manager of Polaris Bank Plc, Bauchi State branch, Yakubu Adamu, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, over alleged money laundering offences involving N5,791,900,000 (Five...
Governor Uba Sani has renamed the Centre For Qur’anic Science of Kaduna State University after Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, the late Islamic cleric that died on November 27. A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary, Malam Ibraheem Musa, said the Governor made this known at the Maulid celebration...
President Bola Tinubu has received the news of the death of Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi with profound sadness and a deep sense of loss. The revered Bauchi-based cleric died Thursday at the age of 101. The President in a statement by his media aide, Bayo Onanuga, mourned the late...