By AMOS MATTHEW, kaduna – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been commended for giving provisional license for the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies in Kaduna (CPESK) , to operate as a private postgraduate university. Governor Uba Sani praised the president when the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology...
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By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has inaugurated a multi-stakeholder committee to oversee the transparent and efficient distribution of over 300 truckloads of fertilizer to 100,000 farmers across the state. A statement signed by Commissioner of Agriculture, Alhaji Murtala Dabo, disclosed that the fertiliser distribution...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has announced the arrest of a notorious bandit leader, Mati Bagio 34, who had evaded capture for 11 years. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Mansir Hassan, announced this in a statement issued on Friday in Kaduna. DSP Hassan said the suspect...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has described the late President Muhammadu Buhari as a patriotic leader whose legacy will continue to inspire generations of Nigerians. In a heartfelt condolence message issued shortly after Buhari’s passing, Governor Sani said the former president lived a life...
BY AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has called for bold and transformative amendments to Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, highlighting the need for state police, fiscal federalism and gender inclusion as part of his proposal. The governor who made the proposal during the North-West zonal public hearing...
Troops of 37 Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Demonstration, have arrested 3 suspected terrorists and gunrunners along Kauya – Old Afaka – Sabon Birni in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Markus Kangye, revealed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja....
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Nigerian Army has arrested three suspected gunrunners in Kaduna State, foiling an attempt to supply arms to criminals in the bush. The suspects, identified as Yakubu Jilbril, Abubakar Yahaya, and Isiya Sani, were arrested by troops of 37 Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Demonstration Battalion...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State government has confirmed that the North West zonal public hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review will hold in Kaduna on Saturday. This hearing is part of the ongoing efforts to amend the 1999 Constitution and will cover the...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Government is set to go into partnership in bringing together global development partners, government agencies, and education stakeholders to co-create a homegrown and inclusive education model. To achieve this desired goal, the state government is to host a high-level international education summit,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – A suspected diphtheria outbreak has claimed the lives of three children in Zaria, Kaduna State, with six others infected. According to the Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Board, Dr. Bello Jamoh, the outbreak has persisted for the past 10 months, since...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – As part of activities, marking the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) 2025, the Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA) over the weekend commissioned a Crèche and Nursery School along with tricycles and shuttle shelter in Ribadu Cantonment, Kaduna. Speaking on behalf of the President...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given the Nigerian Army and other security agencies a clear order to decisively confront and defeat terrorists, bandits, insurgents threatening the peace and unity of the country. According to the President, “To the officers and soldiers of the Nigerian...
BY Amosy MATHEW, Kaduna – As part of activities marking the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) for the year 2025, the Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association (NAOWA) presented food items and cash to widows of fallen heroes. Similar gesture was also extended to women in maternity wards, children in...
By AMOS MATTHEW, Kaduna – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has commissioned a renovated multipurpose science laboratory at Government Day Secondary School Jaji, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state, as part of activities lined up in commemoration of the Nigerian Army Day Celebration 2025 (NADCEL)....
A diarrhea outbreak has affected 81 students at the Government Girls Senior and Junior Secondary School, Kawo, in Kaduna State, with 15 students hospitalized. The Kaduna State Ministry of Health confirmed the outbreak and revealed that the affected students were between 16 and 17 years old. According to Dr....
By STEVEN KEFAS When Atlantic Mining CEO Colin Ikin walked into a high-profile meeting with the Kaduna State government in May 2025, promising a $300 million investment in the state’s solid minerals industry, officials likely saw dollar signs and job creation opportunities. This wasn’t Ikin’s first foray into Nigerian...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna– Kaduna State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on the State Government to sustain the momentum of its recently inaugurated Taskforce against urban crime, warning that growing criminal activities still pose a major threat to residents, journalists and the state’s fragile...
A delegation of the Plateau Government, led by Alhaji Muhammadu Haruna, the Emir of Wase, has visited the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Ahmed Bamalli, to commiserate over the killing of some travellers in the state. The victims were attacked and killed by hoodlums on June 20 at Mangun community...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – A group known as the Kaduna Patriotic Movement (KPM) has declared the newly formed All Democratic Alliance (ADA) coalition a non-starter, describing it as “dead on arrival” ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a fiery statement issued by its Chairman, Ibrahim Dan-Gaskiya, the...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has condemned the brutal killing of twelve Kaduna indigenes in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, calling on security agencies to do all they can to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators. The victims, who were en route to...