By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a fake soldier allegedly involved in robbery and extortion. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest in a statement he issued on Monday in Kaduna. ASP Hassan stated that police arrested the...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a notorious kidnapping gang leader who masterminded the Fadan Kamantan inferno where a Seminarian and a Church were burnt into ashes in 2023. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest in a statement...
Police operatives in Kaduna State have foiled a kidnap attempt on Buruku-Kaduna highway on Thursday. Police spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan said in a statement on Friday in Kaduna, that the bandits were forced to retreat by the firepower of the personnel. He said: “On March 21, at 1300hrs,...
The Federal Government will soon fish out and prosecute kidnappers of school children, information minister Mohammed Idris has said. Idris spoke in Kano on Wednesday in an interactive session with media executives and practitioners organised by the Ministry of Information and National Orientation. He said President Tinubu had...
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of a 35-year-old man, Tijjani Bala in Correctional Centre over alleged sodomy. Bala, who lives at Kinkinau, Kaduna, is being tried on a one-count charge of unnatural offence. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, who did not take the suspect’s...
Members of the Northern Governors’ Forum have gone into closed door meeting with the National Security Adviser and Service Chiefs in Abuja. The meeting, holding in the Office of the National Security Adviser, opened at about 2pm, and may not be unconnected with the recent mass abduction of...
President Bola Tinubu has further directed the immediate release of the abducted children in Kaduna State and Borno. He insisted that the Federal Government would not succumb to the payment of ransom to kidnappers and terrorists in the country. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made...
Troops have arrested some suspects in connection with the murder of Alhaji Saleh Umar, the Ardo of Kamuru, Dutsen Bako community in Ikulu Chiefdom of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The assailants abducted and killed Alhaji Umar after collecting N2 million ransom. Troops of Operation...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Police in Kaduna State have arrested one Bulus Danladi, a suspected human trafficker. The police spokesman in the state, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the arrest to newsmen on Sunday in Kaduna. Hassan said “On March 1, at about 0900hrs a complain was lodged by...
No fewer than five persons have been confirmed dead following Lassa Fever outbreak in the Katsina State. The state Commissioner for Health, Hajiya Umma Ahmed, confirmed the outbreak of the disease to newsmen on Tuesday in Kaduna. She stated that an initial six samples were collected to confirm...
Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr Jide Idris, has officially acknowledged the outbreak of Lassa fever in Kaduna State. Speaking to newsmen on Friday in Abuja, Idris confirmed that the NCDC was closely monitoring the situation and working in collaboration with...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigerian Army troops on Tuesday eliminated terrorists hibernating in Yadi Forest in Kaduna State, during the deep clearance operations into remote forest general area. The Director, Army Public Relations, Maj.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are now struggling to make sales and profit due to the spike in the prices of commodities in various markets across Kaduna State. Some small business owners who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday said that they fear being...
No fewer than six persons including a former Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his younger brother have been killed by bandits who attacked Kwassam and Sabon Layin communities of the Kauru LGA of Kaduna State. The police are yet to confirm the incident...
A civil servant, Jamilu Zuntu, on Thursday demanded the sum of N7 million from his wife, Hadiza Aliyu, to grant her divorce request. Hadiza is seeking a dissolution of the three-year-old marriage at a Shari’a court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna. He told the court that he had spent...
)The Nigerian Navy School of Armament Technology (NNSAT), Kachia Local Government Area, Kaduna State said it had intercepted three trailers loaded with vandalised railway tracks . The NNSAT Commandant, Commodore Henry Aruomaren, made this known at a news briefing in Kachia on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has arrested eight persons suspected to be highway robbers on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway. The command’s spokesman, Mr Mansir Hassan, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, said that operatives from Tollgate Divisional Headquarters, while on patrol along Kaduna-Abuja expressway...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani on Tuesday swore in Mr Muhammed Danjuma as the new Grand Khadi of Sharia Court of Appeal for the state. In his speech at the ceremony, the governor warned that his administration would work with anti-graft agencies to fight corruption in the state judiciary...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) says the Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch has killed at least 30 terrorists and kidnappers in an air strike along Kwiga-Kampanin Doka axis in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Director, Public Relations and Information...