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...
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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...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will deploy no fewer than 4,000 personnel for the conduct of Saturday’s re-run polls and by-election for the State and Federal Constituencies in Kaduna State. Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of INEC in Kaduna State, Malam Aminu Idris, disclosed in...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Following the relentless advancement of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command Anti-Kidnapping squad in a concerted effort with troops of the Nigerian Army, on the heels of the kidnappers that struck the Zuma 1 area in the Bwari Area Council on the 2nd...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The FCT Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a notorious kidnapper named Chinaza Phillip in Abuja by the Kaduna State Police Command operatives on Thursday. The FCT police spokesman, Josephine Adeh, confirmed this in a post shared via the Force X handle...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper and rescued a victim kidnapped in Abuja. The command’s spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna. Hassan said, “In a renewed vigour to ensure the safety of lives...
The Kaduna State Fire Service on Wednesday confirmed a fire incident at the popular Panteka market in Kaduna. Mr Paul Aboi, Director, Kaduna State Fire Service, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the fire incident affected the timber section of the market. Aboi said that the...
The Police Command in Kaduna State has confirmed the abduction of Halimatus Sa’adiya Bello and her 17-year-old son, Yusuf Bello, at Dogarawa Area, Sabon Gari Local Government Area of the state. ASP Mansur Hassan, the command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Police Command in Kaduna, says it has foiled a kidnap attempt of a man and his wife in Rigasa area of Igabi Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on...
Gunmen, who kidnapped retired Rev. Filibus Bamai of ECWA Church, Matuak Rimi, in Moro’a Chiefdom of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have demanded N1 million ransom for his release. A source close to the church gave this indication in Manchok on Tuesday. The source said that...
The Katsina State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has said it cannot accept any form of intimidation against its members by some political office holders. The NULGE President in the state, Alhaji Nasir Wada-Mai’adua, stated this while briefing newsmen in Katsina...
Gunmen on Monday night abducted Mr Sunday Bage, a prominent farmer in Pari village in the Chawai chiefdom of Kauru Local Government of Kaduna State. Also picked along with Sunday was his wife, Listu. A source from the village told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) that the...
Kaduna State Police Command has rescued a kidnapped victim, after six months’ in captivity. The state Public Relations’ Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kaduna. ‘’On Monday at about 1600hours, our anticrime patrol mission on...