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A 41- year old carpenter, Francis Emmanuel, was on Tuesday afternoon stabbed by unknown youths for eating during Ramadan fasting, the Nation reports. Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday morning visited the victim of the assault at St. Gerard Catholic Hospital, with a directive that police must...

Most large cities in the developing world are breaching global air pollution guidelines, according to new data from the World Health Organization. Onitsha, a fast growing city in Anambra, a South-East state in Nigeria, has been tagged the world’s most polluted city according to a report...

Gunmen on Sunday night killed Bala Madaki, the district head of Fadan Karshi in Numana Chiefdom of Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to NAN, Mr. Madaki was killed alongside his nephew, Emmanuel Tanko, 19, at his residence in Fadan Karshi. The Sanga Interim Management...

Governor Nasir El-rufai has introduced the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS). its purpose is to replace the old Ministry of Lands, and is now building a digital land registry. It will be recall that the Kaduna State Executive Council at its fifth meeting on Monday, 14 September...

A staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), identified as Yusuf Abdulkadir has been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen in Kaduna. Abdulkadir, who is a staff in the NNPC Abuja office was said to have been abducted on Saturday at his residence in Rigachiku, Igabi local...

Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central has once again come against Governor Nasir El-Rufai his plan to regulate public preaching in the state through the proposed religious bill currently in the state House of Assembly. He described the law as draconian, which had no place in a...

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, also known as Shi’ites, has reacted to claims by security agencies in the country that the movement has links with the Boko Haram sect. The movement’s out-rightly denied the claims in a statement signed by its spokesman, Ibrahim Musa made available to...

The Kaduna state police command has declared a state of emergency to stem rising cases of kidnapping in the state. Zubairu Abubakar, the command’s spokesman, disclosed this in an interview with NAN, saying that a special team of anti kidnap squad has been formed to track and dislodge criminal...

As the controversy over the proposed religious bill sent to the Kaduna State House of Assembly by the executive rages, there have been mixed feelings. Here are some basic things you need to know about the proposed bill... - The bill, which is an amendment of a 1984 edict on public preaching...

Troops from 1 Division Nigerian Army Kaduna have intercepted armed robbers at Pambegwa, Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing two of them. Disclosing this in a statement signed by 1 Division Deputy Director Public Relations, Colonel Usman Abdul, the Army division said items...

The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), has shut down over 50 drug stores in Kaduna State for allegedly operating illegally without approval from the council. Accrording to ChannelsTV, the raid, which was conducted at some pharmacies and patent medicine outlets within the state’s capital on...

Govenor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai has forwarded a bill to the State House of Assembly to regulate religious preaching across the state. The bill titled: “A bill for a law to substitute the Kaduna State religious preaching law, 1984”, which is also aimed at banning the usage of...

No fewer than 30 male passengers died in an accident that occurred along the Adeosun area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday after a trailer conveying them tumbled down the road. Over 50 other people sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash, while two rams were killed. The...

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai inaugurated the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Shi'ites-Army clash in Zaria on Friday, January 29 at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House. The Commission is being chaired by Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba, the presiding justice of the Port Harcourt...

Telecom operators have threatened to shut down network services in seven different states over closure of Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) by the state governments. According to the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) Chairman, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, yesterday...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Hajiya Aisha, yesterday called on the Nigeria Army to ensure prompt payment of entitlements to the families of soldiers who lost their lives in the battle field. Hajiya Aisha made the call when she visited the 44 Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna yesterday to...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai has launched School Feeding Program in Public Primary Schools in Kaduna State. The flag off took place at LGEA Primary School ,Aliyu Makama Barnawa-Kaduna, Kaduna South Local Government Area, Kaduna State. The School Feeding Programme will provide one meal per day to...

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria has calimed that more than 700 Shi'ite members are still missing almost a month after its members and soldiers clashed in Zaria, Kaduna State. According to PUNCH, the Shi’ite Muslim group, which is led by Sheik Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, said it suspected that those...

Hundreds of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, South West zone, on Friday, joined calls by some Nigerians for the release of their leader Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, Nigeria Tribune reports. Speaking on behalf of the group at a press conference held at the Nigeria Union of Journalists...

Youths of Kamanzo Community in Kaduna metropolis have embarked on protest over alleged 10 months of power outage in the area by barricading the roads causing gridlock for several hours on Monday, DailyPost reports. The District Head of Kamanzo Community, Malam Dan-Makama, who confirmed the...