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Kaduna Police Debunks Report Of 100 Abducted In Kaduna

January 19, 2020 5:38 pm
The Kaduna Police Command has debunked the story being circulated by The Premium Times that 30 people were killed and 100 abducted when bandits attacked an emir.

The Nigeria Police Kaduna State Command refuted the claims in a statement signed by its Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Yakubu Abubakar Sabo, made available on Sunday January 19, 2020.

“The attention of the Kaduna State Police Command has been drawn to a story that was published on The Premium Times Newspaper of today 19th January, 2020 and is being circulated on Social Media captioned “Bandit Attack: Buhari sympathises with Emir but

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Kaduna Internal Revenue Seals Off FCMB, Keystone Over ₦292m

January 14, 2020 10:28 am
Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service, KADIRS, has sealed off some bank branches in Kaduna for been indebted to the tuned of ₦292 million.

The affected banks are three branches each of the First City Monument Bank, FCMB, and Keystone Bank in Kaduna.

Report has it that the branches sealed off by the revenue agency as a result of over tax liabilities and PAYE are located at Sabon Tasha, Ali Akilu, Bank Road and Yakubu Gowon Way.

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Report also has it that FCMB is owing over N72 million in tax liabilities

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Kaduna Explosion: DPR Recovers More Bodies Of 3 Victims

January 11, 2020 5:31 am
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday said a combined team of DPR, KEPA and other agencies have recovered mutilated bodies of three more victims of the Jan. 4 Kaduna gas explosion.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recovery of the three bodies brings to eight the number of victims killed by the gas explosion.

The North West Zonal Controller, DPR, Isa Tafida made the disclosure during a condolence visit to the family of the late Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, Prof. Simon Mallam.

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Tafida represented

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District Head Kidnapped In Kaduna

December 19, 2019 5:43 am

Unidentified gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, on Wednesday, abducted District Head of Birnin Gwari Central, Alhaji Abubakar Yahaya along Kaduna- Birnin Gwari highway.

The suspected kidnappers also abducted a former Educational Secretary identified as Ibrahim Musa, popularly known as Ibrahim ES.

THISDAY gathered that the incident happened around 12: pm Wednesday at Labi, along the highway.

A source from Birnin Gwari, who doesn’t want his name in print, told DAILY POST that the district head and the former ES were travelling in the same vehicle when they ran into the bandits.

“They were both travelling in the same vehicle when

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S/Court Upholds El-Rufai’s Election As Kaduna Governor

December 18, 2019 12:22 pm

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the election of Nasir El-Rufai as Governor of Kaduna State.

Recall that the Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna State had in November dismissed an appeal by Isah Mohammed Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging the verdict of the election petitions tribunal which affirmed El-Rufai’s victory at the 2019 gubernatorial election in the state.

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The court had ruled that El-Rufai was duly re-elected as Governor of Kaduna State.

Recall that the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, lost at …

Kaduna Women Commend El-Rufai For Appointing 6 Females

December 15, 2019 11:19 am

Women in politics (WIP) including the Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development in Kaduna State, Hajiya Hafsat Baba have commended Governor Nasir El-Rufai for appointing six women out of his 14 commissioners but demanded for more in elective positions.

The six sensitive Ministries currently headed by women in Kaduna Stat are Human Services and Social Development, Housing and Urban development, Public Works and Infrastructure, Justice, Health and Agriculture and Forestry.

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Hajiya Hafsat Baba, who stated this at the weekend during the reflection meeting on the implementation of Gender …

Begging: Booming Business In Kaduna

December 6, 2019 5:41 am

To some givers, beggars are humans and deserve kindness, care and support. But others think the other way round. Begging is simply a way of life, a lucrative business culture that shortcuts the hardship of the present times and exploits the rich of their excesses.

Not surprising, the numbers of beggars in cities and towns in Nigeria are on the increase. From Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu to Kano, the figures are alarming, the situation is unbecoming. There are, of course, factors that drive up the figures, namely the rural- urban pull that throws up unskilled and unemployable persons to urban …

Police Arrest Kaduna Sharia Court Judge, 2 Others

November 12, 2019 11:22 am

The police in Kaduna State have arrested a Sharia judge, Murtala Nasir, and former chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN), Alhaji Sani Dauda for allegedly giving out the latter’s daughter, Nasiba Dauda, in marriage twice.

Nasir who is the judge of Magaji gari Sharia Court in Kaduna North Local Government Area, was said to have conducted the marriage on Saturday, November 9, 2019.

Also arrested by the police was Shehu Dauda, one of the sons of Alhaji Sani Dauda.

The Kaduna State Police Command spokesman, DSP Yakubu Sabo, did not take his call at the time of filing this …

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Gunmen Abduct Two Lecturers In Kaduna

November 12, 2019 9:28 am

Two lecturers have been kidnapped by gunmen in Mahuta community of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The two lecturers whose names were given as Dr. Adamu Chinoko and Dr. Umar Chinoko are said to be biological brothers, teaching at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria and Kaduna Polytechnic, respectively.

It was learnt that Adamu was abducted on Thursday night and the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N2 million and a new motorcycle.

Umar who was said to have gone to deliver the ransom on Sunday was also abducted by the bandits after collecting the ransom .

The two …

The Abduction Mess In Kaduna State

November 9, 2019 4:20 pm

Kaduna State is in a big mess. This aptly describes the raging insecurity in this state, where kidnapping and banditry have become big businesses. The last four years have been horrendous. Daily, scores of hapless people are kidnapped for ransom in communities across the state, while security agents and Governor Nasir El-rufai display so much incompetence. Traumatised residents of Rigasa, in Igabi Local Government Area of the state, were on the streets last Monday to protest the high rate of abductions in their community. They also visited the state’s House of Assembly to seek the intervention of the lawmakers over …

Appeal Court Reserves Judgment On Kaduna Guber Election

Appeal Court Reserves Judgment On Kaduna Guber Election

November 5, 2019 9:25 am

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna, yesterday, reserved judgment for November  7, on the appeal filled by Alhaji Isah Ashiru, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the March 9  election.

Ashiru and the PDP had approached the Appeal Court to challenge the verdict of the Kaduna State Governorship Tribunal that upheld the return of Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as duly elected by majority and lawful votes.

The Justice Ibrahim Bako-led Tribunal had dismissed the petition of the PDP and its candidate for lacking in merit.

The petitioners had presented 135 witnesses with various …

Kaduna Residents Storm Assembly In Protest Against Banditry

Kaduna Residents Storm Assembly In Protest

November 5, 2019 4:33 am
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Amid the high rate of banditry in Kaduna State, residents of Rigasa community in Igabi Council, yesterday, stormed the House of Assembly in protest against kidnapping and armed robbery in their communities.The placard-wielding protesters urged the lawmakers to intervene and save them from the bandits.‘End Kidnapping in Rigasa and Environs’, ‘Stop Kidnapping in Rigasa Community’ and ‘Change Rigasa Policemen’ were among the inscriptions on the placards. The protesters arrived the Assembly around 11a.m., shortly after the presentation of the 2020 budget by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,
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