JNI, Shiites differ on Kaduna religious law
June 9, 2019
12:30 am
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Bandits kill 20 in Kaduna
April 8, 2019
10:36 pm
Twenty persons have been reported killed in a fresh attack by unknown gunmen in Angwan Aku community, Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State.
A resident said the attack was launched at about 7am on Monday by gunmen, allegedly dressed in military uniform and armed with AK47 rifles, machetes and sticks.
They stormed the village, shooting sporadically, he said.
The Nation learnt that several others were injured in the attack.
The source said: “The attackers stormed the village and they were shooting indiscriminately and everybody started running into the bush. They were pursuing us as we ran. Some people were killed
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IGP launches operation ‘Puff Adder’ on Abuja-Kaduna highway
April 6, 2019
1:41 am
The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, yesterday launched a special operation to tackle the increasing rate of kidnapping and robbery on the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
‘Operation Puff Adder’ ,according to Adamu, is a well thought out and major operation aimed at re-dominating and reclaiming the public space from heinous criminal elements bent on threatening the internal security order.
It will cover Abuja-Kaduna highway and the adjoining communities and extend to Kogi, Katsina, Niger and Zamfara states.
Adamu ,speaking at the event, said:”To the criminal elements, let me sound this note of warning loud and clear: give up your criminal …
Atiku lost Kaduna, he lost very badly – Gov. El-Rufai
March 22, 2019
7:16 pm
Gov. Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State has dismissed the claim by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he won the presidential election in Kaduna state.
Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari) was declared winner of the Feb. 23 presidential election by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) having polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 states, to defeat 72 other candidates, including Atiku Abubakar, who scored 11,255,978 votes.
Buhari won in 19 states including Kaduna, Kogi, Niger and Gombe as against Atiku, who won in 17 states and the FCT to occupy the second position.
Southern Kaduna blasts El-Rufai for bias, arrest of leader
March 18, 2019
3:14 pm
Adara Community has lambasted Kaduna State Government for what it called ‘failure to arrest the criminals responsible for killings in six consecutive attacks’ on villages in Kajuru and Kachia local government areas.
The community under the auspices of Adara Development Association (ADA) lamented despite six attacks on different Adara villages with hundreds killed and thousands displaced, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has arrested their ‘sons’, while none of ‘the killers’ has been arrested.
Again, 10 attacked, killed in Kaduna
March 16, 2019
11:41 am
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Saturday attacked Nandu -Gbok village in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna state, killing 10 people.
About 30 houses were also reported to have been burnt down by the bandits.
Similar attacks on many communities in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state in the past one week had claimed over 100 lives, with hundreds of the people displaced.
Sources said the attack on Nandu -Gbok, occured at about 4:00am on Saturday when the gunmen, laid siege to the community.
According to sources, the bandits who were in large number and armed with …
Southern Kaduna queries PDP stalwarts for party’s failure
March 3, 2019
1:05 am
The Southern Kaduna has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and political juggernauts from Kaduna North to, within 24 hours, explain what led to the party’s woeful performance in the northern part of the state during the presidential election, or they might be left with no option to align with another party, possibly All Progressives Congress (APC).
Kaduna to set up commission of inquiry on Kajuru killings
March 2, 2019
11:37 am
The Kaduna State Government said it would set up a judicial commission of inquiry into the recurring killings in Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas of the state.
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai made the statement on Saturday when he visited Maro, Karamai and Sakiya communities in the area where 40 persons were killed on Tuesday in alleged reprisal attacks.
BREAKING: Shehu Sani, demand cancellation of Kaduna Polls
February 25, 2019
7:05 am
Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial zone, Shehu Sani has called for cancellation of elections in Kaduna State, particularly in the Kaduna Central zone.
Senator Shehu Sani is the candidate of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) in the Senatorial election.
Addressing newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday, Senator Sani said, the Saturday election was marred with irregularities across the zone, ranging from over voting, ballot stuffing, intimidation of voters, and connivance with security agencies to rig in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Sani said, himself and his party have compiled cases of irregularities across the zone and written to …
Kaduna killings: Police disagree with El-Rufai on figures
February 22, 2019
3:09 am
48 hours after Governor Nasir El-Rufai put the figure at 130, Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdulrahman has said that the casualty figures of Kajuru killings is yet to be ascertained.
The police commissioner while briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday, however, warned that, nobody should stampede investigations on the killings, adding that, “even if the governor tells you it is 200 bodies, he is just quoting figures, because it may be more than that or less than that.”
