KDSG Security Update: Again, driving against traffic claims more lives on Kaduna-Abuja road
…Two dead, eight injured in multi-vehicular crash Two persons died, and eight others sustained serious injuries in a road traffic crash along the Kaduna-Abuja. According to security agencies conducting operations on the route, the crash which occurred this afternoon near Olam Farms, involved four vehicles, and was again caused by speeding and commuters driving in […]
Covid-19: St. Bakhita Initiative Sokoto sensitizes, trains border community, religious leaders on curtailing spread
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto FOLLOWING the Covid-19 second phase trend, the Bakhita Initiative of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese has organised a sensitization and training programme for Sokoto state border towns community and religious leaders towards curtailing the spread of the virus just as the state confirmed 55 treated cases from the pandemic. Dr. Bello Ali […]
Ambassadorial Nomination: PDP Rejects Moves To Shield Ex-Service Chiefs From Investigation
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) firmly rejects plots by the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to use the decoy of ambassadorial appointments to shield the immediate past service chiefs from investigation over alleged killing of innocent Nigerians and crimes against humanity under their inglorious watch. The PDP charges the Senate to eschew […]
PRESIDENT BUHARI NOMINATES OLONISAKIN, BURATAI, IBAS, ABUBAKAR, USMAN AS NON-CAREER AMBASSADORS
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past Service Chiefs to the Senate as non-career Ambassadors-Designate. In a letter to Senator Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, President of the Senate, the President said: “In accordance with section 171 (1), (2) (c) & sub-section (4) of 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as […]
Kano Debars Islamic Cleric For Incitement
Kano State government, Northwest Nigeria, has debarred an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabar Sheikh Nasir Kabara from preaching in the state for his mode of teachings considered too incendiary. The state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who addressed newsmen in Kano, Tuesday, said the decision was part of the state Executive Council’s resolutions at its […]
The federal government has approved the establishment of NOK University, Kachia, Kaduna State… and 19 others.
The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State Housecorrespondents after the virtual federal executive council meetingpresided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa. According to him, the approved universities will get their provisionallicenses from the National Universities Commission (NUC), which theywill use for the next three years while monitoring and evaluation […]
Executive Order 10′ and Independence of State Legislatures
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE In June 2018, at a well-publicized ceremony in the Presidential Villa, President Muhammadu Buhari assented to four bills, thereby amending the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999. Keen observers would recall that in 2017, bills seeking to alter various provisions of the constitution were presented before both Chambers […]
Take Bold Steps To Create A Cancer Free World, Gombe First Lady Charges
Gombe State First Lady, Hajia Asma’u Inuwa Yahaya has urged critical stakeholders to take bold steps to create a cancer free world. Gombe First Lady, made this call on Sunday via a statement issued by her Media Aide, Bintu Aliyu Sunmonu. Hajia Asma’u Inuwa Yahaya said pulling resources together and act for a healthier and […]
Kaduna’s fight against Poverty through Social Protection
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE More often than not it is common place to hear people question the rationale behind or downplay the quality of non-contributory social assistance interventions such as the conditional cash transfer and school feeding programs. Many have come to see it as wasteful, a bait to cajole electorates and conduit pipe for […]
COVID-19: Schools Partial Resumption In Kaduna
The Kaduna State Government wishes to inform the public that after extensive appraisal of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the State and series of consultations with relevant stakeholders of both State and Federal Health and Education sectors within and across the State, Monday, 1st of February 2021 has been approved as resumption […]