“SSS arrests Obaseki’s ex-CoS PA, invades residence for search”
By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – NOT less than 25 personnel of State Security Services (SSS) Sunday evening invaded the residence of the former Chief of Staff to Governor Godwin Obaseki, Taiwo Akerele and arrested his Personal Assistant Jaspa Olowojoba after using him to search Akerele’s house located off 1st Ugbor Road in Benin city […]
KADUNA COVID-19 UPDATE: KDSG extends quarantine by 30 days
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has extended the quarantine orders being enforced in the state for another 30 days. The governor’s decision follows a recommendation to that effect by the State Standing Committee on Covid-19, which is chaired by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe. This is effective from today, 26th April 2020. With Covid-19 […]
COVID19 Kaduna: Tracking Government’s Public Financial Management System in Times of Emergency
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY STRATEGIC SESSION ON TRACKING GOVERNMENT’S PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF EMERGENCY (COVID-19) HELD ON THE 25TH APRIL 2020, VIA WHATSAPP PLATFOM PREAMBLE The Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace, Empowerment & Development (CALPED) and partners on the 25th April 2020 facilitated a Civil Society Strategic Session on […]
COVID-19 Kaduna: Television Residents Get Palliatives.
By Josiah Otache Residents of Television Area in Kaduna South Local Government Area recently got a feel of human kindness in the midst of hunger and neglect from the state government food distribution palliatives as a female Mini Supermarket operator, who wish to remain anonymous came out to provide some food items, since what was […]
COVID-19: Kaduna’s Governance Continuity Plan and Citizens’ Engagement
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE The urgency to combat the spread and socio-economic impact of covid-19 has continued to push the Kaduna state government into taking rapid and decisive measures. To meet up with these emergencies, some bureaucratic due processes and procedures have to be suspended. This is in order to ensure flexibility and speed in […]
COVID-19 Lockdown: 40,000 job loss imminent as Northern broadcast stations threaten shutdown
Hard hit by low income generation as a result of the current economic downturn and exacerbated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has paralysed businesses across the world and indeed Nigeria, privately owned broadcast stations in northern Nigeria may have to close shop soon. In a statement signed by chairman of its Executive […]
Official Statement by the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, on Kaduna State COVID-19 Response
We are all witnesses to how things have changed since the report of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria on 27th February 2020. Kaduna state engaged relevant stakeholders and an Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) on COVD-19 was activated on 28th February 2020. Chaired by the Commissioner of Health, the EOC is responsible for […]
Journalist tests positive for coronavirus
… Press Center shut A member of the Correspondents Chapel Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Adamawa State Council has tested positive for coronavirus, subsequently, the authorities have directed all members to go on self-isolation with immediate effect. This was confirmed in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by Ishaka Donald Dedan, Chairman, and Fidelis […]
Gov el-Rufai Recovers From Coronavirus Infection
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nadir el-Rufai has announced his full recovery from COVID-19 infection. Elrufai made the disclosure Tuesday, 22 April, 2020, in a press release sent to Procyon News through electronic mail in Kaduna. Read full text of the statement below… KADUNA UPDATE: Statement on My Recovery from Covid-19 In the evening of Saturday, […]
Covid-19: Thanklessness of Journalism Thrown Bare
By David-Chyddy Eleke Many times over, journalism has been described as a thankless profession. The description has often come from practitioners, who may be speaking out of experience. I have often disagreed with that belief, but as time goes by, I am constantly nudged to the truth in that assertion. The stay-at-home declared by government […]