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Kaduna Police, CP overpower bandits, many escape with bullet wounds

    The police in Kaduna state have chased a large number of bandits into the forests close to the Abuja-Kaduna highway, as a result, many bandits escaped with...

Assembly orders security meeting as bandits kill 11 in Katsina communities

    A lawyer, Nura Wagine, was among 11 people killed by bandits in the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State on Tuesday. The Chairman of the Nigeria...

El-Rufai under fire for using Twitter despite ban

    Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai surfaced on the microblogging platform, Twitter, on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, despite the ban placed on...

Senate observes a minute silence for over 120 people killed by bandits in Sokoto market

    THE Senate yesterday observed a minute silence in honour of over 120 Nigerians that were killed by armed bandits at the Gorony market in Sokoto State....

How bandits killed over 11 people, injured many in Katsina

    A Katsina lawaker representing APC Batsari Constituency, Alhaji Jabir Yusuf, has decried the persistent attacks by bandits in some communities in the...

Suspected herdsmen kill 8 in Southern Kaduna community

    Eight natives were killed by suspected herdsmen who invaded two villages, Kibori and Atagjah, in Atyap Chiefdom in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of...

Fire guts Kaduna varsity market, destroys shop

      An inferno, on Tuesday, evening at the Kaduna State University, KASU, has razed many shops and destroyed other valuables in the institution’s...

Police Arrest Two Residents After Cutting Off Each Other’s Hands During Fight

    Operatives of the Yobe State Police Command have arrested two Fulani youths for cutting off each other’s hands during a fight at Bakin-Ruwa settlement in...

Air force officer arrested over deadly attack on NDA

    A Nigerian Air Force officer, Sergeant Torsabo Solomon, has been arrested in connection with the recent attack on the Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna, that...

Bandits kill 2 abducted Baptist worshipers, 3 injured

    Two of the 66 worshipers abducted on Saturday October 31,2021, at  Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Chikun LGA of Kaduna State  have been killed...

3 female students injured in UNIMAID hostel fire — official

    Three students were injured and properties destroyed in a fire outbreak at the University of Maiduguri Murtala female hostel on Saturday, the second of...

Govt Demolishes House Of Suspected Kidnapper In Niger

    Mr Emmanuel Umaru, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Niger says the state government has demolished a house belonging to a...

NAFDAC seals warehouse over alleged harmful chemicals

    The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday sealed a warehouse and arrested the owner over alleged unguarded...

EFCC nabs immigration superintendent for employment scam

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Command has arrested a Superintendent  II of Immigration  Sokoto State Command and two other...

Fire claims 10 lives, destroys properties worth N30m in Kano

    Officials of the Kano State Fire Service on Tuesday said no fewer than 10 persons have lost their lives to fire incidences in the state in the month of...

Bandits kill 5, abduct worshippers

    The Kaduna State government, yesterday, confirmed that five persons were killed in different locations in Chikun and Igabi Local Government Areas of the...

Inconvenient truths about Nigeria (1)

    Although to ordinary people the concept of truth as the correspondence of assertions or beliefs to objective reality is a matter of common sense which...

Inconvenient truths about Nigeria (2)

    Akin Ajose-Adeogun further affirms that majority of the north’s intelligentsia (or Fulani caliphate colonialists) are either enthusiastic supporters of...

Inconvenient truths about Nigeria (3)

    Akin Ajose-Adeogun continues: The south-south, which has been sustaining Nigeria since oil and gas became by far her major source of foreign exchange is...

Troops kill bandits, arrest their spiritual leader, others in Kaduna

    Troops in Kaduna State have killed many bandits in Chikun and Igabi Local Government Areas of the state, arrested the wife of a notorious bandit, their...