Katsina State Commissioner for Health, Nuhu Danja was among those shot in Kaduna-Abuja train attack on Monday night. An official in the State Ministry of Health, Ibrahim Almu Gafai confirmed this on Tuesday March 29. Channels Television reported…
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Governor Aminu Masari has said that the ban on telecom services in the remaining seven local government areas (LGAs) of Katsina state which he governs, will be lifted before January 2022. Speaking during a media parley with journalists, Masari…
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If You Die While Fighting Bandits, You’re A Martyr – Katsina Governor, Aminu Masari, Urges Residents To Defend Themselves
The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, has told residents of the state to brace up against the ravaging bandits, noting that they will become martyrs if they die fighting against bandits terrorizing the state. Katsina is President Muhammadu Buhari’s…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf was on Saturday December 18 turbaned Talban Daura, making him the District Head of Kwasarawa. Yusuf Buhari’s turbaning ceremony which took place in Daura, Katsina State, was attended by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President…
The Katsina Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has intercepted a vehicle loaded with more than N71,350,000 suspected to be for laundering. Acting Controller at the command, Dalhat Wada-Chedi, made the disclosure on Monday, November 29, while…
The Katsina state government has said that bandits operating in the state are using Radio Frequency Walkie Talkie Transceivers to overcome the shutdown of telecommunications service in the state. Speaking at a press conference today November 18, the Secretary to…
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I Have No Joy Governing Katsina, We Are Gaving Sleepless Nights Over Inseurity – Governor Masari
Governor Aminu Masari has said that he has no joy governing Katsina state as the increased security in the North West state has been giving him and others sleepless nights. Speaking during an interview with DW Hausa on Friday…
Suspected bandits have killed two officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Katsina state. It was gathered that the officers identified as Umar Bagadaza Kankara and Lauwali Dutse, were killed in an ambush at Kadode check point in Jibia…
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Nigerian Apartheid System – Omoyele Sowore Says As He Shares Photos of How Nnamdi Kanu Was Paraded And How Bandits Are Allegedly Treated in Katsina
Media personality, Omoyele Sowore has shared photos of how Nnamdi Kanu was paraded after his recent arrest and how bandits are allegedly treated in Katsina. Sowore described the “differential treatment: as “Nigerian apartheid system”. He wrote; Compare…
District head of Kankara, Yusuf Lawal has been sacked by Katsina Emirate Council for alleged complicity in banditry. Before being sacked, Lawal was the district head of Kankara community where about 300 students were abducted by bandits last…
No fewer than 40 women have reportedly been abducted after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded two communities, Katsalle and Unguwar Tukur in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina state. SaharaReporters reports that the gunmen abducted 30 women in Katsalle…
It was an emotional moment as the Kankara schoolboys who were released by their captors, reunited with their parents. The schoolboys were abducted on December 11 and after six days, were released on Thursday, December 17. The…
Hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities have told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state said 344 had been freed and were all in…
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Osinbajo Presides As President Buhari Joins FEC Meeting Virtually From Daura [Photos]
President Buhari Wednesday morning December 16, joined the weekly virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, holding in the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja, from his home Daura in Katsina State. The President left Abuja for Daura last…
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Nigeria’s Katsina School Abduction: Boko Haram Says it Took The Students
Usama Aminu describes his ordeal as he managed to escape the mass kidnapping in Nigeria Nigeria-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind last week’s kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys in the north-western Nigerian state of…
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Katsina Abolishes WhatsApp Groups in Schools; Prohibits Staff From Commenting “Negatively Or Positively On Government Activities” On Facebook
The Katsina State Government has reportedly abolished all WhatsApp groups in government schools across the state. A letter dated Monday, December 7, 2020 and signed by Muhammad Sada Dikko on behalf of the Zonal Coordinator, Katsina State Ministry of…
Governor Aminu Masari has decried the escalated killings by bandits and other criminal elements in Katsina State. Speaking at a luncheon organized by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to celebrate the Eid-El-Kabir with frontline troops in Katsina, Governor Masari alleged…
President Buhari nephew, Ibrahim Dauda is dead. A statement released by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu today May 30, said Dauda died in Daura, Katsina state, following a prolonged illness. In a condolence…
184 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, out of the 184 new cases, 51 were recorded in Lagos, 23 in Jigawa, 16 in Bauchi, 16 in Katsina, 14 in Kano,…
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Emir of Daura ‘Hospitalized And in Intensive Care’ After His Palace Was Sealed Over Coronavirus Cases
The Emir of Daura, Umar Faruk was reportedly hospitalized and placed in the intensive care unit of the Federal Medical Center Katsina for an “undisclosed ailments” on Tuesday May 5. Daily Trust reported that the Katsina monarch was moved out of…