Kindly Share This Story: By Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja. The Police in Katsina state, working jointly with personnel of the Nigerian military on Tuesday rescued a 30-year-old woman, Fidausi Yusuf and her seven months old baby, from a kidnappers den [...]
Kindly Share This Story: The Katsina State Police Command said it had arrested a total of 1,907 suspects in connection with various crimes in the state in 2019. Mr Sanusi Buba, Commissioner of Police in the state made the disclosure [...]
Success can be attained regardless of background. Here is the story of how Abdulhakim Bashir, a Katsina-born software engineer, who built an AI-based security solution made it to the global stage despite challenges posed by the environment Techpoint.Africa [...]
Another evidence of religious intolerance by state-run institutions in Nigeria has shown its ugliness with the banning of all Christian student fellowships and associations by the authorities of the Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua University in Katsina State. An internal memo dated [...]
Following intense backlash, the authorities of the Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua University in Katsina State have cancelled the order the dean of student affairs placing a blanket ban on all Christian student associations and fellowships and those that are non-Muslim. An internal [...]
Another evidence of religious intolerance by state-run institutions in Nigeria has shown its ugliness with the banning of all Christian student fellowships and associations by the authorities of the Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua University in Katsina State. An internal memo dated [...]
Usman Bugaje, an ambassadorial nominee from Katsina State, has rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination becoming the second person on the 46-person list to publicly reject the appointment. On Monday, October 24, 2016, Pauline Tallen, a former deputy governor of Plateau [...]
The Katsina Emirate Council on Thursday, October 13, 2016 declared that the marriage between a 14-year-old abducted Christian girl, Habiba Isa, and the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumin Usman, was irreversible. The council said there was no compulsion in the marriage [...]
The family of Isiyaku Tanko of Warkaza community in Kudun Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State on Wednesday, October 13, 2016 accused the Emir of Katsina of forcefully abducting and marrying their 14 years daughter, Habiba Isiyaku, denying her of her [...]
Shema, Lamido, Keyamo welcome amnesty committee for Boko Haram – Governors of Katsina and Jigawa states, Ibrahim Shema and Sule Lamido, have praised President Goodluck Jonathan for initiating moves that could lead to the offer of amnesty to members of [...]
Bello Masari By Wale Akinola European Union, EU, has pledged to assist Katsina State government to address the infrastructural decay that has been hindering development of the state. That government has also extended a hand of cooperation to the state [...]
Kidnapping: A New Phase Of Insurgency In Northern Nigeria? In what appears to be a change of tactics, groups operating in the North have taken to kidnapping foreigners, Isaiah Benjamin, Kaduna, Muazu Elazeh, Katsina and NAJIB SANI, Bauchi report on [...]
By Abdulsalam Muhammad KANO – Troops of Nigerian Army operating in Faskari and Safana areas of Katsina State has identified and destroyed 7 rustlers enclave in a combat operation that led to the death of 11 notorious rustlers with arrest [...]
The Katsina Central Federal Constituency bye-election held on Saturday recorded low turnout of voters as very few electorate came out to vote. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who monitored the election reports that most of the electorate went about [...]
Thirty four children have so far died in the current outbreak of measles that has been ravaging the northern states in the past two months. State health officials who confirmed the deaths to our correspondents also said over 2,708 children [...]
June 21, 2015
Health issues
Only 25 per cent of Nigeria’s 8,000 medicinal plants are being utilised, says Mrs Zainab Shariff, the Managing Director, Nigeria Medicinal Plants Development Company (NMPDC). Shariff made this known in an interview Abuja on Sunday. She said that the company [...]
The Senate on Tuesday blocked a motion that sought for the extension and immediate implementation of the 13 percent derivation to solid mineral producing states as it applies to the oil sector. The motion was aimed at compelling President Goodluck [...]
About 1300 teachers in Kaduna have failed in tests generally set for primary four pupils, Commissioner for Education Alhaji Usman Mohammed has revealed. He made the shocking disclosure at an education summit tagged “Education for all is responsibility of all”, [...]
Katsina 2015 Presidential Results: APC: ———————— 1,345,441 PDP: ———————— 98,937 AA:183 AD:283 ACPN:402 ADC:498 APA:1671 APC:1,345,441 CPP:976 HOPE:47 KOWA:215 NCP:330 PDP:98,937 PPN:254 UDP:117 UPP:72 For more subscribe to our channel: https://www.hopefornigeriaonline.com/youtube [...]
Kano, Oyo, Katsina, Jigawa 2015 Nigeria Presidential Election Results KANO STATE OYO STATE KATSINA STATE JIGAWA STATE [...]
THIEVES have taken over parts of Kaduna, Katsina and Zamfara States. The police and governments of those States have conceded that part of the country to marauders and they have no shame in confessing there is no solution to a [...]
In the wake of the release of poverty statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which put Sokoto with 81.2 percent poverty level at the worst poverty level followed by Katsina, Adamawa and Gombe states, the Northern Socio-political group, [...]
December 25, 2014
Post-independence
The police command in Kogi state have arrested a middle aged man, Mr Hosea Folorunsho in Egbe town of Yagba West local government council for the alleged gruesome murder of his son for ritual purpose. Briefing journalists on the arrest [...]
FG to Give Blood to Kano Hospitals – The Federal Government has assured to supply Kano hospitals with blood to save the victims of Friday’s bomb blast that shocked the city. Several victims of the attack were admitted at various hospitals [...]
December 1, 2014
Health issues
Military personnel on a routine stop-and-search mission, yesterday, shot dead a man identified as Umar Ali Dodo, a 22-year-old Student of Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic, Katsina. The deceased, LEDARESHIP Friday gathered, fell to the bullets of one of the soldiers [...]
December 28, 2013
General
Flooding recorded in the first week of August, has claimed one life and damaged no fewer than 14 houses in Bauchi metropolis, an official has said. Malam Inuwa Bello, the Head of Emergency Operations, Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), made [...]
August 11, 2013
Incidents
The reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will cost the Federal Government N160.7bn. This figure was disclosed to our correspondent by the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, in an exclusive interview in Abuja [...]
June 27, 2013
Transportation
Imo State Police Command recorded another success in its renewed fight against crime and criminals, following the bursting of child trafficking and baby factory syndicate in the state. Disclosing this to newsmen Thursday evening, at the State Police Headquarters, Owerri, [...]
What My Husband Told Me Before His Death – Turai Yar’Adua – Hajiya Turai Umaru Musa Yar’adua has revealed how her husband, former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua once told her that his relatives would quarrel with her after his death [...]
Al-Qaeda Behind Frenchman’s Kidnapping in Nigeria – French President. – Al-Qaeda, or an allied group, was probably behind the kidnapping of a French engineer in Nigeria, French President Francois Hollande has said. A group of about 30 gunmen snatched him from [...]
December 21, 2012
Military