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It was 1:30 p.m., closing time at Capital School, located along Isa Kaita Road, Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria. The day was July 5, Monday, 2021. A string of cars snaked out of the school premises’ main gate, carrying a substantial population of pupils home. Majority of the pupils, however, surged out, boarding rickshaws, popularly called Keke …
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Matthew Hassan Kuka, the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, has lamented the sharp contrast between the oaths political office holders took and the heightened insecurity across the country, advising that politicians should stop taking oaths they could not fulfill. Bishop Kuka was speaking in Kaduna, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at the funeral …
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Until about 6 p.m. WAT on May 21 when the plane crash involving the Chief of Army Staff happened, that Friday was like every other day for Yakubu Musa of Kosoro village. The insecurity his village and its sister communities around the Kaduna International Airport are immersed in, has created a ‘new normal’ characterised by …
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Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State Governor, Northwest Nigeria, has since 2017, sacked about 80,000 workers from the state’s civil service for what he envisions as relaying a sound foundation for a prosperous state economy. According to figures released by the organised labour in Nigeria, from 2017 to date, 21,770 Kaduna State primary school teachers were sacked; …
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The parents of the 37 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, abducted by terrorists on March 11 and released on May 5, have denounced claims that the students were sexually molested by their abductors while in captivity. Several online media outlets, quoting an anonymous parent of one of the …
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Mallam Balarabe Junaidu has still not recovered from the rude shock sent down his spine by the announcement of a fee hike by the Kaduna state government and the accompanying stark realities he has to grapple with as a father. The retired journalist reviewed his life and lamented how his pension was too lean for …
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On Saturday, April 24, Bello Matawalle, Zamfara State governor, issued a stern warning to non-state armed groups operating in the state to cease violence and seep out of there, or face his wrath. Matawalle was the pioneer and principal executor of peace deals with the armed groups. He had also been the strongest advocate of …
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For the people of Kaduna state, Northwest Nigeria, abnormal means an abduction free day. In recent times, the people have witnessed repeated attacks and several abductions as effect of the fast breakdown of security in the state. The situation, according to the people, does not mirror the reputation the state as the home of some …
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One of the regional groups representing Northern Nigeria, the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has argued that insecurity facing Nigeria is not peculiar to the North, but a national problem. According to the group, the description of the insecurity bedevilling the country as originating from the North has continued to inflame the Northern representation. The NEF …
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The Kaduna State Government, Northwest Nigeria on Sunday, April 4, dismissed the possibility of paying any ransom or negotiating with terrorists for the release of any abductee. In the daily state security update, Samuel Aruwan, the state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, reacting to media reports, stated that Governor El-Rufai had not appointed …
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The Yoruba ethnic community in the Nigerian 19 Northern states has said that it has nothing to do with the call for the creation of Oduduwa Republic out of the present Federal Republic of Nigeria. “We don’t believe in the existence of a republic inside a republic,” Abdlhakeem Adegoke and Nur’deen Amode-Ode, President of the …
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The high cost of fighting insecurity in Northern Nigeria is taking a huge toll on the financial capacity of the state governments across the region to fund critical development projects and programmes, Simon Lalong, Governor of Plateau State said. Lalong, who is also the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum stated this in Kaduna, Saturday, …
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