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Despite losing over 300 of its members after a massive clampdown by the Nigerian Army, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, has said it will not appear before a government panel established to review such rights abuses. The hundreds of members of the Shiite group were killed in December 2015 …

By AbdulSalam Muhammad NIGERIAN Labour Congress, NLC, has pleaded with the Kano State government to pay pensioners their backlog of unpaid benefits, lamenting that the state government owed over N11.2 billion of gratuities, death benefits and pension arrears. Kano NLC chairman, Kabir Ado Minjibir, disclosed this on a local radio station programme, while …

Imam Imam/Facebook Sokoto state government said it has paid the sum of N1.8 billion as counterpart funding in various initiatives entered into with UNICEF to boost basic education, healthcare delivery and sanitation in the state. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal stated this Tuesday at the opening of a three day forum …

Major streets within Kaduna metropolis stood still on Tuesday as Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, led his his deputy, Architect Barnabas Bala Bantex, state executives, top All Progressives Congress (APC) and party supporters to pro-Buhari rally. Thousands of supporters of Nigeria’s President thronged along as El-Rufai and his deputy …

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO- Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state Tuesday distributed drugs, malaria test kits and treated mosquito nets worth over N350m to 748 healthcare facilities across the 44 local government areas of the state. Ganduje Similarly, no fewer than 11 motorized fumigation machines were also distributed for …

Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto state gov Sokoto State Government said on Tuesday in Sokoto it paid N1.8 billion as counterpart funding in various initiatives entered with UNICEF to boost basic education, healthcare delivery and sanitation in the state. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal said this during the opening ceremony of a three-day forum …

• Union passes vote of confidence in TETFund’s secretary About 300 academic and non-academic workers earlier sacked at the Federal University, Dutsinma, Katsina State have been reinstated.But, three lecturers and nine students were asked to go, following their involvement in examination malpractice.The acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Armaya’u …

BUA Group, Nigeria’s foremost food and infrastructure conglomerate, has engaged the services of renowned Swiss firm, Gherzi Textile Organization on studies, master plan design and engineering for the development of mega integrated Textile and Garment Cluster in Kastina State. The BUA Group said in a statement issued the plan is  …

Katsina State Governor’s special adviser on Child Education, Hon. Binta Abba has reunited with her missing son. The young boy, Sulaiman Abba, after 3 years of his disappearance, was found in Lagos. He was found by his uncle, an EFCC official who stumbled upon him by the roadside on a …

By Bashir Bello KATSINA—THE abductors of Mansur Abubakar, Katsina State-born business mogul’s daughter, Nana Mansur, have demanded N100 million as ransom. A source, who pleaded anonymity, made the disclosure of the ransom yesterday. Unknown gunmen, in the early hours of Saturday, abducted Nana in place of her father. An eyewitness, …