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The Kaduna State Local Government election scheduled for May 12, 2018 will hold, Chairman KADSIECOM, Dr. Saratu Binta Dikko-Audu, has said.. The office was gutted with fire on Saturday, May 21, 2018, thereby giving room to speculations that the local government election earlier scheduled may be suspended. But speaking during …

0 Kano State Government has approved N88.9 million for payment of annual salary increment for its civil servants. This is contained in a statement signed by Mustapha Fagge, the Public Relations Officer in the office of the Head of Service and issued to newsmen in Kano on Wednesday. It said …

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria The Adamawa Dep. Governor, Mr Martins Babale, on Wednesday reiterated the commitment of the state government to improve the lives of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in camps across the state. Babale gave this assurance when the mission team of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene …

Standard Objectives 1 Strengthen in scale the availability of quality services managing acute malnutrition for children (boys and girls 6-59 months) and pregnant and breastfeeding women through increasing access to treatment 2 Increase capacity to identify malnourished children and provide them with treatment as well promote services preventing undernutrition while …

Officials of 16 state governments and some Federal lawmakers witnessed distribution of relief materials to internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja. He denied claims that relief materials were not distributed to states in the North-East since his assumption of office …

Alhaji Kabiru Ali, the Jigawa State Commissioner for Agriculture, said on Tuesday that the state had procured 5,000 metric tonnes of NPK fertilisers for the 2018 cropping season. Ali who made this known while speaking with newsmen in Dutse, Jigawa capital, said that the state government would no longer allocate …

The Supreme Court for the first time Wednesday considers a major initiative of the Trump administration, reviewing whether President Trump’s travel ban is a necessary step to protect the country from terrorism or an illegal and unconstitutional fulfillment of campaign promises to ban Muslim immigrants. Lower courts have struck down …

Police arrest 11 suspected bandits in Kebbi The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested 11 suspected Bandits who killed five people in Bena town in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Kabiru, told journalists in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital on Tuesday that the …

1,150 Cattle rustlers, kidnappers, repent in Kaduna Another batch of 1,150 criminals, including cattle rustlers, bandits and kidnappers in Anchau, Kubau Local Government area of Kaduna State have repented. About 750 others in the village had sworn by the Holy Qur’an a month ago to abandon their criminal ways of …

Pension The Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Kano state chapter, has appealed to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje to pay the accumulated N13 billion gratuities being owed by the state government. The NUP state chairman, Alhaji Salisu Ahmed-Gwale made the call in an interview with the newsmen in Kano on Tuesday. He …