Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has signed the state’s 2022 Budget, assuring residents of the state that the N278.58bn budget will be faithfully implemented to advance public welfare and develop human capital and infrastructure. The signed budget allocates N184.53bn to capital expenditure and N94.05bn to recurrent, a ratio of...
The Kaduna State Government has announced the constitution of governing councils for the Kaduna State University, Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, College of Education, Gidan Waya, and the College of Nursing and Midwifery. The government has also appointed a new board for the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital. Hussaini Adamu Dikko is appointed...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has approved the payment of end of year bonus to civil servants in the state. Civil servants will this month receive bonuses ranging from 100% of monthly pay for junior civil servants to 30% for senior civil servants. A statement from Sir Kashim...
The Kaduna State Government has commenced another competency test for primary school teachers as part of efforts to ensure quality teaching and learning in basic schools across the state. This comes almost four years after it conducted a similar exercise that led to the dismissal of 22,000 unqualified teachers and...
Kaduna Govt Appoints New Chiefs For 3 Chiefdoms Kaduna State government has appointed Chiefs for Chikun, Fadan Ayu and Kudaru Chiefdoms, saying it signifies the first set of appointments since its new traditional institution law was passed. It will be recalled that the new law specifies rotation amongst ruling houses as...
Malam Nasir El-Rufai has welcomed the judgment of the high court in the defamation case he filed against the publishers of The Union newspaper. In July 2015, less than two months into his tenure as governor of Kaduna State, The Union published a false story on his asset declaration....
The Federal government has begun training of 350 agents for Mobile Money Transactions in the North West zone of the country. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq who flagged off the training programme on Monday at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano State...
Malam Nasir El-Rufai has assigned new portfolios to some commissioners and senior officials of the Kaduna State Government. The governor said that the reshuffle is designed to help harness fresh energy for the government’s final lap, bring new insights and enable the commissioners to have more rounded experience of...
Counts Sultan Cttee Gains On Education Intervention Sokoto state government has in the last two years halved the number of out of school children (OOSC) in the state. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state made this known at a one day basic education development diaologue and the way forward...
The Executive Governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje today 3 June 2021 paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Faruk Yahaya at the Army Headquarters Abuja, where he solicited for continuous synergy between security agencies and critical stakeholders. This he said is...