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 Kano State Governor-elect, Abba Yusuf, has advised individuals and organisations to discontinue ongoing private developments within and around public buildings across the state. There is outrage over selling of portions of school, hospital, mosques, among others by the outgoing Governor Abdullahi Ganduje-led administration. A statement by the spokesman for the...
The Kaduna State School Quality Assurance Authority has shut down Future Leaders International School, Unguwar Rimi, Kaduna, for conducting entrance examination in violation of the Coronavirus Quarantine Order. The Director-General of the agency, Umma Ahmad, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Thursday, adding that...
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has placed a ban on the hoisting of banners and posters by politicians during the Eid Prayers and other Sallah festivities. In his Sallah message contained in a statement by the commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, the governor noted that the act...
The Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, alongside other governors of the North-West States, have met with President Bola Tinubu behind closed-doors. The meeting between the President and the seven Governors, which held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was on the sideline of the maiden meeting of the National Economic Council...
Kano State has recorded five more coronavirus cases. This brings the total number of cases in the state to nine. The Kano State Ministry of Health disclosed this on Wednesday. “As at 10:25 am, Wednesday, 15th April 2020, 5 additional cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Kano State,” it tweeted, adding...
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, has inaugurated the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency (KADIPA). Speaking during the ceremony , El-Rufai welcomed Muhammadu Sanusi, former emir of Kano, to the board and thanked him for accepting to serve the people of the state. In 2020, el-Rufai had appointed Sanusi as vice-chairman of...
Sokoto state government has acquired 35 mining licenses to facilitate extraction of solid minerals in various parts of the state. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state disclosed this on Monday while receiving the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, who paid him a traditional Sallah homage at the...
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State, in a town hall meeting revealed the staggering debt burden he inherited from the previous administration of Nasir El-Rufai. The governor lamented that the state was grappling with a debt of $587 million, alongside N85 billion and 115 contractual liabilities, significantly impacting the...
The Kaduna State Government has announced that all entry points into the state are shut from 6pm to 6am everyday. No interstate or intra-state travel is allowed at night-time even for essential services with effect from Friday, 1st May 2020. Following a security briefing that criminal elements are using night-time...