A group of armed bandits attacked a worship center in Kaduna State on Sunday, abducting 16 congregants. The incident took place just one week after the Kaduna State Government had announced a peace agreement with armed bandits, who had previously caused widespread kidnappings and killings in the region. The state government had recently made significant…
Alhaji Muhammad Bashir Sa’idu, former Chief of Staff to Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has implicated his former principal in a confessional statement related to an ongoing money laundering case against him. It will be recalled that the Chief Magistrate Court in Rigasa remanded Sa’idu at the Kaduna Correctional Centre following his arrest and arraignment by security…
The Commissioner of Police, Kaduna State Command, Muhammad Rabiu, has ordered a full-scale investigation into the alleged assassination attempt of Senator Usman Lawal (PDP Kaduna-Central). The order of investigation is contained in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Mansir Hassan, on Thursday in Kaduna. Hassan said, “The alleged assassination attempt on Senator Usman Lawal…
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered a 23-year-old man, Rabiu Gambo, to sweep the court premises for 40 days for stealing a wallet. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced Gambo after he pleaded guilty to theft. Emmanuel held that the court was lenient on the convict because he did not waste the judge’s time…
A 30-year-old woman, Mercy Michael, has been docked by operatives of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC for allegedly killing her eight months old daughter with rat poison in Kafanchan area of Kaduna State. Michael, was arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday on charges bordering on culpable homicide,…
A teenager identified as David Jonah has been sentenced to 30 days imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to stealing a he-goat before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court. The police charged Jonah with two count of trespass and stealing. Earlier, the Prosecution, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that one Samson John reported the matter at…
Thirty-nine children from Kaduna State, previously detained by the Federal Government, were reunited with their families on Wednesday. In a brief ceremony at the “Children’s Homes” along Katuru Road in Kaduna, each child received N100,000 and an Itel A18s smartphone from the state government. Governor Uba Sani pledged to support the children as they reintegrate…
Many houses have been destroyed after some irate youths attacked the Yoruba community in Jushi Waje, opposite the Nigeria Army Deport Barracks, Sabon Gari, Zaria, Kaduna State. Multiple sources told SaharaReporters that the attack initially started on Sunday 29th of September and continued till Tuesday, October 1st. It was gathered that the crisis broke out…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that twenty kidnapped victims have been rescued by troops of the Nigerian Military in Kaduna. The commissioner for the Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said the victims were rescued in two different Operations in Birnin Gwari and Giwa local government areas of Kaduna State. Aruwan said the troops…
No fewer than 35 Muslims heading to Saminaka in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State for a Maulud celebration died in a tragic motor accident. The victims of the accident were in a chartered J5 bus, which collided head-on with another vehicle near Samunaka. Although authorities were yet to officially comment on the incident,…