Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Saturday morning killed the village head of Mazoji, Matazu local government area of Katsina State, Alhaji Dikko Usman. Eyewitnesses told...
The abduction of two persons in Katsina State has led to wild demonstrations by protesters on Tuesday who shut the Katsina – Kankara Highway and other...
The Katsina State government has approved the reopening of no fewer than 15 major weekly markets across the state which were hitherto closed because of the...
The Federal Commissioner in charge of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Basheer Mohammed, said on Thursday the Federal Government would...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Tuesday the centre had activated an additional two laboratories, bringing its...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Tuesday, expressed worries over the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the state. Katsina has 337 confirmed COVID-19 cases, making it the...
The Katsina State Government on Thursday said 51 COVID-19 patients have so far been discharged in the state while 13 others have died in connection with...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has ordered that the lockdown imposed on the state to curb the spread the COVID-19 pandemic in the state, be lifted...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has lamented the never ending atrocities of bandits in the state and said that banditry, and not COVID-19 is the major...
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari has promised hell to unrepentant bandits amid the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in the state which...
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has ordered the palace of the Emir of Daura to be shut over concerns occasioned by the spread of the...
The Katsina State government led by Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has recorded 37 new cases of COVID-19 in the state bringing its total number of confirmed...
The Ekiti State Government on Monday night said the state has recorded a fresh case of COVID-19 as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control....
Six patients who initially tested positive to the dreaded COVID-19 virus in Katsina have now been discharged by the state government after testing negative to the...
The four family members of Katsina State COVID-19 index case, Dr. Aliyu Yakubu, who died as a result of the disease, have been discharged after testing...
No fewer than 419 Almajiris evacuated by Kano State government to their state of origins as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have...
Afraid that people who returned from COVID-19 infected states might be with the virus, Katsina State government has begun house-to-house search for returnees. The returnees are...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, said on Friday the wife and two children of the medical doctor who died of coronavirus in Daura local government area...
The lockdown over COVID-19 in Yobe State has been extended for three more weeks by the state government as the cases of the dreaded virus continued...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, Tuesday confirmed the death of the state’s first coronavirus case. Masari, who disclosed this to journalists in Katsina, said the deceased,...
The Defence Headquarters said Saturday troops of Operation Hadarin Daji killed 26 bandits in different locations in Zamfara and Katsina states. The Acting Director of Media...
Governors of states in the North-West part of the country on Wednesday announced the closure of all schools in the zone for 30 days. The governors,...
The Katsina State Police Command on Tuesday arraigned three men – Abdullahi Nasir (23), Anas Salisu (23) and Ashiru Lawal (25) at a State Senior Magistrate...
An attack on Gurbi village in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State which claimed the lives of no fewer than twenty one persons during...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan says the National Assembly will continue to work with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to find a...
The Katsina State Police Command said on Sunday it has prosecuted 186 persons for flouting the state government’s dusk-to-dawn ban on operation of commercial motorcyclists in...
A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) put the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria to 13.5 million – as of 2018. An unimpressive...
A woman identified as Rabi Usman has reportedly stabbed her husband to death in Katsina State. The woman, 19, was said to have stabbed her husband,...
After arriving from a trip to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea for the 5th Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, President Muhammadu Buhari has embarked on a...
Nigerian Governors, as custodians of the people’s mandate at the state level, have so much expectations placed on their shoulders. These range from policy formulations to...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Government of Nigeria does not play politics with the security and welfare of...
The Katsina State Police command has discovered and shut down another Islamic home, where they rescued some children and youths who were reportedly subjected to abuse,...
A directive has been issued to troops fighting bandits, marauders and other criminals in Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto States, among others, to deal decisively with criminal...
The 15 persons abducted by bandits in Jibia local government area of Katsina State were on Sunday morning freed by their captors. The victims were released...
The Katsina State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has affirmed Gov. Aminu Masari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the rightful winner of the March 9...
Bandits in Katsina State on Wednesday met with the state Governor, Aminu Masari, insisting that they would not not accept any dialogue with government except their...
Editor’s note: Nigerian Governors, as custodians of the people’s mandate at the state level, have so much expectations placed on their shoulders. These range from policy...
Armed Bandits continued their assault on Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria, in an early Tuesday morning raid on Wurma Village in Kurfi Local Government Area of the...
No fewer than four people have been killed at Tsayu village in Jibiya Local Government Area of Katsina State. The spokesman for Katsina police command, ASP...
The heightened state of insecurity in Nigeria following clashes between the Nigerian Police and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has forced the government...
A Senior Magistrate Court in Katsina has remanded two men, Ismail Abdulmumin, 35, and Sani Haruna, 20, in prison custody for allegedly defiling the 10-year-old daughter...
The leaders of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), on Wednesday, called for the support of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other religious...
A 40-year-old HIV positive man, Audu Ado, of Gwarjo village in the Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State has been remanded in in prison custody...
A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court on Tuesday ordered four members of a local vigilance group to be remanded in prison for the killing of 17 persons...
Armed bandits have reportedly killed a total of 27 persons in communities in Katsina State in fresh attacks, police and local sources has said. This is...
A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court has ordered that a couple, Alhaji Samaila Abubakar, 45, and Hafsatu, 22, be remanded in Katsina prison till August 5 when...
Troops of the Nigerian Army attached to Operation Harbin Kunama 3 have arrested about 25 bandits while others were killed in gun battles in Sokoto and...
One Bawa Gomna, a Suspected kidnap kingpin, has been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army alongside 20 bandits suspected to have been responsible for terrorising...
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested the Divisional Police Officer of Mashi, SP Garba Talawai and his girlfriend, Sadiya Danyaya, over the death of the...
Three brothers have been killed on their farm by bandits in Zaka village, Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Their corpses which were accompanied by...
