Armed bandits struck on Tuesday at Dan-Ali village in the Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, abducting two residents of the village. The bandits, who...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Friday, signed the ammended state Penal Code into law prescribing the death penalty for kidnappers and cattle ruatlers. The...
Residents of the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State took to the streets on Tuesday in protest against the killing of eighteen persons by bandits...
Four women, alleged to be girlfriends of bandits terrorizing Katsina and neighboring states have been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command over their links to...
A 40-year-old labourer, Sani Ibrahim, was on Tuesday, remanded in Katsina Prison for allegedly raping his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter. The police prosecutor, Sgt. Lawal Bello, told...
Troops of the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, killed 12 bandits and rescued 15 kidnap victims during air strikes and coordinated attacks in Birni Gwari, Kaduna State....
Despite the ongoing efforts by the Federal Government to end insecurity in the country, a group of bandits have attacked Wagini village of Batsari local government...
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Katsina State Command, has arrested three suspected human traffickers alongside their victims as they attempted crossing to Niger Republic on their...
An attempt by an outlawed group, Yankasai to lynch 26 young men over allegation of being bandits was thwarted by the police in Rugar Kindi village,...
The district head of Daura, Katsina state, Musa Umar, has been kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen. The kidnappers reportedly stormed Umar’s residence in Daura at about...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to put an end to killings in Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna and other parts of the country where banditry reigns....
Amiru Idris, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was elected as the House of Representative member representing Bakori/ Danja Federal Constituency at the last general...
In a bid to stamp out armed bandits and insurgents groups, the Nigerian Army is set to begin operation “EX HARBIN KUNAMA IV” in identified forest...
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ignore calls by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to cancel the...
Kano State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the ongoing supplementary governorship election across...
The abductors of Kano-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Sulaiman have demanded N300, 000,000 ransom for his release and that of five other persons kidnapped along with...
Seven years after the launching of the Almajiri Model School Programme by the then President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government, the story is today that of neglect...
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has been declared the winner of the governorship election staged in the state on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral...
The mother-in-law to the governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, has been abducted on the eve of the governorship election. She was kidnapped from her residence...
Sen. Abu Ibrahim (APC, Katsina), has said that they will make sure Senate President Bukola Saraki did not return to the Senate, adding that President Muhammadu...
The Nigerian Governors Forum, Wednesday evening failed to reconvene its members to discuss the ongoing issues around the proposed N30,000 minimum wage. The meeting at the...
A number of lawyers are calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the conduct of general elections in Katsina, Borno and others states...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has challenged northern Nigerian elders to raise their voices against the endemic insecurity in the region just...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, says the state is under siege by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers. He said this during the opening ceremony of an...
The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, has given the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, specific orders in efforts to end the Boko Haram...
Patronizers of tricycles especially those plying Katsina road have called on the authorities concerned to come to their aid by addressing incessant attacks taking place between...
Aminu Masari, Governor of Katsina State, has boasted that President Muhammadu Buhari will get at least 2.5 million votes from the state in 2019. Masari said...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the bye-election in Bauchi south senatorial district, its third national assembly seat in Saturday’s bye-elections. The Independent National Electoral...
Over 1,000 federal civil servants drawn from four states in the North-West zone due for retirement in 2019 have converged on Kaduna to commence their pre-retirement...
Tragedy struck in the Katsina State capital when a heavy rainfall which was preceded by strong winds killed no less than six people and injured five...
The long arm of the law has caught up with Hussaini Surajo, after he allegedly raped his neighbours 7-year-old step-daughter at Katoge village in Dandume Local...
A Katsina State Magistrates’ Court played host to a case of a 40-year-old man who allegedly raped three pupils of the Sallau Primary School, located at...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 40-year-old man identified as Babangida Salisu after he allegedly flogged a six-year-old boy to death....
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday said all unclaimed assets acquired illicitly and recovered by the federal government would be sold and the proceeds deposited into government treasury....
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians, especially the elite, to be prepared to pay the ultimate price for the advancement of the country. He said...
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Friday said their mission to Daura, Katsina State, was totally unconnected to the 2019m general elections as being speculated,...
Salima Lawal, a resident of Marabar kankara town in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State, will now spend the next 10 months in prison...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has offered yet another definition of the concept of restructuring as the debate on the controversial subject continues. Speaking Tuesday during the...
Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has admonished northerners to embrace the concept of restructuring, arguing that the North had nothing to fear as it was...
Two primary school teachers in Katsina State have been suspended for alleged misconduct with their female pupil. The suspension of the duo, it was gathered, is...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 20-year-old housewife identified as Samsiya Hassan after she allegedly dumped her one-day-old baby in a...
Abdurrahman Amadu, 81, has landed himself in court for being in possession of 34 fake $100 notes suspected to be counterfeit which were recovered from him...
Katsina and Kano states on Thursday rejected devolution of power and restructuring of Nigeria as being currently canvassed by majorly of the southern part of Nigeria....
A group of seven robbers who reportedly robbed a textile trader identified as Alhaji Hassan Ishaku have all been arrested by men of the Katsina State...
Men of the Katsina Police Command have apprehended a 25-year-old woman, Qamariya Ismail, and her 45-year-old mother, Hassana Sabi’u, for dumping a healthy one-day-old baby in...
A 30-year-old man who had his male organ cut off after he attempted to rape his 14-year-old victim appeared before Katsina senior magistrate court on a...
A manhunt for three-motorist who gang raped a one-year-old baby is currently underway by men of the Katsina State Police Command. According to reports, the baby’s...
The Katsina State Police Command has paraded a 46-year-old man who reportedly killed a commercial motorcyclist over his inability to pay N100 fare charged by the...
There was palpable confusion along the Katsina-Daura road when suspected smugglers engaged in a scuffle with men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) which led to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dragged Sule Yusuf Saulawa, a permanent secretary formally attached to the office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina...
