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Kaduna, Party Politics, State News
Friday, May 24th, 2013
AHEAD of Friday’s rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Southern Kaduna, chieftains of the proposed APC would join General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in Kagoro town of Southern Kaduna to welcome hundreds of former members of the PDP into the party. They include former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, of the Action [...]
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Jigawa, Kaduna, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Posters of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and his Rivers State counterpart, Mr. Rotimi Ameachi, announcing their intention to contest the 2015 presidential poll on the platform of the Peoples Democracy Party have flooded Kaduna. This came less than 48 hours after prominent politicians in the North central zone boycotted the party’s reconciliation meeting [...]
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General Politics, Headlines, Kaduna, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Yerima, was arrested on Saturday by the Kaduna State Police Command for allegedly making an inciting statement while on a live Hausa phone-in-programme, Hannu Dayawa, on Radio Nigeria, Kaduna State. Yerima, who was a guest was on the radio programme was quoted to have said if the Independent [...]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
The father of Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ramalan Yero and other top government officials from the state were attacked by armed robbers on Abuja- Kaduna road on Tuesday. Reports said Alhaji Yero was part of a delegation from the state that paid a solidarity visit to President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja [...]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Kaduna State Deputy Speaker, Mato Dogara at the Federal High Court, Kaduna, over alleged N17 million fraud. Dogara, who was arraigned on a two-count charge alongside the former interim caretaker chairman of Lere Local Government Area of the state, Kabiru Tahir Malali, and [...]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
By Luka Binniyat KADUNA—Tragedy has again struck at the family of the former Governor of Kaduna State, late Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, as his only surving brother, Adamu Yakowa, 51, died at about 8.30pm on Saturday. Family sources told Vanguard, that Adamu died at the Kafanchan General Hospital on Saturday. He reportedly took ill shortly after [...]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Friday, December 28th, 2012
The Nigerian Army says Soldiers on Thursday killed five suspected Boko Haram fighters in a raid at a bomb making factory in Kaduna, north-central Nigeria. Army spokesman in Kaduna Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said Boko Haram fighters opened fire at the soldiers while they were approaching the illicit bomb factory. “On approaching the factory, some [...]
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Headlines, Kaduna, Letters, State News
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
The death of former Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa was a colossal loss, not only to the people of Southern Kaduna, but for Kaduna State and Nigeria at large. Patrick Yakowa was an experienced, tested and trusted civil servant having served in various capacities from local government to the federal level in the course [...]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
By Luka Binniyat KADUNA—Kaduna State House of Assembly, yesterday, confirmed the nomination of Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga, 63, as the new Deputy Governor of the state. Bajoga was, until his new appointment, Chairman, Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. He hails from Koi, Jaba Local Government Area, Southern Kaduna. Speaker of the state House of [...]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, December 24th, 2012
Youth and professional groups from Southern Kaduna kicked against the choice of Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga as the deputy governor of Kaduna State on Monday, even as the state House of Assembly prepared to screen the former envoy for the position. At a press conference in Kaduna, the groups said they would no longer fold their [...]