The death toll in the mayhem, which trailed the April 16 presidential poll in Bauchi, Gombe and Kaduna states has been put at 59. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said yesterday that 32 Christians were killed in Bauchi State. The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi also reported one of its students was killed […]
Post-election violence swept through some Northern states on Sunday night and Monday as results of the presidential poll released by the Independent National Electoral Commission clearly showed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the winner. States where violence flared were Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Katsina, Plateau, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno, Katsina and Sokoto. In states like Kano, Bauchi […]
Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced. Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]
Twenty-four hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the postponement of the National Assembly elections in some states, the Bauchi State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Senator Iliya Audu, also announced the postponement of the Bauchi South Senatorial District on Friday. The affected senatorial district was not included in the original list released by INEC […]
No fewer than 10 persons have been reportedly killed in Bar Arewa, a village in Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The incident occurred when the village was attacked by yet to be identified gunmen who set the village on fire in a renewed ethno-religious crisis 24 hours after the state governor, Isa Yuguda, […]
A suspected bomber has reportedly died in an explosion at a polling unit in Unguwar Doki near Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State. The explosion, which occurred as accreditation of voters was underway, led to a fire at the abandoned nearby Maiduguri International Hotel. Reports said the dead man was trying to detonate the bomb […]
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State narrowly escaped being mobbed yesterday by irate natives of Bogoro during a visit to the area. While at least three vehicles in his convoy were destroyed in the process. The governor was on an assessment tour of Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Local Government areas bedevilled by sectarian crisis since […]
NOT fewer than 10 people were reported to have been killed, following gunmen’s attack, few minutes to the zonal rally of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) in Maidu-guri, the Borno State capital. The attacks, according eyewitnesses, were carried out at aTotal petrol station near the venue of the rally, as well as in Gwange […]
Alhaji Abubakar Ahmed Faggo was impeached by 20 out of 31 members of the Bauchi State House of Assembly as Speaker last Wednesday. Alhaji Haliru Abubakar Jika was sworn-in to replace him. However, Faggo has gone to court to challenge his removal, just as Jika insists, he is the new Speaker. Both men spoke with […]
Yesterday armed mobile policemen with an armored tank cordoned off the entrance into the Bauchi State House of Assembly denying entrance to all staff, including members of the House in what was an escalation of the leadership crisis that engulfed the House since last week. The fully armed policemen were at the main entrance of […]
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