DECEMBER 19, 2012 BY MIKE ODIEGWU AND DAVID ATTAH The remains of the Late Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, and that of his aide and friend, Dauda Tsoho, arrived in Kaduna airport aboard a Nigerian Air Force cargo plane at 2.45pm on Tuesday. The bodies were received by hundreds of wailing sympathisers who thronged […]
Soldiers were out on Kaduna streets yesterday to prevent any outbreak of violence, following the death of Governor Yakowa. Army spokesperson in Kaduna, Colonel Sani Usman, confirmed the deployment of troops on the streets of the city, which has witnessed a spate of clashes between Christian and Muslim residents that have left scores of people […]
Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Yero yesterday declared a one week mourning. The late Governor Patrick Yakowa’s remains will be buried on Thursday, he said. In a state broadcast last night, he announced today as public holiday – to enable the people receive the body of the late Yakowa and his friend, Dauda Tshoho, who also […]
BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI & Luka Binniyat ABUJA — The Nigerian Navy disclosed, yesterday, that it had commenced investigation into the cause of the crash even as bodies of the victims have been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. A statement signed by the Director of Naval Information, Commodore Kabiru Aliyu reads: “The […]
From ISMAIL OMIPIDAN, Kaduna Last Wednesday, he was at a function organized by the Kaduna Council of the Nigeria Union Journalists, NUJ. He represented the governor on the occasion. But two speakers on the occasion said publicly that they were eagerly looking forward to the day he would become the number one citizen of the […]
….mourns victims President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has expressed utter shock and sadness over the crash Saturday in Bayelsa State of a military helicopter resulting in the death of Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State and former National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Owoye Azazi (rtd), their aides, Dauda Tsoho and Warrant Officer Mohammed Kamal and the […]
A military helicopter has reportedly crashed near Yenegoa in Bayelsa State, Saturday evening. Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, former national security adviser, NSA, General Owoeye Azazi were said to be in the naval aircraft at the time of the crash. Others in the ill-fated crash include a top politician from Kaduna state Dudas Tsoho, […]
*`Explosives made in US, some components from Brazil’ By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja, Luka Binniyat, Kaduna In what is apparently a fallout of the suicide bombings of a church in the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), yesterday, removed two top military officials from their posts. The DHQ announced […]
Nigeria’s Senate President David Mark has blasted members of the Boko Haram group over the bombings of Jaji Military cantonment which killed about eleven people. The senate president in a statement said “this is a challenge to all, irrespective of religious, ethnic or political leanings. It’s about the survival of Nigeria.” On his own part, […]
Alhaji Mu’azu Babangida AliyuArmed Forces Command And Staff CollegeChannels TVGovernor Of Niger StateKaduna StateNorthern States Governors ForumNSGF The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has described the bomb attacks on the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, in a military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji, Kaduna state, as “cruel and wicked.” The […]
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