The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 30-year-old suspected drug peddler with 35 kilogrammes of Cannabis Sativa also known as Indian hemp...
The Northern states of Jigawa and Yobe have witnessed the deaths of 33 persons in the wake of a Cholera outbreak. Three deaths have been recorded...
The Jigawa State government said on Tuesday at least 30 people have been killed by cholera in the state in the last two months. The Permanent...
Men of the Katsina and Jigawa states Police Commands have killed a leader of a kidnapping gang, identified as Abdullahi Bummi, in Jigawa State. Ripples Nigeria...
The Jugawa State Police Command has arrested nine armed robbery suspects believed to have been terrorising residents of Gumel Local Government Area of the state. The...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), has slammed those who have continued to criticize the Kano to Maradi (Niger Republic) rail line project embarked upon by the...
Police operatives in Jigawa have arrested two men for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl in Kafin Hausa local government area of the state. The acting spokesman...
The Jigawa State Independent Electoral Commission (JISIEC) has ruled out the use of card readers for the Local Government Council Elections slated for June 26. In...
A new index has ranked 19 Nigerian states below the benchmark for transparency and accountability in the use of public funds and overall governance. The report...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has rescued seven women in Jigawa, suspected to be human trafficking victims from different states of the country. While speaking to...
The Jigawa State will hold its local council election on June 26. The Chairman of the state’s Independent Electoral Commission (JISIEC), Alhaji Adamu Ibrahim, disclosed this...
It was mixed fortunes for Nigerian states, as 18 states out of 36 including federal capital territory recorded negative Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF) has named Kogi, Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa and Kebbi as ‘absolute high risk’ states for Nigerians to go as the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct a by-election into the Kafin Hausa State Constituency in Jigawa State on March 6. The INEC National Commissioner...
The Jigawa State governor, Badaru Abubakar, said on Wednesday the COVID-19 was on the rise in the state. Badaru, who disclosed this at a news conference...
A female student of the Sule Lamido University, Jigawa State, Zainab Isa Zakari Bosuwa, has been abducted by gunmen from her family residence and a ransom...
The Jigawa State government on Tuesday ordered the closure of all schools across the state as fears heightened over possible second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic....
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari has demanded the speedy demarcation of the remaining five per cent boundary lines between Katsina and Jigawa and...
What could have ordinarily been a routine patrol went bloody when some unknown gunmen reportedly laid ambush and killed a custom officer at Kyarama village in...
Operatives of the Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a 40-year-old man identified as Usman Isma’il for allegedly killing...
No fewer than 21 persons are feared dead as flood ravaged parts of Jigawa State with children the major casualties, Executive Secretary, Jigawa State Emergency Relief...
The Jigawa State Chief Judge, Justice Aminu Sabo Ringim has ordered the immediate resumption of court proceedings across the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic which has...
The Jigawa State police command on Tuesday confirmed the electrocution of a two-year-old boy, Yahaya Salihu, at Bokkwato quarters, Dutse local government area of the state....
The Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has ordered the reopening of the state civil service from Monday 6th of July 2020 as the state...
The Jigawa State government has extended the work at home order to civil servants in the State for an additional one week in a move to...
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, said on Saturday the Federal Government would find a lasting solution to the...
The Federal Government has directed the police to unravel the circumstances surrounding the recent gang-rape and murder of a female student of the University of Benin,...
The government of Jigawa State on Monday discharged 32 more COVID-19 patients. It said the patients were discharged from isolation center after they tested negative for...
Jigawa State government has treated and discharged 30 more coronavirus patients. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Abba Zakari, who confirmed this to newsmen on Saturday,...
The Jigawa State government has agreed to allow people of the state observe Eid-El prayer but has equally placed a ban on festivities in the state....
The Jigawa State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abba Zakari, Thursday confirmed 51 new COVID-19 cases in the state. Zakari, who is also the chairman of the...
The Jigawa State government said on Tuesday 32 out of the 57 samples taken from contacts of infected persons in five local government areas of the...
A sudden surge in number of people dying mysteriously, has been recorded in Jigawa State, following on the heels of a similar occurrence in neighbouring Kano...
The Jigawa State Government has confirmed the death of one person who tested positive for the feared COVID-19 disease in the state. Dr. Abba Zakari, Chairman...
The Jigawa State Government led by Governor Badaru Abubakar has ordered a total lockdown in three local government areas in the state after the samples of...
The Jigawa State government has received no fewer than 524 Almajiris evacuated by the Kano State government to stem the spread of COVID-19. Governor Badaru who...
The Jigawa State Government on Friday explained that the state’s first confirmed positive case of COVID-19 belonged to Kano State, but was receiving treatment in the...
The Jigawa State government on Tuesday directed its workers to continue working from home for the next two weeks. Governor Muhammadu Badaru disclosed this at a...
Ahead of the Babura/Garki Federal House of Representative by-election scheduled for today, Saturday 14th, March, 2020, three political parties have signed a peace accord for the...
About 10 houses harbouring silos in Dirani village, Suletankarkar Local Government Area in Jigawa State were on Monday razed by fire. The council’s Information Officer, Alhaji...
Two schoolgirls were crushed to death and four others injured by a police van chasing suspected criminals in Mallalladori local government area of Jihawa State on...
The Jigawa State government led by Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has received the sum of $37m in loan to help implement state-integrated rural development projects. This...
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...
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State, on Wednesday swore in Hussaini Kila as the new Head of Service (HoS) of the state civil service as well...
The Jigawa State government has announced the commencement of payment of the new minimum wage to its workers, with reports revealing that some civil servants in...
A total number of 439 civil servants died while in active service from January to December 2019, so says the Jigawa State and Local government contributory...
Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, on Tuesday presented a total sum of N152.92 billion 2020 appropriation bill to the state House of Assembly. The governor...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Wednesday asked the United States President, Donald Trump, to place a travel ban on seven Nigerian governors for...
The 123 male passengers who were intercepted along Moshalashi road, Agege with 48 motorcycles that were coming from Jigawa State have been released from police custody....
No fewer than 123 men were arrested with 48 motorcycles in a truck intercepted by Lagos State government on Friday. The truck was allegedly coming from...
