The Katsina State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has said over 1,500 houses were affected by the heavy downpour that happened on Monday in three Local Government...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday returned to Abuja after completing an eight days working visit to his home state, Katsina. The Senior Special Assistant on Media...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of N6.25 billion for the establishment of ranching in Katsina State. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday arrested two men in possession of 173 parcels of Cannabis Savita (Indian hemp) in Katsina State....
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 Katsina State have arrested gunrunners who supplied guns to bandits terriorizing the state, Kaduna, and Zamfara. The spokesman of the state police command,...
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 13-year-old boy, for killing two men suspected to be bandits in the state. According to the police, the...
A police inspector, three bandits, and three residents have been reported dead after bandits attacked Zandam Village, Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State on Monday...
The kidnappers of the Katsina State Shari’a Court Judge, Alkali Hussein Samaila, have reportedly demanded N30 million, an Android phone, and call cards to set him...
The Katsina State Police Command has said it neutralised five suspected bandits, arrested 16 others, and recovered about 69 rustled cows. The spokesman of the state’s...
The Senator representing Niger North senatorial district in the National Assembly, Sabi Abdullahi, says bandits dislodged from Katsina and Zamfara States by security operatives, have now...
Unknown gunmen have killed a priest of the Catholic Church in Katsina State, Rev. Fr. Alphonsus Bello, while another priest, Rev. Fr. Joe Keke, was kidnapped...
The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a Shari’ah Court Judge by unknown gunmen on Tuesday evening. The Command Public Relations Officer, SP...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Tuesday abducted a Sharia court judge, Alhaji Hussaini Samaila, in Safana local government area of Katsina State. Residents told journalists...
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a suspected thief who stole not less than 273 mobile phones worth N15m. The suspect identified as Ibrahim Lawal...
Armed bandits have reportedly killed six persons in three communities in Sabuwa local government area of Katsina State. A security source told journalists the bandits killed...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly abducted at least 15 traders in Katsina States. An eyewitness said 18 traders were traveling in a commercial bus...
An early morning fire on Monday razed several shops at the Katsina Central Market. The incident started at about 9:20 a.m. with personnel of the state...
President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Abuja after a four-day official visit to Daura, Katsina State, on Tuesday. Buhari was received at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport,...
Thirteen people are reported dead while 70 others were injuried in Katsina accident along Kaita/Dankama Highway, on Thursday night. Although details of the circumstances surrounding the...
The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a school vice-principal for defiling a 12-year-old student in the state. The man, Ibrahim Tukur, who...
The Katsina State Police Command on Wednesday paraded two suspected fraudsters allegedly posing as spirits to defraud members of the public. The suspects, Kabiru Bashir, 27,...
Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity have killed at least 10 suspected bandits in Katsina State. The Acting Director of Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, who...
Some kidnap victims in Katsina state rescued from bandits were on Friday night handed over to the state government. The 37 victims, mainly women and children...
Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji on Thursday rescued 10 persons held hostage by bandits in Katsina and Zamfara States. The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen....
Gunmen on Wednesday morning abducted 30 persons from several communities in Dandume local government area of Katsina State. Residents of one of the communities told journalists...
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, says those calling Nigeria a failed state are ignorant of what the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is doing to...
A High Court in Katsina State has given an order stopping the arrest of a human rights activist in the state, Muhammad Mahdi Shehu. The court...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) claimed on Friday that troops of Operation Hadarin Daji had killed 38 suspected bandits in separate operations in Katsina and Zamfara States....
The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Wednesday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N286.6 billion. He commended the State House of Assembly for the expeditious...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has vowed that a similar incident akin to the abduction of scores of schoolboys from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara,...
The Defence Headquarters said on Sunday the troops of Operation Hadarin Daji rescued the abducted students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya School from bandits in Dandume local government...
The leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, says his insurgents kidnapped over 300 students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has declared that the security situation in the country has put Nigeria at crossroads because the government of...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly killed a farmer, Bashir Mandela Jibiya, in Jibia local government area of Katsina State. The hoodlums also abducted three...
A federal government team on Sunday arrived Katsina State to commiserate with the state government and people of the state over the attack on a secondary...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you 1. 617 new COVID-19 cases take Nigeria’s total to 72,757. Deaths, recoveries updated Nigeria on Saturday...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday condemned the bandit attack at the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, and directed the military to go after the...
The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Saturday ordered the immediate closure of all boarding schools in the state following the abduction of students in the...
An unspecified number of students have gone missing after heavily armed men attacked Government Science Secondary School in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina state on...
The Katsina State government has banned the use of WhatsApp in all schools in the state, and also the use of Facebook by civil servants in...
The rampaging bandits terrorising parts of the North-West have killed seven farmers and abducted 30 others in three communities in Katsina State. The victims of the...
The Defence Headquarters said on Friday at least 17 suspected bandits have been killed and their camps destroyed by troops during air raids on their hideout...
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...
The Katsina State Police Command on Thursday paraded 27 suspected bandits, kidnappers and armed robbers, who were recently arrested in the state. One of the suspects...
The Nigerian Army on Monday said its Operation Sahel Sanity operating in the North-West has killed 38 bandits and 98 of their logistics suppliers and collaborators...
Twenty-three suspects were on Thursday paraded by the Katsina State Police Command, who were alleged to have committed various crimes including banditry, kidnapping and theft. According...
A Nigerian Army officer, Col. M.Z Manu, was on Thursday killed by suspected bandits during an attack on Unguwar Doka Village, Faskari local government area of...
Gunmen on Wednesday night abducted a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth leader in Katsina State, Salisu Ali. Ali was abducted at his village in Sukuntuni,...
Gunmen on Wednesday abducted four persons in the Kankia community in Katsina State. One of the abducted persons was Hajiya Asiya Dangiwa, who is a sister...