The 15 persons abducted by bandits in Jibia local government area of Katsina State were on Sunday morning freed by their captors. The victims were released...
The Katsina State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has affirmed Gov. Aminu Masari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the rightful winner of the March 9...
Bandits in Katsina State on Wednesday met with the state Governor, Aminu Masari, insisting that they would not not accept any dialogue with government except their...
Editor’s note: Nigerian Governors, as custodians of the people’s mandate at the state level, have so much expectations placed on their shoulders. These range from policy...
Armed Bandits continued their assault on Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria, in an early Tuesday morning raid on Wurma Village in Kurfi Local Government Area of the...
No fewer than four people have been killed at Tsayu village in Jibiya Local Government Area of Katsina State. The spokesman for Katsina police command, ASP...
The heightened state of insecurity in Nigeria following clashes between the Nigerian Police and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has forced the government...
A Senior Magistrate Court in Katsina has remanded two men, Ismail Abdulmumin, 35, and Sani Haruna, 20, in prison custody for allegedly defiling the 10-year-old daughter...
The leaders of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), on Wednesday, called for the support of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other religious...
A 40-year-old HIV positive man, Audu Ado, of Gwarjo village in the Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State has been remanded in in prison custody...
A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court on Tuesday ordered four members of a local vigilance group to be remanded in prison for the killing of 17 persons...
Armed bandits have reportedly killed a total of 27 persons in communities in Katsina State in fresh attacks, police and local sources has said. This is...
A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court has ordered that a couple, Alhaji Samaila Abubakar, 45, and Hafsatu, 22, be remanded in Katsina prison till August 5 when...
Troops of the Nigerian Army attached to Operation Harbin Kunama 3 have arrested about 25 bandits while others were killed in gun battles in Sokoto and...
One Bawa Gomna, a Suspected kidnap kingpin, has been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army alongside 20 bandits suspected to have been responsible for terrorising...
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested the Divisional Police Officer of Mashi, SP Garba Talawai and his girlfriend, Sadiya Danyaya, over the death of the...
Three brothers have been killed on their farm by bandits in Zaka village, Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Their corpses which were accompanied by...
Armed bandits struck on Tuesday at Dan-Ali village in the Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, abducting two residents of the village. The bandits, who...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Friday, signed the ammended state Penal Code into law prescribing the death penalty for kidnappers and cattle ruatlers. The...
Residents of the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State took to the streets on Tuesday in protest against the killing of eighteen persons by bandits...
Four women, alleged to be girlfriends of bandits terrorizing Katsina and neighboring states have been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command over their links to...
A 40-year-old labourer, Sani Ibrahim, was on Tuesday, remanded in Katsina Prison for allegedly raping his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter. The police prosecutor, Sgt. Lawal Bello, told...
Troops of the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, killed 12 bandits and rescued 15 kidnap victims during air strikes and coordinated attacks in Birni Gwari, Kaduna State....
Despite the ongoing efforts by the Federal Government to end insecurity in the country, a group of bandits have attacked Wagini village of Batsari local government...
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Katsina State Command, has arrested three suspected human traffickers alongside their victims as they attempted crossing to Niger Republic on their...
An attempt by an outlawed group, Yankasai to lynch 26 young men over allegation of being bandits was thwarted by the police in Rugar Kindi village,...
The district head of Daura, Katsina state, Musa Umar, has been kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen. The kidnappers reportedly stormed Umar’s residence in Daura at about...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military to put an end to killings in Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna and other parts of the country where banditry reigns....
Amiru Idris, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was elected as the House of Representative member representing Bakori/ Danja Federal Constituency at the last general...
In a bid to stamp out armed bandits and insurgents groups, the Nigerian Army is set to begin operation “EX HARBIN KUNAMA IV” in identified forest...
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ignore calls by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to cancel the...
Kano State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the ongoing supplementary governorship election across...
The abductors of Kano-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Sulaiman have demanded N300, 000,000 ransom for his release and that of five other persons kidnapped along with...
Seven years after the launching of the Almajiri Model School Programme by the then President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government, the story is today that of neglect...
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has been declared the winner of the governorship election staged in the state on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral...
The mother-in-law to the governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, has been abducted on the eve of the governorship election. She was kidnapped from her residence...
Sen. Abu Ibrahim (APC, Katsina), has said that they will make sure Senate President Bukola Saraki did not return to the Senate, adding that President Muhammadu...
The Nigerian Governors Forum, Wednesday evening failed to reconvene its members to discuss the ongoing issues around the proposed N30,000 minimum wage. The meeting at the...
A number of lawyers are calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the conduct of general elections in Katsina, Borno and others states...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has challenged northern Nigerian elders to raise their voices against the endemic insecurity in the region just...
Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, says the state is under siege by bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers. He said this during the opening ceremony of an...
The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, has given the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, specific orders in efforts to end the Boko Haram...
Patronizers of tricycles especially those plying Katsina road have called on the authorities concerned to come to their aid by addressing incessant attacks taking place between...
Aminu Masari, Governor of Katsina State, has boasted that President Muhammadu Buhari will get at least 2.5 million votes from the state in 2019. Masari said...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the bye-election in Bauchi south senatorial district, its third national assembly seat in Saturday’s bye-elections. The Independent National Electoral...
Over 1,000 federal civil servants drawn from four states in the North-West zone due for retirement in 2019 have converged on Kaduna to commence their pre-retirement...
Tragedy struck in the Katsina State capital when a heavy rainfall which was preceded by strong winds killed no less than six people and injured five...
The long arm of the law has caught up with Hussaini Surajo, after he allegedly raped his neighbours 7-year-old step-daughter at Katoge village in Dandume Local...
A Katsina State Magistrates’ Court played host to a case of a 40-year-old man who allegedly raped three pupils of the Sallau Primary School, located at...
The long arm of the law has caught up with a 40-year-old man identified as Babangida Salisu after he allegedly flogged a six-year-old boy to death....
