GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State appears to have thrown his weight behind transport minister Rotimi Amaechi as his preferred presidential candidate in what is seen as a big blow to former Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Three days ago, Kaduna State delegates had endorsed Asiwaju Tinubu and pledged their...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has asked to suspend Governor Nasir El-Rufai and impose a state of emergency in Kaduna State in response to the relentless orgy of violence that has gripped the area of later.
Nigeria is currently in the throes of chronic insecurity by Kaduna State appears to have been hit harder than any other...
CIVIL rights activist and the former lawmaker representing the Kaduna Central Senatorial District Senator Shehu Sani has declared himself a candidate for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial ticket as next year's elections loom.
Senator Sani, who was in the National Assembly between 2015 and 2019 as a member...
NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has tacitly zoned the 2023 presidency to the south of the country as President Muhammadu Buhari and the party's governors reached an agreement yesterday after weeks of uncertainty.
Over recent weeks, the party has been torn apart by disagreements over how to proceed with the...
NIGERIA'S ongoing divisive ethnic spat took a turn for the worse yesterday after the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) issued a communique at the end of their emergency meeting in Kaduna condemning recent steps taken by the southern counterparts.
Over recent weeks, the NSGF and the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) have...
GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has accused his Kaduna State counterpart Nasir El-Rufai of acting in a manner unbecoming of a leader over his recent opposition to a ban on open grazing.
In May this year, the Southern Governors Forum met in the Delta State capital Asaba where among other things, it agreed to ban...
ABOUT 189 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been murdered in Zamfara and Kaduna states with another 376 abducted as the growing insecurity ravaging the northwest of the country shows no sign of abating.
Currently reeling from chronic violence as the country is now awash with up to 6m illegal firearms,...
GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has had to withdraw his son from the famous Capital School in Kaduna metropolis after bandits planned to attack the famous institution and abduct him.
Founded in 1957 by the former premier of the Northern Region Sir Ahmadu Bello as an institution for the children of public officials,...
GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State defended the federal government's recent clampdown on Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho saying they are separatists and the same treatment cannot be meted out to Fulani herdsmen because they are not secessionists.
Over the last few days, the Nigerian government has stepped up attacks on...
GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State's chief of staff Muhammad Abdullahi has revealed that over 38% of girls in Soba Local Government Area of his state get married before the age of 15.
In an admission that the state has a child bride crisis, Mr Abdullahi, said that the findings was based on the current General...
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