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Katsina State is set to begin community policing with no fewer than 554 special constables. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Sanusi Buba disclosed this while addressing the indigene constables who recently passed out from the premier Police College, Kaduna. CP Buba in a statement by the Katsina Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah said the constables will be deployed to simple police routine duties such as crowd control, traffic, counter, and patrol duties but will not carry firea...

By David Adeoye Ibadan, Dec. 29, 2020 (NAN) Oyo State Government has banned street carnivals of any form across the state with immediate effect. Prof. Temitope Alonge, the Coordinator, Oyo State COVID-19 Isolation Centres, made this known after a meeting with the State COVID-19 Task Force Team and management of the State Emergency Operation Centre, on Tuesday in Ibadan. Alonge urged the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Oyo State chapter, to prevail on its members to adhere strictly to 12...

Six bandits killed in gun duel in Katsina On By Bashir Bello No fewer than six bandits have been killed on Tuesday in a gun duel with security operatives in Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina State. It was also gathered that Twenty-Three victims including both women and children earlier kidnapped by the bandits who launched attack on Lambo village in Kurfi area were also rescued in the gun duel. Spokesperson, Katsina State Police Command, SP Gambo Isah who confirmed the incident said the b...

“They shot at others too but I can’t confirm whether they later died or not. “Last Saturday, in Runka, the bandits also abducted a newly wedded couple,” the source said. Another source in Sabuwa LGA area said bandits numbering over 100 who rode on motorcycles invaded two villages in Machika ward, Sabuwar Local government area of Katsina State, killing the vigilante and kidnapping six women. The source said the bandits shooting sporadically launched the attack on the two villages, Mai Ya...

By Bashir Bello, Kano A 50-year-old father, Adamu Musa, his sons and grandson have been arrested for allegedly hacking to death their neighbour, Alhaji Kabiru Ya’u (30-year-old) and his little daughter, one Harira Kabiru (5-year-old) in Madunkuri Settlement in Gomo Village, Sumaila LGA Kano State, Musa was arrested by the police alongside his son, Sule Mallam and grandson, Isyaku Sule while a manhunt is launched to arrest the remaining two other culprits. The spokesperson, Kano State Police C...

By Bashir Bello, Kano The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS on Tuesday says it has recovered the sum of N2 billion debts from Health Maintenance Organizations, HMOs and unpaid bills to Health care facilities. NHIS General Manager, Enforcement Department, Pharmacist Mohammad Ghali disclosed this during a stakeholders sensitization workshop held in Kano to strengthen effective operations of the scheme. Ghali said it received complaints from the health care providers over HMO’s non-payment ...

Kano Guber 2023: APC, PDP trade words On By Bashir Bello, Kano Ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election, the Kano State ruling party, All Progressive Congress, APC and People Democratic Party, PDP have been engulfed in trading of words. While the PDP led by the former Governor and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso said it would not tolerate inconclusive election in the 2023 governorship election, the APC led by the interim State party Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, said it would repeat the inconclusi...

Insecurity: Demand overhauling of security chiefs, others now – Northern Coalition tells Governors On Kindly Share This Story: PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES SECURITY BRIEFING 9. L-R; Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, Chief of Defence Staff General Abayomi Olonisakin,. Chief of Army Staff, Lt General TY Buratai and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique  Abubakar during the Security briefing at the State House held at the Council Chambers Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE, JUNE 18 2020 By...

5 soldiers killed, 35 civilians abducted in 2 ISWAP attacks On *We’ve rescued 80 students, 4 others – Police *Four killed in S’Kaduna reprisal attacks-as more troops are deployed to flashpoints *High rate of kidnapping in Nigeria worrisome — Archbishop Kaigama By Kingsley Omonobi, Bashir Bello, Ibrahim HassanWuyo &  Luminous Jannamike Five soldiers were killed by Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, in an ambush on a military convoy in Borno State, weekend. ISWAP split from the ...

Police, vigilante rescue 84 Katsina students kidnapped by bandits On By Bashir Bello A fresh attack by bandits last Saturday night to kidnap another set and scores of Islamic school students have been foiled in Dandume local government area of Katsina State. Information from the area revealed that the students (Islammiyya students) numbering over hundred attend Maulud celebration in a neighbouring village, Unguwar Al-Kasim, and were on their way home, Mahuta village, when the incident happened...