KADUNA — The Kaduna State Government has directed all telecommunications firms to suspend their services in some LGAs in a bid to check the activities of bandits. Kaduna joins the list of northern states to adopt similar measures in fighting banditry and rising insecurity. Samuel Aruwan, the State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, announced this on Wednesday while addressing journalists. According to him, the use of motorcycles for transport services has also been...

KADUNA — The Kaduna State Government has announced to the residents in the state of its plans to shut down telecommunication services in some parts of the state over bandits activities. The announcement was made by the state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, during a media chat with some local radio stations in the state. He disclosed that the planned shutdown of telecommunication services is because of the plan by security agencies to launch a massive attack...

The adoption of some stringent measures has helped with actively tackling insecurity in the state according to Aminu Masari, Katsina governor. According to him, the suspension of telecommunications services in some areas made communication between the bandits and their informants unavailable. Also, the embargo on night baking us preventing bakers from selling loaves of bread to bandits. Masari said this on Tuesday when he received Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, at the government...

With the continued insecurity bedeviling the Northwestern part of Nigeria, the federal government has shut down telecommunication networks in 13 local governments of Katsina State. This comes less than two weeks when National Communications Commission (NCC) ordered telecommunication networks in neighbouring Zamfara to shut down their sites for two weeks from September 3 to enable security agencies to carry out required operations in relation to the prevailing security challenges. The affected LGAs are Funtua, Bakori,...

KADUNA — The Kaduna State government on Tuesday reacted that telecommunication would soon be shut down because of bandits’ threat like the case of Zamfara. In a statement on Tuesday by Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser to the Governor (Media & Communication), the Kaduna State Government has no plans to shut down telecoms services in the State. Adekeye said, the Kaduna State Government did not reach out to any federal agency to request a telecoms shutdown,...