The former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Kano State Government Agricultural Supply Company, (KASCO), Bala Muhammad Inuwa, his son, Bala Muhammad Inuwa junior, and an Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Compassionate Friends were arraigned in court on Thursday over N4 billion alleged fraud. The prosecution was a sequel to charges filed against them by the Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), the Office of the Kano State Attorney General and...

Unknown gunmen in the early hours of today (Thursday) have abducted Usman Umar Sahabi, a staff of the Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation, (ABC) Yola and Engr. Jameel both residents of Wuro-chekke in Yola South LGA of Adamawa State. Family sources said about five gunmen stormed his house of the journalist at about 1:00am after abducting Engr. Jameel and whisked them away at gun point. The sources added that a ransom of N20 million was demanded by...

No fewer than 500 cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases have been reported to the National GBV Dashboard by the Kaduna State Government with five cases being prosecuted as of the end of September. Mr Jamilu Ladan, the UNFPA State Sub-Implementing Partner Coordinator at the state’s Planning and Budget Commission (PBC) disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Sunday. “As of the end of September, Kaduna State...

The Nigerian Senate has ordered an investigation into last Friday’s attacks on four banks and a police station in Otukpo, Benue State. On Friday, October 20, heavily armed robbers gunned down more than eight persons including four cops when they attacked the Otukpo police station and raided four commercial banks in the commercial district of the town. Millions were carted away from branches of First Bank of Nigeria United Bank of Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Gombe State Command, have arrested 76 suspects in connection with same-sex weddings. Buhari Sa’ad, State Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this while parading the suspects before journalists at the command’s headquarters in Gombe on behalf of the state Commandant, Mohammed Muazu. Sa’ad said out of the 76 suspects, 59 are males with 21 said to have confessed to being homosexuals, adding that 17 females...