•Protesters The nationwide protest against hunger in the country turned riotous in Kaduna and Zaria yesterday, compelling the state government to declare a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Aside from Kaduna, the protest also continued in Lagos, Abuja, Jos, Benin, Kano, and Zamfara, despite President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast on Sunday, reports Va...
•Troops There was a heavy fight between miscreants in Tudun Wada Kaduna and the security operatives today, as the youths continued to emerge in large numbers, destroying properties and looting shops. It was the intervention of the military that restored sanity in the area, reports Vanguard. Before the military arrived, hundreds of miscreants h...
•Hoodlums Hoodlums masquerading as protesters today vandalised a branch of one of the new generation banks at Tudun Wada in Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The spokesman of the State Police Command, Mansir Hassan, confirmed this to our correspondent in a phone conversation, reports Channels TV. He said that the hoodlums bro...
The usually bustling roads in Kaduna are empty and deserted as protesters take to the streets to express their grievances over poor living conditions. The popular Ahmadu Bello Way located in the Central Business District of the Kaduna State capital is empty without the usual vehicular and human traffic, reports Channels TV. On a normal [&helli...
Yam sellers at Yan Doya, a popular market in Kaduna, have been lamenting low patronage because of high cost of yam which goes for as high as N10,000 per tuber. Traders say 100 yam tubers will cost a prospective buyer N1 million, reports Daily Trust. Our correspondent, however, reports that a small-sized tuber cost is […]
Two abducted Kaduna journalists, Abdulgafar Alabelewe of the Nation and Abdul Raheem Aodu of Blue Print who were abducted in Danhonu area of Kaduna metropolis last week Saturday regained their freedom yesterday. This was disclosed by the elder brother of one of the abducted Journalists, Mas’ud Mobolaji Alabelewe while speaking with our corresp...
•Nasir El-Rufai The Kaduna State House of Assembly has urged former political appointees of Malam Nasir El-Rufai to prepare their defence for the anti-corruption agencies and the courts. The assembly said this while responding to the challenge by some former members of El-Rufai’s cabinet, reports Daily Trust. At a press conference in Abuja on ...
It is a tale of woes as an acute scarcity of one of Nigerians’ most popular staple foods, bread, has hit Kaduna, Katsina, and Kano states. Checks by our correspondents revealed that the most-favoured staple was now as scarce as petrol or the highly-prized precious metal, Gold, reports NAN. It was observed that whereas the […]
•Gunmen 48 hours after the abduction of two journalists and their family members in Kaduna state, their whereabouts have remained unknown. It was earlier reported how armed men stormed Danhonu community in Millennium city of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna and raided the houses of the reporters of The Nation newspaper, Alhaji AbdulGafar...
•Gunmen A judge of the Upper Customary Court in Kaduna State Janet Gimba who was kidnapped by bandits along with her four children has been released. But three of her children are still in the custody of the abductors, reports Channels TV. Her husband Musa Gimba confirmed the judge’s release but said that the woman […]

