Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has lamented that Nigeria is not collecting as much public revenue as it can. He says that there is still much potential for growing Value Added Tax (VAT) and independent revenues of the Federal Government than what is being collected presently. El-Rufai made this assertion in a keynote address ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has rued the recent destruction of properties in Lagos State, saying he almost cried after seeing photos of the damage. “I have spent time to see some of the pictures of the destruction done on public properties in Lagos and I nearly shed tears,” the governor said on Thursday ...

Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on Monday  said the Northern governors have agreed on the need for community policing. This is coming after the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had briefed the governors and other stakeholders on the #EndSARS protest and its aftermath. El-Rufai, who spoke to newsmen in Kaduna after the meeting of ...

The Kaduna State Government has warned travellers that the ban on security checkpoints along the Kaduna-Abuja road is still in force. In a statement issued by the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Arwan, the government notified citizens and travellers that there is no authorised checkpoint on the road. Aruwan said the ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai says he was surprise at the loss of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the just concluded Edo State Governorship poll. The Governor said this when he appeared on Channels television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday. According to him, three weeks to the election, polls indicated that the APC was set to ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday said most people believe Governors are corrupt and ineffective. He made the comment on Sunrise Daily while responding to a question about why he believes the worst job in Nigeria is to become a Governor. El-Rufai said his perspective was shaped by his time in office. “We came into ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has called on northern traditional rulers not to relent in spearheading the campaigns to avoid the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the region, stressing that the cost of treating COVID-19 patients is very expensive. The governor who made the call on Monday at the executive committee meeting of the ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Chinonye Obiagwu says that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami and Minister of Justice and some other government officials would also have been barred from attending the Nigerian Bar Association conference. Obiagwu, who is also a member of the NBA National Executive Council (NEC), stated this ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Chinonye Obiagwu, believes it is unnecessary for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to apologise to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, after he was disinvited as a speaker in one of the panel sessions at the lawyers’ conference. Obiagwu, who is also a member of the NBA National Executive ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Sunday criticised Southern Kaduna leaders for being responsible for the killings in the region, as a ploy to force his government to appease them. El-Rufai made the remarks during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. The governor said Southern Kaduna leaders who have accused him of taking sides in ...