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Lockdown: El-Rufai directs 50% salary cut for political appointees
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna Kaduna State Government has directed all senior government appointees in the state including Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries, Special Advisers and Heads of Agencies to each donate N500,000 in April 2020 as their contribution in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. This was contained in a statement issued ...El-Rufai directs suspension of Juma’at prayers, church services
The Kaduna State Government has advised Imams not to hold Juma’at services as part of efforts to restrict religious services and all large gatherings, in a bid to reduce the chances of spreading the coronavirus pandemic. A statement by the spokesman of the governor, Muyiwa Adekeye on Friday said that the administration is taking a ...El-Rufai Pays Sanusi a visit in Nasarawa
Photo credit: @GovKaduna The Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai, has arrived at the residence of the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi. Governor El-Rufai arrived at Sanusi’s residence on Friday afternoon. The governor had earlier tweeted that he was on his way to visit the dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, in Awe, Nasarawa ...Sanusi’s appointment as Chancellor would help raise the profile of KASU – KASG
Kaduna State government says the appointment of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Chancellor of the Kaduna State University (KASU), would provide symbolic and substantive leadership in raising the profile of KASU as an emerging centre of learning on the national and global level. This was disclosed in a statement from signed by the governor’s media aide, Muyiwa Adekeye, ...KASG confirms killing of at least 50 by armed gunmen
Gov. Nasiru El-rufai An armed gang killed at least 50 people in attacks on villages in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna on Sunday, Kaduna’s governor said on Monday on a visit to the affected communities. Governor Nasiru El-rufai said the gunmen are suspected to have come from the neighboring states of Katsina, Zamfara ...Gov. El-Rufai inaugurates Milk Farm Project to help expand national capacity, over reliance on importation
Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday inaugurated a 1000 Household Milk Farm Project in Damau, Kubau Local Government Area of the state. The governor, at the inauguration, said the project was a joint venture between the state government, Danish dairy giant Arla and Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of ...Kidnappers terrorising Kaduna-Abuja highway have been ‘substantially degraded, defeated’ – El-Rufai
Gov. El-Rufai Kidnapping on Abuja-Kaduna highway has substantially reduced, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said. The Governor made the remark at an inter-agency security meeting held in Kaduna. Early this year, Kaduna state was in the news for the wrong reasons due to rising cases of kidnapping, communal clashes, and rural banditry. At some ...Alleged Graft: At no point did Nasir El-Rufai seek to stop EFCC from performing its statutory functions
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says the Federal High Court, Abuja had cleared him of allegations of misappropriation of the sum of N32 billion from the sale of some Federal Government houses when he was the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. He said this in reaction to reports which according to him, ...Another 147 victims rescued from illegal Islamic centre in Kaduna
The police have raided another illegal Islamic rehabilitation centre in the Rigasa area of Kaduna State. This time, the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Saturday was present as security operatives stormed the illegal facility in Igabi Local Government Area of the state. About 147 victims with some of them in chains were rescued from the ...Kaduna Abduction: Kidnappers now connected with some elements of Boko Haram – El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said that kidnappers are now collaborating with “some elements of Boko Haram” to carry out hideous crimes in Kaduna State. El-Rufai stated this on Friday while addressing State House correspondents. His comments come about a day after gunmen abducted six schoolgirls and two staff members, from a boarding school in Kaduna. ...
