Tag: Katsina
FG to begin nationwide sensitisation on LPG adoption, expansion
Jan. 19, 2021 Mr. Dayo Adeshina, special assistant to the vice president on Liquified Petroleum Gas says a nationwide sensitisation campaign on LPG adoption and expansion will soon commence. Adeshina, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Wednesday. He explained that the objective of the exercise ...Ban on telecom services in Katsina to be lifted in 7 remaining LGAs before January – Gov. Masari
Dec. 29, 2021 The Katsina State Government says it will lift the ban on telecommunication services in the remaining seven affected local government areas (LGAs) before January 2021. The governor of the State, Bello Masari who disclosed this during a media parley with journalists on Tuesday in Katsina, urged residents to do their best to ...Police probe murder of Katsina Commissioner
December 10, 2021 The Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr. Rabe Nasir, has been killed by gunmen. The gunmen were said to have invaded his home at GRA along Daura Road Wednesday night and shot at him several times before absconding. The police have however arrested a suspect linked to the crime. By ...Eight States are insolvent as Lagos, Rivers top rich, viable states
September 6, 2021 Bayelsa, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe and Benue are among the eight states officially ranked as insolvent, according to the fifth Annual States Viability Index ( ASVI) released by the Economic Confidential . The eight states are deemed insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2020 were far below 10% of their receipts ...Stop killing my people, Masari tells Customs Service
August 14, 2021 Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has condemned the recurring killings of innocent citizens through reckless driving by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the state. In a statement by Malam Abdu Labaran, Director General (DG), Media and Publicity to Masari and in Katsina on Friday, Masari said he would ...Gunmen abduct Shari’a Court judge in Katsina; motive unknown
Unidentified gunmen have continued to unleash terror in the land, this time abducting a judge at a Shari’a Court in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Gunmen have consistently caused mayhem in the state, sacking and killing residents of communities and abducting Emirs. The judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila was said to have ...U.S Advises Citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria over banditry, terrorism, others, lists 14 high risk states
April 24, 2021 The United States government has advised its citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria over .security threats in some parts of the country to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, and maritime crime. Some areas have increased risk. In its latest travel advisory, the government decried the spate of crime, terrorism, civil unrest, kidnapping, ...FG to give N20,000 cash grant to 160,000 poor rural women, spends N9.5bn on Katsina poor
The Federal Government is targeting over 160,000 poor and vulnerable rural women, to benefit from the N20,000 cash grant, across the country to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. It also disclosed that over N9.5 billion was received by Katsina State, under the Conditional Cash Transfer programme, from inception of this administration to date. The ...How Kankara students’ release was effected on Buhari’s birthday
It took the combined effort of the police, military and the governments of Katsina and Zamfara states to secure the release of the over 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, who were abducted about six days ago. They were released on a day President Muhammadu Buhari marked his 76th birthday. It ...50 persons killed in Katsina fire outbreaks – Commissioner
Alhaji AbdulKarim Sirika, the Katsina State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Home Affairs, said on Friday that about 50 persons had lost their lives in various fire outbreaks in Katsina State in 2020. Sirika made the disclosure at a media briefing in Katsina and added that the review of the fire incidents was from January ...
