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  • Tears flow as three kids of same parents got drowned in Jigawa

    Tears flow as three kids of same parents got drowned in Jigawa

    Tears flowed as three siblings of same parents got drowned in a river at Gaduwa Kazamaki Fulani Settlement of Guri local government of Jigawa state.

    The siblings were declaredd missing after they went out with their family’s camels for grazing.

    They reportedly went to a river located at Kazamaki Village where they were drowned while attempting to swim.

    It was difficult to console their parents as they cried out their eyes as the kids were fished out of the river.

    Confirming the incident the Jigawa state commissioner of police CP Aliyu Sale Tafida said, the command through its police Division in Guri local government received a report of the missing children on 20/1/2022.

    The commissioner who spoke through the spokesperson of the command ASP Lawan Shiisu Adam said, after receiving the report a police team was mobilised in collaboration with some good Samaritans in the community who eventually succeeded in recovering of their bodies in the stream.

    He explained that, their corpses were removed from the river and taken to Hadejia General hospital where they were confirmed dead by a medical doctor.

    ASP Shisu named the deceased to include Musa Ahmad ‘m’ age 12yrs, Yusuf Ahmad ‘m’ age 11 yrs, and Alkasim Muhammad ‘m’ age 14yrs all of Kazamaki Fulani Settlement Guri LGA.

    “Preliminary investigation revealed that no foul play was Suspected in the incident, however the corpses were released to their relatives for burial according to Islamic rites” ASP stated

    In a similar tragic incident a three year old child named Aminu Bukar of Dolen Zugo Village of Guri local government was reported missing on 18/01/2022.

    The police spokesperson ASP Shisu stated that, upon receiving the
    report, a team of Policemen swung into action, who were able to find the body of Aminu at Tudun Mai Jambo Bush, about 1 km away from the town.

  • Jigawa approves death penalty ‘with no option’ for child rapists

    Jigawa approves death penalty ‘with no option’ for child rapists

    The Jigawa State Government has enacted the child protection law that prescribes the death penalty for rapists without the option of life imprisonment.

    Dr. Musa Adamu, the Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General, disclosed this on Wednesday during an end-of-the-year press briefing in Dutse, the state capital of Jigawa.

    According to him, anyone convicted of raping a child below the age of ten shall be sentenced to death with no other option.

    “Earlier this year the Jigawa state Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has signed the Violence Against Prohibition Bill which prescribed the death penalty for rapists but with the option of life imprisonment. But recently the government has also signed the child protection law which prescribed the death penalty for anyone that raped a child below the age of 10,” Dr. Musa said.

    He explained that the ministry had received “a total number of 196 case diaries while 178 pieces of legal advice were prepared in respect of the case diaries, received.

    Out of the total number of the case diaries, 90 were rape cases; 27 culpable homicides; sodomy has 31; kidnapping and abduction have a total number of 18 cases; incest two; two 2 acts of gross indecency; 20 armed robberies while road traffic offenses have two cases.”

    “The ministry has prosecuted and defended a total number of 25 appeals before Court of Appeal, Kano Division, and has also completed the prosecution of 83 criminal trials before eight High Courts at Birnin Kudu, Dutse, Gumel Hadejia, Kazaure and Ringim. 34 convictions and Forty-Nine 49 defendants were discharged and acquitted,” he added.

    The commissioner also lamented the delay in criminal litigation as one of the major challenges of the ministry, which he said is not peculiar to Jigawa State.

    Adamu noted that the problems associated with the delay in criminal litigation can be reduced by the proper use of technology.

  • Primary school teacher bags life imprisonment for defiling 5-year-old pupil in Jigawa

    Primary school teacher bags life imprisonment for defiling 5-year-old pupil in Jigawa

    The Jigawa State High Court sitting in Kazaure on Wednesday sentenced a primary school teacher, Makasusi Sunusi, to life imprisonment for defiling a 5-year-old pupil.

    The prosecution counsel narrated that Sunusi, who was the victim’s teacher, lured the pupil and raped her in the school at Kazaure town on 4th February 2021.

    He said the suspect was arrested and charged to court for the offence of rape punishable under the Jigawa State Penal Code Miscellaneous Amendment, 2014.

    The prosecution presented five witnesses and tendered a medical report to prove its case.

    Presiding Judge, Justice Hussaina Adamu Aliyu said the prosecution counsel had proved their case beyond reasonable doubt and therefore found the accused guilty of the offense.

    She sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment for the offence of rape as prescribed by Section 3 of the Jigawa State Penal Code Miscellaneous Amendment, 2014.

  • Seven girls die in Jigawa boat accident

    Seven girls die in Jigawa boat accident

    At least seven girls have died after a boat capsized in Jigawa on Friday.

    According to the police, three other girls were also rescued.

    The girls were all aged between 10 to 12 years of age.

    “Subjects reportedly came from Gafasa village via K/Hausa LGA to Gasanya village in Auyo LGA for Maulud Celebratration,” the police said.

    “In a haste and anxiety to reach home considering the time, they deliberately decided to drive a boat parked at River Gasanya by themselves in the absence of Craftman.

    “They were all evacuated and referred to General Hospital Kafin Hausa F.N.A and confirmed dead by Medical Doctor.

    “Investigation is on going.”

  • Buhari approves establishment of two tertiary institutions in Jigawa

    Buhari approves establishment of two tertiary institutions in Jigawa

    President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of two tertiary institutions in Jigawa State.

    Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

    The tertiary institutions approved by the President are the Federal College of Agriculture, Kirikasamma in Kirikasamma Local Government Area (LGA) and the Federal College of Education (Special), Birnin Kudu in Birnin Kudu LGA.

    Shehu also revealed that President Buhari has assented to the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (Amendment) Bill, 2021.

    He explained that this was in consonance with the commitment of the present administration to diversifying the economy with agriculture playing a critical role.

    With the amendment, according to the President’s spokesman, the Council is expected to play a crucial part in coordinating research efforts in the agricultural sector towards achieving food sufficiency and security in the nation.

    He stated that President Buhari assented to the bill before his visit to Ethiopia on Sunday for the inauguration of the country’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, for a second term in office.

    Meanwhile, the President has travelled to Kaduna State ahead of the Passing Out Parade of the Nigerian Defence Academy.

    The event serves as a graduation ceremony for new officers of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, and Nigerian Air Force takes place on Saturday.

    President Buhari is the Special Guest of Honour and Reviewing Officer of the parade.

    His aircraft landed at the Nigerian Air Force Base in Mando at about 4:40pm, and was welcomed by the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

    The service chiefs, comprising the Chief of Defence Staff, General Leo Irabor; the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Oladayo Amao; and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, as well as some top government officials were also on the ground to receive the President.

  • AMAZING! Man arrested for ‘having sex with goat’ in Jigawa

    AMAZING! Man arrested for ‘having sex with goat’ in Jigawa

    The Jigawa state police command has detained a 25-year-old man for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a goat in the Gwaram LGA of the state.

    According to NAN, Lawan Shiisu, the command’s public relations officer, broke the news in a statement on Friday.

    Shiisu said the suspect whose name was not revealed, was arrested at about 1 am by police operatives who were on patrol in Gwaram town.

    The police spokesperson said the suspect, a resident of Kunnadi quarters, was arrested by the patrol team while allegedly indulging in the bestial act.

    “At about 0100hrs, police from Gwaram Divisional Headquarters, while on patrol in Gwaram and its environs, arrested one 25-year-old resident of Kunnadi quarters, while having intercourse with a goat,” he said.

    The spokesman added that investigation into the case was ongoing after which the suspect would be charged to court.

    Bestiality is a crime in Nigeria. According to section 214 of the Nigerian criminal code act, the offence is punishable by a jail term of up to seven years.

    The penal code act, which applies in northern parts of the country, also prohibits bestial acts.

    “Whoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with a man, woman or any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of which may extend to fourteen years and shall also be liable to fine,” it read.

     

  • Insecurity: Jigawa restricts movement of motorcycles in 27 LGAs

    Insecurity: Jigawa restricts movement of motorcycles in 27 LGAs

    The Jigawa State Government has restricted the movement of motorcycles from 9:00 pm to 6:00 am in all the 27 Local Government Areas over the rising insecurity in the state.

    The state Chairman, Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), Bala Chamo, disclosed this on Wednesday during an interview with journalists in Dutse.

    Chamo, who is also the chairman of Dutse Local Government Council, said that the measure was taken after the state’s Security Council observed the increasing number of security threats and decided to take steps to curtail them.

    “Most of the attacks we recorded in the state are being carried out using the motorcycles by the attackers,” he said.

    “The abductors who recently kidnapped one traditional title holder in Taura, a renowned businessman in Zango in Miga local government and several other places in recent times in the state were found using bikes.

    “The ban has become imperative to checkmate the activities of criminals terrorizing some parts of the state.

    “Considering the present security issue, there is a need to gear up security measures from the state down to our local level as we are recording several security concerns”.

    Chamo also noted that commercial motorcycle riders in the state were duly informed through their leadership, warning that anybody found violating the new order would face the wrath of the law as all security agencies were directed to ensure total compliance in all the nooks and crannies of the state.

    According to him, the new order which would take effect from September 9 across the 27 local government areas would involve both private and commercial motorcycles.

  • Court of Appeal Justice Demands Punishment for Jigawa, Imo High Court Judges for Dabbling into Anambra Gubernatorial Matter

    Court of Appeal Justice Demands Punishment for Jigawa, Imo High Court Judges for Dabbling into Anambra Gubernatorial Matter

    Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Court of Appeal has demanded punishment for the judge of the Jigawa State High Court, Justice Ubale of Birnin Kudu, and his counterpart in the Imo State judiciary, Justice B. C. Iheka, for what she described as their unprofessional conduct by dabbling into the Anambra State gubernatorial election controversy and for giving consequential judgments on it.

     

    The Court of Appeal justice also wants lawyers who took the cases to the state high courts in Jigawa and Imo states disciplined for professional misbehavior.

     

    Justice Nwosu-Iheme made the demand while ruling today on a motion by Chike Onyemenam (SAN), counsel to Jude Okeke, who claims to be the national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to stop the execution of the order made earlier on July 18 by Justice Charles C. Okaa of the Anambra State High Court in Awka directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize the former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Professor Charles Soludo, as the APGA candidate in the November 6 gubernatorial election in the state, in line with the outcome of the June 23 APGA Congress and primary election which Soludo won by almost 94% and monitored by INEC.

    INEC had on July 16 published The Honorable Chukwuma Umeoji of the House of Representatives as the APGA candidate following an order by the Jigawa State High Court on June 28, but was not made known until the eve of the INEC’s unveiling of names of various candidates.

     

    The consequential order was based on the argument that Okeke was the APGA acting national chairman who purportedly took over from one Edozie Njoku.

    INEC, which regulates Nigerian political parties, has no record of either Njoku or Okeke as having ever been the APGA national chairman, as it has in the last few years recognized only Chief Victor Oye as the party’s chairman.

     

    Still, Justice Iheka, presiding over the Imo State High Court in Owerri, on July 30 gave a judgment affirming Okeke as the APGA chairman and Umeoji the party’s gubernatorial candidate.

     

    The Court of Appeal justice accused Anambra politicians of going round the country shopping for judgments to enable them to contest in the November governorship election rather than appear before the courts which have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain the election.

     

    She regretted that some judges and lawyers indulge such politicians and as a result bring the legal profession into public contempt.

     

    Justice Nwosu-Iheme, therefore, called for strong punishments to be meted out to the state high court judges in Jigawa and Imo states who gave judgments on the Anambra APGA controversy and the lawyers who brought the cases before them.

     

  • 30 killed by Cholera outbreak; 2,000 hospitalised in Jigawa

    30 killed by Cholera outbreak; 2,000 hospitalised in Jigawa

    A cholera outbreak in Jigawa has killed at least 30 people with more than 2,000 hospitalized in the past two months in the state.

    Dr Salisu Mu’azu, Permanent Secretary, Jigawa State Ministry of Health, confirmed the development.

    He said that most of the infected cases were children recorded in nine local government areas of the state.

    Mu’azu listed Hadejia; Dutse, Kirikasamma, Birnin Kudu and Ringim as some of the areas worst hit by the outbreak.

    He said that of the 2,000 infected cases, some had been discharged while others were still receiving free medical treatment in government hospitals.

    The permanent secretary, who could not immediately say what was the cause of the outbreak, insisted that the Hadejia case could be linked to water pollution.

    He alleged that there was a possibility of water contamination from an area where people practiced open defecation near the water vendors who collect and circulate the water to residents of Hadejia town.

    Mu’azu said the state government was on top of the situation for now and has been providing necessary assistance to the residents in the affected areas.

    The permanent secretary said the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) had supplied some medications and promised to send more soonest.

  • Ex-Jigawa Military Governor, Brig Gen Aliyu is dead

    Ex-Jigawa Military Governor, Brig Gen Aliyu is dead

    A former military Governor of Jigawa State, Brigadier General Ibrahim Aliyu (rtd), is dead.

    His death was confirmed on Saturday in a statement by Habibu Nuhu Kila, the Special Adviser Media and Public Relations to Governor Mohammed Badaru Abubakar.

    According to the statement, the General died in Kaduna on Friday.

    The statement reads in part: “His Excellency, Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar MON, mni, of Jigawa State with utter sadness, announced the death of a former Military Administrator of Jigawa State, Brigadier General Ibrahim Aliyu rtd., who died yesterday Friday in Kaduna.”

    The Governor who stated that the late General had sacrificed his life for the service of humanity, also described the death as a big loss to the people of the state.

    The deceased was a military governor of the state from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.