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  • Man rapes teenage wife to death days after forced marriage in Jigawa

    Man rapes teenage wife to death days after forced marriage in Jigawa

    Jigawa State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old man, Alasan Audu, for allegedly raping his wife to death days after she denied him sex for 20 days after their wedding.

    Audu reportedly raped 17-year old Hansa’u to death on the 21st April, 2020, at Kankarelu village in Ringim Local Government Area, Jigiwa State.

    The spokesman of the Command, SP Abdu Jinjiri, who confirmed the incident last Thursday said the teenage wife had another person she had in mind but her parents betrothed her to Audu she never wanted to get married to.

    However, she was forced to get married to Audu and when he wanted to have sex with her, she refused and Audu forcefully raped her to death.

    Audu may likely face a charge for murder which attracts life imprisonment if he is tried and found guilty before the Court over the alleged offence.

    Jinjiri said the Police removed the corpse and took to the hospital where it was confirmed dead by a medical doctor and deposited for autopsy report.

    He said the investigation revealed that the suspect, Alasan Audu, was not the one the deceased prepared to get married to but was forced to get married him.

    Jinjiri said after interrogation, the suspect confessed committing the crime.

    “At about 0400hrs, I went to her (the deceased) as a husband, but she turned my request down. I then used force on her to satisfy my sexual desire.”

    Police spokesman said the case was still under investigation and will be taken to court for prosecution.

  • BREAKING: Jigawa, Borno record index COVID-19 cases as NCDC announces 84 new others

    BREAKING: Jigawa, Borno record index COVID-19 cases as NCDC announces 84 new others

    Jigawa and Borno States have recorded their first case of coronavirus.

    Nigeria has recorded a huge 86 new cases of Coronavirus, taking its total figures to 627.

    The 86 new infections represent the biggest to be released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, since the pandemic began.

    Of the 86 new cases, Lagos has a screaming 70 new cases.

    In the remaining 16 cases, Abuja has seven, Katsina, three; Akwa Ibom, one’ Jigawa, one; Bauchi, one and Borno, one.

    “Eighty-six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 70 in Lagos 7 in FCT 3 in Katsina 3 in Akwa Ibom 1 in Jigawa 1 in Bauchi 1 in Borno.

    “As at 11:50 pm, 19th April, there are 627 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Discharged: 170; Deaths: 21,” NCDC said on its twitter handle.

    Jigawa and Borno States are new entrants into the league of states with Coronavirus.

    Lagos has continued to record huge confirmed cases, with its total figures now 376.

    Details later…

     

  • COVID-19: Gov. Badaru transforms NYSC camp, hotel into isolation centers

    COVID-19: Gov. Badaru transforms NYSC camp, hotel into isolation centers

    Jigawa State Government has converted Yakubu Gowon NYSC orientation camp and a three-Star Hotel into isolation centers for Covid-19 suspected cases.

    Governor Muhammad Badaru made this known while inspecting the newly established isolation center in Dutse metropolis.

    Badaru noted that as part of its efforts to curtail the menace, the state government had established a well-equipped 20-bed-capacity isolation centre with trained manpower.

    He explained that the state NYSC orientation camp and the three star Hotel were also reserved to serve as isolation center for Covid-19 suspected cases.

    “Despite the zero case status of the state we cannot afford to be complacent, therefore government has taken measures to prevent the outbreak and manage the epidemic should it occur in our dear state.

    “We have renovated and equipped an isolation center in Dutse and deployed the requisite trained manpower for the treatment of those that might be affected by the disease.

    “In the situation where the 20-bed capacity isolation center might not be enough, the NYSC orientation camp and the three star Hotel would also be use as isolation centers,” he said.

    He said part of measures were the suspension of all public gatherings, including weeding, naming, mourning and closure of schools and markets across the state.

    Badaru said the action was aimed at protecting the public and prevent transmission and spread of Covid-19.

    He urged people of the state to be patient and persevere through the difficult situations.

  • Gunmen kidnap legislator’s wife in Jigawa

    Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of a member of the Jigawa State House of Assembly. Hajiya Zahra’u Haruna was abducted in the early hours of Saturday at her residence Dangyatum village in Jahun local government area of the state. Her husband, Haruna Dangyatun, represents Miga constituency.

    Abdu Jinjiri, police public relations officer (PPRO) of the state, said the victim, Zahra’u Haruna, was kidnapped by three gunmen on Saturday around 4am at Dangyatum village in Jahun local government area of the state.

    “Today at about 4am, a housewife named Zahra’u Haruna, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Dangyatum village in Miga local government area, “Jinjiri said.

    “Three unknown men came to the residence of victim with dane guns and cutlasses and took her to unknown destination.

    “But the police are already giving the suspects a hot chase

  • NSCDC recovers N21m debts in Jigawa

    The Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) said it had recovered about N21 million as debts from some residents of the state in the last quarter of 2019.

    The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Alhaji Garba Muhammad, made this known to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Friday.

    Muhammad said the amount was recovered following complaints received by the command from aggrieved creditors within the period under review.

    He explained that the command has amicably resolved the disagreements between the debtors and their creditors.

    The commandant added that the recovered funds were handed over to their owners after the resolution of the disagreements.

    According to him, the corps will continue to ensure that residents of the state live in peace and harmony.

  • Jigawa Gov under fire for appointing special assistants for his three wives

    Jigawa state governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, is under fire on social media for appointing a special assistant to each of his three wives.

    According to a copy of the lists of the appointees, Sa’adatu Bashir Muhammed, is a special assistant to the first wife of the governor, while Mariya Muhammed Muktar and Aisha Garba are special assistants to the second and third wife respectively.

    In the list, the responsibility of all the aides to the governor was clearly stated with the exception of the three special assistants to the governor’s wives.

    Of the 51 Special Assistants that were appointed by the governor, there is also a special assistant for street light as well as for population control.

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  • Illegal detention: 123 Jigawa men sue Lagos N1bn

    Illegal detention: 123 Jigawa men sue Lagos N1bn

    For detaining them for one day, 123 men from Jigawa State have sued the Lagos State Government, seeking N1 billion compensation.

    Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement Unit) had on Friday arrested 123 men who came in a truck into Lagos from Jigawa with several motorcycles. he men were later released.

    Other respondents include the Lagos State Commissioner of Police and the Chairman of the task force, Mr. Yinka Egbeyemi as well as the Attorney-General of Lagos State.

    Abdullahi Yakubu, on behalf of himself and the other men filed a suit Federal High Court on Monday demanding N1 billion reparation from the state government for profiling and detaining them.

    The arrest had sparked a heated debate on social media over the manner in which the men were paraded and interrogated in front of the media, PUNCH reports.

    In the suit with number FHC/L/CS/1519/19, the 123 men demanded the payment of N1bn as damages.

    The men were asking for a declaration by the court that the prevention of the applicants numbering 123 from moving into Lagos State of Nigeria by the state government without prima facie incriminating evidence against the applicants constituted a flagrant violation of the 123 men’s right to move freely throughout Nigeria as guaranteed by section 41 of the Constitution Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

    The Jigawa men further prayed the court for a declaration that the detention of the men in the absence of prima facie incriminating evidence against them constituted a violation of their right to personal liberty protected by section 35 of the Constitution Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

    The men, who were represented by Mr. Abba Hikima and other lawyers, also asked the court to mandate the respondents to release to their seized motorcycles numbering 48, the truck conveying them, their wears and any other goods belonging to them in custody.

    It states further, “An order of this honourable court awarding the sum of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira) payable by the respondents jointly and severally to the applicants as reparation. An order of this honourable court directing the respondents to tender unreserved public apology to the applicants.”

  • 7 die, 11 injured in auto crash in Jigawa

    No fewer than seven persons died in an accident involving a Peugeot 206 and a Golf 3 car along Maigatari road, in Maigatari Local Government Area of Jigawa.
    SP Abdu Jinjiri, the spokesman of the state Police Command, told newsmen in Dutse on Monday that the accident occurred on Sunday around 1:30 p.m.
    He said the incident occurred after the driver of the Peugeot car coming from Kano lost control and crossed to the opposite lane, where it had head-on collision with an oncoming Golf 3 car.
    The spokesman added that seven occupants of the vehicles died on the spot, while the two drivers and nine others sustained various degrees of injury.
    “Yesterday, at about 2 p.m., the police in Maigatari LGA received an information that at about 1:30 p.m., one Rabilu Ahmad aged 30 of Koki quarters in Dala LGA Kano state was driving a Peugeot 206 ash color with Reg No. TRN 948 AE heading to Malammadori.
    “On reaching Kwalande village in Maigatari LGA, he lost control and crossed to the opposite lane where he had an head collision with an oncoming Golf 3 vehicle green color with Reg No. FW 94 ABJ driven by one Mohammed Aminami aged 30 of Dapchi LGA in Yobe state.
    “As a result, seven occupants of the vehicles died on the spot while the two drivers and nine others sustained injuries,” the spokesman said.
    According to him, upon receipt of the information, the police rushed to the scene and evacuated the corpses and the injured victims to Gumel General Hospital, in Gumel local government area of the state.
    Jinjiri further stated that the injured victims are currently on admission and responding to treatment, as investigation was ongoing.

  • Nationality saga: Atiku’s mother is from Jigawa; he is our grandson – Monarch

    An official of the Dutse Emirate Council in Jigawa State on Wednesday claimed the mother of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was from the state.

    The royal father, who did not want to be named, said Atiku’s mother was the daughter of late Abdullahi from Jigawar Sarki in Jigawa State.

    He told reporters in Dutse, the state capital, that he craved anonymity because the issue of Atiku’s origin had been politicised.

    The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had alleged that Atiku is not a citizen of Nigeria and, therefore, not qualified to contest the presidential election.

    Countering a petition filed by Atiku to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 election, the ruling party argued that the former vice president was born on November 25, 1946, in Jada, Adamawa State, which was then in Northern Cameroon.

    But the monarch dismissed the point raised by the APC.

    ”As a royal father in Jigawa, I don’t want my name to be mentioned because they have politicised the whole issue.

    “However, I can confirm that the late Mrs. Kande was from Dutse and her uncle, Adamu Ma’aruf, was the Chief Imam of Dutse Central Mosque until he died five years after the creation of the state in 1991,” he said.

    Isyaku Adamu, a centenarian, also corroborated what the royal father said.

    He said Atiku’s mother, who was known as “Kande Yar-Malam”, married Garba, Atiku’s father, who came from Sokoto.

    “He settled at our house, popularly called ‘Gidan Malamai’ (Scholars’ House). There, he met and married Kande and took her to present day Adamawa State, where Abubakar was born,” he told reporters.

    “Abubakar’s mother, Kande, was junior to Alhaji Ali and Azumi; they are all late now. Kande was our daughter and Abubakar is our grandson. We are all Fulani by tribe; our forefathers are scholars here in Dutse, that’s why our home is called Gidan Malamai.”

    Atiku has insisted that he was born by Nigerian parents and he is, therefore, a citizen of Nigeria by birth.

  • Motorists appeal to FG to rehabilitate Birninkudu high way to reduce accident.

    Motorists appeal to FG to rehabilitate Birninkudu high way to reduce accident.

    Motorists in Jigawa have appealed to the Federal Government to rehabilitate Birninkudu highway,to reduce accident on the road.

    They made the appeal in separate interview with the News Agency of (NAN) on Wednesday at Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospital, Dutse.

    The motorists were parts of sympathisers who gathered at the hospital to receive the remains of Abdullahi Gabdo, Manager, Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) who died in an accident on Birninkudu road.

    The accident which, NAN gathered happened 7 p.m, also claimed the life of another person whose name could not be ascertained as at the time of this report.

    A driver, Malam Ibrahim Muhammad, described the road as a death trap, adding that people died almost a daily basis due to accident, occasioned by many potholes and sharp bends on the road.

    Alhaji Auwalu Musa and Suleiman Abubakar noted that the road had suffered many years of neglect, a development they said made the road fell short of meeting modern standard in road construction.

    NAN reports that the road links the North West zone with states such as Bauchi, Gombe, Taraba , Adamawa, Yobe and Borno in the North East zone as well as countries like Cameroon and Chad.

    Abubakar said: “There are lots of potholes on the road and some areas are damaged due to age long of the road while some areas are completely washed away by rain fall,”

    “We are, therefore, appealing to the federal government to rehabilitate or construct the road in view of its importance to the socio-economic wel lbeing of the people.

    “We plead with that the Federal government to direct the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to patch or rehabilitate the road to reduce accident on the road.“

    When contacted, the Federal Maintenance Engineer in charge of Jigawa, Mr Adamu Gulma, said that the Federal government was aware of the deplorable condition of the federal high ways in the state.

    Gulma stated that government, through FERMA was making preparations to address the problem, with a view to making the highways conducive for motorist in the state.

    He said: “Very soon, aggressive patching of potholes will commence to prevent the incessant accidents on the roads.

    “We are also engaged in vegetation control along the federal roads across the state.”

    “We have directed contractors handling projects with us to start their work with immediate effect or we will revoke the contract.
    “This is because we don’t want a situation where people will be losing their lives due to potholes on our high ways.” Gulma said.