Tag: Jigawa
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…
-
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. This half casted imbecile is the governor of Jigawa State. He has appointed one special assistant to each of his three wives. I pity Nigeria: pic.twitter.com/wZTePQOkoO — Adisa Olanrewaju. #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners (@drain1471_adisa) October…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Withdraw anti-riot policemen from Jigawa villages, Reps order IG
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, called on the acting Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mohammed Adamu, to withdraw the contingent of anti-riot policemen from Gagarawa farmlands and some villages in Jigawa. This followed a motion under matters of urgent public importance by Rep Muhammed Zoro at plenary presided over by Speaker Yakubu Dogara in…