Tag: Jigawa
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How Police Commissioner supervised rigging of 2019 elections for APC in Jigawa – Sule Lamido
The immediate past governor of Jigawa State and a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Sule Lamido has accused the Jigawa State Commissoner of Police Bala Senchi of supervising the rigging activities of the All Progressives Party (APC) in the just concluded elections in the state. He said the police boss unjustly arrested and detained over…
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Gunmen abduct INEC’s senior staff in Jigawa
A senior staff of the Independent National Electorate Commission (INEC) in Jigawa state has been kidnapped in the state. He was reportedly kidnapped last Friday. The kidnapped staff identified as Mr. Mahadi Hassan, is a Pension Desk Officer of the Commission in Jigawa State INEC office. It was gathered Hassan was picked by gunmen along…
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PDP hints on boycotting governorship election in Jigawa
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it may not participate in the March 9 governorship election in Jigawa State unless the state’s police commissioner, Bala Senchi is redeployed. The party alleged rigging, vote buying and police intimidation in the state during the presidential and National Assembly elections. Mustapha Lamido, a defeated…
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900 PDP members defect to APC in Jigawa
No fewer than 900 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa on Monday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Receiving the defectors in Kaugama, the State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan, urged them to work for the party’s victory in the 2019 general elections. “Your defection to…
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New bill on Child Rights before Jigawa House of Assembly, says official
Alhaji Rabiu Nasoro, the Director of Social Welfare, Jigawa Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development says a new child rights bill is before the State House of Assembly for domestication. Soro who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Dutse, explained that the bill if…
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I nearly ran away with huge debts, uncompleted projects Lamido left behind – Jigawa Governor
Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State on Monday said he nearly abandoned his job after going through huge debt profile and uncompleted projects left behind by the immediate past governor of the state, Sule Lamido. The governor said the debts were in excess of over N31.3 billion. “The first day I went through the handover…
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BREAKING: Buhari arrives Jigawa on working visit [PHOTO]
President Muhammadu Buhari has just arrived Jigawa State for a two-day working visit. Buhari landed at the Dutse International airport on Monday, and was received by the state governor, Badaru Abubakar, who was joined by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state, Ministers of Aviation, Interior, state minister of Budget, among others. The President will be…
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Buhari to visit Jigawa May 7
President Muhammadu Buhari is to pay a one-day official visit to Jigawa on May 7, Governor Muhammad Badaru, has said. Badaru, who made the disclosure while interacting with journalists in Dutse on Tuesday, said during the visit, the president was expected to commission some projects. He said the state government had made arrangements to give…