The Emir of Ningi in Bauchi State, Yunusa Danyaya, has died. The royal father passed away on Sunday morning after a protracted illness at a hospital in Kano. Alhaji Usman Sule, Secretary to the Ningi Emirate Council, confirmed the death in a statement on Sunday. He said the emir...
Bauchi State
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control( NAFDAC),Bauchi State office has begun a three-day exercise in markets in Bauchi State to Bauchi markets to mop up fake Milo chocolate drink in circulation. Dr Paul Kamai made this known on Wednesday in an interview with the News...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – There was serious voter apathy in many polling units visited during the local government elections held across Bauchi State. Journalists while monitoring the local government elections observed that in most villages, there were no sign of elections going on. However, in few of the...
Low voter turnout has characterised the ongoing local government election in Bauchi State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. NAN correspondents, who monitored the exercise in Bauchi, Dass and Tafawa Balewa LGAs report that voting commenced in most polling centres at about 11:00 am, due to...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A medical humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), has said that Bauchi, along with majority of northern Nigeria, is facing a malnutrition crisis and is witnessing an unprecedented surge in admissions for malnutrition. According to MSF, in Bauchi State, 5,787 and 17,223 children...
Wikki Tourists Football Club FC of Bauchi State on Thursday unveiled Abdu Maikaba as the new head coach of the club. Maikaba who was given a two-year contract, managed the club from 2014 to 2016, when he led it to the CAF Confederation Cup in his second season....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A 38-year old female journalist working with The Daily Post in Bauchi State, Hafsat Abdulhamid Adebayo, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor is urgently appealing for financial assistance from the public to undergo a surgery. Adebayo, who has been bedridden for...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, have called for the immediate sack of the Ministers of Education and that of Labour and Productivity. The Unions under...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) has begun the construction of a 30-bed ultramodern hospital valued at N500 million for the Nigeria Customs Service at Zone D Headquarters, Bauchi. The state-of-the-art medical edifice is being sponsored by the ASR under its Security Sector...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Government would spend N100 million for the engagement of youth in computer programming and Artificial Intelligence. This is as earmarked in the 2024 budget of the state. This was disclosed by Governor Bala Mohammed, in his speech while inaugurating a...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A 67-year old man has been arrested by the Police in Bauchi for allegedly raping two girls after he lured them with N500. The suspect, Bala Mohammed, reportedly lured the girls into his room and allegedly had carnal knowledge of them without their...
By NANA AISHA, Bauchi – The Nigerian Army on 2 July 2024 donated educational materials support to Government Day Secondary School Rimi Wintin Dada in Bauchi State. The Army gave the support during a public speaking engagement to the school as part of activities marking Nigerian Army Day...
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Bauchi state has said it was removed from Information and Culture for effective and efficient performance. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism as you all know is a government agency responsible for the preservation, promotion development of Bauchi State rich and Cultural...
Some residents in Bauchi have expressed concern over hike in ram and sheep prices ahead of the Eid el-Adha celebration. Eid el-Adha or the “Fest of Sacrifice” is a significant holiday celebrated by Muslims to commemorate Prophet Ibrahim’s (Abraham) devotion to God. It is being observed on the...
The NNPC Foundation has planted 500 tree seedlings as part of campaign to preserve the environment and mitigate climate change in the country. The Managing Director of the Foundation, Mrs Emmanuella Arukwe, said this during a tree planting campaign on Wednesday at Government Girls’ Secondary School, Nasarawa in Azare,...
Police in Bauchi State have arrested a 49-year old father accused of attempting to sell his 5-year old daughter for N1.5 million. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Auwal Muhammad, disclosed this on Thursday in Bauchi at a news conference. Muhammad said the suspect, who claimed to...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi has staged a peaceful protest over the Federal Government’s failure to address its plight, saying that it is tired of the government’s “deception”. The Union called on the Government to avoid...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Ambassador Mohammed Alkali, has lamented that subregion is backwards in secondary school enrollment, pointing that it is just 15%, the second worst in the country. Ambassador Alkali said that due to the challenges...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The North-East Governors’ Forum (NEGF) has lamented that the Federal Government has neglected the subregion in the allocation of capital projects. The Forum stated that despite the cry for attention on the state of infrastructure which have been echoed several times in its...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has said that the distribution of palliatives by the federal government was not a permanent solution to food scarcity bedeviling the nation. Governor Zulum, who is also the Chairman, North East Governors’ Forum (NEGF), called on stakeholders...