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The Katsina State commissioner of Police, Katsina state command CP Wakili has led a team of individuals in a Security sensitisation meeting.  The Katsina State commissioner of police, Katsina state command, CP Mohd Wakili, fsi, alongside Estate owners, Developers  as well as agents of Katsina State emphasized on the need to screen prospective property buyers and tenants in collaboration with the traditional leaders and the police Press Headlines received the news from the Katsina State police command public relation officer Sp Gambo Isa on Friday morning By Saleh Faruq Gagarawa

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has sacked his Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Arome Adoji and approved the appointment of 16 new aides. A statement issued in Lokoja on Wednesday by Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Ayoade, confirmed the removal of Adoji but did not give reasons for the action. Ayoade said that Dr Paul Ugbede Ebije had been appointed by the governor to replace the sacked commissioner. According to the statement, Mr Aliyu Salami has also been appointed as the new chairman of the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service. Salami, is replacing the former chairman, Alhaji Yakubu Oseni, who is now the Kogi Central senatorial candidate of the of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 election. Chief Gbenga Asagun and the state’s former Head of Service, Dr Moses Atakpa, were also appointed to serve as chairmen of Elders Advisory Council for Kogi West and East senatorial districts respectively among others, the statement said. Other aides appoint...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday preside over a `Special’ Federal Executive Council meeting to deliberate solely on 2019 draft budget proposal. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, revealed this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FEC meeting was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. Adesina stated that the Friday’s Special FEC meeting would endorse and approve the 2019 draft budget for onward submission to the National Assembly for its approval. NAN reports that on Oct. 18, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, at the consultative forum on the medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) and fiscal strategy paper (FSP) 2019 to 2021, said the Federal Government plans to submit a leaner 2019 budget to the National Assembly before the end of November. In spite of...

Buhari bids Governors Yahaya Bello, Ugwuanyi and Sani Bello bye. Beside Yahaya Bello is the NSA Babagana Monguno[/caption] President Muhammadu Buhari has departed from Poland to Nigeria, his personal photographer, Sunday Aghaeze said. The president’s plane departed the military base in Balice-Krakow, near the International Airport for Abuja this morning. President Buhari left Nigeria at the weekend to attend the UN Climate Change Conference COP24.

The Federal Government has withdrawn the recent threat to activate the ‘no work no pay policy’ against striking university teachers. This was disclosed by the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an exclusive chat with Vanguard Media. Ogunyemi also said that the negotiation meeting between ASUU and the Federal Government would continue on Monday, stressing that what the union was doing was to rescue the education sector from imminent collapse and to ensure that the children of the poor get access to quality and affordable education. The ASUU boss also said that last Friday’s meeting between the two parties did not yield much results. He said:   “Well, we have confirmed that they have withdrawn that threat (no work no pay). So it appears the threat is not there for now. “But even if the threat is there, we are prepared for that because for our members, no sacrifice is too much to salvage Nigeria’s education...

On 28/11/2018 at about 15:20hrs, the Katsina State police Command succeeded in busting a notorious syndicate of thieves, that specializes in breaking bank customers’ vehicles and steal their money.  Nemesis caught up with the suspects when they trailed one Umar A. Maigoro, aged 32yrs, of Kofar Kaura Layout, Katsina, who withdrew some money from a commercial bank along IBB way, Katsina. The complainant being a victim of similar incident became wary and suspicious when he discovered two motorcyclists were on his trail.   He then alerted policemen on duty at Federal Medical Center where the suspects were waylaid and arrested while in the act of breaking and stealing from the vehicle.  The following members of the syndicate were arrested: Shu’aibu Isah, alias ‘BABA’, ‘m’, aged 32yrs of Hayin Danmani Kaduna state. Abdulrazaq Musa, ‘m’, aged 30yrs of Hayin Dogo, Zaria, Kaduna state. Nasiru Musa, ‘m’, aged 27yrs of Dan Magaji Quarters, Zaria, Kaduna state. O...

An estimated number of 40% Nigerian youths has gone into wild drug abuse.  Many traditional rulers like the Emir of Kano Sanusi lamido Sanusi has also shown much concern on drug abuse. This action portside the country with no alternative  but to adopt measures to curve insensible drug abuse. The Nigerian government in the year 2018 took the bull and banned the importation as well as manufacturing of some strong syrups which are being abused.  As well the country took measures to control the sale of some strong pain relievers. The measure taking by the Nigerian government has helped a lot and degrees the number of drug abuse in the country. However this same measure taking to curve the rate of drug abuse in the country has as well affected some citizens of the country living with sickle cell disease About 25% of adults throughout the country have the sickle cell trait, a quite number of the population are living with sickle cell disease. The Sickle cell co...

Some travelers  at the Mallam Aminu Kano international airport has lamented their distaste over the barbarous blustering by the security operatives at the Mallam Aminu Kano  domestic departure gate. Some passengers on Sunday morning at about 6:30 at the domestic departure gate told Press  headlines  correspondent that they were harassed, strained, bullied and intimidated by the security operatives at the Aminu Kano international airport domestic departure gate. An eyewitness also told journalists that the security operatives denied some passengers access with their luggage. Press headlines however learnt that the security operatives at the departure gate has been harassing and intimidating passengers for quite a long time now.

Some soldiers who survived the attack by Boko Haram on the military formation in Metele have sent an SOS to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to probe the quality of weapons procured by the military authorities and save them from further avoidable deaths. In a video sent to journalists in Maiduguri, the soldiers accused the military authorities of providing them with obsolete weapons, which they said are grossly inadequate to effectively confront the insurgents in the ongoing counter insurgency campaign in the Northeast. In the amateur video footage, the soldiers also levelled allegations against the military authorities accusing them of negligence which resulted into the death of scores of their colleagues in a series of attacks coordinated by the Albarnawi faction of the Boko Haram at Metele in Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno. Foreign wire agencies reported that dozens of soldiers were killed when the insurgents attacked Metele military base on November 18...

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped 15 girls overnight in a village near Toumour, southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday. Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of the town in Niger’s Diffa region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the girls in a village about nine kilometres from the town centre. On Thursday suspected Boko Haram fighters killed eight people working at French drilling company Foraco’s water well site in Toumour. Boko Haram has been waging an insurrection since 2009 aimed at establishing an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria. It has launched repeated attacks into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The violence has killed thousands of civilians and forced millions to flee their homes in the large Lake Chad basin region. Kidnapping of schoolgirls has been a Boko Haram horror mark, since its fighters in 2014 kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, in Nigeria. It also staged this year, another...

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Nigerian security personnel were already uncovering the network of the killers and arresting them. President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed at a meeting with a delegation of Benue All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Senator George Akume. “We know about herders. The ones we knew carried sticks, and sometimes cutlasses to cut foliage for their cattle. “We now have people who carry AK 47s and pretend they are herdsmen. “We are working hard to secure our borders. We are going to see how the old cattle routes can be opened. We will control movement. Please beg our people to be patient.” He condemned attacks in Benue as “ungodly”, and assured the Benue APC leaders that efforts were being made to bring the perpetrators to justice and appealed for patience while the progress is on. President Buhari has told the APC leaders that he had no preferred ethnic or religion group and would deal with leaders and public officials who embezzle public funds and deny workers their benefits. ...

The EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Magu has sought the assistance of UK’s National Crime Agency to recover looted funds and also extradite back to Nigeria Politically Exposed Persons, such as Diezani Alison-Madueke. Diezani, who was oil minister between 2011-2015,  has been on the EFCC radar for several years, since the Jonathan administration was ousted in the election of 2015. In 2017, a Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the final forfeiture of N7.6 billion  loot recovered by the Commission from Diezani. The order of final forfeiture to the Federal Government was granted by Justice Abdulazeez Anka. “Having waited for three years, the Nigerian government believes that it is time to initiate the extradition process,” Magu told the NCA officials on Thursday. According to a statement by EFCC on Friday, the   anti-graft agency is bent on extraditing all PEPs. Magu also reportedly discussed with NCA  the efforts of the Commission in the recovering of all ill-g...

1 hour ago  1    116    0 The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to shut down Customs Command in Ikeja, Lagos if food stuffs meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are not released. “NANS will be considering occupying the customs office on Monday, Nov. 26, to demand justice for our Diaspora Zone,’’ NANS National Public Relations Officer, Mr Bestman Okereafor, said in a statement on Saturday. Okereafor noted that the foodstuff meant for the IDPs were purchased from Iddo Rice Market in Lagos State. “And not from outside Nigeria with receipt to the effect, contrary to what should have constituted an act of smuggling which is against the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as stipulated under section 147, 148 and 158 of the Customs Excise Management Act, Cap C4 LFN, 2004,” he said. Okereafor further explained that the seized items were bought by the leadership of NANS, Sierra Leone Chapt...

Some former members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have asked for forgiveness from Nigerians and their communities. The former insurgents asked for forgiveness while taking an oath of allegiance to the Federal Government at a rehabilitation camp in Gombe State. They were part of the insurgents who willingly surrendered to security forces, to be re-integrated into the society. After 11 months of de-radicalization with Operation Safe Corridor of the Nigerian Army, the repentant terrorists are pleading to be taken back as normal citizens. During their stay in the camp, they undertook vocational training as well as other programmes aimed at transforming their lives. The Commandant of De-Radicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration camp, Colonel Beyide Martins, declared the repentant terrorists fit to be part of the society again without any fear. One of the ex-terrorists, Bala Shuwa, who spoke in the Hausa language said he was indeed transformed and was optimistic tha...

President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched the Minister of Defence, retired Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, to Chad for an emergency meeting with the Chadian President, Idriss Deby, on the deterioration of security at the Nigeria – Chad border. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dan-Ali had on Thursday briefed President Buhari on security development across the country. He also briefed him about the recent killings of some Nigerian soldiers by the Islamic West Africa Province, a breakaway Boko Haram sect, operating along Nigeria – Chad border. AFP reported that no fewer than 44 soldiers were killed during the attacks, which occurred at Metele, a remote village bordering Nigeria and Chad. Diplomatic sources told NAN that the Minister of Defence would also be meeting his Chadian counterpart during his mission to Chad, to identify what had led to the recent increase in Boko Haram terrorism in the area. The sources, who preferred not to be named, said: “Nigeria has a Cha...

President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned Service Chiefs to an emergency security meeting over the reported killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram sect along the Nigeria-Chad border on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reliably gathered that the urgent meeting was necessitated by the latest security developments across the battle fields in the North East region of the country. A reliable source, who preferred not to be named, confirmed this development to NAN in Abuja on Friday. NAN learnt that Federal Government pronouncement on the latest victims of Boko Haram insurgency was being delayed because families of the victims were being identified and contacted. “The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs. “And the families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. “This, it is understood is the reason for the silence of the government over th...

Some Katsina base youth has organized a two days football tournament at Katsina State.  @kft_football scheduled to kick-start on 26th January to 27th January. Already the organizers has phase out plans for the games, however Press Headlines learnt that players are expected to make their registrations with the organizers before the schedule date of the tournament. Katsina football tournament also have partnership with popular Katsina base alqalamist a reknown photography outlet, Abespoke a fashion design enterprise, Press Headlines an online Katsina base  media News outlet among many other sponsors. By Alpha Muhammad

A student of Al Qalam University Katsina has been appointed as the Northwest zonal coordinator of National association of computer science students (NACOSS)  The appointment came as a result of awards and achievements recorded  by  Auwal Mai Basira.  He has bagged many awards and recognitions at both state and national level Al Qalam University In a press statement issued by the public affairs unit of the varsity  affirmed that Mai Basira has been representing Al Qalam University in Competitions and became overall best among other tertiary institutions.

President Muhammadu Buhari will  depart Abuja on Friday for Paris, France, to participate in the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum which opens on Sunday and ends on Tuesday. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. The Peace Forum is organised by the French Government and a number of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The Forum is based on the “simple idea that international cooperation is key to tackling global challenges and ensuring durable peace.” Adesina disclosed that the Nigerian President would join the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres and other world leaders in discussing contributions towards global peace while underscoring the imperative of collective action. While in Paris, President Buhari will also join other world leaders to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the Armistice signed on Nov. 11, 1918 between the Allied Forces and Germany i...