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4 perish during Bauchi Zakat stampede

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Aminu Imam

Four people have lost their lives in a stampede during an almsgiving zakat exercise for the poor in Bauchi State. The stampede occurred at the Shafa Holdings Company Plc headquarters along Jos Road, yesterday, at about 10 am. Another individual, 17-year-old Naima Abdullahi, is currently receiving medical treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital in Bauchi. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakili, verified the incident to newsmen, but guaranteed that the situation is currently stable. He stated that the Police acted swiftly upon hearing the news, and…

Bauchi Discussion Circle: The Circle of Northern Nigerian Politics and Nigeria�s Independence Top of Form

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By; Abubakar Al-Sadique & Abubakar Ahmed On October 1, few days from this day, amalgamated Nigeria will be 63 years in independence. The first of October every year is being celebrated as the nation�s independence anniversary day because it was the day the country secured its independence from Britain after being colonized for forty-six years from the 1914 amalgamation. This makes the anniversary day the most important date in the political diary of the country. Unlike other countries that had to shed blood securing their independence, Nigeria in 1960 became…

Police Confirmrs 1 killed, 2 Community Leaders Abducted in Bauchi

June 12, 2023June 12, 2023 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Police Command in Bauch State has confirmed that gunmen killed one person and abducted three others, including two community leaders in the Ningi Local Government Area of the state.� The Spokesman of the command, SP. Ahmed Wakil, confirmed the development in an interviewon Monday in Bauchi. He said that the gunmen attacked a community known as Balma, killing one person and abducting three others, including two community leaders late on Saturday. Wakil said the two community leaders were a village head in Balma community and a ward head in…

Bauchi: How bandits set people ablaze, burnt houses and foodstuff

January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 Aminu Imam

Residents of Rimi and Bagwas, farming communities in Yelwan-Duguri and Gwana Districts of Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi State have nothing but stories of horror to tell following the invasion of bandits in their community in December 2022. Reports indicate that 12 residents were brutally killed in Rimi, while eight lost their lives in Bagwas in the attacks by bandits. According to newsmen who visited the area, virtually all residents have deserted the two villages and fled to neighboring Plateau, Taraba and Yobe States. The report said two communities…

More Lassa Fever deaths recorded in Bauchi, Ebonyi

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NDDC) has announced that Bauchi and Ebonyi states recorded new deaths from Lassa fever as the nation�s toll from the disease since the beginning of 2021 rises to 92. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest situation report on the outbreak of the disease in the country. According to the data from the report for Week 50, which covered December 13 to 19, three more deaths were reported in the week under review. While Bauchi reported two new fatalities, Ebonyi recorded a new death…

NCDC responds as Yellow fever claims 76 lives in 3 states

November 14, 2020November 14, 2020 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it is currently responding to yellow fever outbreaks in Delta, Enugu and Bauchi States, amid reports of 76 deaths recorded in November, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General of NCDC, said. Giving updates on the outbreak in an interview on Friday in Abuja, Ihekweazu said that following the outbreak this month, 1, 2 and 8 cluster cases and deaths were reported to the agency by the State Epidemiologists of the three affected states. He disclosed that 74 suspected cases involving 35 deaths were…

Police arrest five for gang-raping a 14-year-old girl in Bauchi

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Bauchi State Police Command said on Saturday five persons had been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl in the state. The command�s spokesman, Ahmed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement in Bauchi, said the suspects would be arraigned in court at the end of investigation. He said: �On the 22nd September 2020 at about 11:00 a.m., a team of policemen drafted to Udubo village in Gamawa local government area of Bauchi, arrested the following suspects namely � Sagir Ahmed (22), Muhammed Tukur (24), Haruna Babayo (32), Musa…

Flood kills 16, destroys 3,042 houses in Bauchi – SEMA

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said the flood had killed 16 persons, destroyed 3,042 houses and several farmlands in the state. Shehu Ningi, the Permanent Secretary (PS) of SEMA told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Bauchi that 11 out of the 20 local government areas of the state were affected by the flood. �The affected local government areas include Shira, Dambam, Katagum, Jammare, Warji, Itas, Alkaleri, Bauchi, Zaki Kirfi and Gamawa,� he said. He said that farmlands and crops including maize, millet, guinea corn…

NBA Conference Controversy: Like Jigawa, Bauchi lawyers threaten to boycott session over El-Rufai

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) may be heading towards a split following its withdrawal of the invitation to Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State to speak at the association�s annual conference. Bauchi State chapter members of the NBA, on Friday threatened to boycott the association�s forthcoming Annual General Meeting if the decision to withdraw the invitation extended to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to participate in the event was not reversed by the body. This followed the threat by the Jigawa State chapter of NBA which had on Thursday…

Again, ex-Speaker Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP, returns to APC

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

By Ishaku Yohanna, Abuja Ex-Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, who is also the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, broke the news to state House Correspondents after he and Dogara met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday. �We paid a courtesy call on the president in continuation of our effort to rebuild the party. We are here to see Mr. President…