Katsina

On his second day of the official visit to Katsina State, President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned other developmental projects executed...

Others were the rehabilitated and asphalted Sandamu-Baure-Babban Mutum road and Gurjiya-Sandamu-Karkarku road in the Katsina North senatorial district, known as Daura zone. The projects commissioned Friday to include the Gora-Makauraci-Malamawa road, General Hospital, Musawa and Government Day Secondary School (GDSS) Musawa in the Katsina South senatorial district, known as Funtua zone.

The facility is among the several projects executed so far by Governor Aminu Masari-led administration. By Abdurrahman Umar. Updated January 27, 2023 ...

Shu’aibu further commended parents and guardians for sending their children/wards to school. In the meantime, the President has commissioned Government Day Secondary School, Musawa which was established in 2018 by the current state administration in an effort to uplift the standard of education in the state. President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday commissioned the remodeled General Hospital located at Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina, his home state.

The Nigeria Police Force, Katsina State Command, has arrested eight suspects for “causing a riot” during President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to the ...

The president was in the state on a two-day visit where he commissioned several projects.

Youths in Katsina state expressed anger over the current state of the nation, during President Muhammad Buharı's visit to the state on Thursday, January 26.

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The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said that troops of Operation Forest Sanity deployed at Danali in Danmusa local government area of Katsina State, on.

Danmadami added that following further search on the vehicle, the troops recovered six AK-47 rifles and 27 AK-47 magazines, which were hidden in the vehicle. He said the troops initially recovered one Golf vehicle, three Tecno mobile phones, three ATM cards, one NIN card, one driver’s licence, transaction receipt and the sum of N64,650 only from them. The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said that troops of Operation Forest Sanity deployed at Danali in Danmusa local government area of Katsina State, on Friday, January 27, 2023 while on patrol, arrested two gunrunners in a Golf vehicle at Yahaya village near Maidabino.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the projects included 10 executed by the State Government, one by the Federal Government and another one by a ...

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The apex bank has set out teams to monitor the disbursement of new currency notes. By Abdurrahman Umar. Updated January 28, 2023 ...

“What we want now is that let the authorities concerned make the new currency available for us before the deadline so that we will not lose our hard-earned money. They don’t allow us to use our old currency and the cash swap is not possible from the look of things. We are calling on people if they have any challenges about banks not opening or disbursing new currency on their machines, they should report to the Central Bank immediately so that we will send our monitoring teams to the place. We have assured banks that CBN has the money to carry out the exercise The aim was to ensure easy cash swap from old to new currency for people with ten thousand Naira and below. He said the monitoring team in Katsina tracked the volume of disbursement that is not on the ATM.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issues over N120 million of the new currency to four banks for disbursement to people in Katsina.

“And the agents are supposed to collect from the banks N500,000 per week to disburse in their Communities. “We had an engagement with agents, in Katsina we have agents working for about four banks, all of them we allocated the sum of over N120 million of the new currency for disbursement to those agents. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has issued over N120 million of the new currency to four banks for disbursement to people in Katsina State through some agents.

Francis Sardauna in Katsina. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has allocated N120 million of the new currency to four commercial banks for disbursement to ...

“And the agents are supposed to collect from the banks N500,000 per week to disburse in their communities. That can tell us how many people withdraw, and if we want to know from which account we will be able to. Ahmed Bello-Umar, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Katsina Saturday, said the agents are supposed to collect N500,000 per week from the banks for disbursement to their communities.

The cleric urged that other Nigerian leaders be treated by the people in similar way when they underperform.

We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. Remember, this is a man for whom many people were killed,” the cleric said. “They booed him as a thief and stoned him like Satan. And they have shown that yesterday. “True to their slogan, Katsina people have shown that they are only shy but fearless. May Allah bless the Katsina people.

The allocated new naira notes are to be disbursed to Katsina residents through agents.

And we are able to track the volume of disbursement that is on the ATM because there is a log on it. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. Yes, it is not a cash exchange exercise,” according to the director. “And the agents are supposed to collect from the banks N500,000 per week to disburse in their Communities. “So, there is no holiday until the end of the exercise. “And we assured the banks that we have money to go round for them to be able to carry out the exercise,” Mr Bello-Umar assured the banks.

A Muslim cleric from Sokoto State, Sheikh Bello Yabo, has compared the attack on President Muhammadu Buhari's convoy in Katsina to the stoning of the devil.

How many people will lose their legitimate and hard earned money as a result of this policy? “They booed him as a thief and stoned him like the Satan. This is how they will realise they wronged the people.

Merchants that ferry tomato from Dantankari, Tafoki, Danja and other villages of Katsina State, have decried slim profit margin in their business,

The cost of transportation is affecting our business negatively. The cost of transportation is damaging the image of the market,” he added. He said, “The cost of transportation has reduced the profit of the business drastically. Nurudden Hashim, another tomato supplier in Jos, also lamented how the cost of transportation was affecting the business, describing the situation as worrisome. In the recent past, we were paying N600,000 to transport a truck-load of tomato to the East, but now, it is N2.2m. It is after the expenses that you will begin to calculate how much you are going to earn from the transaction.

The Stoning of the Devil or Satan is one of the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage rituals in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, where pebbles are thrown at three ...

How many people will lose their legitimate and hard earned money as a result of this policy. “They booed him as a thief and stoned him like the Satan. “You have heard how Katsina people stoned the Satan yesterday.

Francis Sardauna in Katsina. The All Progressives Congress (APC), Katsina State, has urged the Inspector-general of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali-Baba to ...

“The information contained in the audio is capable of causing apprehension in the state hence, making it critical for the IGP to use his good office to investigate Yakubu Lado. It’s also important to investigate the threat issued against the DPO of Kankara Local Government by Yakubu Lado in the audio. “Just as important is the need for the IGP to specifically investigate the allegation labelled against the officer by Yakubu Lado as the aim of the allegation is to set the community against the officer and possibly erode public confidence in the Nigerian Police to pave way for thuggery to thrive in the state or even make it ungovernable for unscrupulous politicians to cash on the chaos.