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Two people including a British aid worker were shot dead and four tourists abducted from a resort in northwestern Nigeria in an attack on Friday, police have said. Gunmen stormed the Kajuru Castle Resort, 60 kilometres southeast of Kaduna City at 11.40pm on Friday, Kaduna state … Read more...

A British national, Faye Mooney, was among the victims of the attack on Kajuru castle in Kaduna last Friday by unknown gunmen who also abducted three others. This is coming as the senator representing Kaduna Central at … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/2ZtL15c Get More Nigeria...

Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central has reacted to the attack on a popular tourist resort in Kajuru Local Government Area, Kaduna State, where two persons were killed and three others kidnapped. A statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Kaduna State Command...

As normalcy has returned to troubled Chikun Local Government area of Kaduna State, the Kaduna State Government has lifted the dusk to dawn curfew in Maraban Rido and Kujama communities areas of the state with immediate effect. In a statement by Senior Special Assistant to Governor Nasir …...

Catholic Bishops of Kaduna Ecclesiastical Province have appealed to the Kaduna State government to convene a stakeholders’ meeting that will help in addressing incessant killings in Kajuru Local Council and other parts of the state. They … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and...

Fulani groups have revealed the identities of the persons who reportedly died in the killings recorded in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna State. Governor Nasir el-Rufai, who broke the news of the attacks last week, said 66 Fulanis were murdered. After his casualty figure was disputed by...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State on Thursday condoled with the Kaduna State Government and families of 130 victims killed by suspected militia men in Kajuru Local Government Area, of the state. Mr Felix Hyat, State Chairman of the PDP, … Read more via P.M. News –...

The Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has alleged a plan to wipe out some communities in the state. Mr El- Rufai made the allegation on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents after an expanded meeting called by President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor, who was reacting to...

The Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said that the actual number of persons killed last Friday in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state was 130 and not the 66 he said. Don’t politicise … Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – http://bit.ly/2Vd1CHV Get More Nigeria Metro News

A group, Violent Incidents & Election Atrocity Fusion Centre (VIAFUC), has called for the retraction of alleged killing of 66 persons at Kajuru, Kaduna State by Governor Nasir el-Rufai. LEADERSHIP recalls that the Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai through his senior special assistant...

The Kaduna State Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Isah Ashiru has urged the State Government and Security Agencies to fish out and prosecute those involved in the killings of villagers in Kajuru area of the state. Ashiru, in a statement he issued in … Read...

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says his government will not allow “bigoted busy bodies” to trivalise the killings in the state. Speaking through Samuel Aruwan, his media aide, el-Rufai said only irresponsible and insensitive people can “recklessly” dismiss the deaths of members of a...

The Nigerian army has confirmed the killing of 66 people in eight different communities in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna state. Faruk Yahaya, general officer commanding (GOC) 1 division of the army and Ahmad Abdulrahman, the state police commissioner, confirmed the mass killing on...

The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has condemned what it described as attempts by some “busy bodies” to deny the killings of 66 people in Fulani settlements in Kajuru … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/2IkexpQ Get More Nigeria Political News

Former Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu yesterday described as false, the statement from the Kaduna state government that 66 people were killed in attacks on Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. The Christian Association … Read more via...

President Muhammadu Buhari says he is “pained beyond words” by the news of the new wave of killings on election eve in Kaduna State, according to a statement by Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu. President Buhari, who reacted to the reported killings … Read...

The Kaduna State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Isa Ashiru, has condemned the murder of the paramount ruler of Adara Chiefdom in the state, Dr. Maiwada Galadima, by unidentified persons. .. Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2OSR8Pd Get More...