Alhaji AHMED NUHU BAMALLI has been named as the new Emir of Zazzau Emirate in Kaduna State. Alhaji BAMALLI, who becomes the 19th Emir of Zazzau, succeeds Alhaji SHEHU IDRIS who died on Sunday, September 20, 2020, after forty-five years on the throne. He is also the first Emir to be appointed from the Mallawa Ruling House…
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh IBRAHIM EL-ZAZAKY and his wife ZEENAT have lost their no-case submission in their ongoing trial. Justice GIDEON KUDAFA of the Kaduna State High said it was too early to dismiss the charges against the couple, going by provisions of the State Administration of Criminal Justice Law. EL-ZAKZAKI and…
Anyone who rapes a child of under fourteen years in Kaduna State will go in for surgical castration if convicted. If the rape victim is above fourteen years, the court shall on conviction sentence the accused to surgical castration and life imprisonment. This followed the signing of an amendment of the Penal Code by Governor NASIR EL-RUFAI.…
The Nigerian Railway Corporation has confirmed an attack on a passenger train traveling on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line. NRC’s Managing Director, FIDET OKHIRIA, said the attack happened on Monday afternoon, between Asham and Kubwa. However; OKHIRIA said hoodlums were behind the attack on train KA-4, and not bandits as claimed in other reports. He suggested that the…