The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it has completed the reconductoring of its new 130 Kilometers (KM) 132 Kilovolt (KV) double circuit Sokoto – Birnin Kebbi transmission line. Mrs Ndidi Mbah, TCN’s General Manager Public Affairs, who made this known in a statement in Abuja on Saturday stated that the line was energised at […]
Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has urged veterinary doctors in Nigeria to join the ongoing global efforts to find vaccines and cure for the COVID-19. Bagudu made the call when he received members of the State Chapter of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) led by its Chairman, Dr Nuhu Hussaini-Shehu, on Friday in Birnin […]
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Birnin Kebbi on Thursday and was welcomed by top officials led by the state Governor Atiku Bagudu. President Buhari is in Kebbi to attend the Agricultural Fair and Display, a part of 2020 Argungu International Fishing Festival. President @MBuhari arrives Birnin Kebbi, welcomed by top officials of @KBStGovt led by Gov. […]
Haruna Aliyu Usman, Birnin Kebbi Contractors in Kebbi State have gathered at the eid praying ground in Birnin Kebbi to seek God’s intervention over the state government refusal to pay them three years feeding contract money for both category of schools. The contractors mostly aged women and children were led in protest by the state […]
Investigation carried out by Daily Times correspondent revealed that there is acute water shortage in the state capital Birnin Kebbi, particularly Shiyar Sarakuna, Badariya and Rafin Atiku areas in Birnin Kebbi. Households in the affected areas confirmed to this paper that, those who can afford it daily patronises water vendors spending at least a thousand […]
A magistrate court in Birnin Kebbi has remanded in prison custody 14 female naked dancers. The court was presided over by magistrate Halima Abubakar. The suspects were arraigned by Yakubu Goje, who told the court that the naked female dancers were caught by the police under a bridge with some substance suspected to be alcohol […]
A Kebbi State High Court in Birnin Kebbi, on Friday, sentenced a driver, Usman Aliyu, to death for killing a Road Marshal Assistant (RMA III), Muhammad Babangida, a staff of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in a reckless driving. According to a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the incident occurred […]
Barely three weeks after he submitted his nomination form to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Gari Malam Shatiman Gwandu was recently received for the second time by his party to formerly declare his intention to run for Kebbi governorship under the PDP. The political veteran was accompanied by an unprecedented crowd at […]
A business tycoon and philanthropist, Alhaji Mansur Musa Jega has submitted his nomination form to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives, to represent Jega, Alieru and Gwandu federal constituency of Birnin Kebbi. He was received by the officials of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), state secretariat, a platform he intends to […]
Unknown armed men at Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi have taken hostage a married woman, Sadiya Tsoho in Birnin Kebbi. The abduction took place on Sunday night. The unsuspecting couple were in their bedrooms when the armed men broke into the house a whisked away Sadiya. The Daily Times visited the shop of the husband […]
Imo state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has expressed his disapproval over the recent appointment of Eze Cletus Ilomuayan as the Chancellor of Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, by the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan administration. Okorocha, who expressed his strong disapproval in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, on Wednesday and […]