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Why PDP Won In My Polling Unit – El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 6 September 2021 0

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has explained why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) triumphed in his voting unit during Saturday’s Local Government election. El-Rufai said the PDP won in his polling unit because his administration enabled democracy to take place, according to a

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BREAKING: El-Rufai sacks 99 political appointees

Ihesiulo Grace 18 June 2021 0

Nasir El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, has fired nearly 90 of his political appointments. El-Rufai stated that his administration will cut the size of the state’s civil service, but that government appointees will be the first to depart. This was said by the Governor during a media engagement with journalists in Kaduna on […]

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El-Rufai evicts civil servants from prime assets, gives wives, children, Kadaria Ahmed, other cronies

Ihesiulo Grace 24 May 2021 0

Governor Nasir El-Rufai has allocated prime assets belonging to Kaduna State to his wives, children, friends, business, and political associates, according to officials and a list of beneficiaries seen by Peoples Gazette. Sources in Kaduna told The Gazette the assets were seized from senior civil servants and their families between 2015 and 2016, barely months […]

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El-Rufai must be retired politically, Medical workers tell Kaduna residents

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

By Ukpono Ukpong Medical And Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), has called on people of Kaduna state especially the workers, to ensure that El-Rufai is rejected come next election, as there’s no room for anarchists in a democratic dispensation. Reacting to the recent unleashing of hundreds of thugs on defenseless workers’ led by Global […]

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Updated: El-rufai dismisses all nurses below Grade Level 14 over strike

Ihesiulo Grace 19 May 2021 0

*As protest turns violent, one feared killed *Govt to dismiss lecturers absent from office *Declares Wabba, others wanted Idibia Gabriel, Kaduna Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has announced the dismissal of all nurses below Grade Level 14 in the state’s employment for taking part in what he described as the ongoing illegal strike. The governor also […]

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NLC Mob Actions equivalent to Banditry – El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 18 May 2021 0

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai has described the actions of the Nigeria Labour Congress as the same with bandits in the state. He made this statement in a tweet on his social media handle. El-Rufai stated, “KDSG views NLC actions as the mob equivalent of bandits that are kidnapping and menacing our citizens. Bandits […]

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El-Rufai: Workers’ protest, strike action won’t stop Kaduna mass sacking

Ihesiulo Grace 17 May 2021 0

Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says protests and strike action embarked upon by workers in the state will not alter plans to sack some of them. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state had embarked on strike to protest against mass disengagement of workers and other alleged anti-labour moves by the government. NLC National […]

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Tackle bandits in Kaduna before commenting on 2023 Presidency- Igbos to El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2021 0

A political group, the World Igbo Peoples Assembly (WIPAS), has berated Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai for saying the South-East region will not get the 2023 Presidency by threatening other Nigerians with secession. Recall that El-Rufai had warned the southeast against using threats or ‘shouting victimhood’ as a means to grab the 2023 presidency. Speaking […]

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‘Bomb the forests, kill them all’- Gov. Nasir el-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2021 0

According to Sun News, the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that the only way to eradicate banditry in the country is for the military to bomb the forests where they hide and destroy them completely. The governor said that his other colleagues were in agreement that bandits must be fully eradicated […]

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Safe Schools: Wipe Out All Bandits, Bomb Forests —El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 20 April 2021 0

The only way to make schools clean, according to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, is to destroy all robbers. This was mentioned by the governor on Tuesday in Abuja at a conference on Financing Safe Schools in Nigeria. The Nigerian Air Force, according to El-Rufai, should bomb the forests where bandits have been hiding out. […]

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Adeboye Meets El-Rufai In Kaduna

Ihesiulo Grace 13 April 2021 0

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has met with the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday. The meeting, held at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House in Kaduna, came days after Adeboye disclosed that eight members of his church abducted in Kaduna had been regained freedom. […]

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Sacking workers has become APC, El-rufai’s Govt policy – Isa Ashiru

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2021 0

Idibia Gabriel, Kaduna Sacking and disengagement of workers have almost become a policy of the Kaduna State Government since the All Progressives Congress (APC) assumed power in the State in 2015, under Mall. Nasir El-Rufai led the administration as Governor. A Former federal Lawmaker and immediate past Governorship candidate of the main opposition party, people’s

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CAN chairman, elRufai in war of words over victims of banditry

Ihesiulo Grace 6 April 2021 0

By Idibia Gabriel Kaduna State Governor, Mal Nasir El-Rufai has been accused of blackmailing Christian leaders on a television programme, when he accused them of lying about the figures they gave on the numbers of victims in the hands of bandits. Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State chapter, Rev Joseph John […]

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‘Anyone convicted of rape in Kaduna will be castrated’, El-Rufai signs law

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2020 0

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has signed into law the amended penal code 2020 which allows surgical castration for a rapist upon conviction, Daily Times Nigeria has learnt. The governor’s spokesman, Muyiwa Adekeye, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday after the amended law was passed by the Kaduna State House of Assembly last […]

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7,000 sign petition calling EU, UK to ban El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 16 September 2020 0

At least 7,000 people have signed a petition calling on the United Kingdom and the European Union to place a visa restriction on Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai. READ ALSO: El-Rufai’s sanction extended as Oshiomhole, Kano, Kogi governors make US Visa Ban List The petition, which was initiated by a former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri, […]

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We spend ₦400,000 to treat one COVID-19 patient – El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 8 September 2020 0

While urging northern traditional leaders not to relent in leading the campaigns to avoid the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the state, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has stressed that the cost of treating COVID-19 patients is very expensive.  READ ALSO: El-Rufai advised not to create Hausa Emirate in Chikun The governor who made […]

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Memo to NBA on Governor El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 26 August 2020 0

By Kayode Ajulo The perceived ‘exodus’ and self-deregistration on the part of some members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) from the upcoming Annual General Conference, in what appears to be presumptive indignation over the inclusion of the Governor of Kaduna State, Gov. Nasir El-Rufai as one of the keynote Speakers at the annual bar […]

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NBA Conference: Disinvite Tony Blair, Obasanjo, and Wike, Muslim Lawyers demand

Ihesiulo Grace 25 August 2020 0

The Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN) has indicted the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) of “selective justice and a slant application of the rule of law” concerning its removal of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, from the speakers’ list of its forthcoming Annual General Conference. The group requested that the NBA either “cancel the allotted

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Sultan of Sokoto pays El-Rufai visit over Southern Kaduna killings

Ihesiulo Grace 24 August 2020 0

The Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar paid a private visit to the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai over the southern Kaduna killings. READ ALSO: Large crowd welcomes Sanusi on first visit to north after dethronement According to Daily Post the Senator representing Kaduna North in the National Assembly, Suleiman Abdu-Kwari was also attend the […]

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Kaduna Government charge Anglican Bishop to court for saying El-Rufai will never be President

Ihesiulo Grace 23 August 2020 0

The Kaduna State Government has arraigned an Anglican Bishop of Zaria Diocese, Abiodun Ogunyemi, in court for saying that the state governor, Nasir el-Rufai, will never be President of Nigeria, Daily Times gathered. The bishop made the statement about El-Rufai not being president in November 2019 in response to the demolition of churches in Kaduna […]