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2019: I will reinstate sacked workers if elected Gov – Ashiru

Ihesiulo Grace 29 July 2018 0

A former two terms member of the 7th House Representatives, Hon. Isa Ashiru has vowed to revisit the case of unfair mass sack of Kaduna state workers by Governor Nasir el-Rufai when elected governor under the banner of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) come 2019. The Nigeria Labour Congress

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LG poll: PDP accuses Kaduna SIEC of altering result

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2018 0

…Claims to win 9 out of 10 wards The People’s Democratic Party PDP, has alleged electoral fraud in the Kaduna local government election, thereby rejecting the result that was declared by the State Independent electoral commission SIEC. In a press statement signed by its national publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)says its […]

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Shehu Sani Writes CMD Of Psychiatric Hospital Over El-Rufai’s Mental State

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2018 0

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district has called for clinical examination of the mental state of Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai. In a letter dated 7th May, 2018, which was addressed to the Chief Medical Director of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Kaduna, the lawmaker wondered how a governor, who is the Chief Security officer of […]

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3 senators representing Kaduna ignorant – el-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 5 May 2018 0

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has said that the three senators representing his state at the upper chamber of the National Assembly are ignorant of the real indices of development and progress in a democratic setting. The governor spoke five weeks after the three senators — Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central), Sulieman Hukunyi (APC, Kaduna […]

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Buhari’s declaration: Saraki, Tambuwal, others ambitions in jeopardy

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2018 0

…We won’t loose sleep over President’s declaration …Lawyers express divergent views, CSOs react The event of Monday is one day that has been long anticipated in Nigeria’s recent political history. Before then it was a question of will he run, will he not run. While many including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and former Military President,

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Buhari’s meeting with APC Governors ends in deadlock

Ihesiulo Grace 4 April 2018 0

The meeting President Muhammadu Buhari held with governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday ended in deadlock. None of the governors addressed State House correspondents when they left the council chamber of the presidential villa at the end of the meeting. The meeting, which started at about 2:15 pm, with opening prayers from […]

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Kaduna senators block El-Rufai’s $350m loan request

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2018 0

The three senators from Kaduna state, led by Shehu Sani on Thursday blocked the approval for a $350million loan request by Governor Nasir El-Rufai. It was like a vengeance of sort as all the senators spoke against the loan. El-Rufai has had a very poor relationship with the trio, even demolishing the home of one […]

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Kaduna crisis: You betray troubling ignorance, Kukah tells El- Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 19 March 2018 0

c has tackled Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, over the crisis rocking the state. Speaking at the burial of Joseph Bagobiri, former Catholic bishop of Kafanchan diocese, Kukah accused the governor of betraying ignorance on the causes of the insecurity in the state. From kidnapping to sectarian crisis, Kaduna has recorded different acts of […]

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Nasir El-Rufai Kaduna students pass no confidence vote on El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 9 March 2018 0

…Accuse him of destroying education A students’ group, Concerned Kaduna State Students (CKSS), has accused the state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, of destroying education in the state and passed a vote of no confidence on him. The group made the accusation in a statement signed its conveners, Messrs. Tobias Y Aboki and Victor Duniya. The […]

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El-Rufai vows APC will wipe out rascal members from its midst

Ihesiulo Grace 2 March 2018 0

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned that rascal members within the All Progressives Congress (APC), will soon be wiped out. El-Rufai gave the warning while reacting to the presidential assignment given to the party’s national leader, Bola Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved members. Speaking in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital Wednesday, the governor said, […]

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Defamation: el-Rufai sues Sen Shehu Sani, demands N2bn damages

Ihesiulo Grace 24 February 2018 0

In what can be referred to as crisis of confidence within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has filed a defamation suit before a Kaduna High Court against Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central). In a four-count charge that was personally filed by el-Rufai on Friday, the governor is demanding […]

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Kaduna govt condemns monarch, wife’s killing, orders probe

Ihesiulo Grace 1 January 2018 0

Governor Nasir El rufai of Kaduna State on Monday condemned the killing of the Etum Numana in Sanga Local Government Area, Alhaji Gambo Makama, and his wife in the early hours of Monday by some unknown assassins. Samuel Aruwan, the Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity to the State Governor told newsmen in Kaduna […]

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El-Rufai challenges Atiku over Buhari’s campaign fund

Ihesiulo Grace 21 December 2017 0

The Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has challenged former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, to prove that he funded President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign in 2015. El-Rufai stated this while speaking on a Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service Programme, “Democracy Today”, which was monitored in Kaduna. El-Rufai said: “We in the APC were aware from the […]

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Kaduna: El-Rufai’s burden, Teachers’ failure and national emergency

Ihesiulo Grace 4 December 2017 0

Inspite of the hues and cries the planned sack of 21,780 teachers that failed primary four level competency test in Kaduna state has attracted, Governor Nasir el-Rufai appears undeterred by the hoopla it has generated, especially fears in certain quarters that it may fritter away his chance for a second term. According to the Kaduna […]

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El Rufai Sacks Over 4,000 Kaduna LG Workers

Ihesiulo Grace 29 November 2017 0

Governor Nasir El Rufai is not taking lightly his desire to ‘cleanse’ the state civil service in Kaduna. Kaduna State governor Nasir El Rufai have come again. State authorities have confirmed Kaduna State governorthe disengagement of 4,042 local government workers across the 23 local council areas. According to commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs,

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No APC Gov is leaving the party with Atiku – Governor El-Rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 25 November 2017 0

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai, has said that none of the governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will defect with the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who just resigned from the party. The governor spoke to journalists after the Friday Jumat prayer at the mosque in the Presidential Villa, […]

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“We will go to Supreme Court” – El Rufai on Audu

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2017 0

The Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has said the award of N40 million in damages against him and the Nigerian police by a federal high court in Abuja in favour of Chocolate City boss, Audu Maikori, will not stop the “criminal trial” of Maikori. El-Rufai said the judgement would be appealed, insisting that neither him […]

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Audu beats El-Rufai in court

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2017 0

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday awarded N40m to the President of Chocolate City Group, Audu Maikori, as compensation for his unlawful arrest and detention between February 17 and 18, 2017 and again March 10 and 13, 2017. Delivering judgment in the fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed by Maikori on May 5, […]

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Alhassan has never supported President Buhari- El-rufai

Ihesiulo Grace 9 September 2017 0

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has disclosed that the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, has never supported Nigeria’s President Buhari. The governor said this while granting an audience with the State House correspondents on Friday in Abuja after he visited Buhari. Reacting to comments by Alhassan, showing disloyalty to President Buhari, El-Rufai said

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Gov el-Rufai wants Buhari to recontest in 2019, says Alhassan is disloyal

Ihesiulo Grace 9 September 2017 0

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has disclosed that himself, a group of other governors and ministers whom he described as ‘Buharists’, want President Muhammadu Buhari to recontest during the 2019 presidential election to complete his second term in office. Governor el-Rufai stated this during an interview with the State House correspondents on Friday in Abuja […]