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According to Bisi Kazeem, the Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the FRSC, El-Rufai made these clarifications when he received the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, who was at the Government House in Kaduna as part of his partnership drive
The structure was laid last week by the Nigeria Army in readiness for the establishment of the Battalion to tackle the lingering problem of insecurity in the area
The Sector Commander, Francis Udoma, denied the allegation while reacting to the state government order that barred FRSC from erecting checkpoints in Kaduna and other urban centres in the state
It said that the decision was taken by the state Security Council after a meeting in which it reviewed complaints from the general public against the road marshals
The Nigerian Army School of Artillery in Kachia Local Government Area of the state had been the military formation in Southern Kaduna
The artistes under the umbrella of the Kaduna Creative Artists converged as early as 6:30am for the activity, which lasted for a little over three hours
The Special Assistant to Governor Nasir el-Rufai on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement in Kaduna, that the curfew would now take effect from 6pm to 6am every day
The two groups made the declaration during a peace advocacy visit to their offices in Kaduna by officials of the state government
In a statement issued by Phrank Shaibu, his Communications Adviser, in Abuja on Sunday, Apostle Suleman said failure to compel El-Rufai to produce the herdsmen who purportedly collected money from the Kaduna State Government is an indication of the insincerity of the Buhari administration
In its review of the situation in three local government areas of the state that are under curfew, the council, in a statement issued Saturday by Samuel Aruwan, the Special Assistant to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Media and Publicity, noted the destablising activities of some rumour mongers
The group said this against the backdrop of the recent pronouncement of the governors that foreign herdsmen were the ones carrying out attacks in the Northern part of the country
El-Rufa’i made the call in Kaduna when he swore-in the state new Head of Service
Dr. Isa Abbass, the ZEDA Secretary-General, made the disclosure at a press conference in Zaria on the forthcoming 24th Annual General Meeting of the association
The new group of eminent leaders of thought in the Nigerian civil society is jointly led by Prof. Pat Utomi of the Nigeria Political Summit Group and Prof. Jibo Ibrahim of the Centre for Democracy and Development
He said this when the Council of Traditional Chiefs and Emirs, led by the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, paid him a solidarity visit
Information on the approval was in a statement by Samuel Aruwan, the Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity, on Sunday in Kaduna
In any case, the establishment of a military formation is at best a medium-to-long-term solution which in itself is not all-encompassing
Soyinka equally condemned the handling of the crisis in Southern Kaduna by President Muhammadu and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai
El-Rufai gave the commendation when he paid a courtesy call on Buratai at the Army Headquarters in Abuja