Kebbi State

The Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Sani Dododo, who was at the scene, told NAN that the man of the family, was not at home when the incident happened.

Dr Zainab Bagudu, wife of the Kebbi State Governor, says Nigeria is ranked third among 10 top countries with high rate of preterm birth of 773,600.

Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress and its affiliate unions to shelve its scheduled strike in the interest of the citizenry.

The Kebbi state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has set up a 13 man committee to reconcile aggrieved members following the recent primary election ahead of the 2019 poll.

Members of the group were received by the Deputy Governor of Kebbi, Alhaji Samaila Yombe, at the APC Secretariat, Birnin-Kebbi on Tuesday.

Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi has poured encomium on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State saying he had demonstrated grace and that he believed history would judge him kindly.

The president’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Tuesday.

The Kebbi State Coordinator, Oxfam International, Olumide Ojo, on Monday commended the state government for committing 10 per cent of its annual budget to agriculture sector.

The Council’s Director in charge of Inspection and Monitoring,  Anthonia Aruya, disclosed this at a news conference in Birnin Kebbi on Friday.

The Kebbi Government says it has expended N10.8 billion on payments of outstanding gratuities to 7,003 retirees across the 21 local government areas in the last three years.

A total of 6, 720 poor households are to benefit from the Federal Government cash transfer scheme in Kebbi, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Tsahara Bawa, has said.

The Emir made the pledge when officials of Almajiri Support Initiative of Nigeria, an NGO operating in Kebbi, paid him a courtesy call at his palace in Argungu.

Alhaji Dahiru Ambursa, the Chairman of the House of Representative Primary Elections Committee for the state, declared Yakubu as winner in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday.

An 18-year-old boy has been killed in a village in Kebbi State in north western Nigeria when the boy, riding a motorcycle without light collided with the animal on a highway.

Galaudu was elected at the party’s gubernatorial primary election held at event centre on Gwandagbagi-Argungu road, Birnin- Kebbi, after polling a total of 1,072 votes out of the total 2,226 votes cast.

Bagudu made this known during Nigeria’s 58th independence anniversary celebration in Birnin Kebbi.

Yekini Nabena, the APC acting National Publicity Secretary, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja, saying that any contrary report was false.

Mark, a former Senate President, made the remarks on Monday at the PDP secretariat in Birnin Kebbi while canvassing for support from PDP leaders and delegates from Kebbi.

Its Secretary General, Alhaji Usman Abubakar, made the call at a news conference in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday.

Aliero, in a letter he personally signed and addressed to Tinubu, pleaded with the APC chieftain to allow Ambode retain the party’s ticket ahead of next year’s governorship election.