Kebbi, Nigeria — The Kebbi State Police Command has dismissed as false and mischievous a social media report alleging that Christian children rescued from kidnappers were kept in a Muslim-based orphanage in Birnin Kebbi. In a statement issued on Saturday, by the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Nafi’u Abubakar, the command described the publication as…
Kebbi, Nigeria —The Kebbi State Government has denied allegations that it distributed sub-standard fertilisers mixed with sand to farmers across the state, describing the claim as false, mischievous, and an attempt to tarnish the image of Governor Nasir Idris’s administration. In a coversation with journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Sheahu…
Kebbi, Nigeria — In a situation tagged “lone abduction” by the security operatives in Kebbi State, some yet-to-be identified gunmen on Thursday, abducted a farm manager identified as Sani Ango in the Gwarin Baka under Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State. According to a source who spoke with the newsmen, he disclosed that one…
The governor of Kebbi State Nasir Idris, has declared July 8, as a public holiday to mark the beginning of the new Islamic calendar, lst muharram 1446AH. Alhaji Auwal Manu-Dogondaji, the state Commissioner for Establishment, said this in a statement in Birnin Kebbi on Friday. According to him, the 1st of Muharram is on a…
