Bauchi State
8 Apr
The Bauchi State Government has tasked the newly inaugurated Board of Internal Revenue Generation to improve on the current N30bn annual revenue generation to over N70bn for the development of the state. While speaking shortly after the inauguration of the Board on Monday, the Executive Chairman of Bauchi Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Alh. Mu’azu Usman…
26 Mar
The Federal Road Safety Corps, Bauchi Sector Command said that it returned the sum of N1,600,000 to victims of a road crash that claimed the lives of four people at Rinji village, along Bauchi-Jos road in Toro Local Government Area of the state on Saturday. The Sector Commander, Mr Patrick Ikaba, disclosed this in Bauchi…
26 Mar
The Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi has matriculated 5,507 students into its National Diploma and Higher National Diploma for the 2023/2024 academic session. The Polytechnic Rector, Sani Usman, made this known on Tuesday during the matriculation ceremony while warning the newly admitted students against cultism. Usman congratulated the new students, saying that their journey at the Polytechnic…
25 Mar
The deaths from the tragic stampede have increased to seven from the initial four that died during the distribution of Ramadan gifts offered by a philanthropist and businessman in Bauchi to reduce the hardship faced by the people. The Guardian had reported that the stampede led to the death of four people on Sunday while…
24 Mar
Police in Bauchi State have arrested three suspects for alleged criminal conspiracy, threat to life, criminal intimidation and attempted kidnapping.
20 Mar
A group Bauchi Solidarity Alliance (BSA) has condemned the circulation of a misleading video on social media which claims to show a collapsed school building in Toro Local Council of Bauchi State.
12 Mar
The wife of the President, Senator Remi Tinubu, has reacted to a viral threat to her life, saying she is not afraid of death after attaining the age of 60 in life. The First Lady who spoke at the Palace of Emir of Bauchi, Adamu Suleiman Rilwanu, on Thursday was reacting to a viral video…
9 Mar
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has decried the loss of women during pregnancy and at the point of child delivery in Nigeria while raising the alarm that the current trajectory may push more women into extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Tusha Rane, the Chief of Bauchi UNICEF Field Office, in a statement…
9 Mar
A graduate of Microbiology from the University of Jos and resident of Bauchi, Daniel Isaac, has spent one month at the Bauchi State Correctional Facility after bagging a one-year jail term. Isaac disclosed that the police said his offence was being public at about 10:40 pm after watching the AFCON final between Nigeria and Ivory…
27 Feb
Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Ahmed Mohammed, a resident of Borno State who allegedly stole a car in a bid to pay for an accommodation for his estranged wife after re-marrying her. A Police statement on Tuesday by the public relations officer, Ahmed Wakil, said that the Command got credible information on 24th…
27 Feb
The Bauchi State government has said that the sum of N396,963,000 has been approved to settle the payment of external examinations for 14,170 students in public schools. Speaking with the journalists in her office, the Commissioner of Education, Dr. Jamila Dahiru said that the payment is an annual exercise to ease the burden on the…
24 Feb
Some residents of the Misau local government area of Bauchi State mobbed and killed one of the robbery gangs who attacked the town, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has said. The State Command of NSCDC said it arrested and paraded four other suspected armed robbers. Police spokesman DSC Fatima Adamu said that a…
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