The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Katsina State has expressed concern over proposed 2025 budget for the health sector, saying it is inadequate. The Chairman of the coalition, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdullahi, expressed the coalition’s worry in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Katsina. READ ALSO:Anambra police nab…

Katsina State Government said it plans to expend N20.4 billion for debt servicing in the 2025 fiscal year. The Katsina State Budget and Economic Planning Commissioner, Bello Kagara, stated this on Tuesday while giving a recurrent expenditure breakdown of next year's budget estimate. Kagara said the state government expended about N19 billion to service debts…

Katsina State Governor, Dr Dikko Radda has presented a budget estimate of N682.2 billion to the State House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. Tagged 'Budget of Consolidation', the fiscal estimate has an increase of N200.5 billion or 40 percent more than the N454.3 billion expenditure total for 2024. Radda said Capital Expenditure of…

The Katsina State Police Command said it has foiled an abduction attempt by bandits along the Katsina-Jibia road and rescued 14 victims in the process. A spokesperson for the command, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, said the bandits had attacked two commercial vehicles and were intending to abduct the passengers for ransom. READ ALSO: Abuja-based university bans…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), on Wednesday sought for collaboration with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Katsina State Command in addressing illegal petroleum smuggling. The state Coordinator, National Task force of IPMAN, Alhaji Ado Garba sought for the collaboration when he led his team on a visit to the…

Terrorists have killed two persons and abducted more than 30 persons others in two communities of Batsari Local Council of Katsina State.

Former Katsina State governorship candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PRP), Imrana Jino, has called for compensation of electricity consumers who have been without power for over a week in Northern Nigeria. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Jino lamented that millions of people have been adversely affected by the power…

The Federal University, Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State, is set to convocate 44 first-class students at its 9th convocation ceremony to be held next Saturday. The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Armaya'u Bichi, who stated this Wednesday at a press conference, also said the wife of the President, Remi Tinubu, and three others, would be…

The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in Katsina State (CCSO) has called for immediate action to address the prolonged power outage that has affected millions of Nigerians, especially in the northern part of the country. The chairman of the group, Comrade AbdurRahman Abdullahi, who made this known in a statement, said the absence of electricity…

In his quest to nurture young talents in Nigeria, popular Nigerian filmmaker based in Canada, Pascal Atuma, has announced a partnership deal to develop the Katsina state sports academy. The partnership, according to Atuma, is aimed at discovering and developing new and young football talents in Katsina State and Nigeria as a whole. Atuma who…

In a concerted effort to tackle the escalating insecurity in northern Nigeria, Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal and his Katsina State counterpart, Dikko Umar Radda, have engaged in closed-door meetings with key security figures. The two governors met separately with the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu,…

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Katsina State have chided the state governor, Dr. Dikko Radda, for his reported involvement