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Nigeria senators gives their December salaries to kaduna Airstrike victims  All the 109 senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have donated their December salaries to the victims of the bombing mishap that toke place in Kaduna last Sunday The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I. Jibrin, announced this on Sunday at the Kaduna State Government House when he led a high-power delegation of Senate members to the state. The Senators were received at the Government House by Governor Uba Sani. Senator Barau, in a statement by his Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, said the money would be sent to the state governor for onward delivery to the victims. there was a drone bombing in Tudun Biri, Igabi Local Government Area of the Kaduna State last week, leading to an outcry across the country. At least 120 innocent residents, who were celebrating an Islamic festival, were killed in the d...

General Musa emphasised that the incident was a mix up which was avoidable. Air Strike Not Deliberate, Says CDS Musa The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has described the air strike on Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State as unfortunate and not a deliberate action targeted against the people which the Army is to protect. General Musa in his remarks at the graduation ceremony of participants at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru in Plateau State emphasised that the incident was a mix up which was avoidable. Eighty five persons were confirmed dead in the strike and scores were injured in the most recent military mishap. “The incident in Kaduna is very unfortunate, I have always wanted to mention it, it’s very sad, it shouldn’t have taken place. It was a mistake and it’s because those in charge had a report...

The Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance Authority (KSSQAA) has sealed Al-azhar academy in Zaria over alleged beating of a student to death. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a JSS 3 student Marwan Sambo, 19,  was reported to have died from severe beating and corporal punishment by some teachers over absenteeism. In a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Kaduna,  Dr Usman Abubakar, the Director General (DG) of the KSSQAA, said the state’s Ministry of Education, representing the State government, with the school, had launched a fact-finding mission. He said their visit to Zaria was to assemble the sequence of events that transpired from the Al-Azhar Academy, where the incident happened, to the victim’s home, to offer condolences and engage with bereaved family and some school mates of the victim. Abubakar added that the KSSQAA team visited the Divisional Police Headquarters, Zaria City, where the school principal and the vice-principal were be...