The Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kaduna Command, CC Idris Yahaya Adah, ordered the deployment of 2,500 personnel across the 23 local government areas of the state on Monday to protect lives, property, and critical national assets before, during, and after the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.In a statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Habeeb Badamsi, he said CC Adah further directed security to be beefed up in various worship c...

The Bauchi State Police Command on Monday declared its readiness to ensure a hitch-free Eid-el-Kabir celebration by the Muslim faithful.In view of this, the command has ordered the massive deployment of conventional police personnel and tactical teams to various strategic places, especially areas that are susceptible to attack.A release, signed by the command’s Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Aminu Gimba Ahmed, made available to the Daily Post in...

On the quest to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus in Kano, the Kano State Government on today unprecedentedly suspended all traditional festivities in the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir celebration. It will be noted that Eid-el-Kabir is the holiest festival in Muslims’ honouring the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son, Isma’il as an act of submission to God’s command, before God stopped him in his tracks, informing him his sacrifice had been accep...