Barely seven days to his inauguration for a second term, Kano State governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is set to dissolve his 13-member state executive council. The dissolution is expected to be effected on Wednesday when the cabinet meets for the final executive council meeting, The Guardian authoritatively gathered. However, the Head of Service Alhaji Mohammad…

No fewer than 70 prominent indigenes of Kano and 22 civil organisations are calling on newly appointed emirs to resign their appointment in the interest of peace and tranquillity of Kano. The concern individuals and groups asked Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Mohammad Sa'ad Abubakar to denounce the creation of additional emirates in Kano. Governor Abdullahi…

A Kano State high court Wednesday declared the appointment and the installation of four new emirs by the Kano State government as null and void. It ordered a return to status quo pending the hearing of the suit against the appointment of the emirs filed by one Rabiu Salihu Garwzo. Counsel to the plaintiff, Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud…

Kano State governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has explained that the creation of four new emirates in the state was to "reduce the burden" on the Kano Emirate led by Lamido Sanusi Lamido. “We created the emirates in order to reduce the burden on the Kano emirate," Ganduje said while fielding questions from journalists at the…

Despite a Kano State high court order restraining the state government from inaugurating the newly appointed Emirs, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has vowed to install the new first class emirs. Besides, Ganduje revealed that the new Emirs had received and acknowledged their letters of appointment saying the inauguration planned to hold today was only a…

A Kano State high court has restrained Kano state government from inaugurating the new emirate councils appointed on Thursday. Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje signed the Kano State Emir Appointment and Deposition Amendment law 2019, which created additional four emirate councils, thereby unbundling the superlative powers Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi. The new emirates upgraded to first…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s effort to secure an order of the Kano State Election Tribunal to obtain forensic evidence of election materials and scanned copies of documents failed yesterday following dismissal of its application. In its ruling, the tribunal presided by Justice Halima Shamaki affirmed the position of section 151 (5) of the Electoral Act,…

The Kano State House of Assembly has passed into law a bill that grants life pension and other benefits to the speaker and deputy speaker of the House. The Pension Rights of Speaker and Deputy Law 2019 affords the two presiding officers privilege to earn life benefit after the expiration of their tenure. The two…

The upsurge of sexual assault has reached an alarming rate in Kano, as WARAKA-SARC recorded 1,125 cases in three months.

Forty-two political parties on the platform of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) Kano State chapter are set to challenge the re-election of the state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in court. Kano State CUPP chairman Muhammad Abdullahi Raji stated this while addressing journalists on the outcome of the rerun election won by Ganduje of…

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is currently leading in the supplement election in Kano even as results of two local government areas still pending. In the results collated so far by INEC, Ganduje won in 26 local government areas against his major challenger, Abba Kabiru Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The rerun held in…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano state has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the supplementary governorship election ongoing across the 28 local government areas of the state. Acting PDP chairman in the state Rabiu Sulaiman-Bichi made the request while addressing journalists on Saturday. According to him, “Today, this charade…