Kano State
15 Mar
The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, has tasked security agencies to be neutral and impartial in the upcoming Governorship and State Assembly election. Bayero gave the advice when the Kano Peace Committee led by Abubakar Mahmoud, paid him a courtesy visit, on Wednesday in Kano. He said that peaceful coexistence is paramount for societal…
9 Mar
Leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Kano State has vowed to pursue with vigour members’ welfare and entitlement in the public and private sectors.
6 Mar
Unknown gunmen, yesterday, killed the head of Maigari town in Rimin Gado Local Council of Kano State, Dahiru Abba.
28 Feb
House of Representatives Leader, Ado Doguwa, yesterday, survived the Kwankwasiya tsunami in Kano State to reclaim his Doguwa/Tudun-Wada Federal Constituency seat in last weekend’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
26 Feb
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has lost his Dawakin-Tofa local government council to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Engr presidential candidate. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. The results delivered by the collation officer of the council Dr. Adamu Jubril Al- Hassan, Kwankwaso polled 25,072 votes to defeat the APC candidate Asiwaju Tinubu who scored 16,773. According to…
25 Feb
The nonpayment of N4000 training allowance to independent electoral commission (INEC) adhoc staffers has slowed the commencement of the voting exercise in Dorayi Karamar ward in Gwale local council of Kano state. There are no fewer than 30 polling units in the densely populated ward in Kano. It was observed that hundreds of voters who…
22 Feb
Days before the presidential and national assembly elections in the country, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has approved redeploy of two police commissioners to Kano. The new CPs are Muhammad Yakubu who is replacing CP Dauda Mamman now redeployed to Plateau state and CP Ita Lazurus Uko-Udom. CP Yakubu assumed as…
21 Feb
As the political atmosphere gathers momentum in Kano, three gubernatorial candidates have collapsed their structure to support the Action Democratic Party (ADP) candidate, Hon. Sha'aban Ibrahim Sharada. The candidates that shelved their ambition and subsequently endorsed Sharada for the March 11 Governorship elections are Furera Ahmad of Boost Party (BP), Ashatu Mahmud of National Reformation…
21 Feb
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has issued a strong warning to stakeholders in the pharmaceutical business engaged in sale of wholesale drugs in the open market in Sabon Gari area of the state to relocate to the newly commissioned Coordinated Pharmaceutical Warehouse Centre (CWC) otherwise known as the Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje Pharmaceutical…
19 Feb
The expression, ‘the North is organising while the South is agonising’ is common on this page whenever the preparedness and organisational capability of the North for political power is in focus.
14 Feb
Anxiety is building up as commercial banks in Kano are refusing to attend to customers with the old naira notes. Our correspondent gathered that the banks are not issuing the new naira notes to customers in return. The Guardian observed that some branches of financial institutions in the city have already shut down operations against…
10 Feb
Kano State and Ondo State have joined the suit at the Supreme Court against the Federal Government of Nigeria over the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deadline on the new naira swap. Kano and Ondo State have now joined Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara state governments on the substantive suit already reserved for Wednesday, February 15,…
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