The Nigerian Meteorology Agency (NIMET) has warned farmers to expect lower and erratic rainfalls, which in turn, may hamper food production. The agency said this in its 2019 outlook, scientifically predicting that there would be late onset of and early cessation of rainfalls; and that the rainfall season would be occasioned by dry interregna that…

Kano State governorship candidate of Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), Mohammad Abacha, has promised to revive moribund industries in the state, if voted into power. He also pledged to reduce government’s spending, focus on economic reforms and agriculture sector development. The son of General Sani Abacha, the late head of state declared that substantial portion…

Kano state Government has issued a final warning to commercial tricyclists in the state, over noncompliance to the monthly environmental sanitation exercise. The State Commissioner for environment Dr Ali Makoda, gave the warning on Saturday while monitoring the exercise in Kano metropolis. He noted said that the ministry had earlier summoned the tricyclists association over…

The Federal Government yesterday claimed it was in possession of credible intelligence of a plot by members of the opposition political parties to unleash mayhem in 10 states with a view to truncating the forthcoming general elections.

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday, summoned an emergency security meeting ahead of the general elections. The expanded security meeting held at the Government House attracted head of security agencies, including Commissioner of Police and counterpart from the military, Directorate for State Services (DSS), as well as traditional rulers, was apparently meant to nip…

No fewer than three persons were said to have been killed and several injured during a clash between political loyalists of Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and supporters of one of the opposition parties in Dawakin Tofa, the governor’s local council. The Guardian gathered that the incident occurred at the weekend while the governor…

No fewer than 120, 000 rice farmers in Kano State would benefit from the Federal Government’s Anchor Borrower programme for this year’s dry season farming. The state chairman of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Alhaji Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Kano on Tuesday.…

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has enjoined farmers and processors of sorghum in Kano State and its environs to embrace constant innovations provided in the standardisation process to enable them to earn premium prices on commercialisation of high quality products. The SON Director-General, Osita Aboloma, gave the charge in a lecture during a capacity…

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Wednesday inaugurated five new commissioners to the State Executive Council. ‎ The commissioners, who had been screened by the State House of Assembly, took their oath of office before thousands of supporters at the Coronation Hall, Government House. ‎Ganduje congratulated all the new commissioners on their appointment and…

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and serial gubernatorial aspirant under the same platform in Kano, Engineer Bello Sani Gwarzo yesterday decamped to All Progressives Congress (APC). Engr. Bello dumped the major opposition along side all his political structures from across 44 local government just as about 250 political groups in the state merged…

Five Kano-based medical doctors at the weekend set a milestone record for successfully carrying out a 48 hours brain surgery, first of it kind in Kano State. The operation, which was conducted at the new Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital, Giginyu, Kano, repaired the brain of one Ali Iliyasu, after 26 years of brain disorder, which…

Former governor of Kano State, Air Vice Marshal Hamza Abdullahi, is dead. According to the Hadejia Emirate’s Twitter handle, Abdullahi died on Wednesday night in Germany. He was governor of old Kano State from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of the then Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. After Gen. Ibrahim…