Former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State yesterday escaped a mob attack, as unknown hoodlums touched his convoy, leaving scores injured and vehicles damaged.

Kano State Government has settled over N2 billion outstanding fees of its students in El-Razi University in Sudan. The debt was incurred by the administration of ex-governor Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Before he was eventually banished by the House, Jibrin was left in the cold as 10 principal officers of the House rallied in support of Dogara and denounced Jibrin. Incidentally, Femi Gbajabiamila, then Majority Leader who was at the time thought to be a political enemy of the Speaker as a result of the previous,…

President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has recorded victory over Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in results of 10 of the 44 councils of Kano State. The results indicate that Buhari defeated Atiku in the Madobi Council, the enclave of former Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. Buhari scored 26,110 votes against…

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state and his predecessor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso have applauded large turnout of electorates in Kano state. The duo spoke separately to reporters after they cast their ballots in Ganduje and Kwankwaso villages of Madobi and Dawakin Tofa area councils of Kano state respectively. There was a delay in the…

Suspected hoodlums have attacked the convoy of Senator Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso at Kofa town in Kano. Kwankwaso, who was said to be in Kofa town in Bebeji local government area of the state for last round of PDP campaign, was invaded by suspected thugs of his political opponents. A source told The Guardian that scores…

When the current dispensation began on May 29, 2015, the Federal Government commenced with a big political fight between the executive and the legislature right from the proclamation of the 8th National Assembly on June 9, 2015.

The plot to divert the senatorial ticket of former minister of education, Ibrahim Shekarau, by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State has reached advance stage.

Unlike, past presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where the winner is already known before the contest, the just concluded exercise in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital that produced the ex-vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was full of uncertainties and intrigues, until it was concluded. This may not be unconnected with the fact…

Presidential aspirant and former chairman, Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi spoke on the party’s plan to harmonise returnees with old members. SAXONE AKHAINE reports. How do you see the gale of defections from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)? I have long predicted these defections. When we were going…

I have observed that election transforms politicians into representatives in any democracy. Every elected representative is the product of aggregate votes by the electorate including the president...

Six members of the Kano State House of Assembly have dumped Nigeria's ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) party for People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The lawmakers stated in a letter to the Speaker, Alhaji Kabiru Rurum, that they defected to PDP “based on the premise that the party (APC) has failed to meet the aspirations…