A torrential rainfall that hit Dambatta local government area of Kano state, on Thursday claimed the life of one person and destroyed over 40 houses. The heavy rain was reported to have started around 4:00 p.m and lasted for four hours, destroying properties worth millions of Naira. The local government Councillor (Danbatta East), Abdullahi Sani […]
Continue Reading
Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will easily win Sokoto, Kano and Bauchi states even from his “sickbed” without any form of solid opposition. Amaechi, who is the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, said this to journalists on Friday in Abuja, while reacting to the spate of defections that […]
Continue Reading
No fewer than 10 people died in an accident that occurred on Kaduna-Kano expressway on Saturday. The News agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accident occurred around Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, at about 5:30 a.m. A statement issued by the Head of Public Enlightenment, Zaria Unit Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Idris […]
Continue Reading
The Kano state government has declared Friday, May 11, as public holiday in honour of late Isyaku Rabi’u who died on Tuesday at a London hospital. This is contained in a statement signed by the State Commissioner of Information, Malam Mohammed Garba and issued to newsmen in Kano on Wednesday. He said the public holiday […]
Continue Reading
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has awarded a contract of US$2.8 billion for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and financing of 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline and Stations. The process for the award of the AKK Project began in July 2013 with advertisement for tenders published by the NNPC in major national newspapers. After a technical […]
Continue Reading
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has appointed a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, to chair a committee for the establishment of Yusuf Maitama Sule Centre for the Advancement of Politics and Democratic Governance in Kano. The state government said it is establishing the centre as a tribute to the […]
Continue Reading
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that no elections should hold in Kano and Katsina states until voter register is sanitised and minors removed from the list. This call was necessitated by allegations of underage voting in Kano state, after pictures of underage voters trended on social media. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Kola […]
Continue Reading
The Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday confirmed three girls died of suffocation inside a parked car in Sabon Gari area of Kano metropolis. “The car has been parked there for more than one year; the girls were playing around it and later locked themselves inside. “Apparently, they could not open […]
Continue Reading
Fresh fraud cases have been uncovered in offices of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board totalling N83m in Kano, Edo, Kogi, Gombe and Plateau states. PUNCH reported that while the board was investigating N31m misappropriated revenue in Edo and N20m in Kano, it was quizzing officials in Plateau and Gombe over N15m and N10m mismanaged in the […]
Continue Reading
The Former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has canceled his controversial plan to visit the state for a series of political rallies. Briefing Reporters at Lugard hall headquarters of Kwankwasiyya movements in Kano, the former Secretary of the State Government, Rabiu Suleiman Bichi said the visit has been suspended indefinitely. Mr. Bichi […]
Continue Reading