Kano State Commissioners of Information and his counterpart in the State Ministry of Finance, Alhaji Mohammed Garba and Aminu Danamu were on Saturday attacked by unidentified armed thugs, while supervising the conduct of governorship election re-run. Speaking to Blueprint on the ordeal suffered by the duo, Comrade Garba said it was the divine intervention that saved their lives, as the Read More
Despite the reported violence in some areas, the scheduled kano state governorship rerun, is going on peacefully in some part of the state. Our reporter observed that in one of the ward Yelwa Secondary school where incumbent member of House Representatives, Ali Madaki who lost the Kano central Senatorial seat voted, was marred with violence. In Gama where the highest Read More
Sequel to the 48yrs ultimatum given by the Kano Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over the alleged molestation of two of its members by the Police, the Police Commissioner CP Mohammed Wakil has tendered an unreserved apology to the legal body for the action of his personnel. Addressing the executives of the association in Kano on Thursday, Wakili Read More
The Kano state branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has called on the State Commissioner of Police Mr. Wakili Mohammed to be non- partisan and professional in the discharge of his official duties. A statement signed by the State secretary of the association, Mujtaba Adamu-Ameen, made available to newsmen in Kano state condemned what it described as the unprofessional manner Read More
Former Governor of Kano state Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has denied reports that he told Kabir Yusuf, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Kano State governorship election, that the PDP administration, if elected, will not be able to pay N30, 000 minimum wage to workers as it expects to inherit an empty treasury from Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Saturday March 23 for 2019 supplementary elections in states where governorship elections were declared inconclusive. According to the Commission in a statement on Tuesday by Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Barrister Festus Okoye, the Returning Officers in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue. Kano, Plateau and Sokoto States declared the governorship elections inconclusive. Read More
The Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Riskuwa Arabu Shehu, has assured that winner of the gubernatorial election in the state would be declared today. Shehu explained that the commission would use its primary and secondary data source to re-generate the results of 10 wards that were already collated in Nassarawa local government in order to collate the destroyed results, Read More
After a long wait, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has just declared Kano governorship election inconclusive. This followed the cancellation of results in 172 polling units across some Local government areas of Kano. Making the announcement at exactly 10pm Monday night at the Headquarters of the Commission in Kano, the returning officer for Kano State Prof. BB Shehu said Read More
There is increasing apprehension within the ancient city of Kano following intense expectation of final declaration of Saturday’s governorship election result. At the moment, the last outcome of the remaining local government area result is being awaited. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is already leading after polling 960,004 votes as against APC’s 953,522 votes. The opposition party is leading with a Read More
Men of the Nigeria Police have arrested Kano state deputy governor, Nasiru Gawuna, and the state’s commissioner for local governments, Murtala Sule Garo for allegedly attempting to disrupt the collation of result at Nassarawa local government area of the state. The Nasarawa local government result is the last to be collated out of the 44 local government areas in the Read More
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has applauded the efforts of the people of Kano especially women for coming en mass to exercise their Civic responsibility. Ganduje stated this while addressing journalists shortly after he cast his vote at ganduje cikin gari ward in dawakin tofa local area of Kano state. He commended the efforts of INEC officials for Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba state capital Wednesday stopped the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Sani Abubakar Danladi from contesting Saturday’s governorship election. The presiding judge, Justice Stephen Pam, in a ruling on age falsification brought against Danladi by Usman Udi and three others, said the APC candidate filled different dates of birth for the Read More
Popular ActivistDeji Adeyanju has been granted bail by the Kano State High Court after spending 67 days in detention. Mr Adeyanju was freed on bail a while ago on Monday when his matter came up, with a condition that he must provide sureties and N500,000, according to his lawyers. Mr Adeyanju was arrested on December 13 over allegations he was Read More
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano, Abba Yusuf, has revealed that his house was been set ablaze on Monday. Yusuf also accused members of ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) of committing the act. A statement by the spokesperson of the candidate, PDP, alleged that the attack was carried out by over 60 thugs led by Read More
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has submitted the name of Abba Yusuf the son-in-law of the former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the party’s gubernatorial candidate. According to source at the party headquarters in Abuja, Yusuf was among the list of candidates submitted to the electoral body in Abuja, Thursday, last Read More
Team manager of Rangers International F.C, Barrister Amobi Ezeaku, has applauded the large football fans in the ‘Groundnut Pyramid’ city of Kano for their massive support to the ‘Flying Antelope’ during the group stage matches of the ongoing NFF/Aiteo Federation cup 2018 in which the Enugu side came tops in the zone. In a chat after the team emerged leaders Read More
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar met with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegates from Kano with a pledge to develop the commercial city if elected President in 2019. Kano, according to him, is like a home because he did not only go to School of Hygiene, Kano; he has a home in Kano. Unlike in Jigawa state when Atiku pleaded with Read More
A group, Kwankwaso Support Initiative (KSI), has called on the Senator Representing Kano Central Federal Constituency, former Governor of Kano State, (Dr) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, to contest for President in the 2019 general election. KSI made the call through a communiqué signed by Chairman, Abdullahi Dahiru Esq and Secretary, Franklin Onyeneke, noting that it’s consensus is for the former Governor Read More
Hajiya Rashida Adamu is Special Adviser to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, onWomen Affairs. Before her appointment she was a household name in the Kannywood film industry. She had paid her dues in terms of featuring in some hit films. In this interview with ALIYU ASKIRA, she speaks on her new appointment, politics in Kano and the film industry among Read More
Kano state Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has been described as the “most vibrant and peopleoriented governor” in the country, “whose leadership qualities manifest through the many infrastructure development initiatives of his administration.” The remark was contained in a letter of appreciation sent to the governor, for flagging-off of the Dangi Roundabout Interchange Flyover and Underpass, by an amalgamation of Read More
By Benjamin Umuteme Abuja with agency report The Kano State Chapter of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has called on the state government to place road signs few meters before the two old tollgates along Zaria Road. The chairman, Alhaji Rabi’u Haruna made the call after he visited the abandoned tollgate where 11 women lost their lives in a Read More
Kano state Public Complaints and Anti Corruption Commission, has recovered the sum of N1billion in cash and property from corrupt officers and treated over 2,000 related cases in 2017. Chairman of the Commission, Malam Muhuyi Magaji Rimin Gado, made the disclosure at a press conference in Kano yesterday. He said the Commission had also recruited 120 staff and deployed Read More
Sir, as a concerned indigene, I feel compelled to write this letter to you with the hope that it will be a remainder on a project that seems to be abandoned by your administration. The project is the road linking Karaye, Rimin-Gado and Kabo local Government areas, which terminated at Janguza. The road was awarded by Governor Kwankwaso’s administration, and Read More
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