The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), Malam Abba Yisuf, as winner of the March 18 governorship election in Kano State. Announcing the result on Monday in Kano, the state Returning Officer, Prof. Doko Ibrahim, the Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the results from nine out of the 44 local government areas in Kano State with the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) leading with 153,103 votes. The results were presented on Sunday at the INEC Collation Centre in Kano to the Returning...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has clarified that the video showing Alhassan Ado Doguwa, firing AK-47 rifle guided by military personnel was taken at Falgore Forest Military Training Camp in Kano State. Ado Doguwa is the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives from Kano State. The Acting Director, Defence...
Seventeen persons died and three others were injured in an auto crash in Yaura village, on Wudil-Bauchi Road, in Albasu Local Government Area. The Kano State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Ibrahim Sallau Abdullahi, confirmed the incident in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi...
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kano State has called for the release of six of its members arrested in Madobi and Municipal Local Government Areas of the state by officials of the Department of State Security Service (DSS). A Chieftain of the party, Dr Bappa Bichi, made...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested two suspects over alleged call and deliberate incitement for violence in parts of Kano State. DSS spokesman, Dr Peter Afunanya, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, said the suspects had separately recorded messages and...
The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the gruesome murder of the village head of Maigari, Rimin Gado Local Government Area Kano. Alhaji Dahiru Abbas, 70, was said to have been murdered on Sunday by unknown gunmen at his residence. The Kano State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it uncovered an alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders led by its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to exchange N22.5 billion stashed old Naira notes in Kano State for new ones to carry out vote buying during the general...
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Thursday dissolved the 16-year-old marriage between Asiya Ganduje and Inuwa Uba. Asiya is a daughter of the Kano State Governor and Inuwa Uba. Delivering a ruling, the Judge, Malam Abdullahi Halliru said the marriage was dissolved through Khul’i (divorce by Islamic means)....
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it apprehended six operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Kano State over alleged illicit registration of candidates for 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this after monitoring the registration in Kano...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked speculations by opposition political parties that President Muhammadu Buhari was attacked by miscreants during his Kano visit on Monday. In a statement issued on Monday, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Mr Bayo Onanuga,...
Security has been beefed up in parts of Kano metropolis in readiness for President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the state to commission eight development projects. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as early as 7 a.m., security personnel – the Police, the Civil Defence Corps, the FRSC...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) received 10,000 defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) into its fold in Kano on Sunday. Receiving the defectors, the convener of Tinubu Northwest Project 2023, Hajiya Umma-Salma Isyaka-Rabiu, said the purpose...
Hours after advising President Muhammadu Buhari against going ahead with his scheduled visit to Kano State on Monday, Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano State has reneged, stating that the state is now prepared to receive him. The governor made the disclosure to correspondents after he led a delegation of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State has received more defectors ahead of the February and March general elections in Dambatta and Makoda Local Government Areas of the state. The latest saw another scores of the ADC supporters, lead by its candidate for the House of Representatives for...
Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) at its Special Delegates Conference session holding in Kano has expunged National Orientation Agency (NOA) from its constitution. The special delegate session on Thursday at an event centre in Kano, presided by the National President of NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo took the decision ,...
The Police Command in Kano State, said it has arrested one Bamuwa Umaru, 62, for offering N1 million as bribe to secure the release of a suspected kidnapper. SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, the Command Spokesman confirmed the arrest in a statement issued to newsmen in Kano on Tuesday. “On Dec....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said that the death toll from Diphtheria disease across the country was now 34, as Kano State registered 100 cases. The NCDC, via its official website on Sunday, said that the deaths were between December 2022 and early January 2023;...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday vowed to sanction any commercial bank found hoarding the new naira notes because it had produced enough for distribution to all the banks across the country. The CBN Kano Branch Controller, Alhaji Umar Biu, made the remark during a sensitisation on...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that two State Shari’a Court judges, a cashier and 16 other financial registrars be remanded in a correction centre for alleged N580.2 million theft. The police charged Bashir Kurawa, Saadatu Umar, Tijjani Abdullahi, Maryam Jibrin-Garba, Shamsu Sani and Hussaina Imam with...