Fidelity Bank said it planned to take over the boards of Kano, Benin and Kaduna Distribution Companies (DISCOs) and to collateralise their shares. The Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), Alex Okoh, and the Executive Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Sanusi Garba said this in a joint statement...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the presidential pardon for persons prosecuted on corruption charges by the federal government only suggests that there is no need to have anti-corruption agencies in the country. Governor Wike wondered how to explain the embarrassment that the...
A Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting in Kano, on Friday remanded a 33-year-old man, Abubakar Aminu, in a correctional centre for allegedly throwing a four-year-old boy, Abdulmalik Suleiman into a well. The defendant, who lives at Rijiyar Lemo Quarters in Kano, is standing trial on a charge of attempt to...
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), has announced death of a final year student from the Department of Library and Information Science, Babangida Ahmad. The University’s Deputy Registrar in charge of Public Affairs, Mr Lamara Garba, made the announcement in a statement on Friday in Kano. He said that the deceased...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has assured that only the best candidates who are medically and physically fit would be recruited into the Nigerian Army. COAS Yahaya stated this when he visited the Nigerian Army Battle Fitness Centre in Falgore,...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is expected to attend the 8th Sir Ahmadu Bello lecture in Kano on Jan. 28, as a Special Guest of Honour, an official has said. Malam Abubakar Gambo, the Managing Director of the Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, said this in a statement in Kaduna on...
Passengers were stranded in Kano on Monday following a one week strike embarked on by tricycle operators. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the development reduced traffic gridlock normally being experienced in the city as a result of high number of tricycles. Most of the passengers were...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chef Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has expressed sadness over the death of the Presidential candidate of National Republican Convention (NRC) in the June 12, 1993 election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa. In his condolence message issued on Tuesday, Senator Kalu, described the...
The Federal Government’s plan to attain 95 per cent digital literacy by 2030 is on course. Mr Kashufu Abdullahi, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), made this known on Sunday at the graduation ceremony of 50 children, including 10 Almajiri children at the Engausa Global...
About 2,500 Islamic clerics have offered prayers for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Kano as speculations continue to mount over the former Lagos State Governor’s plan to run for President in 2023. The Director-General of Tinubu Support Groups Management Council, Hon. Abdulmumin Jubrin, said on Saturday that Tinubu was the...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has said the declaration of a state of emergency on banditry would enable security operatives access to clear bandits’ enclaves and other hideouts. Governor Tambuwal made the suggestion on Wednesday in Sokoto when he received a delegation of the Northwest States Governors Forum. The...
The Kano State Fire Service said fire had destroyed 41 temporary shops at Kasuwar Kurmi (Yan’ littafai) Market in Kano. This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Monday in Kano. “We received a distress from Malam...
The African Development Bank (AfDB), has earmarked $110 million for projects under the Special Agricultural Processing Zone in Kano State. The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Mr Abba Anwar, stated this in a statement issued in Kano on Sunday. Anwar quoted the AfDB...
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said doctors told him that his brother, Sani, would die in an hour, and that he died when it was time, “watching the life support machine going down until it stopped working.” Dangote stated this when the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari followed up an earlier phone call to the Dangote family in Kano by sending a delegation to represent him at the burial of Alhaji Sani Dangote, Aliko’s younger brother who died after a protracted illness in the United States. The body...
Thousands of Muslims attended the funeral of late Alhaji Sani Dangote, the Deputy President, Dangote Group of Companies, held in Kano on Wednesday. The funeral prayer, conducted at the palace of the Emir of Kano at about 11a.m., was led by Imam Sani Muhammad. The Imam prayed to Almighty...
The Department of State Services (DSS), Kano State Command, has arrested three suspected members of a notorious syndicate that specialises in trailing people to banks to rob them after withdrawing money from the banks. The Director, DSS, in the State, Mr Alhassan Muhammad, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on...
Motorists in Kano State are experiencing fuel scarcity, as long queues have resurfaced at filling stations in the State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. An investigation conducted by NAN Correspondents indicated that majority of the filling stations visited within the metropolitan area were under lock and keys....
Nigeria produces about two million metric tonnes of Onions annually, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Muhammad Abubakar, has told the 4th Regional Onion annual conference and general meeting holding in Kano. The event was organised by Regional observatory on Onions for West and Central Africa, in...