Tag: Kano State

2023: “We will support Tinubu for president”, Kano Speaker declares

Aminu Imam

Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hamisu Chidari, has declared his unflinching support for the Tinubu Support Organisation, (TSO), towards its cause of supporting the National leader of APC and former Lagos State governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, achieve his ambition of becoming president in 2023. The Special Assistant to Aminu Suleiman, TSO Director-General, Chief Franklin Ebere-Njoku, said this in a statement released to newsmen yesterday, in Abuja. Chidari, who reiterated his unflinching support to the course of Tinubu, expressed gratitude to him for his…

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2023: “We will support Tinubu for president”, Kano Speaker declares

Aminu Imam

Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hamisu Chidari, has stated that his State will support former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for president in 2023. Chidari, while speaking at the inauguration of the Tinubu Support Group (TSG) and the state steering committees of the group in Abuja on Saturday, said Kano will give Tinubu votes at the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). According to the Speaker, the north-west is aware of the role the former Lagos governor played in ensuring that…

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Famine looms, as Kano rice farmers face poor harvest

Aminu Imam

…Says drought affects early farming As Kano State and its counterparts in the North continue to look forward to continuous rainfall, farmers have been recording poor crop harvests especially of rice and other grains, which rely on water for bumper yields. Rice, which requires consistent water supply, has been left without the usual daily rainfalls for several weeks and the plants are drying out. In areas where the farms are located close to water sources such as rivers, ponds and boreholes, farmers have adopted these water sources to irrigate their…

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Hunger imminent, as rice farmers face drought in Kano

Aminu Imam

As climate change continues to worsen in the northern parts of Nigeria, weeks without rainfall in Kano have resulted in many farmers losing their crops, especially rice. Rice, which requires consistent water supply, has been left without the usual daily rainfalls for several weeks and the plants are drying out. In some places where the farms are located close to water sources like rivers, ponds and water channels, or even boreholes, farmers are seen using the sources to water their farms, a very unusual sight during the wet season. The…

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APC Congress: Ganduje orders contestants in Kano to report at NDLEA

Aminu Imam

Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has directed that all contestants seeking for a position in the All Progressive Congress (APC)’s State congress, scheduled for Saturday, to report at the office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), for a mandatory drug test. The directive was part of measures to rid the State of illicit substances, according to the State’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, in an issued statement yesterday. ”Similar tests were carried out for contestants into local government election, as well as political appointees including members of…

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APC Congress: Kano State contestants to undergo drug test – Govt.

Aminu Imam

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) state congress scheduled for October 16, all contestants into party executive offices are to go for a mandatory drug test. The State’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, said yesterday that all contestants are to visit the state office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) by 7:00 am, starting from yesterday (Tuesday, October 12) to the day of the closing of the screening exercise for the test. Garba, who said the decision was part of government policy to rid Kano of illicit…

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Kano women advocate stiffer penalties against rapists, others

Aminu Imam

A non-governmental organisation, Women Peace Council, in Dala local government area of Kano State, has joined calls for stiffer penalties against perpetrators of gender-based violence to serve as a deterrent to others who might have the intention of committing the same crimes. The Council’s Women Development Officer, Fatima Muhammad, made the call during a town hall meeting organised by Women Peace Council under the Community Initiative to Promote Peace, (CIPP), to acquaint women in the area with the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act 2015. Muhammad expressed the Council’s worry over…

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Kano: Hafsat Ganduje not arrested – EFCC, Kano Govt.

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Kano State government has dismissed a report that Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s wife, Prof. Hafsat Ganduje, was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, also debunked the report as untrue. Several news outlets yesterday reported that she was arrested by the EFCC for some fraud. According to reports, her son, AbdulAzeez Ganduje, had leveled allegations relating to land fraud in a petition against her. The report claimed she was arrested for snubbing the EFCC’s invitation. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad…

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Kano: Cleric resigns committee appointment to protest sale of mosque’s land

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A Kano-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Tijjani Bala Kalarawi has resigned his appointment as member committee of trustees of Abdullahi Bayero Juma’at Mosque, Fagge, to protest the sales of praying ground by the Kano State Government. Kalarawi disclosed this on Monday, on a local radio programme in Kano. The cleric, who described the act as a sheer disregard for the sanctity of God’s worshipping domain, said that it became pertinent for him to resign his membership of the trustee committee because of the indiscriminate buildings and land allocation within the mosque…

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Digital Broadcasting: Finally, Kano to switch-over to DSO this October – NBC D-G reveals

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The National Broadcasting Commission, (NBC), yesterday, said it has concluded plans to migrate Kano terrestrial broadcasting to the digital transmission before the end of this October. The NBC Director-General (D-G) of the Commission, Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, disclosed the plans in Kano during a sensitization workshop on Digital Switchover organised by the Commission for information officers and media influencers in the State. The DG noted that 13 local manufacturers have already been licensed by the commission to provide and distribute Set-Top Boxes, (STBs), with over 500,000 boxes available for the smooth…

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