Tag: Kano State

Kano: Ulamas, Jumma’at Imams endorse Tinubu for 2023

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The Council of Ulamas and some Jumma’at Mosque Imams in Kano have endorsed the candidature of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu for the 2023 presidential election. The Imams and the Ulamas believe that it is time for payback for what the Jagaban did to one of their own, President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, whom they alluded, “had tried severally to clinched the Presidency but failed not until Tinubu joined forces with him in 2015.” The visit of the former governor of Lagos, who was…

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Governors Ganduje, Sule receive 2020 Peace Awards

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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and his Nasarawa state counterpart, Abdullahi Sule, on Friday night received the 2020 Peace Achievers International Awards.  The award ceremony of the ninth edition of the annual event was held at the Nigerian Air Force Conference Centre.  Ganduje and Sule both received the ‘Governor of the Year on Peace and Security Award, while that of Kogi State clinched the award on ‘Conflict Resolution, Inter-communal and Youth Advocacy.’  The Chairman of the Planning Committee, Amb. Kingsley Amafibe, said the award recognises individuals that had contributed immensely…

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Kano: Hisbah bans radio station from saying: ‘Black Friday’

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Says Friday holy in the State  The Kano State Hisbah Board, which is tasked with the duty of enforcing Sharia law in the State, has written a letter to a radio station, 96.9 Cool FM, in the metropolis, for using the term: ‘Black Friday’ in their programmes, saying Friday is considered holy in the State. Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of every November. The term is used worldwide to mean a day…

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Kano: Ganduje appoints Kwankwaso’s father kingmaker in new emirate

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Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has appointed the father of the former governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Musa Saleh-Kwankwaso, as s kingmaker of the Karaye Emirate Council.  According to reports, the former governor, Kwankwaso, a long-time political ally-turned rival to Ganduje, is known to have opposed the creation of the four new emirates in the State and subsequent dethronement of the former emir, Muhammadu Sunusi II, who he appointed in 2014. According to a statement issued yesterday  from Karaye Emirate Council’s Information Officer, Haruna Gunduwawa, said Saleh-Kwankwaso, who held the traditional…

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Just In: Kano veteran journalist, Abba Ado Gwarzo, dies

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A Kano-based veteran journalist, Abba Ado Gwarzo is dead. He died I’m Tuesday morning after a brief illness at a hospital in Kano, family sources told his colleagues in Kano. “It is with total submission to the Almighty Allah SWT Who gives and takes, from Him we came and to Him we shall return, I wish to announce the death of Malam Abba Ado Gwarzo a member of the NGE”, wrote Abdulkadir Ahmad Ibrahim, a former Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) vice president, in a group platform this morning. Abdulkadir…

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Kano: Police arrest its officers for allegedly killing two youths

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Some members of the Anti-Daba department of the Kano State Command who are being accused of killing two innocent youths in the state have been arrested. The Command Spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, confirmed the arrest of their men, who he said went to Sharada suburb to arrest some hoodlums together with some civilians on a KekeNAPEP but the situation turned violent resulting to the killing of the two youths. DSP Haruna said the officers were arrested on the orders of the Police Commissioner Habu Sani and that investigation to…

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FEC approves N62.7bn for Kano road construction

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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting has approved N62.7 billion for construction of Kano-Dawakin-Tofa-Gwarzo-Dariyo Road. Disclosing this to State House Correspondents after the FEC meeting, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, also said the project is expected to be completed within 24 months. “The Ministry of Works and Housing presented one memorandum for the construction of Kano-Dawakin-Tofa-Gwarzo-Dariyo road in Kano. It was approved for N62.7 billion. It is to be executed in 24 months,” he said. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, reported on the memoranda presented…

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Ganduje’s aide calls for arrest of Enugu Catholic Bishop

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Media Aide to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has called on security operatives to arrest the Catholic Bishop of Nsukka, Godfrey Onah. Picture Caption: Bishop Onah Onah, in a video had decried an alleged discrimination in handling of security cases in the north and in the South. Yakasai said Bishop Onah should be arrested for making comments capable of inciting violence while preaching his sermon. Recounting the clash between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and DSS operatives in Enugu state, the clergyman had lamented…

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