Tag: Kano state
I commend the peaceful conduct of PDP supporters – Shekarau
The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Thursday commended supporters of PDP for their peaceful conduct during the presidential…
Nigerians will continue to enjoy freedom if re-elected, Jonathan promises
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday promised Nigerians that they would continue to enjoy freedom as contained in the law of…
Kano sets up committee to checkmate bird flu
Kano State Government has set up a committee to checkmate the outbreak of bird flu in some parts of the…
Kwankwaso urges youths to shun violence
Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State on Friday urged youths in the country to shun violence during and after the…
Angry mob kill Boko Haram suspect in Kano
The Kano State Police Command on Friday confirmed the killing of a man suspected to be a member of the…
Kano senator secures release of 96 prison inmates
Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC-Kano), Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Government, said on Wednesday that he had secured the release of…
Kano offers scholarship to 100 students in Ogun
The Kano State Government on Sunday said it gave scholarship to 100 indigent students to study first degree programmes at…
Kano govt. buys N17m worth of JAMB forms
The Kano State Government has approved over N17 million for the purchase of JAMB forms and training of candidates who…
Kano State: Ganduje says APC will defeat PDP by wide margin
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, and Deputy Governor of Kano state,…
I’ll empower ‘real farmers’ in Kano, says Ganduje
Abdullahi Ganduje, the APC Gubernatorial Candidate in Kano State, has pledged to take inventory of genuine farmers in the state…
Kano Police arrest 482 robbery suspects, recover 125 vehicles
The police command in Kano State said it arrested 482 armed robbery suspects and recovered 85 arms and 546 ammunition…
BUK DVC Nominated As Ganduje’s running mate in Kano
The APC in Kano State has nominated the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) of Bayero University Kano (BUK), Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, as…
Kano Police Kill 4 Armed Robbers On Christmas Eve
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano Four armed robbers were gunned down by anti-robbery police squad on the night of 24 December when they…
Police defuse bomb at Kano market
The Kano State Police Command on Thursday said it had diffused “a high-calibre bomb” discovered at the Dawanau International Grains…
13 year old female suicide bomber arrested in Kano
Nigerian police arrested a 13-year-old girl wearing an explosives-packed vest in the northern city of Kano hours after an attack…
Six dead, 7 injured in Kano twin explosion
Police Command in Kano State has confirmed the death of six persons, including two female suicide bombers following a twin…
Explosion rocks busy textile market in Kano
A blast ripped through a busy textile market in the north Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, the police and…
APC donates N5m to Kano bomb blast victims
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday donated five million naira to victims of Friday’s bomb blast at the Kano…
Female suicide bomber nabbed in Kano
Three days after scores of worshippers were killed by Boko Haram bombers at the Kano Grand Mosque, a female suicide…
Kano Blast: Buhari wants Nigerians to be vigilant, security conscious
Former military Head of State and APC presidential aspirant, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, has urged Nigerians to be security conscious…
Kano Mosque Blast is sin against God, says Pope Francis
Pope Francis has condemned the triple bomb blasts that ripped through the Grand mosque in Kano during Friday 28 November…
Mosque Blast: FG to supply blood to Kano hospitals
The Federal Government has promised to supply hospitals in Kano with blood, to save the lives of victims of the…
APC shifts Assembly primaries over Kano bombing
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria’s main opposition, the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday announced the postponement of its House of Assembly…
Sanusi visits Kano mosque, says attack was planned for 2 months
The Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi II, on Saturday visited the city’s bloodstained central mosque, 24 hours after coordinated bomb…
Explosions force PDP postpone Kano House of Assembly primaries
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in solidarity with the people of Kano state, has postponed its state House of Assembly…
UPDATE: At least 120 dead, 270 injured in Kano mosque suicide attack
At least 120 people were killed and 270 others wounded on Friday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and…
Kano mosque blasts: 92 dead at one hospital morgue
At least 92 people have been confirmed dead at one hospital morgue following three explosions in Kano. Earlier, 64 people…
Murder case opens against Kano child-bride
Nigerian prosecutors opened their case on Wednesday against a 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband, with testimony from…
Kano Govt. threatens to sue INEC over voters card exercise
The deputy governor of Kano state, Dr Adbullahi Ganduje, on Thursday said the state may go to court if the…
PVC: Police arrest 2 INEC workers in Kano
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano State said on Sunday that two of its ad hoc staff had…