Tag: Kano state
PDP crisis: Kano elders slam Tukur, Anenih
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano More storms are gathering for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the Elders Committee of the New PDP,…
Kwankwaso to battle illicit drug sale, use
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The governor of Kano state, northwest Nigeria, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared zero tolerance to trafficking in fake…
Kano shuts 2 medical centres, arrests operators
The Kano State Government, in northern Nigeria on Thursday ordered the closure of two health centres for alleged unethical practise,…
Kano awards overseas scholarship to 300 students
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Another batch of 300 students from the northern state of Kano has been selected to benefit from the…
Okada Rider Hangs Self
A commercial motorcycle operator, also known as okada rider, in Kano, northwest Nigeria, has hanged himself after the recent ban…
Bank staff arrested for robbery
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Robert Olusegun, a staff of a new generation bank who waylaid a customer and robbed him of N4.7…
Boko Haram: Families of slain cops cry out
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Families of 40 police officers who were among those killed in the 20 January 2012 coordinated attacks by…
Mass wedding: 20 HIV positive brides detected
The Hisba Board of the northern state of Kano has discovered 20 HIV positive and five pregnant among the 1,000…
Police Intercept Arms, Ammunition In Kano
The police in Kano State on Tuesday intercepted a Golf 3 car with arms and ammunition at Inusawa village in…
Anti-polio vaccination radio show suspended
The Nigerian National Broadcasting Commission on Friday placed a suspension order on a programme, “Sanda Girma” on Wazobia FM in…
Polio campaign to go on despite attacks
Nigerian officials vowed to push ahead with polio vaccination campaigns on Thursday after last week’s deadly attacks on two polio…
Police arrest suspected assassins of lawmakers
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigerian police based in Kano State claimed it has cracked the murder last month of two members of…
Kano council boss escapes assassination
Nigerian gunmen have shot and injured Alhaji Kambai Sumaila, the Interim Management Chairman of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of…
Normalcy Returns To Kano
Twenty-four hours after the suicide attacks on Airtel and MTN telecom facilities in Kano State, human and vehicular traffic have…
DPR Threatens Erring Filling Stations
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Kano State has threatened to shut filling stations found selling fuel above the…
‘Parties Merger’ll Solve Nation’s Problems’
The National Chairman, All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has said that the merger talks among opposition political…
Kano restricts motorcycles
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Disturbed by the incessant attacks by gunmen on motorbikes which have claimed lives in recent times, the Kano…
Nigeria quells sectarian riot
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano But for the timely intervention of security forces, the bubbling community of Bichi in Kano, northwest Nigeria would…
Shekarau: I’m still Sardauna Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former Governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau on Wednesday in Kano, northwest Nigeria, cleared the air over…
Nigerian lawmaker killed by assassins on auto bike
Gunmen riding on motorcycles have killed a prominent politician in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, officials said Sunday amid a…
Almajiri System Breeds Terrorists
Mr. Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, Kano State Commissioner of Police, tells MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH that a reform of the Almajiri system is…
Kano Militants kill traffic officers
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect Wednesday afternoon attacked a Federal Road Safety Commission,FRSC, patrol…
Bomb factory found in Kano
The Police Command in Kano State on Thursday announced the discovery of a bomb factory at Hawan Hotoro Area in…
Kano, Ogun states go tough on illegal schools
The Ogun state government has announced plans to clamp down on illegal private nursery and primary schools operating in the…
Boko Haram assassins wipe out family in Kano
Four men suspected to be agents of the Boko Haram sect have shot dead a member of the Nigerian Security…
Kano State sponsors students abroad
Nigeria’s Kano State Government has sponsored 25 indigenes of the state to study Marine Engineering in India and the United States.A…
Ndigbo leader wants Jonathan check North’s Hisbah Guards
JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to check the activities of the Hisbah Guards in Sharia state…
Kano awards 501 post graduate scholarships
Kano State Government has awarded scholarships to 501 graduates to pursue masters degree programmes in various universities abroad. Gov. Rabi’u…
Nigeria police arrests ‘700 year old spirit’
Nigeria’s Kano state Police Command has arrested one Nura Hamza, who posed as a 700-year-old spirit, to allegedly dupe unsuspecting members of the…
NDLEA destroys 21,000kg of hard drugs
Simon Ateba Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade has vowed to put an end to…