Tag: Kano
Nigeria’s Sharia police destroys 240k bottles of beer
The local police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer, equivalent of…
Samuel wins Dala Hard Court women’s singles
Damilare Okunola Abuja-based tennis player, Blessing Samuel has won the women’s singles of this year’s Dala Hard Court Tennis Championship…
Tennis: Babalola, Lawal To Clash In Semi Final
Damilare Okunola Either of Nigeria’s top two tennis players, Shehu Lawal and Abdulmumuni Babalola will not play in the final…
Counter terrorism: Nigerian forces abort plot, kill 2 suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigerian forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria, Tuesday evening confirmed the death of two terrorists and the arrest of…
Tennis: First Major Upset Recorded In Kano
Damilare Okunola/ Kano P.M. NEWS Sports can report that the ongoing Dala Hard Court Championship in Kano recorded its first…
Nigeria consoles families of slain polio vaccinators with cash gifts
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s government has donated N3 million each to family members of the 10 health workers that were assassinated…
Nigerian forces avert suicide attacks, in raids of Boko Haram hideouts
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano A dawn raid on members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in Kano, northwest Nigeria on Saturday claimed…
Attempt to set ablaze PDP secretariat foiled in Kano
Unidentified persons on Saturday attempted to set ablaze the Kano State Secretariat of the Caretaker Committee of the People’s Democratic…
4 injured as thugs disrupt Kano PDP meeting
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The silent war between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the New PDP in Kano, Northwest Nigeria took…
Nigerian troops avert plot to bomb Kano, raid Boko Haramcamps
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday uncovered plots by terrorists to carry out…
Dangote to build diagnostic centre, hospital in Kano
Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said on Tuesday that he would construct a 1,000-bed…
Nous parlons francais…Nigerians learn French in Niamey
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The governor of Kano state, northwest Nigeria, Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso on Monday handed over admission letters to…
Thousands rally for Egypt’s Morsi in Northern Nigeria
Thousands of Muslims rallied peacefully in northern Nigeria on Saturday to demand the return of Egypt’s Islamist former president Mohamed…
Horror: Flood unearths corpses in Kano cemetery
No fewer than 20 corpses were unearthed at the Yan Kaba Cemetery in Kano metropolis, northern Nigeria following floods which…
Multiple blasts targeting revelers kill over 30 people
No fewer than 30 people have died in the twin bomb explosions that rocked the Northern Nigerian city of Kano…
Breaking news: Twin bomb blasts in Kano
Maduabuchi Nmeribe/Kano Two bomb explosions have occurred in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, despite talks that the Boko Haram…
Kano lawyer docked for theft of N4.8m
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a legal practitioner, Hassan Tanko Kyaure before a…
Heroic welcome for Al-Mustapha in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha wept in…
Hezbollah-linked Lebanese suspects denied bail
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Three Lebanese arrested in connection with the discovery of a cache of arms and ammunition in…
Bank Staff Arrested For Robbery
Robert Olusegun, a staff of a new generation bank who allegedly waylaid a customer and robbed him of N4.7 million…
CBN extends cashless policy to Abuja, 5 more states
The cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which has been in force in Lagos since last year, has…
Kano to clear urchins, beggars from streets
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Government of Kano state, northwest Nigeria has concluded plans to evacuate urchins, popularly known as Almajiris from…
Arms found in warehouse, 4 foreigners arrested
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Joint Task Force in Kano, northwest Nigeria has arrested four foreigners from the Middle-East over arms warehouse…
Kwankwaso blames all for Boko Haram emergence
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Kano state Governor, Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso on Tuesday blamed governments at all levels, politicians, traditional rulers and…
Policeman shoots tanker driver over ‘too little bribe’
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/ Kano Two policemen may be dismissed from the Force for allegedly shooting a tanker driver for refusing to…
Bomber lynched after mosque blast, another arrested
Muslim worshippers in northern Nigeria’s Kano city on Wednesday night lynched a suspected bomber after an explosive detonated outside the…
14 terror suspects killed in Easter day raid
Nigerian Soldiers raided a suspected hideout for Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano on…
Tanker explosion kills 2 in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Two persons were confirmed dead in a tanker explosion on Gwarzo Road, Kano, northwest Nigeria on Monday. A…
Bad day for Kano terrorists as 2 self-destruct
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Two terrorists died Saturday morning as they attempted to bomb a checkpoint manned by soldiers of the Joint…
Kano Massacre: The Height Of Provocation
By Joy Igbokwe “I have lost my nose. There is a deep gorge in my stomach, I am placed on…