Tag: Kano
Kano bombing: Police under-report casualties
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano As the Nigerian authorities evaluate Tuesday’s bombing of the luxury bus terminal in Kano, in terms of the…
Court registrar killed in Kano
A high court registrar in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, has been shot dead by gunmen. Usamatu Badawi, the high…
Four school teachers injured by gunmen
Gunmen opened fire at Dan Maliki Primary School in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday, injuring four teachers…
Nigeria: 13 Christians killed in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has urged the authorities to probe the gruesome killing of 13 factory…
Emir of Kano returns from UK
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Emir Ado Bayero, the traditional ruler of Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city has returned home, after spending 38…
Kano buries cop killed by gunmen
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano The remains of the late Superintendent of Police, Dahiru Ibrahim Majia who was killed by gunmen Monday night…
Wazobia Radio loses licence
The regulatory authority of Nigeria’s broadcasting stations has suspended the broadcasting license of a radio station that repeated conspiracy theories…
No bail yet for detained radio journalists
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano A Nigerian Magistrate Court in the northern city of Kano on Tuesday refused bail for two of the…
3 journalists arrested over killing of polio vaccinators
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Three staff of the Kano station of Wazobia FM have been arrested by the Nigerian police over what…
Nigeria police blames Boko Haram for attack on Kano Emir
Police in Nigeria’s Kano state said Monday that militants from Boko Haram were behind last month’s attack on the Emir…
Nigeria: 9 polio vaccinators killed by gunmen
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano with agency report Gunmen attacked two clinics where polio vaccinators had gathered in Kano city, northwest Nigeria, on…
Kano state bans commercial motor-cyclists
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano By Thursday 24 January commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Achaba in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, and Okada…
Bomb found, pretenders to Kano throne quizzed
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Several traditional chiefs who are believed to be interested in the throne of the Emir of Nigerian northern…
Revered Nigerian Emir survives gun attack
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Emir of Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, Alhaji Ado Abdullahi Bayero narrowly escaped death on Saturday in the…
Woman arrested with 757kg of cannabis
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Operatives of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Kano, have smashed a major dealer in Cannabis,…
Bombs: Nigeria police offers safety tips
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Kano state police Command Monday evening gave security tips to Kano residents ahead of Tuesday’s Christmas celebration and…
Bomb explodes near drinking parlour
A bomb exploded near a drinking parlour in Badawa Quarters in the Nigerian city of Kano Sunday, the same city…
Nigerian Suicide bomber hits Airtel Kano office
A Nigerian suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday when he rammed his car into the office gate of Airtel, one…
EFCC Nabs Courier With $130,000
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, arrested one Bash Abdu at the…
Nigeria nabs 28 terror suspects
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Security forces in Kano, northwest Nigeria have renewed raid on hideouts of terrorists recording 28 arrests within the…
Multiple attacks on Nigerian City by Boko Haram
Two policemen were shot dead at a roundabout in the Nigerian City of Kano today. About the same time, a…
Nigerian sports festival: Day 7 Round up
Delta, Kano fined N50, 000 each for using ineligible weightlifters The Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) on Tuesday fined Delta and…
Dangote, Bill Gates in partnership to fight polio
The richest man in Africa and the wealthiest man from the United States joined forces Monday in the battle against…
Tuberculosis On The Rise In Kano
A total of 4, 413 new cases of tuberculosis were registered in Kano from January to September this year, Dr.…
Couple, child killed by auto-bike assassins
Two motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a Christian couple and their child as they were about to leave their home for church…
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…
Groom killed by gunmen on auto bike in Kano
A groom along with two friends were shot dead today by gunmen, operating on a motor bike, in Kano, northern…
Ex-Speaker Na’Abba: Obasanjo destroyed Nigeria’s democracy
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba declared in Kano that former President Olusegun…
Nigerians in massive protests over anti-Islam movie
Tens of thousands of Nigerians on Saturday protested on the streets of Nigeria’s city of Kano against an anti-Islam film…
Army: Abu Qaqa, Boko Haram spokesman killed
Nigerian soldiers on Monday said they had shot dead a man suspected to have acted as a spokesman for Islamist…