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According to the governor, the foreign Fulani herders are the ones who commit crimes while their Nigerian counterparts get blamed for them.

Share A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed February 25 to resume the trial of Mr Malik Wakili who was charged with impersonating and defrauding Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN). Tribune Online reports that proceedings on the matter were stalled due to the absence of trial judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke. Justice Aneke did not sit following the demise of his colleague of the court’s Abeokuta division, Justice Ibrahim Watila, who passed away on Monday after a brief ill...

53 doctors have tested positive for COVID-19 in Kano – NMA Tukur Muntari and Adedipe The Kano State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association says it has so far lost three doctors to the coronavirus pandemic while 53 others tested positive in the state. The state NMA chairman, Dr Usman Ali disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Kano on Monday. He said some members of the association who recently underwent COVID-19 test, came out positive. He said the association lost a doctor penulti...

17 persons convicted, undergo community service for violating COVID-19 protocols in Edo 17 persons convicted, undergo community service for violating COVID-19 protocols in Edo Jan 25, 2021 Violators of COVID-19 protocols carrying out community service, at the premises of Edo State High Court in Benin City, on Monday, January 25, 2021 Share Violators of COVID-19 protocols carrying out community service, at the premises of Edo State High Court in Benin City, on Monday, January 25, 2021 17 person...

Bloody January: Nigeria loses 120 to violence, COVID-19, others in 7 days On By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor AFTER surviving COVID-19 pandemic and other socio-economic challenges of 2020, death is the furtherest thing on the minds of most people who crossed over to 2021. On December 31 of every year, many people troop to religious and prayer houses where they thank God for the ending year and supplicate for better tidings – good health, long life, prosperity and other favours in the new...

Dec 23, 2020 Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, presenting 2020 budget proposal before state house of assembly, with the Speaker, Alhaji AbdulAziz Garba Gafasa, standing beside him, on Thursday. PHOTO: KOLA OYELERE Share The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has on Wednesday sign the sum of N177 billion, of the 2021 budget into law. It would be recalled that the state House of Assembly, passed into law 2021 budget of the sum of N177 billion estimate presented by governor Abd...

Kano Newspaper vendors congratulate Kabiru Yusuf for emerging NPAN president Kabiru Yusuf shortly after his election at the organisation’s secretariat in Maryland, Lagos today. He is flanked by two former Presidents, Nduka Ogbaibena and Chief Segun Osoba. By Mon Dec 14 2020 Kano United Newspaper/Magazine Distributor Association, KUNMDA, has hailed the emergence of the chairman of Media Trust, Malam Kabiru Yusuf, as the elected president of Newspaper Proprietors of Nigeria, NPAN. Malam K...

The governor had, on March 09, 2020, dethroned Sanusi, a vocal advocate of reforms in Northern Nigeria. by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 15, 2020 Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said he sacked Muhammadu Lamido Sanusi as the Emir of Kano to save the system and the traditional institution from abuse. The governor had, on March 09, 2020, dethroned Sanusi, a vocal advocate of reforms in Northern Nigeria. Kano Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Many see the action as Ganduje’s way of...

Vanguard News Kano govt to build 5,000 houses for teachers On By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano Kano state government will construct about 5,000 housing units for teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the state, under the first phase of a scheme aimed at providing decent accommodation for teachers and their families in the state. The scheme, tagged Teachers Reserved Areas, TRA, will be implemented jointly by the state government, Family Homes Funds and the Federal Mortgage Bank, acc...

Share Kano State government, would construct about 5,000 housing units for teachers in public primary and secondary schools in the state, under the first phase of a scheme aimed at providing decent accommodation for teachers and their families.  According to a statement signed by the Director General, Media and Public Relation to the governor, Aminu Yassar, and a copy made available to pressmen, it reads, “the state government would provide the land, auxiliary facilities such as water, elec...