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Kano State Government, says it has concluded plans to float a Health Trust Fund, as part of the on-going initiative to boost health care delivery environment across the state. To this effect, the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is expected to sign into law a Bill … Via BusinessDay ...

Aminu Sanusi, first son of Muhammad Sanusi II, emir of Kano, has joined the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). The prince, who has a degree in accounting from the University of Buckingham, UK, graduated from the Plateau academy of the police with the rank of assistant superintendent of police (ASP)...

The Federal Government on Saturday received no fewer than 198 Nigerians, including women and children illegally residing in Saudi Arabia at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport at about 10 am. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this was just out of about 1800 Nigerians living...

The Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammad Sanusi II, has advised Nigerian men to accord respect, justice, fairness, and mutual understanding to their wife and children Emir Sanusi said it is the only way out of the myriad of problems bedevilling the institution of marriage in the society. Speaking at...

Prices of imported and local rice have fallen in Kano, following the crash of CFA Francs in the parallel market. A price survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Singer market in Kano on Sunday, revealed that a bag of 50kg of imported rice, which used to cost between N13, 800...

A 21-Month Old Boy named Musa has been allegedly mutilated severely in Kano by his stepmother. According to the Angels of Hope Foundation, the incident happened in Gulu in Rimin Gado LGA of Kano State. His father’s second wife allegedly tortured him out of jealousy. The boy’s mother and his...

The Army has arrested two Boko Haram suspects one of whom is said to have participated in the killing of Mohammed Shuwa (rtd), a veteran civil war general, in front of his house in Gwange, Maiduguri on November 12, 2012. The suspects are Ali Mohammed a.k.a Amir, 25 and Mohammed Sani Nafi’u also...

Fire has once again consumed Yakura Market, Sabon Gari in kano, Nigeria. The fire which started Friday night has burned down many shops. Sabon Gari is the foreigner zone in Kano and it is the second fire to gut the market in recent months. As at the time of the report, many shops had been...

The deputy governor of Yobe state, Abubakar Ali, was on Monday involved in an auto accident along the Kaduna- Kano expressway. A witness, Sunusi Abdul, confirmed to Premium Times that the incident occurred in Daka-Tsalle town, along the expressway. “His SUV car had a head-on collision with a...

The Department of State Service on Tuesday announced the arrest of a 400-level student of Federal University of Technology, Minna, for being the operational arrowhead of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Nigeria, Guardian reports. Abdussalam Enesi Yunusa, studying Information and...

The emir of Kano and the immediate past governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Muhammad Sanusi II, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s endorsement of the CBN foreign exchange policy encourages corruption. Lauding Buhari’s removal of “wasteful and corrupt fuel subsidies”, Sanusi said the current...

Former Kano State governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau yesterday said he has no intention to quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor said he should be counted out of any plan to float a new political party that will challenge both the PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...

Residents of Kofar Waika quarters have urged the Kano State Government to demolish the residence of late Muhammad Turi that has been converted to a shrine by Shi’ite members in the state. According to Vanguard, the residents, under the aegis of Kofar Waika Community Elders Committee, petition...

Sadik Ado-maje, a student of First Grade College in Kano, has stabbed his colleague, Usman Salisu, to death. An eyewitness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Thursday that the incident happened around 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday. According to the witness, the incident happened during...

Kano State Hisbah Board has repatriated 60,822 beggars to their respective states of origin and other countries between 2014 and 2015. The director-general of the board, Abba Sufi, made the disclosure on Monday in Kano in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said the beggars...

Former Central Bank Governor and Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, has said that he graduated from the late Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman’s school of progressive struggle to become a teacher, banker and now a radical emir. The emir said struggle only has meaning if it is against injustice and...

A Kano High Court on Friday sentenced a 31-year-old-man, Isma’il Umar to death by hanging for stabbing his friend to death over a misunderstanding. Delivering judgment, Justice Nura Sagir said that from evidences before the court, the prosecutor proved its case of culpable homicide against the...

The son of the former Emir of Kano, the late Ado Bayero, Usman Ado Bayero and two others yesterday filed a case at the Kano State High Court challenging the emergence of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 14th Emir of Kano. Recall that Sanusi sacked Usman Ado Bayero, from his post as Ciroman Kano...

Fire gutted the furniture section of the Sabon Gari market situated on France Road in Kano on Thursday. Eye witness told NAN that the incident started at around 8:30pm. According to the witness, the property worth millions of Naira were likely to affected. However, the cause of the inferno...

The school officials of Government Girls Secondary School, Jogana, 20 kilometres from the city of Kano has confirmed the deaths of seven female students, saying their bodies have been deposited at the Muritala Mohammed Specialists Hospital due to fire incident. A source at the school told...