Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, the renown Nigerian businessman and philanthropist, has died at the age of 94. He died Saturday morning after a prolonged ailment. However, burial arrangements are yet to be announced as at the time of the announcement. His death was confirmed by his Principal Private Secretary, Mustapha Abdullahi Junaid saying he died in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he was receiving treatment. Dantata who was born on 19th May 1931, hails from the family of Alhassan Dantata, the renown Kano international businessman, is a renown business mogul in Nigeria. He had served as a commissioner for planning…
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By Rabi’u Ahmadu Garkuwa, Kaduna The Coalition of Northern Security Watch, Youths Accountability and Transparency Advocate Network has come to the defense of Retired Assistant Inspector General of Police Ahmad Abdulrahman,how is currently serving as Chief Security Adviser to Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad. “AIG Abdulrahman has been subjected to baseless allegations by Abdullahi Ishaq Jibrin, a dismissed EFCC staff member and former Personal Assistant to AIG Abdulrahman. According to a statement by Alhassan Abdullahi President of the Coalition, AIG Abdulrahman has vast experience in security and governance, making him an asset to the Bauchi State Government and…
Dangote Foundation along with Bill Gates Foundations and the Community Re-orientation Women Network (CROWN), have facilitated the vaccination of 20,000 Children in 3 States . Similarly, they have linked about 50,000 pregnant women to Antenatal services in six states across the north. The Managing Director and Chief Executive officer, Dangote Foundation, Zouera Yousouffou told newsmen on Thursday that CROWN has galvanized over 5,000 Ambassadors to provide the women with key messages and identify children and women needing services including skills and start up skills. Zouera Yousouffou stated that the Group has already conducted a pilot outreach in 39 wards across…
By Adamu S Ladan Nairobi, Kenya – May 31, 2025 Diplomatic shuttles are ongoing at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) following contentious deliberations over the draft 2026 Strategic Plan. The debates, which came to a head during the Africa Group’s internal consultations at the ongoing UN-Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, have exposed deep ideological and geopolitical fractures over the future direction of the agency. The issue at stake is the proposed inclusion of expansive language on gender identity and human rights—provisions that some member states argue fall outside UN-Habitat’s traditional mandate of sustainable urban development, housing, and infrastructure. Nigeria’s…
The chairman of Rano local government area of Kano state, Muhammad Ya’u, has confirmed that the police actually tortured a youth, Abdullahi Musa, a mechanic to death, a situation that led to breach of peace in Rano town on Monday. The chairman, who addressed a press conference in Kano, Tuesday night, confirmed to newsmen that the young man died in the process of torture and was crying until he stopped crying and gave up the spirit. Confirming that normalcy has returned to Rano after the recent unrest also said that so many things have been said about the unrest in…
The House of Representatives has given the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) a 24-hour ultimatum to appear before it over concerns raised on the ongoing Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). Chairman, House Committee on Basic Education and Examination Bodies, Hon. Oboku Abonsizibe Oforji, issued the ultimatum on Thursday following WAEC’s failure to honour its earlier invitation to appear before the panel. Oforji said the committee had invited WAEC to provide explanations over widespread complaints and irregularities observed during the ongoing examinations. The lawmaker noted that the committee extended an invitation to WAEC on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, seeking clarification on…
The planned construction of a world class hospital in Kano by the Chief Executive of Tiamin Multi-Services Global Limited, the renown international business tycoon, Aminu Ahmad, has continued after a Kano High Court gave judgement returning the disputed hospital land to him. In a high profile case before the court, the land on which the world class hospital is to be constructed, located along Court Road, Gyadi Gyadi, Tarauni, in the municipal, was revoked by the immediate past government about six years ago, and has now, in a landmark judgement, been handed back to Tiyamin along with with a compensation…
The Kano state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has described the speculations of the decamping of the factional leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, to the ruling party, as a welcome development. This was made known to newsmen in Kano on Friday by the state chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Abbas, at a press conference. The chairman, however, warned that as the party opens it’s registration to all, there will be no special treatment to anybody as it will not stop the antigraft agencies in the country from doing their job against corrupt individuals…
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered U.S. law enforcement agencies to release confidential information regarding President Bola Tinubu from a federal investigation in the 1990s. Judge Beryl Howell issued the order on Tuesday, stating that keeping the information secret was “neither logical nor plausible.” The case began in June 2023 when Aaron Greenspan, an American, filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) against several U.S. agencies, including the FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA, and the Department of State. He accused these agencies of violating FOIA by failing to release documents related to…
Professor Mallam Al-Bishak was Thursday, April 10, 2025, honoured by the NSUK Health Services Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd. with an Award and Commendation Letter for “numerous achievements and milestones accomplished during his tenure as President (2009-2012).” Al-Bishak was the founding President of the NHSMCS Ltd who registered it as a Co-op Society with the Nasarawa State government from its former Welfare Committee of the NSUK Health Services Department. The commendation letter specified the Co-op’s achievements under Al-Bishak’s stellar and pioneering efforts as follows: “Increase in membership strength, improvement in financial stability and successful projects initiatives amongst others.” The commendation letter…