Former Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), which was described by the Katsina state Governor Dikko Umar Radda as a homecoming and a reunion with his political family members. Radda made the remark shortly after Shema was presented with a membership card issued by the Shema Ward Executive of the APC in Dutsinma Local Government Area. The Katsina governor, in a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary, Ibrahim Kaula Mohammed, highlighted the shared experience of both Shema and the immediate past governor, Aminu Bello Masari,…
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The Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission, (PCACC) has arrested three senior officials of the Kano State government for their fraudulently recommending illegal migrants to secure Nigerian citizenship in Kano. The Chairman of the Kano Anti-graft agency, Muhuyi Magaji Rimin Gado told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano, on Thursday, that the suspects collected peanuts from the foreign nationals to write letters to the Ministry of Internal Affairs recommending the illegal migrants to secure Nigerian citizenship, using Government Letter-Headed paper He named the suspects to include Kabiru Shehu of the Ministry of Information; Hassan Aminu from Office…
A sociopolitical group in Kano, Concerned Forum, has faulted what it terms the relentless attack on the person and character of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday in Kano, the secretary of the forum Comrade Auwal Shuaibu has specifically faulted the desperation with which the Kano State Governmvent, is pushing to embarrass Dr Ganduje. “Everything that happens, they always tie Dr Ganduje to it. For instance, when an independent CSO, whose work centred on good governance made it’s report scoring the ruling New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)…
The first day of Senate’s plenary in the renovated red chamber was marred by a verbal war among Senators over sitting arrangement on Tuesday. Media reports show that both chambers of the National Assembly were formally reopened on Tuesday after about two years of renovation work. During the renovation, lawmakers were using makeshift chambers in both wings of the National Assembly. The project was completed before their 40-day recess, prompting their resumption to the remodelled Chambers on Tuesday. But trouble started in the Senate when the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, started reading the names of Senators who marked…
The Federal Government has approved an increase of between 25% and 35% in salaries of civil servants on the existing six Consolidated Salary Structures. The Salary Structures are the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS), Consolidated Research and Allied Institutions Salary Structure (CONRAISS), Consolidated Police Salary Structure (CONPOSS), Consolidated Para-military Salary Structure (CONPASS), Consolidated Intelligence Community Salary Structure (CONICCS), and Consolidated Armed Forces Salary Structure (CONAFSS). It will be recalled that those in the Tertiary Education and Health Sectors had already received their increases, which involved Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS) and Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure (CONTISS) for…
A Kano State High Court has fixed May 16, 2024 for ruling on whether the court will allow service through substitute means to respondents in the case before it between the Kano State government, as the applicant, where former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and eight others are respondents in the case. Justice Usman Na’abba, the presiding over the case on Monday, after listening to arguments and counter arguments on whether the respondents could be served using alternative means, fixed the date for his ruling on the applications. Before the court, the counsel representing respondent number six, Lamash Properties Limited, Nuraini Jimoh…
The Judicial Commission Of Inquiry (JCI) on the recovery of misappropriated public properties and assets from May 2015 to 2023, inaugurated by the Kano state government has started it’s probe of the two terms of the immediate past Governor of the state, now National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje. The period under review, May 2015 to 2022, represents the direct two terms as state governor of Abdullahi Ganduje. In his inaugural address on Monday, the chairman of the Commission Justice Faruk Lawan Adamu introduced members of the JCI and read out the terms of the…
Media practitioners in Nigeria have been urged to set media agenda on salient issues around women’s health in order to bring some of their challenges on the front burner for stakeholders. The Center for Communication and Social Impact CCSI made the call in Kaduna during a one day training organised for Kano based journalists on media advocacy for women’s health with support from the Pathfinder International. Mr. Oluyemi Abodunrin, the CCSI Technical Advisor, Programme, while delivering his lecture on the role of the media in improving women’s health, said journalists need to always explore available data in their reportage. “You…
The Katsina State chapter of the Children’s Parliament, has called on the state Government to provide all the schools across the state with solar powered boreholes. According to the parliament, the call was to ensure that children in the state have access to potable and safe drinking water. The children made the call on Sunday in Katsina during a plenary at the state’s assembly chamber. The session was part of a 3-day capacity building training organized for the children on policy making process. The plenary was organized by the Save the Children International (SCI), in collaboration with the state government.…
Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has described the trip by three state governors to the United States of America (USA) to attend a lecture at the American Institute for Peace titled “Advancing stability in northern Nigeria” as not only a waste of resources, but also an advancement of shame and embarrassment beyond the country’s frontier. Lamido stated this on his verified Facebook page while also blaming the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NIA for failing to properly guide the governors in this folly. It will be recalled that three state governors from the North travelled recently to the…