The renown political musician Dauda Kahutu Rarara’s mother, Halima Adamu, has been kidnapped. Sources say, the abduction occurred at her home in Kahutu village, Danja local government area of Katsina state when the kidnappers entered the village around 1 a.m. on Friday and took away the elderly woman. “The terrorists arrived the town quietly on foot without firing a single shot during the operation, which lasted only a few minutes. “The woman did not resist when they asked her to come with them,” a source stated. “Although there were other people in the house, the bandits only took Rarara’s mother,…
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Vice President Kashim Shettima, has said that President Bola Tinubu is has good intention for the growth of the Northern Nigeria and Nigeria at large, contrary to insinuations that he is working to cripple the region. Shettima spoke while delivering an address when he received the federal government delegation led by the Chief-of-Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, who were in Kano to condole the VP over the loss of his Mother-in-law. Shettima also reiterated that the President is never working against the North adding that to show concern over the happenings in the North, Tinubu appointed the two ministers…
Fire outbreak has occurred at the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals company located at the Lekki free trade zone in Lagos Wednesday morning. The cause of the outbreak could not be ascertained as at the time this report was compiled. The company’s Group Head, Corporate Communications, Anthony Chiejina, while confirming the incident said, a minor fire occurred at the company’s effluent treatment plant. “We have swiftly contained a minor fire incident at our effluent treatment plant (ETP), today Wednesday 26th of June. There is no cause for alarm as the refinery is operating and there is no recorded injury or body…
The newly appointed Kano Commissioner of Police, CP Salman Dogo Garba has promised to treat all parties, irrespective of their inclinations, as Nigerians to ensure professionalism and fairness to all. The Commissioner stated this while addressing newsmen at a maiden press conference on Wednesday at the police headquarters while responding to questions from newsmen. “On the current issue, I will not treat anyone based on where he belongs, I will treat everyone as a Nigerian” he stated. CP Garba is the 46th police commissioner in Kano and has just resumed work and is promising to build on what his predecessor…
The Kano State-owned television, Abubakar Rimi Television (ARTV), a foremost broadcast television station, is set to become a force to reckon with in the broadcast industry. This was made known by the Acting Managing Director, Hajiya Hauwa Isa Ibrahim during the presentation of new equipments and modern tools to the station’s engineering department, recently in Kano. Hajiya Hauwa mentioned how in the past, the station was the pride of the state and the entire northern region, especially in the area of broadcasting, entertainment, news and preservation of Kano’s rich treasures and culture. “The equipments and tools you received today is…
The immediate past Governor of Kaduna state, Nasiru Elrufai has taken legal action against the Kaduna State House of Assembly (KDHA) regarding ₦432 Billion investigation findings and allegations. El-Rufai, was present at the Federal High Court in Kaduna today to formally endorse the affidavit in support of his legal action to protect his fundamental rights against the Assembly and the Kaduna State Government. El-Rufai initiated legal proceedings against the KDHA following their claims that his administration, which lasted eight years, allegedly misappropriated ₦432 billion, leading to significant financial liabilities for the state. He brought a legal action for the protection…
….Settles rent bill for the Kano Princess and her aged mother at Morning Side Suits in Victoria Island, Lagos. The Kano state governor Abba Yusuf has extended his humanitarian gesture to the daughter of late Emir of Kano Zainab Jummai Ado Bayero, her brother and her mother when he settled the rent bill of the Kano Prince and Princess few hours to the deadline of the eviction notice they were served by the apartment in Lagos. The Governor’s spokesperson Sanusi Bature arrived Lagos in the early hours of Tuesday 25th June, 2024 to meet with the General Manager of the…
The Kano Concerned Citizens has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other security outfits in the country to as matter of serious national security, caution the New Nigeria People’s Party’s (NNPP) leader and former Kano state governor Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. The group’s Secretary, Comrade Muhammad Auwal Shuaibu, in a press conference held in Kano on Sunday faulted the brazen way the Kwankwasiyya leader spoke. “It is sad such a leader could make unguarded utterances which have grave implications on both Kano and national security. “Kano and indeed the entire country is greater than any individual. His…
By Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa “If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains.”— Cicero With the unfolding events in the history of Kano Emirate Council, the name of His Excellency, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf will be laced on the plates of gold considering the role he is devotedly playing to restore the battered image and regretful distortion of the revered Kano Emirate. The evil intention to destroy, balkanize and ridicule the historic Kano Emirate was hatched, plotted and carried out…
Prof. Al-Bishak presenting a copy of his latest book, BLACK PAPYRUS: Global Origins of Writing and Written Literature Traced To Black Africa sponsored by TETFund to President of World Organization of Writers (WOW), Margarita Al, in Abuja. A unique African literary theory called “Leoparditude”, which was propounded in year 2000 by Mallam Al-Bishak, a foremost African scholar and Nigerian Professor of African literature with specialty in Literary Egyptology, will feature prominently at a two-day “Seen From Lagos: African Re-groundings Symposium” jointly organized by the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos and University of Exeter, England, from…