The Governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, has dissolved the caretaker chairmen of all 44 local government areas with immediate effect, NAN reported on Thursday. This was disclosed in a statement released by the Governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature. The dissolution comes a week after the state House of Assembly approved a two-month extension to their…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a magistrate court in Kano has ordered the remand of Muktar Dahiru, a journalist with Pyramid FM Kano, in a correctional centre following allegations of making a Facebook post deemed “insulting” to Abba Yusuf, the Governor of Kano State. Dahiru was arrested on Thursday and secretly charged before Magistrate Court 24…
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has fired back at the Kano State government over allegations that he masterminded the disappearance of a corruption file from a courthouse. Ganduje denied the allegations, accusing the state government of orchestrating the violence that led to the file’s disappearance. In a statement, Ganduje’s chief…
The senior special assistant on enterpreneurship to the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, Abdulraham Mai-Kadama, has resigned from his appointment and dumped the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP). Mai-Kadama announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) after meeting the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, in Abuja on Wednesday. Mai Kadama was the leader…
Governor Abba Yusuf on Saturday lamented that his state, Kano, has suffered the worst form of corruption when compared to other states of the region. He said Kano was hit by one of the major grand corruptions above any other state for eight years when Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje governed the state from 2015 to…