A 30-year-old man has died after entering a well to retrieve a burning gas cylinder in Gwarzo Local Government Area of Kano State. The Kano State Fire Service confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Monday by its Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi. According to the statement, the Emergency Response Unit received a distress…
At least 30 people have been killed in a fatal road accident that occurred in Kano State on Sunday morning. A statement signed by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, confirmed the tragedy and said that the accident occurred at Kwanar Barde in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. He explained that the…
A three-year-old boy who went missing in Wangara Village, Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State, has been found dead inside a well, the Kano state Fire Service has confirmed. The statement was signed by Saminu Yusif Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Fire Service on Saturday night. The incident was reported…
Former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and national leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement in Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says he still feels like it is a dream the defection of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, his estranged godson who he helped to install in office, as well as son-in-law, to…
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has officially defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) alongside 22 members of the Kano State House of Assembly and nine members of the House of Representatives. The governor announced the decision at a political event held at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano on Monday. Addressing party leaders, lawmakers…
Kano State Governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, has distributed 600 motorcycles to social media influencers and digital content creators across the state to enhance coverage and dissemination of government activities. Governor Yusuf who supervises the distribution on Saturday, said the initiative was aimed at empowering social media practitioners and strengthening information flow between the government…
Rabiu Kwankwaso, national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), says the Kwankwasiyya movement has declared January 23 as “World Betrayal Day”. Kwankwaso spoke while addressing his supporters at his residence in Kano amid the planned defection of Abba Yusuf, governor of the state, to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The NNPP leader said…
The Kano State Police Command has arrested three principal suspects over the gruesome murder of a housewife and her six children in Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters, Kano, on Saturday, linking the suspects to an earlier killing of two women in Tudun Yola area of the commercial city. In a statement issued on Sunday by the Police…
Tragedy struck Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters in Kano on Friday after seven members of a family were killed in what police believe was a housebreak attack. The victims were identified as 35-year-old Fatima Abubakar and her six children. They were reportedly attacked by unknown assailants who broke into their residence at about 12:10 p.m. and used…
Officials of the Kano State Hospital Management board have suspended no fewer than three personnel linked to the death of Kano woman Aishatu Umar after she underwent surgery at a government-owned hospital, Abubakar Imam Urology Center, where scissors allegedly used during the operation were forgotten inside her body. The officials who confirmed the incident said…
