Kano

Islamic morality police, Hisbah, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are to resume their crackdown on betting shops after a supreme court ruling on gambling. The Nigerian Supreme Court quashed a 2005 law Friday that established a…

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship and Houses of Assembly elections, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) says it has deployed 200 armed operatives to Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states to check vote-buying. The Kano Zonal…

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has promised that the success recorded in Kano when he was the governor will be replicated in Nigeria if elected president. Kwankwaso stated this in Abuja on…

Ogun, Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, and Ekiti states passed a combined N1.38tn 2023 budgets into law on Thursday. The Ogun State House of Assembly passed an appropriation bill of N472.25bn into law for 2023. The assembly passed the bill as…

A federal court in Kano has dismissed an appeal by a singer battling a religious ruling that he should be sentenced to death over blasphemy. This is the first time that a federal court in Nigeria rules on whether or not Islamic…

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, has granted pardon to about 90 inmates across the Correctional Centres in Kano, in celebration of the Holy Eid el Kabir celebration. A statement from the Kano Command of The Nigerian Coorectional…

Federal Government has said it will commence the distribution of free electricity meters today with the target of getting 30 million consumers. The National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), is expected to commence today, Friday, October…

A 35-year-old Islamic teacher, Ibrahim Mohammed, resident in Kadawa Quarters of Kano metropolis, has been arrested by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for allegedly sodomising two of his students.…

Many Nigerians have reacted to the judgement of an Upper Sharia court in Kano state which sentenced a 22-year-old singer to death by hanging for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad. It would be recalled that the young man, Yahaya Aminu …

An Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Hausawa Quarters in Kano state has sentenced a 22-year old singer, Yahaya Aminu Sharif to death by hanging for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad. In his ruling on Monday, the Shari’a court Khadi,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has flagged off the construction phase of the $2.8bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project on Tuesday, June 30. The Presidential flag off which was performed virtually from the Aso Rock Villa in…

Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi has revealed why the state has recorded more coronavirus cases than Kano, which it shares similar demography with. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday May 21, the…

Governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje has slashed the salaries of political office holders by 50 percent, which will be effective from this month. This follows a shortfall in the federation’s account and collapse in the state’s…

Kano state government has said 47 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus. Tijjani Husaain, coordinator of the state’s task force on coronavirus, disclosed this at a press conference in Kano, on Sunday. He said the…