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Articles, Columnists, Kano, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, June 9th, 2014
THE Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was locked inside the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport on Sunday for an undisclosed number of minutes after his chartered aircraft was grounded by the airport authorities. The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, who spoke on Amaechi’s behalf, while briefing newsmen on Monday, said […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Sunday, June 8th, 2014
sanusi-lamido Protests broke out in parts of Kano on Sunday shortly after a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Lamido Sanusi was named the new Emir of Kano. Sanusi, who by his appointment becomes the 14th Emir of Kano, takes over from Ado Ibrahim,who died on Friday. Before the Secretary to the Kano State Government, […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Mallam Lamido Sanusi The race to succeed the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, has begun. Bayero, longest-serving emir in Kano’s history, passed on in the early hours of Friday after an undisclosed ailment. He ascended the throne in 1963 and ruled for 50 years until his death and was buried in Kano […]
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Headlines, Kano, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
Governor Rabiu Kwakwanso The Peoples Democratic Party has said the Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso, is not fit to govern at any level. Speaking on behalf of the party at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, the National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo, said it was fortunate that Kwakwanso could […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Monday, May 19th, 2014
Nigeria police said on Monday that they thwarted a fresh attempt to detonate a car bomb in Kano, a day after a bombing killed four people in an area of the city attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram. “The police in Kano today… (at) about 9:00am (0800 GMT) averted what could have been another devastating bomb […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Monday, May 19th, 2014
Nigeria police said on Monday that they thwarted a fresh attempt to detonate a car bomb in Kano, a day after a bombing killed four people in an area of the city attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram. “The police in Kano today… (at) about 9:00am (0800 GMT) averted what could have been another devastating bomb […]
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Kano, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014
By CHIDI OBINECHE, NDUBUISI ORJi and SEYE OJO The Secretary to the Government of the Federation(SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim yesterday appealed to the Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso to return to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), noting cynically that he has no business with his new party. He made the appeal while speaking […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Friday, December 20th, 2013
-Punch BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO — Thirty-five women were, yesterday, disqualified by the Kano State Hisbah Board from participating in the mass wedding organised and sponsored by the state government. Those disqualified included 19 divorcees said to have tested positive to HIV and 16 others said to be pregnant. Altogether, at least 1, 111 divorcees […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Headlines, Kano, Niger, Presidency, Rivers, State News
Monday, October 7th, 2013
Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano) are to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday (today) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to seek the postponement of their peace meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for today but the New Peoples Democratic Party, through its […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
By Sam Eyoboka PRELATE, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday, joined the league of eminent Nigerians who are displeased by the recent multiple bomb blasts in Kano, which killed 15 innocent civilians. Makinde, in a statement by the church’s Media and Public Relations Officer, Rev. Oladapo Daramola, said the sustained acts of […]
