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Adamawa, Jigawa, Kano, Presidency, Shehu Aliyu Shagari (1979-83), State News
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
BY SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH Four Northern governors, who are still aggrieved over certain developments in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, took their grievances to former President Shehu Shagari, pleading with him to intervene. The governors, who began their meeting with Shagari at about 11:45 am, were led by the state governor, Aliyu […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, Kano, Niger, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
As Lamido, Kwakwanso, Aliyu, Nyako call for redeployment of CP From CHRIS ANUCHA and TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt Protesters yesterday held Rivers State Governor, Hon Chibuike Amaechi and four visiting governors hostage at the Port Harcourt International Airport. The governors holed in at the airport, with Amaechi, are Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Alhaji Rabiu Musa […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Four foreign nationals, suspected to have hailed from Middle East, were arrested in Kano by the Joint Task Force over a large cache of arms and ammunition uncovered in their mini-warehouse located in the Bompai area of Kano on Wednesday. Following the shock discovery, owner of the complex, where the dangerous weapons were impounded, simply […]
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Headlines, Kano, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Families of 40 police officers who lost their lives to a coordinated attack by the Boko Haram sect in Kano are yet to receive any form of compensation from the Federal Government through the police authorities. The plight of the families were expressed on Thursday, in Kano, when the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
A suspected bomber met his waterloo in Kano on Wednesday as he was apprehended and killed by an angry mob near the Emir of Kano’s palace The suspected bomber was said to have been apprehended immediately after setting off an Improvised Explosive Device near a Mosque very close to the palace of the Emir of […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
A bomb exploded in Kano metropolis on Thursday, throwing the area into pandemonium. Eyewitnesses said the bomb exploded on Zoo Road near a local pharmacy. A JTF source however said no casualty was recorded in the explosion. The source added that troops had already condoned off the area. Two weeks ago, no fewer than 80 […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
By CLIFFORD NDUJIHE …Ndigbo to decide this week … AS the death toll in last Monday’s bomb blasts at a bus park in Kano rises to 80, President of the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Evangelist Elliot Uko, has urged Igbo youths to remain calm and await the decision of Igbo leaders this week. In a […]
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Headlines, Kano
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
A week after suicide bombers attacked a motor park in Kano, killing over 20 people, luxury bus operators have demanded N495m from the Federal Government as compensation for the loss of nine buses during the attack. The operators, under the aegis of the Association of Luxury Bus Owners of Nigeria, in a petition to President […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Police authorities in Kano State and some security sources on Tuesday gave different figures as casualties of the Monday suicide bomb blasts at an inter-state commercial bus park in Sabon-Gari, Kano. While the security sources, who were among those taking a tally of the victims, said the death toll had risen from 30 to about […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
As the smoke cleared from the New Road Luxury Bus Motor Park, in Sabon Gari Kano, victims of the terror attack, who were lucky to be alive to tell their stories, on Tuesday recalled moments before the bomb went off. Most of the injured victims are currently receiving medical attention at the Murtala Mohammed Memorial […]
