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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Headlines, Kano, State News
Monday, March 18th, 2013
Northern socio-political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, has described the bomb blasts in Kano as shocking. The group, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Anthony Sani, on Monday said the attack was uncalled for. It stated, “The attacks at the New Road, Kano Motor Park, Sabon Gari, today is shocking and uncalled, […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Monday, March 18th, 2013
Monday was yet another bloody day in Kano as over 30 passengers, drivers and visitors lost their lives to explosions at an inter-state luxury bus park in the city. Hours before the blasts, an Islamic militant group, Boko Haram members laid siege to some schools in Maiduguri, Borno State, killing four teachers and injuring several […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
By AbdulSalam Muhammad, Kano. KANO – A headmaster and two of his teachers survived an attack by unknown gunmen at Hausa Danmaliki Primary School in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano state. Eyewitness told Vanguard that the gunmen sneaked into the school compound shortly after the school settled down for academic activities, identified and shot […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Kano, State News
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
KANO (AFP) – Three doctors killed in a knife attack in a volatile town in northeastern on Sunday were South Korean and not Chinese as originally reported, police said. Men armed with knives slit the throats of the three Korean doctors in a pre-dawn attack in the town of Potiskum, police said, in the latest […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Saturday, February 9th, 2013
By AbdulSalam Muhammad, Kano. KANO – Police officers, Friday night, successfully repelled an attack by suspected terrorists on Minjibir Divisional station, 32km east of Kano city. Security sources told Vanguard that the assailants, numbering over 30, stormed the station at about 8.30pm on motorcycles and tricycles and launched an offensive on the station. The sources […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Friday, February 8th, 2013
By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO – A total of 9 female Health workers have been shot to death at two Community health centres in the ancient city of Kano by unknown gunmen in two separate attacks. Eyewitness account told Vanguard that the first offensive on the polio workers at Filin Kashu, Ungwa-Uku General area left two […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
From DESMOND MGBOH, Kano Security operatives in Kano have arrested three suspects, as part of the ongoing efforts to rid the state of terrorists. Credible sources told Daily Sun that the suspects might have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, which occurred a few weeks ago. […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO—Kano State Task Force on Private Schools, Wednesday, said it has concluded plans to close down over 2,000 illegal private schools and colleges operating across the state. Chairman of the Task Force, Alhaji Baba Umar, told reporters that the step became imperative following the failure of proprietors of such schools to conform […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Kano, Presidency, State News, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75)
Friday, January 25th, 2013
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO—Northern leaders including Vice President, Namadi Sambo and three former Heads of State, Generals Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar were conspicuously absent at the peace summit organised by Northern Development Focus Initiative, NDFI, in Kano. Also absent were the Senate President, Senator David Mark, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and […]
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Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
SHOCK and indignation ruled the mood of Nigerians Sunday as they reacted to the attack on the Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero who has been flown abroad for medical attention. The monarch who escaped an attack on his convoy shortly after an Islamic function at Tudun Murtala, near Zoo road in Kano was flown […]