Operations will resume on the Lagos-Kano railway route in six weeks, the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Committee has said. This followed the intervention of the committee in the rehabilitation of the rail line two years after the Nigerian Railway suspended operations on the route. NRC was forced to suspend commercial rail operations on the […]
Telecoms services were on Wednesday disrupted in Borno, Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe and Kano states following the bombing of telecoms base stations by suspected terrorists. Our correspondent gathered that base stations belonging to MTN, Globacom, Airtel might have been affected in the multiple attacks that jolted Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and Gombe states. Experts, who described […]
Fifteen persons have been confirmed dead in floods which also destroyed property estimated of N120m in Kano State on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The state Rehabilitation and Emergency Relief Agency, which confirmed the deaths, added that over 2,000 persons were displaced. Director of Operations at the agency, Alhaji Shehu Maitama, told the […]
By AbdulSalam Muhammad, Kano There was protest in Gwale area of Kano central by residents following the killing of a 12-year-old boy identified as Hassan Muhammad by a police sergeant attached to Gwale divisional station. The trigger happy cop, identified as Laminu Adamu, was said to have fired a shot that hit the teenager on […]
THE total of 3,100 corps members were redeployed from violence-prone Kano, Gombe and Plateau states, the National Youth Service Corps said as the 2012 Batch ‘B’ orientation camp closing ceremonies took place across the country on Monday. One thousand three hundred of the 2,560 corps members posted to Kano sought redeloyment while no fewer than […]
By Abdulsalam Muhammad KANO—Tragedy struck Chinese community in Kano State, weekend, when four Chinese nationals engaged in a free-for-all that claimed the life of two of them. The incident, which occurred at a house in Kwanar Ganduje industrial zone of the municipality, was brought to the notice of the police, which intervention came too late. […]
NO fewer than 2,500 corps members out of the 2,650 posted in Kano state have reported to camp for their mandatory orientation. The security is tighter with soldiers and policemen everywhere. Security sources told our correspondent that over 50 soldiers, several policemen, officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and local security operatives […]
National Youth Service Corps members | credits: Corps members posted to Yobe, Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Bornu and Bauchi states have asked the National Youth Service Corps to redeploy them from these trouble states. The corps members, who expressed sadness as they received their call-up letters for the Batch B NYSC service year, said they […]
State Commissioner of Police Mr. Ibrahim Idris By Ibrahim Shuaibu Kano State Police Command has disclosed that it has killed 17 of the suspected gunmen, who attacked the police post at Dala division with explosives and gun fire on Tuesday night. State Commissioner of Police Mr. Ibrahim Idris said three of the suspected gunmen […]
They are often blamed for any and every social disturbance in the northern part of Nigeria. In fact, to many, the Almajiri are nothing but irritants. But Hannah Hoechner, a researcher from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, UK, who spent a year in Kano working with the Almajiri, does not see them as such. […]
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