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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Immediate past governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the April 2011 general elections, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau was on Tuesday quizzed for several hours by the State Security Services, SSS, operatives over alleged sponsorship of the Boko Haram sect. The sect which had killed at least 1,000 […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Kano, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – Jan. 29, 2012- Scientist and atheists may not agree but most people believe that after death there is a soul that lives on. Many are convinced or at least hope that the dead continue to, in one way or another, show some interest in the lives and vicissitudes […]
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Kano, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
WARRI – GBARAMATU youths of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have warned Chevron Nigeria Limited to stay away from the feud between youths of the Kingdom and their representatives in the Egbema Gbaramatu Cmmunities Development Foundation, EGCDF. In a letter addressed to the management of Chevron in Lagos and ESCRAVOS, signed […]
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Kano, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
KANO (AFP) – Christians in the city of Kano were searched outside church on Sunday by troops on alert after Islamists who recently killed 185 in the city vowed their violent campaign would go on. Some in the flashpoint northern city avoided services entirely, fearing fresh attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist sect whose daring […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Kano – (AFP) Gunmen attacked a police station on Sunday in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Kano sparking a shootout with police, witnesses and police said. The attack followed the January 20 assault by the Islamist group Boko Haram that killed at least 185 people in the city — and after a string of recent threats […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, NNP Spotlight, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Northern Governors Plead With Non-Indigenes To Remain • Boko Haram, In New Message,Threatens To Bomb Sokoto IN droves, they besieged motor parks in the ancient city that has been under siege of gunmen in the past few days. The intended journey was not one of the numerous routine trips they had always done, to and […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
In the history of Kano State and in its relationship with the non-native communities that seek their means of livelihood in the state, there has never been such a panic rush to get out of the state by the same people that once called the state their home. With the multiple bombing in the state […]
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Kano, State News
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
KANO (AFP) – At least two people were killed early Tuesday in violence-torn Kano city during a raid by Nigerian security forces on a suspected hideout of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, a civilian witness said. The sound of explosions and gunfire rang out for several hours in an area near a police station. One […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
The death toll of Friday’s multiple bomb attacks and shooting in Kano rose to over 160 on Saturday, making it the highest that the country has recorded in the history of Boko Haram bomb blasts. An official at the city’s main mortuary, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Agence France Presse, […]
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Kaduna, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, January 16th, 2012
The deployment of soldiers in the streets of Lagos may have stirred protesters to insist on going ahead with the public denunciation of the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. For the sixth day running, protesters gathered in parts of Kano and Kaduna, insisting on the reversal of the pump price of petrol […]