NIGERIAN officials announced a nighttime curfew for the northern city of Kano on Monday after clashes between police and protesters seeking to storm the governor’s office left two people dead. “Following the sad incidents in the city today where some hoodlums hijacked a peaceful protest by labour unions, the state government hereby imposes a 14-hour […]
January 7, 2012 by Mustapha Salihu, Kano The spate of unrest that has enveloped the country since the removal of petroleum subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan has added to the challenges facing security operatives nationwide. In Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states, not only has the fear of bomb blasts and other nocturnal activities of the […]
KANO, January 04, (THEWILL) – Hundreds of youths Wednesday in Kano converged at the ever busy Zaria Road by the famous Silver Jubilee roundabout and totally barricaded the area, thereby causing serious traffic gridlock as mass protests continued over the federal government’s transfer of subsidy on petroleum products. Although the protest was conducted in a […]
A ghastly motor accident involving a trailer and a commuter bus yesterday claimed 20 lives with 7 others in critical condition along Kaduna-Kano highway. The incident occurred between Gaida village, near Kwanar Dan Gora in Ikara Local Government Area of Kaduna State at about 6am when a trailer load of sheep from Yobe enroute Port-Harcourt […]
Abuja-based businessman, Sir Emmanuel Obiukwu, lost four of his daughters in the Christmas Day bomb blast at the Saint Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger state. The man fled with his family from Kano State and settled at Madalla, following the insurgence in that state, where they almost died 20 years later. Sir Obiukwu, 58, was […]
The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Falgore has been impeached. In his place, a new Speaker, Alhaji Gambo Sallau (Kiru Constituency) replaced him Tuesday at about 2.00 pm. Indications of the plot to oust the Speaker became evident following a motion by Hon. Lawan Sufiyanu Gogori (Bagwai/Shanono Constituency) asking […]
THE Kano State police command has arrested one Shu’abiu Jibrin (80), for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl, just as the command also paraded a 65-year-old man, Ado Shehu, for allegedly raping another four-year-old girl. This is just as the command also nabbed a dismissed police corporal for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl. Disclosing this on Wednesday […]
A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Emeka Ubani, attached to the 35 Squadron in Jigawa State is now explaining the circumstances surrounding the shooting of an employee of a hotel, where he lodged. The victim of the riot policeman, Friday Onwuka, a steward in the hotel is currently in critical condition at the Aminu Kano Teaching […]
The Chairman of the Kano State Board of Internal Revenue, Alhaji Habu Mohammed Fegge is not one man to be envied, going by the huge challenges of revenue generation before the Kano State government. But in this interview session, the man who is saddled with the task of changing the face of revenue generation in […]
AS security services struggle to combat budding terrorism, a fresh alarm has been raised about the inflow of sophisticated arms of various types into northern Nigerian cities from the vast northern borders of the country with Niger and Chad. Nigerian Tribune was told that arms and ammunition taken by loyalists of ousted Libyan president, Moammar […]
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