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Umar Idris Shuaibu - Kano The Consul General of Saudi Arabia in Kano Nigeria, Mr. Khalil Admawiy urged the businessmen to use recommendations of  Kano Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KACCIMA) before applying for Visa in the Consulate Office. Mr. Admawiy made the assertion when he paid a courtesy visited KACCIMA’s office in Kano  Admawiy said Saudi Arabia Kingdom recognized only a formal and genuine corporate business. The Consul described Kano Chamber of Commerce as a tool to identify the genuine business people from Kano for the issuance of Visa documents to Saudi Arabia. Mr. Khalil added that the Consulate General Office don’t reject visa application any how, stressing that  the Applicant has to strictly follow all the guidelines before obtaining Visa documents for traveling to Saudi Arabia. "There is potentialities and business opportunities between Kano citizens and that of Saudi Arabia, but we understand that some of the Businessmen ...

  Umar Idris Shuaibu - Kano The Kano State Commissioner for Higher Education Dr. Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure has led the management of the Ministry along with Sa'adatu Rimi College of Education today, for the condolence of the families of five students union leaders of the institution who lost their lives in a ghastly accident yesterday, along Kano-Katsina Road. The Commissioner who sympathised with the families of the deceased, noted that the people of State have lost the lives of some of their illusturious and disciplined students who dedicated their energy to pursue qualitative education for development of State and country at large. This was contained in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry Halima Magaji Gwarzo, and sent to Daily News 24. Halima Gwarzo in a statement said, Dr. Mariya Bunkure added that the monumental loss of the students was not for the community of the college alone or their respective families, but to the entire people of t...

By Abbas Yusha’u Yusuf As the 2023 general elections are coming closer by the day politicians are emerging in an effort to capture the Kano state government House. In the history of the state’s politics there has been no time like this when experienced and inexperienced politicians are trying hard to join the bandwagon of those eying the highest sit in Kano. Politicians from PDP and APC are trying hard to realize their ambition and in making it to the government House. Here is a chronology of some of the politicians who want succeed Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje come 2023. But 'NIGERIAN TRACKER' investigation has revealed that some of them may be jokers and pretenders to the Kano state government House. Senator Barau I Jibrin Senator Barau Jibrin has been in politics since the 1999 general elections when Nigeria was returning to constitutional rule, Barau who is currently at logger heads with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, he is said to be eying the Governorsh...

                                 Umar Idris Shuaibu - Kano The International Committee of Red Cross ICRC has trained Health Officers on managing the dead body in a sanitary way. Kano Head Office of ICRC trained the Health personnel from various States not to spread the disease peculiar to the dead body to the healthy people. The two-day workshop aims to impact the knowledge they have learned to their team members that saddle with the responsibility of managing the dead body. An Assistant Director with the Federal Ministry of Health , an Epidemiologist, Mr. Adebayo Durojaye, said the knowledge would help them achieve a lot in the task given to them. “This knowledge is immense to our working partners, to avoid transmitting the disease to ourselves which at the end to the larger society. “So ICRC sees it necessary to support us with this knowledge, to serve as the trainer to those that didn’t get the opp...

Kano State Hisbah Board has disclosed that they are confiscating and destroying any type of alcohol in the state to sanitize the society and enforce the Islamic teachings, which prohibits such acts. Director-General of Hisbah Board Dr. Aliyu Musa Aliyu stated this in an interview with ' The Historica Nigeria'. The Director-General spoke a day to the hosting of Hisbah Day which is celebrated on 21st October every year. Dr. Aliyu said Kano State Hisbah Board under their leadership has achieved a lot as regards reforming and restructuring. “We are able to train and retrain our staff and other Hisbah officials on how they can improve their services to the people. “Core mandate of creating the organization is to calls for enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong on every Muslim, reconciliation among aggrieved parties, addressing domestic problems faced by couples, among others,” he said. The Director General of Kano State Hisbah further said the day is set as...

Kano State Deputy Governor Dr.Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna congratulates his amiable leader,Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for being conferred with the "Man Of The Year Award 2021" by the Publishers of the Sun Newspapers. The Deputy Governor said...."Governor Ganduje an illustrious son of Kano State, is an accomplished administrator and erudite politician whom we are proud of. His remarkable good leadership style and contribution to the development of Kano State is worthy of emulation". You deserve the award,considering the way in the last 6 years you had been steering the State to progress" "This award from a National Daily Newspaper is a testimony that your achievements are being noticed. I wish to call on Kano people to continue to support and cooperate with your administration's  laudable policies and programmes which have brought monumental transformation. Once again,I congratulate  his Excellency Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as this award ...

                                        Abdullahi Umar Ganduje As Kano State emerged overall winner of the just concluded National Agricultural Show, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has attributed the victory due to commitment and support given by his administration to revamp the sector. According to the Governor the feat of the success was also achieved with hard Work and dedication from the farmers across the 44 local government areas of the State and the agricultural extension workers. Dr. Ganduje made the statement yesterday Friday during the closing ceremony of the 11th edition of the National Agricultural Show and Exhibition organized by the National Agricultural Foundation Of Nigeria held in Nassarawa State. The Governor represented by his Deputy Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna went on to say that with collaboration between research institutions and private organizations we coul...

                                          Abdullahi Abbas Sanusi The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano State has elected Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas as the consensus party Chairman for a second term with 51 other executives. The party National Congress Committee Leader, Barrister Auwalu Abdullahi, leading other six members, announced after an exhaustive voting by 3,320 delegates that lasted for almost six hours, that despite a consensus arrangement, open door election was allowed. The election was held in a crowded Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium with hundreds of delegates from the 44 local governments councils of the state in attendance. A seven-man congress committee under Barrister Auwal Abdullahi who supervised the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje Congress, said he was on ground to allow a justifiable election which allows for open voting even though it is a consensus congress. ...

                                      Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso A former Governor of Kano State, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, on Saturday, turned himself in for interrogation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ). This came weeks after this newspaper reported how the top member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shunned previous invitations by the anti-corruption agency. His decision to turn himself in could have been made to avert possible arrest which our reporter learnt was being planned by the commission. Top EFCC officials, who asked not to be named because they had no permission to speak on the matter, told PREMIUM TIMES that Kwankwaso arrived at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja before noon on Saturday. “This was after repeated invitations not honored by him,” one of the sources said. Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC’s spokesperson, could not be immediate...

Umar Idris Shuaibu - Kano The Special Advisor to Kano State Governor on Agriculture, Dr. Hafiz Muhammad has expressed satisfaction to Warawa Local Government for sponsoring Malam Ashiru Ahmad Gogel who invented a short Radio transmission to the ongoing National Agricultural show. Dr. Hafiz Muhammad stated this while inspecting state and local government pavilion of the show. He explained that a person which such creativity minds has to be encouraged and assisted so as to achieved good results technologically. The special Advisor on Agriculture also commended the efforts of the kano state local governments, which according to him Kano has shown the it's commitment towards developing the Agriculture sector. On his part, the 92.1 Warawa Radio on frequency modelated, Malam Ashiru Ahmad Gogel who is an electrician, attested that if he can be able to get sponsorship, he could be able to increased the frequency more than were it is now. He then called on the government and wea...

Governor Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad of Bauchi State has vacated his seat for a 14 year old pupil Aisha Aliyu Katagum of Government Junior Secondary School Katagum to commemorate this year's International day of the Girl Child. Our Government House correspondence Silas Shentukwak report that the Aisha Aliyu Katagum together with her Deputy Asma'u Suleman, Secretary to the state government Khadija Tijani Ahmad and Asma'u Shehu Usman as Chief of staff function in the office for 10 minutes. The International Day of the girl child is a day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate girls child deliberating issues affecting their development. Resuming office, The Girld-Child Governor calls for end to girl child trafficking and molestation, reducing the number of out of school girl child and ensure that they complete school. After resumption of office, Aisha Aliyu held a crucial meeting with the girl child Speaker of the House of Assembly and her Principal ...

                                Engr. Mu’azu Magaji Dansarauniya   Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has approved the removal of Engr. Mu’azu Magaji Dansarauniya as the Executive Chairman, state NNPC/AKK Gas Pipeline Project and Gas Industrialization Committee (KNSG-PDIC) with immediate effect. The sacking of the chairman was informed by his inability to measure up with the challenging job, poor performance and insubordination. A statement signed by the commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba , said Engr. Mu’azu Magaji’s appointment in April, last year, to chair the committee with the hope that he would work diligently to supervising the effective execution of the project. However, it added, he has failed to live above board in carrying out the responsibility assigned to him to oversee the project which the government attaches great premium. According to the statement, h...

Rundunar 'yan sandan jihar Kano ta mikawa hukumar kare hakkin mai saye da mai sayarwa ta jihar Kano (KSCPC), wata gurbatacciyar madata da ta kama wadda aka shigo da ita jihar Kano don yin amfani da ita. Mai magana da yawun rundunar DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa yace sun samu nasarar kama gurbatacciyar madarar ne katan dari da goma sha hudu, tare da wani matashi wanda ya karbe ta bayan da aka shigo da ita daga jihar Lagos. Madarar wadda wa'adin amfani da ita ya kare kuma ba ta da lambar hukumar tabbatar da ingancin kayayyaki ta kasa NAFDAC, ana zargin cewa an shigo da ita ne don sayarwa da al'ummar jihar Kano. A don haka rundunar 'Yansandan karkashin jagorancin kwamishinan 'yan sanda na jihar Kano CP Sama'ila Shu'aibu Dikko ta gayyato hukumar kare hakkin mai saye da mai sayarwa domin damka mata madarar da kuma matashin dake tafe da ita don ci gaba da gudanar da bincike. Da yake karbar madarar a madadin shugaban hukumar Janar Idris Bello Dambazau, jami...

The Nigerian Communications Commission has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a Subscriber Identity Module in Nigeria. This is according to the draft copy of the modified Registration of Telephone Subscribers Regulations published on the commission’s website. In the modified regulations, NCC limited telecoms subscribers to only include anyone above the age of 18. “Subscriber’ means a person not below the age of 18 years who subscribes to communications services by purchasing a subscription medium or entering into a subscription contract with a licensee.” The Licensee refers to ‘a provider of communications services that utilises a subscription medium in the Federal Republic of Nigeria’. The regulations were made in line with the powers conferred upon the commission by section 70 of the Nigerian Communications Act,2003. In accordance with Section 57 of the Act, the NCC conducted a Public Inquiry on the Registration of Telephone Subscribers Re...

                             Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta Over 180 million telephone lines are now linked with the National Identity Numbers (NIN), the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta disclosed on Tuesday. He said this following the capturing of over 60 million Nigerians by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in the National Identity Numbers (NIN) database. Danbatta also said from available statistics, the telecommunications industry has bounced back with broadband penetration peaking at 41 percent while active telephone subscribers have increased by over one million. He spoke while delivering his address during the Public Inquiry on three Regulatory Instruments on the Rule Making Process at the headquarters of the Commission in Abuja.

                                Education Minister, Adamu Adamu The Federal Government has approved the sum of N75,000 as stipend per semester for students undergoing degree programmes in Education in public universities in Nigeria. Also, the Nigeria Certificate in Education students will get N50,000 as stipend per semester as part of the deliberate effort of the government to attract the best brains into the teaching profession as promised by the President Muhammadu Buhari last year. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu , announced this on Tuesday at the World Teachers’ Day celebration held at Eagle Square, Abuja. Adamu, whose speech was read by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, said his ministry would collaborate with the state governments to ensure automatic employment for the students on graduation. He said: “Undergraduate students of B.Ed/B.A. Ed/BSc. Ed in Publ...

                                    President, Miyetti Alhaji Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo   One of the umbrella bodies of herdsmen in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore , says herders won’t support any southern candidate who is against open grazing should he or she run for president in 2023. Spokesman for the group, Saleh Alhassan, spoke on Tuesday while featuring on PUNCH Online interview programme. Report say that the 17 Southern Governors, citing the security challenges allegedly posed by the activities of herders in their states, had kicked against open grazing and signed laws banning such to effect. Most southern governors, including those of Lagos, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, and just recently, Delta and Ogun states, have signed the anti-open grazing bill into law. The Miyetti Allah group, while reacting to the passage of the la...

Investor confidence in Facebook weakened a bit on Monday amid continued political pressure and a rare lengthy outage of the company’s apps, sending shares down 4.8% and zapping away billions from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune. Zuckerberg’s fortune declined by $5.9 billion to a mere $117 billion in total. (He’s now the world’s sixth richest person.) Top lieutenent Sheryl Sandberg saw her wealth fall to $1.9 billion. Facebook stock came under pressure from two fronts: an unusually long outage of its namesake platform, Instagram and WhatsApp, a mistake likely costing the company tens of millions of dollars in revenue. (In the latest quarter, it brought in around $330 million a day in sales.) Facebook last suffered a blackout like this in 2019, when the network shut down for 14 hours. A decade earlier, in 2008, it went dark for a day. Monday’s outage affected internal systems at Facebook, too, making it impossible for employees to access emails, the internal messaging system kn...

The wife of Kano Kano State Governor professor Hafsat Abdullahi Ganduje landed in Kano early hours of Tuesday, after she was arrested by the EFCC over a bribery and land fraud case reported by her son. Reports says Mrs. Ganduje was arrested on Monday Evening by operatives of EFCC after she failed to honor EFCC's invitation. Reliable sources at the commission said the powerful Kano State Governor’s wife was interrogated till the late hours of yesterday Monday. ‘’She was released yesterday and asked to report back when she is needed, ‘’said the source.

                                              Her Excellency Prof. Hafsat Ganduje Hafsat Ganduje , the wife of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, has been arrested by the EFCC over a bribery and land fraud case reported by her son. The arrest comes weeks after her failure to honour the anti-graft agency’s invitation. Mrs. Ganduje had earlier been invited to report to the EFCC’s Abuja headquarters on September 13, PREMIUM TIMES reported previously. But she did not appear and the EFCC then threatened to arrest her. Sources close to her later said she travelled to the UK at the time to attend the graduation ceremony of her son. Investigators are questioning Mrs Ganduje over allegations relating to land fraud in a petition by her own son, Abdualzeez Ganduje. A person, who has the knowledge of the arrest but asked not to be identified, said “she was arrested (Monday) evening.” ...

Biggest social media platforms in the world have gone down. WhatsApp , Instagram and Facebook are currently experiencing a major outage around the world since 4:39 pm on Monday. The three apps – which are all owned by Mark Zuckerberg. Visitors to the WhatsApp web are experiencing 5xx Server Error while others app run by the company were all down together. On their verified WhatsApp’s twitter account, the company said it is aware of the issue, saying the tech company is working to get things back up and running. “We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!”  

Kungiyar bada agajin farko ta kasa da kasa ICRC ta baiwa masu bukata ta musamman sabbin injina da za su taimaka musu wajen gudanar da sana'o'in su. Shugaba a ofishin kungiyar dake jihar Kano Mista Armen Harutyunyan ne ya bada injinan ga masu bukata ta musamman din a jihar Kano. Mista Armen Harutyunyan sun tallafa musu da injinan walda da janareto da injin fenti ne, don inganta rayuwar su da iyalan su baki daya. Rahotanni na nuni da cewa, kungiyar ICRC ta jima tana bada wannan tallafin a jihar Kano tun shekarar 2016, wanda shirin ya samu gagarumar nasara akan mutanen da suka amfana da tsarin. Da yake jawabi bayan karbar kayan tallafin a madadin masu bukata ta musamman din, Farfesa Jibril Isa Diso daga sashen ilmi na musamman dake jami'ar Bayero, yace shakka babu matakin zai taimakawa dimbin al'ummar su, kasancewar ba wai iya wadanda suke gudanar da sana'ar bane za su samu kyautatuwar rayuwa. "Idan masu ruwa da tsaki za su rinka gudanar da irin wannan...

Former Governor of Kano state Malam Ibrahim Shekarau says for the eight years he served as Governor of Kano State he never withhold local government allocation from the federation account. Malam Ibrahim Shekarau made the statement on his verified facebook account. The former governor who was the first democratically elected governor to serve Kano for 8 uinterrupted years says when ever the state accountant general came back from the meeting of Federation account allocation committee meeting he went straight and meet with the commissioner for local government and then immediately release the funds . According to the senator representing Kano Central senatorial district said the same applies to the legislature and judiciary,noting that after every three months he releases their funds for their Operation and upkeep. The 66 year old former Governor said no one compelled him to release funds for the affected tiers of Government because its the normal thing to do.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it is not recruiting and urged the general public to disregard information circulating on social media saying that the corporation was recruiting. The corporation disclosed this in a statement signed by its spokesman, Garba Deen Muhammad, in Abuja, on Sunday. “This is to inform the public that the information circulating in the Social Media that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is conducting a recruitment exercise IS NOT TRUE and the public should disregard it in its entirety. “Whenever NNPC decides to conduct a recruitment exercise, it will announce this to the public through authentic public communication channels, including the NNPC’s website (www.nnpcgroup.com). ” Once again the NNPC is not recruiting,” he said.