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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared winners in several federal and state constituency by-elections conducted across parts of the country on Saturday. The results announced so far show that the All Progressive Congress (APC) won most constituencies and senatorial districts, while PDP secured victory only in Rivers South-East. Below is a summary of […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement posted on Kwankwaso’s official page, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, former Kano State Governor, has announced the emergence of Comrade Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo as the Kano governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), ahead of the upcoming 2027 elections. According to the statement, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna was also selected to contest for […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, has forwarded the name of Alhaji Murtala Sule Garo to the Kano State House of Assembly for screening and confirmation as Deputy Governor. The development was announced in a statement released on Wednesday by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mustapha Muhammad. The nomination follows constitutional provisions under Section 191(3) […]
Continue ReadingFormer presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and ex-Minister of Defence, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The former Governor of Kano State, also registered with the party and received his membership card on Monday at Gidan Kwankwasiyya, Miller Road, Bompai, Kano. Recall that yesterday, Kwankwaso announced […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress, Kano State chapter, has expressed surprise over the recent Eid-el-Fitr gathering hosted by the National Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, which brought together former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and former Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson. Held on Sunday at Kwankwaso’s residence on Miller Road […]
Continue ReadingThe elections, held over the weekend, Saturday, February 21, were interesting for the obvious reason that they were clearly the litmus test cases for the Electoral Act, 2026 which was signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday, February 18, 2026. The President had promised last week that we were “all going to […]
Continue ReadingMustapha Rabiu Kwankwaso, one of the children of 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has resigned his appointment as Kano State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development. Mustapha announced his resignation as a member of the State Executive Council in a statement posted on his official Facebook account on […]
Continue ReadingIf media reports at the weekend were anything to go by, on this Monday morning, Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, better known by his alias Abba Gida Gida, would be preparing to swear a new oath, this time of fidelity to a new political party, APC. The indications of a major political switch have […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC), Professor Lawan Sani Malumfashi, has announced that the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has won all 44 local government council chairmanships and all 484 councilorship seats in the state. He made this assertion on Saturday evening, stating that the results were based on announcements made at […]
Continue ReadingA catastrophic fire broke out at the prestigious Gidan Rumfa palace, the residence of the 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, on the evening of July 12, 2024. The incident occurred around 11:00 pm, with sources suggesting that the fire might have been deliberately set. According to Sahara reporters, the blaze primarily affected the palace […]
Continue ReadingMuhammad Ali, the American boxing phenomenon whom the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) voted the Sports Personality of the 20th Century in 1999, often promoted the pugilistic enterprise in verse. When then ruler of the country formerly known as Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, invited him to a […]
Continue ReadingToday, those whose ancestors snatched Kano are fighting each other over the city and their spoils. The Yoruba would look at their drama and sing for them the song of Ambrose Campbell/ Ebenezer Obey: Eni rí nkan he tó fé kú torí è/ Owó eni tó ti so nù nko? I won’t translate this! Their […]
Continue ReadingRoyalty in today’s Nigeria is sheer ridicule. That’s why the DailyMail this week could provide unassailable evidence showing that a prominent traditional ruler in the South-West is a notorious conman with a jail record and a history of filth. The royal father was once captured on video rolling up a joint. Career criminals, including landgrabbers, […]
Continue ReadingIn a predictable, premeditated, and carefully choreographed judicial charade, the Court of Appeal on Friday upheld the verdict of the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that reversed the electoral triumph of NNPP’s Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State. I sincerely hope this assault on justice isn’t the spark that ignites an inferno in Kano—and […]
Continue ReadingA commercial flight landed in Asaba on Sunday but its cabin crew welcomed passengers to Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. A certified true copy of an Appeal Court judgment last week gave victory to both the respondents and the appellants. Nigeria of today is the textbook definition of confusion. I seek to describe what the Court […]
Continue ReadingNews of President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu abusing Nigerian public asset, by flying a presidential jet to attend polo games in Kano State has sparked reactions by Nigerians on X (Twitter). Discussion on it started when a journalist, Jaafar Jaafar, on Monday, criticised Seyi’s use of a presidential jet for non-official purposes, citing a […]
Continue ReadingChairperson of Panel 2 of the Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Kano, Justice Flora Azinge, expressed her outrage over alleged Senior Advocate of Nigeria’s (SAN) attempt to bribe her, according to a report by Daily Nigerian. Speaking openly in court before the proceedings on Tuesday in Kano, the judge lamented the unethical conduct of senior lawyers, […]
Continue ReadingJustice M.N Yunusa of a Federal High Court sitting in Kano State has nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti alongside the candidatures of all those who contested the 2023 general elections under the Labour Party (LP) in Abia and Kano States Guardian reports that the Court gave the ruling in […]
Continue ReadingMore than two million bottles of alcohol confiscated in Kano has been destroyed by the State Hisbah Board. Kano State Hisbah Board said the items were destroyed to strengthen its fight against the importation, selling and consumption of alcohol, which is contraband in the state. Hisbah’s Commandant, Sheikh Sani Harun Ibn-Sina, who disclosed that they […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State has reportedly been gutted by fire. Reports say that the incident happened at around 09:30 am on Sunday when some unidentified persons started beating people which forced election observers, journalists and INEC officials to scamper for safety and hide in […]
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