A China-based Nigerian businessman, Ibeanu Vincent Chukwudulue and two Angolan citizens: Mbandu Martins Makiadi and Ngoma Wilson Fernando have excreted a total of 236 wraps of cocaine following their arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja and Mallam...
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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrester two suspects: Aminu Ali Baba, 20, and Abdulrasheed Abubakar, 28, on Friday 23rd January in connection with the seizure of two bags containing 140 packets of explosives heading to Kano and Kaduna. The bags were intercepted in a commercial bus along...
Goni Musa Hameed from Maiduguri , Borno State has emerged the overall winner of the 2025 National Qur’anic Recitation Competition, while Kano State clinched the overall best in the female category. The 2025 edition of the National Annual Qur’anic Recitation Competition, and 40th Anniversary of the competition held in...
The Kano State Government, under the visionary leadership of His Excellency, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, on Wednesday officially unveiled the Cycling Kano 2025 jersey ahead of the highly anticipated cycling event scheduled for Saturday, December 20, reaffirming the administration’s unwavering commitment to sports development, youth engagement, and the promotion...
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, has commended security operatives for rescuing three of the five persons kidnapped in Zurin Mahauta village in Lakwaya town, Gwarzo LGA of Kano State, by bandits on Sunday night. Bandits suspected to be from neighbouring states had stormed the village last...
By ALIYU SABIU – The Katsina State governor conducted a local government tour which he concluded on Saturday, 6th December. During the tour, he saw every indication that people are angry with the cancellation of contract for the construction of the road from Funtua to Marabar Kankara and Marabar...
Police Command in Kano State has recovered a stolen Toyota Hilux vehicle attached to the Governor’s Advance Teams and arrested a suspect, Ya’u Inuwa, a 50-year-old driver in the Government House. This is contained in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, CSP Abdullahi Kiyawa in Kano on Wednesday....
Over the past decade, Kano’s political landscape has been sharply polarized by the rivalry between the *Gandujiyya* and *Kwankwasiyya* movements. This division has often fueled incivility, prioritizing blind loyalty over constructive dialogue. The recent, unexpected encounter at the Kano airport between Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and former Governor Abdullahi...
About 500 members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) from Fagge and Ungogo Local Government Areas of Kano State have dumped their party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defectors were formally received on Wednesday by the Managing Director of the Hadejia-Jam’are River Basin Development Authority, Rabiu...
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed serious concern over reports that a Magistrate Court in Kano ordered two popular TikTok personalities, Idris Mai Wushirya and Basira Yar Guda, to formalize their relationship through marriage within 60 days, following a case involving the circulation of an allegedly indecent video. Describing...
Police in Katsina State have dismantled a suspected armed robbery gang notorious for targeting motorists along the Sha’iskawa–Charanchi and Katsina–Kankia–Kano highways. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed the development to journalists on Wednesday, revealing that the 11-member group had been operating a coordinated network of roadblocks to...
The latest news on Nigeria’s growing tax revenue haul is something to cheer for many reasons. The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said it has collected N20.62 trillion in tax revenue between January and August 2025, a period of eight months. FIRS Chairman, Zacch Adedeji, who reeled out the...
Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Said Alkali, announced that the 387-kilometer Kano-Maradi railway project has achieved 60% completion. Speaking at the second International Railway Conference in Abuja, Alkali highlighted significant progress in the nation’s rail infrastructure, including an extension of the project to Dutse in Jigawa State. “The Kano-Maradi railway,...
In a decisive crackdown during Saturday’s Ghari/Tsanyawa re-run election and Bagwai/Shanono by-election, the Kano State Police Command arrested 333 individuals for various electoral violations, recovering a cache of weapons and over N4 million in cash. The arrests, made across Ghari, Bagwai, and Shanono Local Government Areas, targeted suspects accused...
Kano Strategic Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained 49 individuals for drug-related offenses involving various quantities of illegal substances across the state. In a statement issued on Wednesday in Kano, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Sadiq Muhammad-Maigatari, revealed that the arrests were made...
Kano Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 arraigned five officials of the Katsina State Board of Internal Revenue and one bank staff before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High Court sitting in Katsina, Katsina State. They were arraigned on...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has intercepted a truck loaded with suspected vandalised street light poles. According to FCT Commandant Olusola Odumosu, the truck was en route to Kano before it was intercepted by the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives conducting intelligence-led stop and search operations in Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of the FCT has arrested three dispatch riders for distributing illicit substances around the city. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of renowned Kano business mogul and philanthropist, Alhaji Sanusi Dantata, describing the loss as a monumental blow not only to Kano State but to Nigeria as a whole. In a condolence message released...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has strongly condemned the brutal murder of two travelers in Agan community, Makurdi, describing the act as “barbaric and unacceptable”. Five suspects have been arrested in connection with the crime, and the governor has assured that they will face...