(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kano State Government has extended by one-week, two-week total lockdown imposed on it by President Muhammadu Buhari. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Muhammad Garba, announced the extension Tuesday. Garba said the Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, approved the extension by one more week as a measure to contain the spread of the pandemic. The commissioner […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) has condemned in the strongest terms the forceful and provocative conversion of Christian minor girls from Christianity to Islam by Kano state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The CRA, in a statement issued by its interim director of Publicity Tom Chiahemen, noted that with concern that since becoming […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dust raised by the deposition of the ex-Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II is yet to settle, as the State House of Assembly Monday suspended five of its members for six months. Speaker of the House, Hon. Abdulazeez Gafasa who announced the suspension at the plenary disclosed that the action was in […]
Dethroned Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has filed a lawsuit challenging his banishment to Awe community in Nasarawa state even as he asked the court to declare it illegal, null and void. The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020, was filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday by a team of about 30 lawyers, including […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano state governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has said that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano. Kwankwaso, who installed Sanusi as the emir in 2014, said some state officials told him the president ordered the Sanusi’s dethronement. The former governor who spoke to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security Operatives have arrested dethroned Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II and whisked him out of the ancient city amidst tight security. It was gathered that the security operatives are heading to Nassarawa state where Sanusi will spend the rest of his life in exile. Before he was whisked away, Sanusi was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano State Executive Council has approved the immediate removal from office of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II. The Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, announced the unanimous decision of the Council at a news conference on Monday in Kano. Reason for the removal of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has dismissed a lawsuit asking the court to mandate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, for allegedly receiving kickback from a contractor. The Presiding Judge Monday in his ruling held that the suit which was filed by […]
