…The Daily Vendor learnt the incident occurred in the Kabuga Yan Azara area of Kano Three minors died on Monday when fire razed a one-storey residential building in the Kabuga Yan Azara area of Kano State. An eyewitness who resides in one of the apartments in the building, claimed that the fire started from the
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.’…the little girl has reportedly died of a heart attack’ Parents of the four-year old girl, Khadijah Adam, allegedly raped by 49-year-old neighbor, Baba Idi, on Monday demanded for justice, as the victim has reportedly died of a heart attack. Father of the deceased, Muhammad Adam, in a chat with newsmen at his residence demanded
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A forty seven year Chinese, Geng Quanrong, who was accused of killing his ex-lover, Ummukulthum Buhari, aka Ummita has been remanded a Kano State Chief Magistrate court. Quanrong was arraigned by the Kano State Police Command on Wednesday for allegedly killing Buhari, a 23-year-old graduate of Agriculture Science from the Kampala University, Uganda. A senior
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The Kano state Hisbah board on Wednesday arrested 19 women over alleged immorality in Kano metropolis. This was revealed by the commandant of the board, Dr Haruna Ibn-Sina, in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Malam Lawal Ibrahim, who said all 19 suspects were female and aged above 20 years. He revealed that
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The Kano State Fire Service says 134 lives and property worth N635 million were lost to various fire outbreaks in the state in 2020. Saidu Muhammad, the Public Relations Officer of the Service said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Kano on Tuesday. Mr Muhammad said the service also saved
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Alhaji Abdulaziz Garba Gafasa, the Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, and the House Majority Leader, Kabiru Hassan Dashi, have resigned their positions. The duo tendered their resignation letters at about 1:08am on Tuesday, December 15, and the development was confirmed by Salisu Ibrahim Riruwai, the member representing the Doguwa State Constituency in
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The Federal Government last night said that it will commence the distribution of free meters with the target of getting 30 million consumers. The National Mass Metering Programme, NMMP, is expected to commence today, Friday, October 30, 2020, and to be simultaneously launched in Kano, Kaduna, Eko and Ikeja DISCO franchise areas. The free meter
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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has reinstated his suspended Special Adviser on Media, Salihu Yakasai, who he suspended for criticising the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). It could be recalled that Yakasai lambasted Buhari for not addressing Nigerians amid national outrage as well as days of online and offline protests against the Special Anti-Robbery
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The Nigeria Customs Area Command in Kano has handed over one Sanusi Abdullahi Labaran, arrested as he attempted to smuggle 5,342 Automated Teller Machine cards out of the country, to the Kano Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation. Custom Area Controller, Kano – Jigawa Command, Nasiru Ahmed who
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reacted to sentencing of 13-year-old Umar Farouq to 10 years in prison for blasphemy. Umar was handed the jail sentence by Aliyu Kanu, the same judge who passed a death sentence on Kano musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu for blasphemy, after being found guilty of using “disparaging language on Allah”
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Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia over the death sentence on Kano singer Sharif Yahya Sharif. Falana is asking the Commission to exercise its mandates and authority under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and
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The Kano State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has confirmed four persons killed and over 5,200 houses destroyed due to flooding in Rogo and Danbatta Local Government Areas of the state. Mr Sale Jili, Executive Secretary of the Agency, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Kano.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to intervene and stop Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s move to borrow N300 billion from China for a light rail project in Kano State. The Kano State Elders Forum made the appeal in a petition to Buhari, where they claimed that the move by the governor would plunge the state into
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The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) says the pharmaceutical business in Kano state is dominated by illiterates who endanger the lives of people who come to them for drug prescriptions. The PCN said it discovered this after a field inspection exercise in majority of the local government areas in Kano State. Pharm. (Mrs.) Anthonia Aruya,
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Building under construction which collapsed on Friday at Kurna Rijyar Lemon in Dalla local government area in Kano, trapped 12 persons and they were rescued by firemen. The DAILY VENDOR gathered that Kano State Fire Service Spokesman, Malam Saidu Mohammed, said in a statement that the building collapsed at about 13:37p.m The victims sustained serious
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