Meet new Kano Chief Judge, Hon Justice Pat
Mahmoud, who is a Christian and from Benue
state. She's married to a Muslim in Kano.
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Showing posts with label Kano. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 January 2015
Patricia Mahmoud,she the new and first Christian female chief judge of Kano
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
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Emir of Kano, Sanusi, denies planning to marry 17 year old girl
Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi has denied
reports that he's planning to marry the 17 year
old daughter of the Lamido of Adamawa. The
Emir, who already has three wives, denied the
report to Sahara Reporters via one of his aides.
The Emir said "that he fully supports the right of
children not to get forcibly married before
attaining the constitutionally stipulated age of 18
years" but he didn't rule out the possibility of
marrying a fourth wife. He advised people to
wait to see the real age of his wife if he decides
to marry again.
Friday, 26 December 2014
Girl: My father gave me to Boko Haram
Kano - A 13-year-old girl says her father gave her to Boko Haram
extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a
suicide bomb at a market in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city in the
north.
She says she told her captors she did not want to be a suicide bomber
but allowed them to strap her into a vest primed with explosives
because they threatened to bury her alive.
She says she was taken to Kano's textile market where two other
girls detonated their bombs. Police said four people were killed in the
10 December attack.
Police presented the girl at a news conference on Tuesday night.
Nigeria has suffered numerous bombings carried out by girls and
young women.
- AP
Sunday, 16 November 2014
6 dead in Kano bomb explosion
Abuja - The police in Kano have confirmed the death of six persons,
including three policemen, in the bomb explosion at Magarsiku Filling
Station at Hotoro, Kano, on Friday.
The Commissioner of Police, Mr Aderinle Shinaba, who confirmed the
incident while addressing newsmen on Saturday, said five other
persons sustained various degrees of injury.
Shinaba said the incident occurred when a suicide bomber went into
the filling station pretending to buy fuel for the vehicle he was
driving.
He said immediately the hoodlum entered the service station, he
detonated the bomb which was inside his car.
He added that two vehicles were completely burnt down, while two
others were damaged.
The commissioner said the injured persons had since been taken to
hospital for treatment.
Shinaba urged the public to be more vigilant and furnish security
agents with useful information to check the activities of insurgents.
He said the damage to other filling stations and vehicles nearby would
have been more if the security operatives and men of the fire service
did not respond promptly.
He noted that "everybody must remain vigilant in order to ensure that
we check the activities of these people.
"We are lucky there are two petrol tankers which will have been burnt
if not for the early arrival of the fire servicemen who quickly put out
the fire.’’
- NAN
Friday, 14 November 2014
Breaking News: Bomb explosion, sporadic gun shots in Kano
KANO – An explosion and sporadic gunshot rocks Kano Friday
evening amidst fear of dozen of casualties.
Eyewitness says the incident occured behind a fuel station
opposite NNPC mega station in Hotoro triggered heavy gun
duel .
Both military and police authorities are keeping sealed lips
over the development as entities to the spoke persons yielded
no results.
Source: Vanguard
Sunday, 17 August 2014
Photo: Police recover, return N15m to Sokoto robbery victim
The Sokoto state Police command has recovered and returned N15million which was stolen from an unidentified man by a 5-man armed robbery gang at the Ilela border market in Ilela LGA of Sokoto state on June 1st.
Parading the suspects with the money recovered at the Sokoto state Police command headquaters, DCP Douglas Agbonleni who spoke on behalf of the Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Gambo Lawal, gave an insight on how the robbers were able to dislodge their victim of the money and how they were subsequently caught.
"The robbery operation was successful as they were able to dispossess their target of over N15 million cash at the Ilela border market, after firing into the air to scare people. We received the information at about 6pm on June 1 and instantly went on stop-and-search operation and our men at Rabbah local government found a black colour Volkswagen Golf car with registration number Jigawa AG 569 HJA along the forest route and apprehended three of the criminals while the other two escaped" he said.
The three robbers arrested were identified as Joseph Ohakin, ThankGod Sunday, Emmanuel Ugo (aka Ifeanyi). Apart from the money, other items recovered from them were weapons including locally made and foreign assorted rifles neatly concealed in the seats of the vehicle.
The Police said after they arrested the armed robbers in the bush, the robbers offered to give them the stolen N15million on the condition that they let them go, but the police men declined the offer. The police then launched a search for the remaining two robbers who escaped. A mobile phone which they used in communicating was used to track down the other two criminals.
"When the first three were arrested, we searched the vehicle and recovered the money, we discovered a GSM telephone and upon diligent investigation, we traced that phone to Kano and our detectives proceeded to Kano where we were able to trace the owner of that phone who was a member of the robbery gang and had escaped from Illela. We discovered that the telephone belongs to one Habibu Abdullahi (Alias 02).
He is popularly called 02 in Kano. We picked him up and we knew that they were about five members in that gang. So after arresting and interrogating Habibu Abdullahi, the fifth member of the gang, Garba Ismail was traced to a suburb of Kano and picked up also. So all the five members of the gang that came here to rob at the Illela town have been picked up,” he said.
The owner of the N15m stolen who was present at the press briefing confirmed he had received his money.
Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Suicide blast rocks college campus in Kano
Kano - A suicide bomber targeted students at a technical college in Nigeria's second city of Kano on Wednesday as the campus reopened following a Muslim holiday, witnesses said.
Details on casualties were not immediately known after the sixth attack in the key northern city in the last week, with the violence blamed on Boko Haram members who are waging a brutal five-year insurgency.
The bomber targeted students who had crammed around a notice board to check their assignments for a mandatory government programme known as the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
"It was a huge crowd and people were jostling to go through the lists," said witness Isyaku Adamu.
"A huge explosion" by a bomber who was embedded within the crowd caused casualties, he said, but the scene was too chaotic for him to assess any loss of life.
Accounting student Kabir Muazu said he was sitting in a nearby lecture hall when a massive blast rang out.
"We all rushed to find out what it was," and saw the damage of the latest suicide attack in the embattled city, he said.
Kano has been hit by Boko Haram repeatedly through the group's uprising aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in the mainly Muslim country.
But the city saw a clear decline in violence earlier this year, as the insurgents appeared to be concentrating on their stronghold in the remote northeast.
But the militants have since April carried out waves of strikes in major cities across the north and centre of the country, underscoring the grave threat they pose to Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and top oil producer.
BREAKING NEWS: Fourth Female Suicide Bomber Attacks Kano Polytechnic, kills At Least Six
Another female suicide bomber blew herself up in a college in northern Nigeria’s biggest city of Kano on Wednesday, killing six people and critically wounding another six in the fourth such attack by a woman in Kano in less than a week, a security source said.
The bomber targeted youths who were looking at a notice board for national youth service in Kano Polytechnic, the source said.
Kano State Police Command has confirmed the blast in the school.
More details soon.
Monday, 28 July 2014
Another bomb blast in Kano this morning
- Today, 28-07-14 at about 10:00am, another suicide bomb went off at Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Mega Filling Station at Hotoro Quarter along Maiduguri Road, Kano. A suicide bomber suspected to be a female had slipped into the crowd of citizens buying kerosene at the Station before detonating the explosives. The suicide bomber and three others have been confirmed dead, eight persons are injured and rushed to the Hospital.
- It is instructive to note that the Mega Station did not go ablaze due to the security barricade put in place by the Policemen on duty at the station. Such a situation would have clearly complicated the Emergency response.
- Security Forces have cordoned off the scene, and Police Bomb Disposal Experts are "sweeping" the area. Citizens are advised to stay off the scene, be vigilant and report any suspicious person(s) or activities to security forces. Full scale investigation has commenced, intensive patrol of the city is ongoing.
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Police say 3 dead, 7 injured in Kano suicide attack
Katsina - A female suicide bomber in Nigeria's Kano city killed three people and injured seven others on Monday in an attack targeting women who had lined up to buy kerosene, police said.
"A female suicide bomber detonated an explosive at (a petrol) station in the Hotoro area, badly injuring 10 people. Three of them died in hospital, while seven are undergoing treatment,"
Kano police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia told AFP.
- AFP
Eid overshadowed by two suicide bombings in Kano
Katsina - Two blasts by female suicide bombers killed three people and injured 13 in Nigeria's Kano city on Monday, bringing the number of attacks this week in the area to five and overshadowing festivities marking the end of Ramadan.
The violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists marred what was supposed to be a festive day in Kano, a city of more than six million people and the largest in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north.
Kano typically celebrates Eid al-Fitr, the end of Islam's holy fasting month, with a lavish parade on horseback led by the local emir.
But those plans were scrapped late Sunday following a bombing at a church that killed five people and an attempted suicide attack by a woman at a university that was stopped by police but left five wounded.
On Monday, a woman detonated low-calibre explosives packed to her torso at a petrol station in the Hotoro area on the outskirts of the city, targeting women who had lined up to buy kerosene, Kano police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia told AFP.
The queue was long, said area vendor Habibu Ali, because the widely used cooking gas is often in short supply and when a new shipment comes in women typically rush to their local vendor.
Majia said 10 victims were rushed to the hospital after the blast that went off at roughly 10:30 am (0930 GMT) and that three had died.
Hotoro area resident Shehu Mudi said he saw burning jerry cans and ambulances carting away victims minutes after the blast.
- Shopping centre targeted -
Roughly three hours after the petrol station blast another female bomber approached the Trade Fair Complex in a key commercial district, Kano state police chief Aderele Shinaba told AFP.
She was stopped at the gate and blew herself up, he added.
"It was the same modus operandi," Shinaba said. "Six people were injured, including two (police) officers."
The target holds symbolic importance in Kano, lying just next to the brand new Ado Bayero Shopping Centre, which opened in March to huge public excitement.
The launch of a modern shopping complex, including the only northern Nigeria outlet of the South African retailer Shoprite, was seen as a sign that the restive city was still attractive to investors, despite the waves of Islamist violence.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, Boko Haram, the extremist group blamed for killing more than 10,000 people in Nigeria since 2009, was likely to be held responsible for the latest bloodshed.
Double bombings on Sunday and Monday as well as an attack at a bus station on Thursday that killed at least four people underscored Boko Haram's commitment to striking Kano after attacks in the city had declined earlier this year.
In a wave of assaults in key urban centres, including Kano and the capital Abuja, the militant group has in recent months shown that it plans to further expand its uprising outside its stronghold in the remote northeast.
- Spreading across border -
Boko Haram, fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria's mostly Muslim north, is widely viewed by experts as having a largely domestic agenda.
But neighbouring Cameroon has seen a spike in unrest in recent months, raising concern that the insurgency may spread beyond Nigeria's borders, creating a wider crisis which the region's troubled militaries are ill-equiped to contain.
Two attacks in northern Cameroon on Sunday killed at least 15 people, with the wife of the country's deputy prime minister Amadou Ali among a dozen people reportedly kidnapped, according to security sources.
"Barbarism has crossed our borders," said Cameroon's minister of communications, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, after the incident.
The attacks have worried residents and expats living in Cameroon, which is unused to the level of violence Nigeria has faced at the hands of militants.
"The situation is catastrophic. It is getting worse," a French citizen living in the north of the country told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The dramatic raids in the Kolofata region -- a haven for Boko Haram activities -- follow the deaths of several Cameroonian soldiers and gendarmes in two attacks blamed
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Bomb blast In St Charles Catholic Church kano
Kano- Bomb blast hits a Church in Kano state
It has been confirmed that bomb blast has just event off in a Catholic Church in kano state few minutes ago "St Charles Catholic Church" Casualties are not yet confirmed. God help us
It has turned into a "Black Sunday" for the people of kano state
Only God can save us from all this
More updates Coming.
It has been confirmed that bomb blast has just event off in a Catholic Church in kano state few minutes ago "St Charles Catholic Church" Casualties are not yet confirmed. God help us
It has turned into a "Black Sunday" for the people of kano state
Only God can save us from all this
More updates Coming.
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Bomb Scare: Man Believed To Be Emir’s Son Arrested In Kano
Commotion crippled activities as the Kano State Police, on Wednesday, arrested a man believed to be a prominent Emir’s son for allegedly triggering a bomb scare pandemonium in Kano.
The Kano Police arrested the middle-aged man, supposedly a Jigawa prince, who refused to stop when asked to by security operatives, thereby sparking off fears of a suicide bomber and forcing resident to run.
He was allegedly seen driving a black SUV recklessly towards Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, located in the busy Kano-Zaria federal highway, and refused to stop for security checks.
The prince was said to have forced his way into the school campus and the ensuing commotion crippled academic activities as students ran in various directions to avoid being victims of suicide bombing.
An account further revealed that the suspect later confessed to the guards that he had no link with terrorists claiming that he was there “to see a friend”.
The account said that when the identity of the man became clearer, fleeing students returned in anger and were about administering jungle justice when the Police arrived.
Security sources revealed that “the Police had to apply minimum force to contain order while the suspect was taken to the police station.
A top Police officer told Vanguard on condition of anonymity that hard drugs were recovered from his vehicle, adding that investigation had since commenced.
Commenting on the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in Kano confirmed the arrest but added that they were “yet to establish the identity of the detained suspect.”
Source: Channels TV
Source: Channels TV
Monday, 30 June 2014
NAFDAC seals 400 illegal pharmaceutical outfits in Lagos, Kano
LAGOS—National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control, NAFDAC, weekend shut
over 400 pharmaceutical stores over sale and distribution
of substandard, spurious, falsely labeled, falsified
counterfeit medical products, SSFFC in Lagos and Kano
states.
Disclosing this in Lagos, the Director-General of
NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, also said fake products valued at
N700 million were seized by the Federal Task Force
consisting of NAFDAC, and other stakeholders such as
the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, PCN, Nigeria Police
Force, NPC and Nigeria Customs Service among others.
Among the areas raided by the taskforce included
Idumota and Mushin in Lagos, as well as Sabon-Gari drug
market in Kano State.
Orhii noted that the operation to seal the stores and
confiscate products was code-named, ‘Operation
Porcupine’, a follow-up to ‘Operation Mamba’ in East
Africa in 2008 and ‘Operation Cobra’ which took place in
seven West African countries in 2011.
He explained that the medicines discovered included
counterfeit and expired products such as antibiotics,
aphrodisiacs with pornographic pictorials, anti-malarials,
multivitamins, endocrinals like misoprostol, expired
oxytocin injection and controlled products like Tramadol
and Diazepam.
Orhii said banned products such as Analgin injection,
condoms with unapproved pictorials and improperly
stored vaccines like Tetanus Toxoid were among the
products.
”The Tramadol Hydrochloride capsules discovered
contained 200mg as opposed to approved dosage form of
50mg,” he said.
Orhii said the crackdown was aimed at combating
pharmaceutical crime including smuggling and sale of
substandard counterfeit medicines at Sabon-Gari drug
market, Kano where SSFFC medical products were seized
and evacuated on June 24.
