THE presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso has faulted the new naira swap deadline, claiming it only affects the masses and not the political elites who he said have banks. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had on Sunday extended the deadline for the swapping of the newly-designed naira notes, bowing to pressure from many quarters. But Kwankwaso said the February 10th deadline given by the apex bank is not enough, arguing that if the move was meant to curb vote-buying as many believe, the aim would be defeated since major politicians have access to…
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A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Kano has granted an order for leave to immediately investigate, arrest and prosecute the Kano State APC chairman Abdullahi Abbas over threat to life, distraction of peace and hate speeches. Mr. Mahmoud Lamido, a citizen of Kano has approached the court through his counsel Barr. Bashir Yusuf Muhammad Tudun Wazirchi seeking for the immediate arrest of the APC chairman Abdullahi Abbas for issuing a threat to his life via phone call insinuating that he would kill him (sai na batar da kai). Justice S.A. Amobeda of the Federal High Court 3 sitting in Kano…
THE Kano State Hisbah Board has concluded investigation on Malama Khadija Rano, who was alleged to have dissolved her marriage to marry her daughter’s suitor. In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Board, Alhaji Lawan Ibrahim on Tuesday and made available to News Point Nigeria in Kano said: “chairman of the committee who doubles as Deputy Commander in charge of operations of the Board, Malam Hussain Ahmed, said the committee had found out that the marriage was legal and had fulfilled all the necessary criteria. Ahmed said Khadija was divorced by her husband and had observed the…
THE Commissioner of Education Kano state, Rt Hon Ya’u Abdullahi Yan’shana has plaged his support and cooperation with Development Partners working towards supporting the state education sector. He made the assertion when he recieved the Managing Director of the Development Alternative Incorporation (DAI) UK Global, Mr Kent Smith on a courtesy visit in his office. In a signed statement by the Director Enlightenment, Ministry of Education, Aliyu Yusuf, issued and made available to News Point Nigeria, Tuesday, the Commissioner expressed appreciation over the contributions of PLANE, a project under the supervision of the DAI, He then noted that their support…
A RENOWNED physicist and former Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Professor Ibrahim Umar Bichi is dead. His son, Farouk Ibrahim Umar confirmed the development, Monday night, announcing that the burial ceremony would hold at the Kano Emir’s Palace, Kofar Kudu by 10am on Tuesday. The deceased, who served as BUK VC between 1979 and 1986, was the third head of the institution. He was the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at the university in 1976. He was a member of the Nigerian delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference from 1989 and was…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday in Kano State alleged that some foreign elements are suspected to be part of those using Boko Haram to destroy the country. Buhari, who made the disclosure during a launch, held in his honour at Kano Government House said, “it is unfortunate that Boko Haram stopped the country from tapping its resources in Lake Chad Basin. “We have shown Nigerians and the rest of the world that we have so many natural resources. He recalled how Boko Haram insurgents took over the control of 17 Local Government Areas in Borno State out of the 27…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, unveiled 10 megawatts Solar energy project in the Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State the cost of $15 million (N120 billion) towards enhancing power supply to industries and for domestic use. While unveiling the project, Buhari expressed the hope that it would help to revive ailing industries that depend on electricity to power their giant plants in the state. In his remarks, the Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, Aminu Sagir, described the project as a progress for the people towards adding value to the economy. According…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the Emir Palace in Kano, Monday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the Dala Inland Dryport, in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State. The President arrived at exactly 10:32 a.m., accompanied by some of his cabinet members. The President was received by the Governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Ganduje and the Minister of Transportation, Mr Jaaji Sambo and the Managing Director of the Dala inland Dryport Ahmad Rabiu. Other dignitaries at the event included the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr. Emmanuel Jime; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Magdalene Ajani and the former Executive Secretary, NSC, Mr Hassan Bello.
Bello IN the 80s, as a young man, while his mates latched onto football and other extracurricular activities, he chose scouting. He later became a patrol leader and eventually a troop leader. Years later, after he has cut his teeth in active journalism that saw him serving in many parts of the country, he accidentally veered into a familiar terrain for which his formative years as a a scout has prepared him. Sought out by Mr Augustine Ogannah, publisher of The Will online platform, he began working incognito for the late National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, providing…
THE Igbo Community and Association Leaders in Kano have endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. This was stated during a consultation visit by frontline campaigner of Atiku Abubakar in Kano, Alhaji Ibrahim Ali Amin Little to the Eze Ndigbo Na Kano Ikechukwu Oliver Akpudo in his palace. The Eze described Atiku Abubakar through his spokesman as a bridge builder who has worked for the unity of this country since time immemorial. The Community that comprised of notable traders, business men and women assured the delegation of their maximum support to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. “As…
THE governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has expressed the state’s willingness to receive the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) ahead of the inauguration of some projects. He said this on Sunday while speaking to journalists after a meeting with President Buhari in Katsina. “We are very much ready to receive him and we have a lot for him to commission, including Federal Government projects and state government projects. They are state-of-the-art projects,” Ganduje said. Hours earlier, the state had written to the president seeking a postponement of the visit over the “suffering” caused by the deadline for the…
THE All Progressive Congress has received over ten thousand supporters who decamped from their various political parties to APC, the parties that loses their supporters to APC include NNPP, PDP, and APGA among others. The event took place at the Afficent event center Magajin Rumfa Kano, under the USIR Northwest Project for 2023 Led by the convener Haiiya Umma Salma Isyaku Rabiu. In her remarks, the convener Hajiya Umma Salma Isiyaku Rabiu said the purpose of the gathering was to receive political supporters from various parties, who have decamped to APC. “Today, we gathered here, to celebrate these 10,000 people,…
THE Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami said that the market value of Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) in Nigeria has hit N5.5 billion. Pantami disclosed this at a press briefing to mark the commencement of the 2023 Global Data Privacy Week on Saturday in Abuja. Pantami said: ”Data is critical to the country and it is a global best practice, otherwise it will be difficult to attract so many interventions and benefits to the country.” He said that data privacy was not only an enabling law but a constitutional right as long as citizens were innocent…
DEEPLY concerned with the Central Bank of Nigeria policy on redesigned naira notes and for security reasons, Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, had written to the Presidency to postpone the visit of the President Muhammadu Buhari, to the state. This is contained in a statement by Ganduje’s Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar, a copy of which was made available to News Point Nigeria in Kano on Saturday. According to Anwar, Ganduje made this known during an interactive session with scholars, legislators, political leaders and business community in the state at Government House, Kano on Friday, adding that the decision was…
AS part of its move to effectively utilize the affiliate Institutes under Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology Wudil, the Vice Chancellor, Prof Musa Tukur Yakasai has announced the relocation of Faculty of Technology and Business Education and Institute of Continuing and Innovative Education from Wudil to its Campus at Karfi with immediate effect. According to a signed statement by the Deputy Registrar, IPR Unit, Abdullahi Datti Abdullahi, also relocated to Karfi Campus is the proposed e-Learning Centre, while the Sports Institute will continue to remain there. The statement said, Prof Yakasai made the disclosure on Thursday when…
ALL is set for the commissioning of the Dala International Inland Dry Port on Monday 31st January, 2023 by President Muhammadu Buhari at Zawachiki in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano state,. The Managing Director of the international inland dry port Ahmad Rabiu stated this while addressing newsmen on the preparation for the inauguration of the port at its headquarters in Kano. Rabiu, who was joined by the Chairman of the Dala Dry Port, Alhaji Abubakar Sahabu Bawuro said, it is the first international inland dry port where cargoes will go anywhere in the world from Kano state without follow…
The Kano State Government and Islamic clerics from Tijjaniyya, Qadiriyya, and Izala sects in the state have called on the Federal Government to extend the January 31 deadline set by the Central Bank of Nigeria, to stop accepting old naira notes. The call was sequel to the resolution of a meeting by the state governor Ganduje, top government officials, and Islamic clerics at the Government House on Thursday. The meeting, according to a statement by Hassan Musa Fagge, Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor, on Friday, noted that economic activities had been paralyzed in Kano due to hardship caused…
THE Nigeria Union of Journalists Special Delegates Conference session sitting in Kano on Thursday expunged the National Orientation Agency from its constitution. The special delegate session presided over by the union’s National President, Chris Isiguzo, took the decision during the constitution review session. All delegates agreed that NOA employees would no longer be granted the same rights as NUJ members. Also, NOA elected officials would be allowed to exhaust their terms of office. Similarly, the delegates made a new law barring members of staff of Ministries of Information adjudged to be non-practising journalists from being accorded NUJ membership. In addition,…
THE Founder and Chairman Governing Council of Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria (MAAUN), Kano, Prof Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo has charged Journalists in the country to always look beyond religious, ethnic and regional affiliation while discharging their professional duties. Prof Gwarzo gave the charge on Wednesday, 25th January, 2023, when the national leaders of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by its National President, Chief Chris Isiguzo paid him a courtesy visit at the University Campus, Hotoro GRA, Kano. He said the call was necessary in view of the fact that Nigeria is a big country with religious and…