THE Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has announced plans to drill the first oil well in Nassarawa State in March 2023 in continuation of its oil exploration activities in the country’s inland basins. Group chief executive officer of the company, Mallam Mele Kyari, who disclosed this when the governor of the State, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, led a delegation of prominent indigenes of Nassarawa on a courtesy visit to the NNPC Ltd in Abuja, said that results of exploratory activities confirmed the presence of substantial hydro carbon resources in the State. This was disclosed on Friday by the Chief Corporate…
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KANO state Sports Commission has approved the reappointment of Emir of Kano, HRH Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero as the Chairman of the State Basketball Association. In a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, Kano State Basketball Veterans Association, Ado Salisu and made available to News Point Nigeria, Friday, Galadima, also announced the disbandment of players of Kano Pillars Basketball team. Galadima explained that the reconstituting of the association board became necessary following the poor outings of the team. The chairman explained that, the board alongside other associations, which have been dissolved in 2021, deem it necessary to reconstitute the…
THE presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said whoever works against him in Kano in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election will regret it. Ganduje had recently told party supporters in the state that Kano will repeat what happened in the 1993 presidential election when it supported a southern candidate (late MKO Abiola) and rejected a citizen of the state (late Bashir Tofa), in a reference to voting massively for Tinubu against Kwankwaso. But responding days after, Kwankwaso said, “I had a rally not long ago, which was one of the best rallies.…
THE Chinese national standing trial for culpable homicide, Geng Quangrong, has told Justice Sanusi Ado Ma’aji how he was held under pressure by his late girlfriend and struggled to regain freedom during the ugly scene. Quangrong said that he did not want to inflict any life threatening injury on the late Ummukulsum Sani. At the continuation of defence at State High Court, Miller road, yesterday, the accused person told the court that Ummukulsum brought a shape knife from her room and attempted to stab him, before he struggled to retrieve the dangerous object, an ugly trend that occurred in the…
KANO State Chapter of Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) is to hold scientific conference and annual meeting at FABS Events Center, Magajin Rumfa road, Nassarawa GRA, Thursday. This was announced in a statement titled “Invitation to Attend Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria Scientific Conference and National Executive Council Meeting”, signed by MWAN Kano State, President Dr. Rahila Aliyu Mukhtar and MWAN National President, Dr L. A. Otolorin. The invitation announced that the three day event hosted by Kano Branch of MWAN will feature three major activities, namely “Medical Outreach, MWAN NEC meeting and a scientific conference” with the theme,…
THE Chinese national, Geng Quangrong, accused of killing his Nigerian lover, UmmulKulsum Sani Buhari – Ummita in Kano, open defense by standing as a withness himself. This came after the plaintiffs finished presenting their evidence before trial judge, Sanusi Ado Maaji, Wednesday. At the hearing today, Mr Quandong appeared in the court with an interpreter, Guo Cumru, a fellow Chinese national who interpreted his narration from Mandarin to English. Geng told the court how he met Ummulkhuksum, stating that the deceased was introduced to him through her friend and she reached out to him, and their relationship was mutual as…
WITH about four months until the completion of his tenure, Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade, on Tuesday, swore in Adamu Musa and 12 others as commissioners. With the development, Musa becomes the first non-indigene Muslim to be appointed a commissioner in the state. The governor also used the occasion to announce a minor cabinet reshuffle in two ministries, which saw Eric Anderson, the former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, assume the office of Commissioner for Information and Orientation. Similarly, Oliver Orok who helmed the Ministry of Sustainable Development, is now the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources. The new…
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State, has directed that the Sani Abacha Stadium and other government facilities be made available to all political parties for their electioneering campaigns for 2023 poll. This is contained in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba on Monday in Kano. Garba said that the gesture was due to government’s commitment to ensure a level playing ground for all political parties in the state. “The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state believes that as citizens, the opposition elements have right to use public property for the conduct of…
THE National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Kano State said it received 1500 complaints of alleged human rights abuses in 2022. The NHRC state Coordinator, Alhaji Shehu Abdullahi, disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Monday in Kano. He said that out of this, 1,296 cases had been treated, while 204 were pending. Abdullahi said 1,320 cases bordered on sexual and gender violence, threat to life, harmful cultural practices. He said others included witchcraft, female genital mutilation and abandonment of family responsibility which was the most rampant. He added that 120 cases were on denial of children’s rights, to…
THE New Nigeria Peoples’ Party (NNPP) on Monday inaugurated its 2023 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) known as Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (RMK2023 PCC)for the success of the party in the 2023 presidential election. The NNPP Presidential Candidate, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, inaugurating the council in Abuja, said NNPP would continue to work for a new and better Nigeria to kick-start from May 29. Kwankwaso said that the “RMK2023 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC)’’ was made up of four organs including the PCC, the Management of the PCC, the Board of Advisors, and the Committees of the PCC. He said that all the…
A CHIEFTAIN of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and son of former Late Kano state governor Sabo Bakin Zuwo, Honourable Farouk Sabo Bakin Zuwo, has called on the security agencies in the state to as a matter of urgency, stop the disturbing use of thugs at public places by the presidential and guber candidates of the NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and Engineer Abba Yusuf. According to Bakin Zuwo, the airport is a security area, stressing that a slight derail can result into a serious security breach, and that is tantamount to tarnishing the good image of the state and nation…
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has said stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) unanimously settled for the state deputy governor, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, as governorship candidate of the party for the March 2023 poll because of the need for continuity. Speaking during a fund raising event organised by Gawuna’s friends in Abuja, Ganduje said the deputy governor was also chosen because of his loyalty, experience, acceptability, education and relationship with others. The governor said there is no other political party in Kano with credentials to defeat Gawuna. Ganduje said, “One cardinal point we used was the continuity…
SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil Branch congratulates the new Vice Chancellor, Professor Musa Tukur Yakasai and the new University Bursar Alhaji Aminu Tukur Halilu on their appointment and assumption of duty. In a statement issued to newsmen in Kano over the weekend, the chairperson of the branch, Comrade Isma’il Hussain, urged the new Vice Chancellor to restore good industrial relations between all stakeholders with a view to transforming the University for the better. According to him, the association welcomes the appointment of Prof. Yakasai, condideting his experience and immense contributions to…
THE Kano State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has inaugurated its presidential campaign council with former governor Ibrahim Shekarau as the director-general. Inaugurating the council yesterday in Kano, chairman of the PDP Northwest Senator Bello Hayatu, said it had about 1000 members. He said the party had drawn all members on yellow alert to ensure victory in not only the presidential election but in all the other contests. In his acceptance speech, Shekarau promised that his committee would do everything possible to ensure the party emerges victorious despite the case they have at the Appeal Court. The former…
KANO Police Command have arrested a twenty-year-old boy, Ghadaffi Sagir, who has confessed to killing his step mother with a sharp object and strangled her daughter in Kano. News Point Nigeria reports that the accused committed the crime on Saturday night around 11.00pm, at Rijiyar Zaki around Layin Dorawanyan Kifi, Ungogo local government area of Kano State. Confirming the arrest to News Point Nigeria on Sunday, Chairman, Ungogo local government council, Engr. Abdullahi Garba Ramat, said the accused claimed to have killed his step mother, Malama Rabi as she was the cause of separation between his mother and father, Malam…
A FORMER Kano state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Aliyu Sumaila is dead. Sumaila died Thursday night, 11:40pm, at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital after a brief illness, aged 76. In a statement issued on behalf of the family, by his son, Lawan Jaafar, the late Sumaila was buried according to Islamic rites at the Dandolo Cemetery in Kano, Friday. He was survived by two wives, two children and 20 other foster children. Sumaila was former chairman, Governing Council of the Federal College of Education, (FCE), Ubodo, former chairman of Lafiya Jari Kano and former Resident Consultant,…
THE Police Command in Adamawa State has deployed additional assets to ensure a hitch-free visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state. The command also ordered officers to display a high level of professionalism and respect for human rights. SP Suleiman Nguroje, the Command’s spokesman, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Yola. News Point Nigeria reports that Buhari will be in the state on Monday to flag off the governorship campaign rally of Sen. Aishatu Binani. He stated that the additional operational assets included, but were not limited to, surveillance patrol men, tactical/operational teams, Police Mobile Force…
THE Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) have been awarded N500 million each by the Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative for Africa (ASR Africa) Security Sector Support Grant. The spokesman of NIS, DCI Tony Akuneme, in a statement on Friday, said the award was in recognition of the many successes recorded by the NIS. According to the statement the Comptroller General of Immigration, Isah Jere Idris, while receiving the award letter, commended the Chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, for the initiative and for recognising the strides of the service. In the statement, Awa Franca of…
HIS Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has married a second wife, Hauwa’u Adamu Abdullahi Dikko in Kano on Friday. News Point Nigeria gathered that the secret wedding was conducted at the residence of the late Jarman Kano, Professor Isah Hashim, located at Nasarawa GRA in the metropolis. It was learnt that the Madakin Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Nabahani Ibrahim, represented the family of the groom during the marriage rites, while Alhaji Shehu Hashim served as that of the bride. Others that witnessed the wedding include Makaman Bichi, Alhaji Isyaku Umar Tofa, the Sarkin Dawaki Mai Tuta,…
A 40-year-old man, Nuhu Umar Usman, has reportedly shot dead his second wife, Ladi Nuhu, at Dangarfa village in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil, who confirmed the incident, said the suspect had been arrested. He said, “Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect slept in the same room with his ( the deceased) that night. The suspect had two wives and six children. “There was an altercation between the wives, to the extent that the eldest son holds grudges against the father and threatened to harm him. Prior to that…