Hussaini Kafi in Kano Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has appointed Umar Farouk Ibrahim as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG). The appointment was announced in a statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, on Saturday. Ibrahim’s appointment takes effect from Monday, February 10, 2025. According to the statement,…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has approved the appointment of 109 substantive directors in the state’s civil service. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday, February 7, 2025, by the governor’s spokesperson, Ismaila Uba Misilli. According to the statement, the newly appointed directors include 23 from the administrative…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano In a significant move to enhance waste management and environmental sanitation, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has procured 10 new heavy-duty refuse evacuation trucks and 3 payloader excavators. This was contained in a statement issued by governor’s spokesperson Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa on Friday. The new equipment aims to improve the efficiency…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for intensified cross-border collaboration among Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon to eliminate circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVPV2) in the Lake Chad Basin. The call was made during the Meeting on Enhanced Cross-Border Synchronization of Activities in the Lake Chad Basin Countries, held at…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has led a delegation of government officials from Nigeria to kick start the repatriation of refugees that fled the Boko Haram crises to Baga Sola in Tchad Republic. The refugees, most of them indigenes of Borno, were displaced for nearly ten years by the insurgency…
Suspected bandits have kidnapped Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga (rtd.), a former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), along with 12 others in Tsiga village, Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State. Sources revealed that the abduction took place around midnight on Wednesday. However, no casualties were reported during the attack. Efforts to obtain…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano A fire outbreak occurred at a filling station in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, while a fuel tanker was offloading petrol. Despite the intensity of the fire, no lives were lost in the incident. The fire, which broke out along Numan Road near the Adamawa State airport, caused panic among…
Hussaini Ibrahim Kafi in Kano At least 17 students lost their lives in a tragic fire outbreak at an Almajiri school in Kauran Namoda, Zamfara State, on Tuesday night. The incident, which lasted for about three hours, also left several other students injured. Security expert Zagazola Makama confirmed the development in a post on X…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has warmly received the Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to Nigeria, His Excellency Mohsen Antit, along with a high-powered delegation of government officials and business leaders. This was contained in a statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, on Monday….
The Mental Health Crisis in northern Nigeria seems to be a perennial challenge. For some reasons linked to drug and substance abuse, state of insecurity, economic hardship, among others the phenomenon has reached an emergency situation in the region. AHR’s Hussaini Kafi in Kano, who gives a sad picture of the situation in his graphic…
