2023 Winning Strategy: Call For Sharia In Kano While Christians Are Romancing ‘Taqiya’ In Lagos
Taqiya is a feminine name of Islamic origin, a fitting portrait of a beauty who is polite and has good morals. Who will not want to associate with such elegance! But there is the flip side. Taqiya literally means “prudence,…
Fire Guts Another Kano Market
A night fire on Tuesday razed down many shops and temporary stalls at Kano’s century-old market, Kasuwar Kurmi. The famous market, located in the heart of the city, was a center of trans-Saharan trade in the pre-colonial era. On March…
How Kwankwaso Built Houses Pensioners Can’t Afford With N4.1bn Pension Fund
The immediate past Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, spent N4.1 billion of pensioners’ funds building houses the retired workers could not afford, an official has said. The Kano State Commissioner of Information, Mohammed Garba, stated this on a Hausa discussion…
Sharia: 9 To Die For ‘Blasphemy’ In Kano, Says Court
An Upper Sharia Court, sitting at Rijiyar Lemo in Kano State, has sentenced nine persons to death for blasphemy against the Prophet of Islam. Abdul-Inyas, Hajiya Mairo and seven others who were tried secretly, according to Premium Times report, committed…
Strange Fire: How Kano INEC’s REC, Family Died After Presidential Election
The Police in Kano has ruled out sabotage in the death of Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Alhaji Munkaila Abdullahi who died along with his wife and daughters in a fire incident on Thursday….