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900 NYSC members redeployed from Kano over safety concerns

March 26, 2013 no comments

The National Youth Service Corps has redeployed 900 of the 2,400 members it deployed to Kano state due to rising insecurity in the restive northern state. NYSC state coordinator, Salisu Yakasai, anno...

Four killed in petrol tanker explosion in Kano

March 25, 2013 no comments

At least four people were reported killed in a petrol tanker fire in Kano on Monday morning. Channels Television reported that the explosions occurred at 6 a.m. causing panic along BUK road in the me...

Four suspects arrested over multiple explosions in Kano

March 23, 2013 no comments

Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the bomb explosion in Kano on Saturday, Reuters reported. Kano state police spokesman, Magaji Majiya revealed this to the news agency in a phone in...

Two explosions reported in Kano

March 23, 2013 no comments

Two explosion were reported in Northern Nigeria’s largest city of Kano on Saturday, only days after its Sabon Gari district was hit by a major suicide car explosion that left over 40 dead. Deta...

Kano bus station bombings: 22 killed, 65 injured

March 19, 2013 no comments

Police on Tuesday confirmed that 22 people were killed in the Kano bus bombings on Monday. According to reports, at least 65 people were injured in the attack. As many as 30 people were feared dead a...

NEMA yet to determine death toll in Kano bus park explosion, over 30 ...

March 19, 2013 no comments

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency says they are yet to determine the number of people killed in the Kano explosions that has reportedly claimed over 30 lives. President Goodluck Jo...

Gunmen attack primary school in Kano state

March 13, 2013 no comments

Gunmen on Tuesday attacked Hausawa-Danmaliki Primary School in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State. News Agency of Nigeria reports that three teachers, including the headmaster were injured ...

Over 2000 cases of measles recorded in Kano and Katsina states

March 6, 2013 no comments

Over 2,000 cases of measles have been recorded in 11 local government areas of Kano state, as well as Katsina state reports said on Monday. In Kano, the state government said it recorded 800 cases of...

Wazobia FM journalists charged over polio vaccinators’ death in ...

February 12, 2013 no comments

A Kano Magistrate court has remanded in police custody three radio journalists in connection with the killings of nine female healthcare workers shot to death in the restive northern metropolis last ...

Kano state’s Gov Kwankwaso won’t be surprised by political...

February 8, 2013 no comments

In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Kano state’s Governor Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso addresses possible political connections to Boko Haram, the radical Islamist sect said to have killed some 3,0...

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