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NUC approves 11 academic programmes for Al-Istiqama University
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted full accreditation to eleven academic programmes at Al-Istiqama University, Sumaila, Kano State, following a comprehensive evaluation exercise conducted in late 2025. The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Abdulhadi Sale Kumurya, disclosed this in a statement, noting that the accreditation followed an exercise carried out in November and December...
NGO trains girls in Kano on making reusable sanitary pads
A non-governmental organisation, Frontier for Gender Advocacy, Accountability and Empowerment Initiative, has trained adolescent girls in Kano on the production of reusable sanitary pads as part of efforts to improve school attendance. The initiative, implemented under its EmpowerHer Cycle Projects, is aimed at addressing period poverty while equipping girls with skills, safety and dignity. Speaking...
House of Representatives approves ₦248.6 billion for Kano, Jos, and Ikeja electricity distribution companies.
House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has resolved to approve financial relief measures and a 10-year debt restructuring framework for the Kano, Jos, and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos). This framework covers accrued interest on debt from 2015 to September 2025, amounting to N128,575,190,740.54, as well as historical debts totaling N120,061,898,737, bringing the combined outstanding...
Remi Tinubu set to unveil ECoN initiative in Kano
The Kano State Government has announced that Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, is expected to officially launch the North-West zonal deployment of the “Energise Commercialisation Now (ECoN)” initiative in Kano, a flagship programme of the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology aimed at accelerating innovation and industrial development across the country. The three-day event, scheduled for...
Kano government sets up committee to oversee media activities.
The Kano State Government has said that the newly established Media Information Policy Drafting Committee was not an effort toward gagging the media, neither a move to stop the press from carrying out their job. Speaking while inaugurating the 18-member committee at the SSG office, the Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Waiya, said, “This Policy Committee...
Police in Kano dismantle suspected ‘spirit’ group
A syndicate of suspected fraudsters who allegedly posed as spirits, popularly referred to as “Aljannu,” to deceive and extort money from unsuspecting residents, has been dismantled by the Kano State Police. A press release by the command stated that the breakthrough followed intelligence on suspicious phone activities, stressing that operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad arrested...
