LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Lassa fever has killed no fewer than nineteen people in Nigeria.The dreaded disease was reported to have killed three people in Kano and sixteen in Ondo state. Kano State Commissioner for Health, Aminu Tsanyawa, told journalists on Wednesday that the victims of the virus include a pregnant woman and two medical doctors,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Kano State has dismissed a bribery suit against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, for lack of evidence. The suit was filed by a Kano-based lawyer Bulama Bukarti. The lawyer asked the court to mandate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate Ganduje for allegedly receiving a kickback…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Kano State and the immediate past senator representing Kano Central, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, escaped been killed in Kano as armed thugs attacked him. The Kwankwasiyya (a group of Kwankwaso’s supporters) spokesperson, Hajiya Binta Sipikin, alleged that the thugs members of the All progressives Congress (APC). They reportedly laid an…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate’s court in Kano has sentenced an artiste, Mohammed Yusuf, to two years imprisonment for defaming the character of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in a viral song. Popularly known as AGY, Yusuf recorded the hit song which mocked the governor’s alleged dollar bribe, creation of new Kano emirates and election rigging. Daily…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shehu Sadiya, a 17-year-old girl, has killed herself over a disagreement that broke out between her parents that led to her father deciding to divorce her mother. Sadiya, who hailed from Tudun Murtala quarters, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State, killed herself on Monday by taking insecticide. It was gathered that…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)–A Kano State high court Wednesday declared the appointment and the installation of four new emirs by the Kano State government as null and void. It ordered a return to status quo pending the hearing of the suit against the appointment of the emirs filed by one Rabiu Salihu Garwzo. Counsel to…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has put a lie to the rumour going round that he is at present in Kano and meddling in the Kano elections. “Asiwaju is not in Kano and has not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of these elections. The picture…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A football player, Salisu Muhammad, 18, of Yakasai quarters, Kano Municipal local government, has allegedly stabbed his own coach over argument on football. The deceased, Mujitapha Musa, 30, also of Yakasai quarters, was said to have passed away on the way to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, following the injury he sustained in…