LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has urged Kano state government to execute the court judgement that found Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a singer, guilty of blasphemy, despite public outcry. According to NAN, in a statement by Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, its secretary-general, in Kaduna on Tuesday, the council said executing the judgement will serve…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A musician in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March….
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), on Tuesday, said that 34 doctors have tested positive to the novel coronavirus in the state. The NMA Chairman, Sanusi Bala, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that one of the confirmed cases has died. Mr Bala explained that…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Squadron Commander 9 Police Mobile Force Kano, Atiku Mohammed Nagodi has reportedly passed away. The top officer was said to have died this yesterday morning, according to a Police Superintendent identified as Abdullahi Bala Rano, who shared the sad news on Facebook. The cause of the squadron commander’s death was not…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Out of the 59 active cases of coronavirus in Kaduna State, 50 were found among repatriated Almajirai pupils from Kano State, the state’s Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said. Governor El-Rufai on Twitter announced that the state now has recorded 50 cases from the repatriated Almajirai, adding that the total number of…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There are indications that 80 out of every 100 people tested for coronavirus in Kano State test positive to it. This is as the Head of Communications, UNICEF Field Office in Kano State, Rabiu Musa, died died on Saturday May 2. His death is among those of several dignitaries who died in…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna has recorded 14 more Covid-19 cases from almajiris repatriated from Kano, Commissioner of Health, Dr Amina Mohammed Baloni has confirmed. Dr Baloni, who made the disclosure while briefing the daily meeting of the State Standing Committee on COVID-19 on Saturday, saying that, the figure may rise as more test results are…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Malam Rabiu Musa, Head of Communications in the Kano Field Office of UNICEF, is dead. His son, Musa Rabiu, who confirmed the death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano, said that the UNICEF official died on Saturday at the age of 60. “My dad died at about 3 a.m…