The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Kano State, has said 587,440 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs were yet to be collected in the state. The Public Relations Officer of the Commission, Alhaji Garba Lawal disclosed this in an interview with Saturday Vanguard on Thursday. A total of 5,457,747 eligible voters were registered in Kano, while […]
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Kano State Government has declared today as public holiday to mark the new Islamic year. 1440 AH. This is contained in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Youth and Culture, Malam Muhammad Garba. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje was quoted as congratulating Muslims the world over for witnessing the New Year, which commences in the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved ₦61.4 billion for the development of water and agricultural facilities in Kano State, the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has disclosed. Also, the Federal Government has signed a ₦12.7 billion agreement with the Kano State Government in order to increase access to improved water supply, sanitation and hygiene for […]
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The Kano State Government has set up a nine-man committee to recover over ₦900 million given as loans to rice farmers under the Anchor Borrower Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Prof. Mahmoud Daneji, the Managing Director of the state Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (KNARDA), disclosed this in an interview with newsmen […]
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Kano State Government said it had approved ₦578 million for the payment of 44, 654 primary school teachers and other non-teaching personnel under the state’s Universal Basic Education Board. The Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, made this known on Tuesday in a statement by the Press Secretary to the state Governor, Malam Ameen […]
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Kano state government has awarded a sum of N200 million to farmers for tomato seedlings purchase to contain the tomato virus ‘tuta absoluta’ that ravaged tomato farmers in the state in 2015. The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba stated this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the weekly State Executive Council Meeting on […]
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Kano Electricity Distribution Company has lamented that it is recording losses of about N180 million yearly due to the persistent attacks on its facilities by vandals within Kano metropolis. KEDCO’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Khandi, made the disclosure, while conducting newsmen around some areas where KEDCO facilities, particularly transformers were vandalised in Hotoro, Sharada and […]
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KANO State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has signed into law, the state’s 2016 Appropriation Bill, assuring that its implementation would commence immediately. The budget, tagged ‘A Peoples Budget for Self Reliance,’ is in the tune of N274.3 billion, with 70 per cent of it devoted to capital expenditure, while 30 per cent was set […]
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