A Kano State High Court has sentenced Abdulmalik Tanko and Hashim Isyaku to death by hanging following their conviction for kidnapping and culpable homicide. Abdulmalik Tanko, a school proprietor, and two others were charged for criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, confinement, and...
Abdulnaseer Argungu Kebbi State Governor, Sen. Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, has signed the Prohibiting Violence Against Individuals and the Law for the Protection of Child Rights (child right protection law) bills into law. This consist of the law which eliminates violence in...
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano has remanded a 40-year-old man, Lawan Kala, for raping a 10-year-old girl in the state. The prosecutor, Asma’u Ado told the Magistrate that Kala allegedly took advantage of the minor to defile her. The suspect,...
Veteran flutist, Omatshola Iseli, well known as Tee Mac, has said the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is not fit to be the president of the country in 2023. Tee Mac, who claimed to...
The Kano State Government has declared Monday as a public holiday to mark the beginning of the new year of the Islamic calendar, 1444 AH. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Kano State Commissioner for...
Kano residents are in last-minute rush to get their permanent voters’ cards (PVCs) ahead of the 2023 general election amidst frustration. The Star observed that many Kano residents are trooping to various registration centres to register as the July 31st...
Chief Austin Umahi has declined his appointment as the secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). Umahi, who is the younger brother of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, in a statement on Thursday in Abakaliki, however appreciated...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware of the terrorists’ threat to abduct him until he informed the President. The abductors of the March 28 Abuja-Kaduna-bound train passengers had in a video released over the...
Oando Plc, AA Rano, Sahara Energy Resources, Hyde have all denied involvement in fuel subsidy payments before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating subsidy regime. The oil companies said they only lifted crude oil and were not part...
The suspended Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Idris Ahmed, and his co-defendants have been granted bail on terms and conditions given by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of the FCT High Court in her ruling...