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  • Kano Pillars mourn late Udoji, say he was an asset

    Kano Pillars mourn late Udoji, say he was an asset

    Kano Pillars Football Club’s Technical Committee Chairman, on Monday in Kano described the late Chinedu Udoji as an asset and a dedicated player.
    Chinedu Udoji, a central defender, died in a ghastly motor accident Sunday night, some hours after playing in the club’s home 1-1 draw with visiting Enyimba International FC of Aba.
    “His death was shocking and a great loss to the football family,’’ Haladu said in a statement signed by the club’s Media Officer, Rilwanu Malikawa.
    Udoji lost his life along Independence road in the Bompai area of Kano.
    According to reports, he was heading to his Badawa quarters residence after he visited the hotel where members of Enyimba International FC had lodged for the Match Day 9 fixture.

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    Udoji spent many years with Enyimba, where he won several honours with them before joining Kano Pillars two years ago.
    He was said to be riding alone in his car with registration number KSF 499 BF when the accident happened.
    The corpse of the late Udoji has been deposited at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano and the incident reported to the Bompai Police Division.
    Haladu said the Kano Pillars’ management, technical crew, players, fans and the entire football family in Kano were in shock Monday morning following the player’s death.
    He said the club officials were processing all necessary documentation before taking Udoji’s corpse to his family for burial.
    “Our deepest condolences to his family, friends, fans, and football lovers all across the country,” Kano Pillars also said in a tweet about the incident.
    Born in 1989, the centre-back joined Kano Pillars ahead of the 2016/2017 season after spending seven years with Enyimba following his arrival from FC Abuja.
    He is survived by his wife and kids.

    NAN

  • Three girls suffocate to death in Kano

    Three girls suffocate to death in Kano

    Three girls were suffocated to death in an abandoned vehicle with registration number AR 687 TRN last Friday in Kano.

    The incident, which occurred on Warri/Ibo road, shocked residents who wondered how the kids found themselves inside the abandoned vehicle covered by dust.

    It was gathered the children were trapped inside the vehicle unknown to people before they were rescued by sympathisers.

    They reportedly smashed the glass windows of the car before the lifeless bodies were removed.

    Only a five-year- old boy, who has been admitted at the Armed Forces Specialist Hospital, was brought out unconscious.

    The remains of the three girls aged between two and four years have been deposited at the Armed Forces mortuary while awaiting police report before release of the bodies to the bereaved parents.

    According to an eyewitness account, the kids, who returned from school at about 12 noon, were asked by their parents to go and sleep.

    But one of the deceased girls, fond of taking a nap after school, reportedly declined her parent’s directives.

    The deceased mother left the kids and proceeded to her nearby shop only to discover that they were unusually out of sight three hours later.

    The development led to a desperate search for their whereabouts.

    The bereaved woman, who lost her only two daughters, refused to talk when contacted as she was still in a state of shock following the sudden death of two of her siblings simultaneously.

    The father of the two deceased girls simply known as Baba Ilorin said the incident was an act of God, declaring he has left the matter for God to decide.

    He bemoaned the loss of Aisha, 2, and Habiba 4.

    He said they were picked from school close to the house by the their mother but got missing Immediately they returned home.

    “I was at my working place in Kofar Ruwa where I sell spare parts when my wife called me to notify me that they were looking for the children.

    “On getting home around 5pm, four children were discovered to have been trapped inside the vehicle.

    “The vehicle had been parked for nearly three months with the owner looking for somebody to buy it. The children were rushed to the hospital where they were confirmed dead.

    “Out of fear, the owner of the vehicle, called Baba Blessing, who is a neighbor, rushed to the police station to notify them of the incidence and the police came to pick his wife and children.”

    Police spokesman, DSP Magaji Majia, confirmed the incident.

    He said the police have invited owner of the vehicle for questioning, adding investigations into the matter have commenced.

     

  • Three kids suffocated to death in Kano

    Three kids suffocated to death in Kano

    Tragedy struck in the ancient city of Kano on Saturday when three children were suffocated to death in an abandoned vehicle.
    The incident happened along Warri/lbo road in Sabon Gari area of Fagge local government area.
    It was gathered that four children, two of them of the the same parents were playing around the unserviceable vehicle parked for over a year at the spot of the incident.
    Unknown to the people around the vicinity, the four children between the ages of two to four years had gain entrance into the vehicle and got trapped and suffocated to death.While one of them survive and admitted in the hospital receiving treatment.
    Contacted the Kano state Police command spokesman DSP magaji musa majia confirmed the incident.
    He said the owner of the vehicle have been invited for questioning, as investigation is ongoing.
  • FIRS shuts tax defaulting firms in Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt

    FIRS shuts tax defaulting firms in Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt

    A multi-billion naira company, African Textile Management Limited was among four companies that were sealed up by the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) in Kano for non-payment of tax liabilities totaling N130.5 million during an enforcement exercise.

    Other companies affected include Dumma Company Limited, situated at NNPC Depot, Taura Road, Hotoro Quarters, which owes N24.4 million in Company Income Tax; Dennis Auto Supply Company Limited with a tax debt of N62.6 million and A.Y and B Nigeria Limited, a construction firm in Abuja with its branch office in Kano. The company is indebted to the tune of N29.9 million.

    On Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the FIRS enforcement team sealed the premises of Halden Nigerian Limited, located in Trans-Amadi Layout; Steve Integrated Technical Services Limited, Oil Field Services, Engineering and Equipment Leasing and Stemco Limited at Woji Road, GRA. The companies have tax debt profiles of N197.6million, N297.4million and N131.7 million respectively. Leader of the FIRS team, Mrs. Anita Erinne, told officials of the three companies that their tax obligations must be met before their premises would be reopened.

    Also on Tuesday, an FIRS team, led by Mrs. Ruth Mandeun, sealed-off Interior Specifics, located at Plot 697, Amodu Tijani Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, over a tax debt of N17.125 million. Equally sealed were MP Engineering Contractors and Swiss Trade Limited, which owe N79.324 million and N11.099 million respectively.

    On Monday, the service sealed Crown Realities, located at 3A, Lalupon Close in Ikoyi a tax debt of N86.3 million. The team also sealed-off Mega Equities Limited at 4A, Force Road, Onikan, Lagos. The FIRS said the company owes N144.9, a figure disputed by a member of staff of the company. Also in Lagos, the FIRS sealed Medplus Ph.

  • ‘Kano to domesticate criminal justice law’

    The Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015 will soon be domesticated in Kano State, the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Mr. Ibrahim Mukhtar has said.

    He spoke during the a Legislative Advocacy and Sensitisation Workshop on the Domestication and implementation of the ACJA, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association ( NBA) in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation.

    NBA First Vice-President and Chairman of the association’s Human Rights Institute, Mr. Caleb Dajan, who represented NBA President Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), said he was pleased that Kano was about to domesticate the law.

    He urged stakeholders to cooperate towards achieving its speedy passage and domestication.

    The project coordinator, Muritala Abdul-Rasheed, noted that before the enactment ACJA, states operated either the Criminal Penal Code (CPC) or the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA).

    He said the old laws were unable to deal with the challenges of long adjournments, congestion, over reliance on technicalities, corruption, collapsing infrastructure, among others.

    “ACJA is aimed at promoting the efficient management of the criminal justice system in Nigeria, speedy dispensation of justice and protection of the interests of both the suspect and victim of crime.

    “For these to be achieved, the law needs to be adopted by all states in the federation to ensure uniformity, clarity and better justice administration,” he said.

    Mukhtar said the draft bill includes provisions to ensure that torture is eliminated in the process of investigation.

    “We didn’t have any criminal justice law in the state but when I came in, with the approval of my Governor, I set up a 16 member committee which I chair because of its importance.

    “The purpose was to look at the existing Criminal Procedure Code and the new ACJA provisions with the hope that we will have a better criminal procedure law combining both the old and new innovations to have the best law in the country,” Mukhtar told our reporter.

    Kano’s 10-man Monitoring and Implementation Committee was inaugurated by Dajan.

    They are Mohammed Inuwa Musa (Chairman), Sagir Sulaiman (Secretary), Mustapha Imam, Salisu Marmara, Sanusi  Maáji, Ekwe Osogu (A deputy superintendent of police), Hussaina Ibrahim, Hauwa Jauro, Basiru Yunusa and M.M Gambo.

    Prof. A.B Ahmed, who represented Prof. Muhammed Tabiu (SAN), described the ACJA as a wonderful legislation and a great reform in the development of the criminal justice system in Nigeria.

    “The ACJA is the result of various consultations on the failure of the CPC and CPA and proceeded to combine both,” he said.

  • APC sweeps Kano LG polls

    APC sweeps Kano LG polls

    Kano State Independent Electoral Commission KANSIEC has declared All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the Saturday local government election.
    Declaring the results at a press conference at the KANSIEC headquarters on Sunday, Chairman of the commission Prof. Garba Ibrahim Sheka said the ruling APC swept all the 44 chairmanship and 484 cancellorship seats.
    According to security reports received during and after the council poll,  the Chairman said no arrest was  made nor any violence recorded as the election ended peacefully.
    Prof. Sheka said that 25 political parties, including People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which featured one chairmanship candidate, participated in the just concluded council election.
    Sheka who acknowledged the challenges and success that characterized the conduct of the election however dismissed allegations of alleged malpractises insisted the action was the handwork of mischieve makers.
    The Chairman who acknowledged the delayed in the comencement of the election in almost all the polling units attributed the shortcomings to late arrival of sensitive materials which were ordered from China.
    He explained that the commission had to immediately sort for alternative measure by contacting Ethopia Ambassador in Nigeria to facilitate the use of Ethiopian airlines to convey the last consignment of the electoral materials back to the country.
    The KANSIEC chairman,  revealed that the commission received N600million from the state government for the payment of 35,000 ad-hoc staff and 44 presiding officers engaged across the local councils.
  • Mentally deranged man, 43, beheaded in Kano

    Mentally deranged man, 43, beheaded in Kano

    A mentally deranged man,  aged 43, simply identified as Auwalu Magaji, was last week Saturday beheaded by unknown persons at a makeshift (Mai shayi joint) at Tamburawa, Kura Local Government Area at the outskirts of Kano metropolis.

    According to our source, Haladu Gundutse Mohammed, who is a night guard within the vicinity, from where tippers load gravel to the city centre, said he, alongside others found the headless body at a Mai Shayi makeshift joint at about 6:am when the gate of the enclave was usually opened for  the day’s business.

     ”On Saturday, February 3, 2018, workers, tea sellers, alongside others within the local community woke up at about 6:am on the sad day to be confronted, with the headless body of the  Auwalu.” Dumbfounded, over the strange discovery, residents hurriedly reported the sad incident to the Kura Local Government Police Division, as well as the council leadership.”

    Thereafter, our source, said Kura Local Government officials rushed to the scene, with a Toyota Hilux, met the headless body, which was still dripping, with blood and conveyed the remains to the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, where it was deposited at the mortuary.

    Also, he said, the Police at the Kura Division have since commenced investigation to unravel the mystery behind the murder, whose head could not be found, suggesting that his assailants must have escaped, with the head for ritual purposes.

    Furthermore, according to our source, the assailants dragged the headless body of the insane man to a river bank, within the vicinity, from where tippers load sand and dumped his body, without the head.

    Meanwhile, it was also learnt that following a local radio announcement, the mentally deranged man’s body, aged about 43 has been claimed by his relatives, who came from Kasaure, Jigawa State from where Awalu located to Kano about two years ago before meeting his waterloo.

    Contacted, Spokesman of the Kano State Police Command, DSP Musa Magaji Majiya, who confirmed the murder, said a crack Police detective team, which was dispatched to the scene have since commenced investigation, so as to arrest and bring the perpetrators to book.

  • Kano Council Polls: Police Deploys 12,000 Personnel.

    Kano Council Polls: Police Deploys 12,000 Personnel.

    Police in Kano yesterday announced the deployment of 12,000 Police men and other security personnel for the Saturday local government election in the state.

    According to a statement issued by the command’s spokesman DSP Magaji Musa Majiya said that the election will be manned by the security personnel in order to forestall  any possible break down of law and order.

    Majiya explained there will be restriction of vehicular movement which will commence between 6am and 4pm on the election day, adding that no tricycles  or motorcycles will be allowed to operate within the stipulated time.

    “Eligible voters can go out and cast their votes but will not be allowed on any vehicle, motorcycle or, and tricycle.

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    “No state government security agencies, such as hisbah, KAROTA vigilante, boyscout, Man’O’ war will be allowed to dress in uniform to monitor the election.

    Magaji also explained that no person will be allowed to carry any bag,  boxes or suspicious item close to any pulling station and collation center.

    He further hinted that carrying dangerous weapon on the election day adding that a joint operations centers for all security agencies have been put in place to monitor the conduct of the election.

     

  • Kano LG Poll: Security agencies warn parties against violence

    Kano LG Poll: Security agencies warn parties against violence

    Security operatives in Kano State, on Wednesday, warned candidates and political parties ahead of Saturday Local Government election in the state, not to indulge in any act capable of causing mayhem during or after the election.

    Addressing candidates and party leaders, ahead of the February 10 Local Government election in the state, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabi’u Yusuf, who gave the warning ,said that politics is not about violence or thuggery.

    Yusuf, who is the Chairman lnter security Agencies Forum appealed to the candidates and party leaders, to play the game according to the rules, by avoiding campaigns that may breed any unpleasant consequences, because politics is not a do-or-die affair.

    According to him, “we the security agencies in the state do not belong to any political party. Ours, is to provide security, and as such, I will like you, contestants and party leaders, to talk to your electorates, about your products, and at the end, they can vote for the candidate of their choice.

    “I am sounding a note of warning to you, we will not tolerate violence or carrying dangerous weapons during the election. Anyone caught will face the wrath of the law.

    “There will be restriction of movement on the election day. After casting your vote, you are advised to immediately leave the area, because we shall not condone loitering.

    “We are not politicians but make sure we provide enabling environment for a hitch-free exercise, as we will not hesitate to deal decisively with anyone trying to scuttle the election.

    ” You should learn to accept defeat, as God has already chosen the winners. Accepting defeat will bring peace and tranquility in our society.

    Meanwhile, the representatives of all the political parties unanimously agreed in the peace accord to abide by all the laws governing the conduct of election.

  • Ganduje reshuffles Media Team

    Ganduje reshuffles Media Team

    Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has approved the appointment of Malam Aminu Kabir Yassar as the Director-General, Media and Communications in the Government House.

    Before his appointment, Malam Yassar was Director of Press to the Governor.

    According to a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, Alhaji Salihu Tanko Yakasai who was former Director-General, Media and Communications has been moved to the Social Media department as Special Adviser to the Governor on Social Media.

    On the same vein, Alhaji Abba Auwal, a Corespondent with Guardian Newspaper in Kano has been appointed as the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.

    Garba said the appointment which is aimed at rejuvenating Governor Ganduje’s media team to be more proactive, robust and efficient takes immediate effect.