For bequeating N316.9bn debt, “I ask Allah to reward Ganduje according what he did,” the incoming Governor of Kano State, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, said on Monday. Engr. Abba, who was worried by the poor financial status of the State he just inherited, stated this while receiving the handing over notes from the outgoing Secretary…
Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has apologised to citizens over the negative effects of some economic policies implemented by his administration in the course of revamping the nation’s economy. The most recent of such policy was the implementation of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign policy which was suspended on March 13. The CBN Governor,…
The Senate held an emergency session on Saturday and passed a legislation which seeks to extend the implementation of the 2022 Supplementary Budget by Six Months. Also passed was a bill which seeks to amend the Act which established the Central Bank of Nigeria, both bills sponsored by the Senate Leader, Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto East)…
Ahead of the inauguration on Monday, the Kano State Governor-elect, His Excellency, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, has declared his assets and liabilities in a completed form submitted on Friday to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, Kano office. Engr. Abba, who was received by the CCB State Director, Hajia Hadiza Larai Ibrahim, said his earnest…
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking the disqualification of 2023 presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima. A five-member panel of the Supreme Court held that the PDP lacked the locus standi to institute the suit. The panel…
The outgoing Kano State Governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Wednesday presented three volumes transition report to the Kano State Governor-elect, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf. In a short meeting at the Kano Government House Ante Chamber Hall, Ganduje who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, reiterated his commitment to…
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has emerged through concensus as the new Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). Abdulrazaq, who won reelection, will replaced Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State whose tenure of office would elapse on May 29. This was contained in a communiqué signed by Tambuwal, a Sokoto Senator-elect, at the…
A former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has expressed his readiness to support the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to succeed in office. A statement by the spokesman for the president-elect, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, said Mr Blair gave the commitment on Tuesday when he visited the president-elect at the Defence House, Abuja. He said…
Justice Muhammad Nasir-Yunusa of the Kano Division of the Federal High Court said the candidates who participated in the 2023 general election in Abia were not parties before his court. He therefore denied nullifying the candidature of the Abia Governor-elect Alex Otti. Mr Nasir-Yunusa, however, said it nullified the election of the candidates for Kano…
