Operatives of the Kano State Police Command have arrested a fake soldier, Mukhtar Aminu Ibrahim.
Mukhtar was paraded at the command headquarters on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, alongside other suspects arrested for various crimes in the state.
Briefing newsmen, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Usaini Gumel, said operatives arrested the suspect while on patrol at Ibrahim Taiwo Road wearing army uniform.
“On 22/05/2023 at about 1100hrs a team of surveillance while on patrol arrested one Mukhtar Aminu Ibrahim, ‘m’, of Filin Mushe Quarters, Kano, at FCMB Bank, Ibrahim Taiwo Road Kano wearing a suspected Army Uniform. Investigation revealed that he is not military personnel. The case is under investigation,” the CP stated.
The Kano state government has imposed a dawn to dusk curfew as the state residents await the state guber election results for the state.
In a statement issued by the state commissioner for information and internal affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, the state government said the decision was to prevent hoodlums from causing chaos in the already tense situation.
The commissioner called on people in the state to remain indoors as security agents would not spare anyone or group bent on causing trouble.
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Kano State, Nasiru Gawuna, on Thursday, met with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in Daura, Katsina State.
This comes hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission postponed the governorship and state houses of assembly elections earlier scheduled for Saturday to March 18, 2023.
Buhari returned to Nigeria on Wednesday after a four-day trip to Doha, Qatar, where he participated in the fifth United Nations Conference.
The Kano Road Traffic Agency has banned tricycle riders known as “Adaidaita Sahu” from operating on some major roads in Kano.
The ban will come into effect from Wednesday, November 30, 2022.
The order was contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of KAROTA, Nabilusi Na’isa, and issued to newsmen in Kano on Tuesday, Nov. 29.
The statement partly reads: “Adaidaita Sahu drivers (tricycle operators) are prohibited from following Ahmadu Bello Way by Mundubawa road to Gazawa and Tal’udu road to Gwarzo.” As an alternative, the government has provided 100 ultra-modern buses and 50 taxis that would be conveying passengers on the prohibited roads.
The statement adds that the government will also announce when tricycle operators will stop using other major roads in the state once it provides more ultra-modern buses and taxis to serve as alternatives.
A 45-year-old man, Habibu Mu’azu, fell and died in a well at Yan Dutse in Bichi Local Government Area, Kano State.
This was contained in a statement issued to newsmen by the Public Relations Officer of Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Friday in
According to the statement,
“We received an emergency call at about 7.44am on Friday from Sunusi Abubakar that a man had fallen inside a well and we immediately sent our rescue team to the scene.
“Mu’azu was brought out of the well unconscious and was later confirmed dead while his corpse was handed over to the village head of Yan Dutse, Bello Usman.
He said the cause of the incident was being investigated.
At the resumed hearing on the case involving a Chinese national, Geng Quangrong who was accused of killing his Nigerian lover, Ummukulsum Sani Buhari, the suspect denied all the charges levelled against him.
Appearing before a Kano High Court presided over by Justice Sunusi Ado Ma’aji, the state counsel led by the Kano State Attorney General, Musa Abdullahi Lawal, presented the court with an interpreter courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, Mr Guo Cumru.
Lawal who noted that there was an adjournment of the trial over the absence of an interpreter, said Kano state’s ministry of justice wrote to the embassy and they availed them with one.
After presenting the interpreter, the prosecution counsel then filed an application of trial of the accused person under Sections 123 sub 1a of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Kano State.
It read;
“That you, Geng Quangrong of railway quarters in Kano, on the 16th of September 2022 about 21:00, went to a house at Janbulo Quarters of Gwale Local Government Area of Kano, did commit culpable homicide punishable with death.
“That you caused the death of Ummukulsum Sani Buhari of the same address by stabbing the said Ummukulsum on different parts of her body with a knife with knowledge that her death will be the probable consequence of your act, thereby committing an offence 221(b) of the penal code law as amended.”
After Geng denied the charge levelled against him, the Attorney General prayed the court to adjourn the case by two weeks to enable them tender witnesses on the 14th, 15th and 16th of November.
However a defence counsel, Muhammad Balarabe Dan’azumi objected to this while stating that it wasn’t convenient for him. He also asked for another date.
The judge, Sunusi Ado Ma’aji adjourned the case to 16th, 17th and 18th of November for further hearing after the prosecution counsel moved a motion that the interpreter comes from Abuja and should be considered.
Two people died and eight others were rescued after the collapse of the three-story building at Beirut GSM Market in Kano.
Giving an update on the building collapse which occurred on Tuesday evening, August 30, the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Kano State branch, said that one person died at the hospital among the nine victims so far rescued alive.
The Secretary of the branch, Musa Abdullah, said that a staff of Kano Electricity Distribution Company also lost his life in the disaster, bringing the death toll to 2.
“A staff of Kano Electricity Distribution Company, who was trying to disconnect the building from the high tension but unfortunately, the power that was already shut down from the transformer, technically relayed back and trapped him which led to his death on the spot,” he said.
In a statement by the Kano Fire Service Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi, the agency said eight victims had been successfully rescued.
He listed the names of the survivors as: Naziru Abdulkadir, 24.
A corps member has lamented after his room at the Corpers’ lodge in Kundila area of Kano State, got flooded following heavy downpour. Sharing photos og his flooded room on Thursday, August 25, he wrote:
“Corps Members Are Suffering Somewhere In Northwest, Kano to be Precise. This is the Third Time this Flood disaster is Happening. This is my moom at our corpers lodge. Come be like say na me Serve Pass”
A suspect, whose name is yet to be revealed, has been arrested in Kano State with Army uniform, a rifle and ammunition.
Daily Trust reports that the suspect had been disguising as an army officer, with the name tag M.A Ibrahim to extort money from people along the popular BUK road in the state metropolis.
A resident of the community who spoke on condition of anonymity said the suspect was living at Danbare area of BUK, and had been telling people that he was a captain in the Nigerian Army.
The suspect was arrested on Thursday, August 18, after he forcefully secured the release of his girlfriend, who was arrested by Hisbah officials. He was said to have shot into the air at the Hisbah office and freed her.
“You know Hisbah officials come here to arrest ladies that come to take drugs and do other indecent things. So they arrested his girlfriend and took her to their office. When he got to the Hisbah office here in Danbere, he fired shots into the air more than three times and went away with her.We then reported to the police and the army here in Janguza barracks.
When we sent them his pictures, they realized that he is not an army officer and directed that whenever we see him we should call them.
When we saw his car parked at one filling station, we immediately called them and they arrested him” an eyewitness told the publication.
He said although the suspect was not arrested in his car, a gun and army uniform were found in his car. The spokesman for the police in the state, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said he learnt about the case but the suspect had not been handed over to the police.
Three siblings were killed when a house collapsed in Tarai village of Kibiya Local Government Area of Kano State.
The father of the deceased siblings, Abubakar Usman, disclosed this when the executive secretary of State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Saleh Jili, led a delegation on a condolence visit to the village on Saturday, August 13, 2022.
According to Usman, the deceased’s names are Umar Abubakar, Aliyu Abubakar and their sister, Aisha Abubakar.
He said his children aged four, five and seven, respectively, lost their lives on Sunday, 7 August, when their mother’s room collapsed after two days of heavy rainfall.
“I got a call from a relative informing me of the demise of my three children as I was out of town on a business trip.
On that fateful day, I received a call at 6 am that one of the rooms in my house has collapsed, leading to the death of all my three children,” he narrated.
The local government chairman, Alkasim Shike, commended SEMA and Kano State government for the timely intervention and donation of relief materials.
He hinted that shortly after the incident, the local government council provided necessary assistance to Abubakar’s family.
Alhaji Saleh Jili, who led a delegation to Kibiya said Governor Ganduje was deeply saddened by the death of the young children.
According to him, the agency would compile a comprehensive report for onward submission to the state government for proper action. Jili, however, disclosed that his agency had provided mattresses, pillows, food items and building materials to the affected family.
He therefore advised members of the public to desist from building on waterways. Earlier, the district head of Kibiya who doubles as Sarkin Shanun Rano, Alhaji Abubakar Ila, prayed for the repose of the souls of the deceased.
A 60-year-old man, Malam Bala, and his son, Sunusi Bala, 35, have been confirmed dead after drowing in a well they were draining at Sabon Garin Bauchi, in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State.
Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi who confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday August 9, said the incident occurred on Tuesday morning.
The statement read;
“We received an emergency call from Wudil Fire station at about 11:30 a.m from one Isma’ila Idris that two men had been trapped inside a well. We immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at about 11:33 a.m.
“A father and his son were called to drain a well. They had successfully drained it. But, the son went back into the well to clear it when he was trapped and suffocated.
“His father went after him to rescue him when he also got trapped and suffocated due to the lack of oxygen inside the well.”
The statement added that the victims were brought out of the well unconscious and later confirmed dead.
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