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Kano state government has expressed readiness to key into the National Housing Scheme to provide an affordable home to civil servants in the state. Commissioner for housing and transport, Abdullahi Musa Lawan spoke about the scheme at the weekend when he received the management of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) in Kano. Lawan, who reeled out the Kano state ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday is in Kano State, northwest Nigeria on a one-day official visit to commission some major infrastructure projects. Osinbajo who arrived at the VIP Wing of the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport was received by the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, his Deputy, Nasiru Gawuna and senior government officials. The Vice President will use the occasion ...

The Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria, Kano State branch, has commenced a sensitisation campaign to encourage girls in the state to study engineering courses. The Chairperson of the association, Dr Zainab Yunusa, disclosed this on Thursday in Kano while briefing newsmen on the activities of the association. She said the association was committed to encouraging female secondary school students to ...

Ganduje disclosed this on Saturday when he paid a condolence visit to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Tafida Abubakar, over the death of his son, Alhaji Aliyu Tafida. The governor assured that all the hospitals would be equipped with the state-of-the-art equipment to cater for all the medical needs of the emirates. According to him, such hospitals would take away ...

Gunmen in Nigeria abducted a Lebanese cand killed another man in the northern city of Kano on Tuesday morning, a police official said. The attack and abduction in the country’s second-biggest city come amid higher than usual security as Nigeria is in the middle of an election season. “A Lebanese attached to Triacta construction company was attacked,” said Haruna Abdullahi, ...

Kano – Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has pledged to allocate land for the construction of Yoruba Community House in the state. ‎The governor made the promise on Wednesday in Kano during the launch of N500 million Yoruba H‎ouse at Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano. ‎Ganduje told all Yoruba sons and daughters in Kano to feel at home and ...

The Federal Government has decided to use the N100 billion Sovereign Sukuk bonds proceeds to construct 642.69 kilometres of roads across Nigeria. The cheque for the money was presented by the Finance minister Zainab Ahmed to Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing on Thursday in Abuja. Fashola said that the money was shared equally among the six ...

The Kano state government has set aside N1 billion for the construction of Kofar Mata–Singer– Murtala Mohammed way road in Kano metropolis. This is contained in a statement signed by the state Director–General, Media and Publicity, Ameen Yassar, in Kano on Wednesday. According to Mr Yassar, the governor, Abdullahi Ganduje announced this during a meeting with officials of Ganduje – ...

The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) in Kano state on Tuesday revealed that it has already embarked on rehabilitation of 300 hectares of degraded land across 12 frontline local governments that were been identified by the project as the most prone to erosion and desert encroachment in the state. Addressing newsmen after an inspection visit to the affected ...

Kano – In its continued efforts at ensuring the provision of good road network that will curtail the chaotic traffic situation in the city, the Kano State Executive Council (SEC) has approved over N4 billion for the construction of an underpass (subway) and overpass that will connect Zaria Road/Silver Jubilee and Zoo Road in the metropolis. Addressing newsmen on the ...