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3 people have been confirmed dead, while 183 others have been hospitalized after drinking expired citric acid powdered drinks. Kano state’s Commissioner for health, Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa said those affected after drinking expired citric acid powdered drinks of a brand of Jolly Jus or Fresh, were spread across 13 local government areas of the […]
A teenager, Omar Farouq who was acquitted after being sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Sharia Court in Kano for blasphemy, has now left Nigeria. Farouq was facing further threats to his life from some extremists in Kano, Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said on its website. Farouq was in 2020 handed the lengthy […]
Bottles of beer estimated at N200m by the Kano State Hisbah Board in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has promised to increase the salaries of officials of the Islamic security outfit. Speaking during the destruction exercise at Kalebawa, Ganduje said the consumption of alcohol and all other intoxicants that can distort the […]
A 13-year-old boy named Umar Farouq has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for blasphemy against ProphetMohammed by the sharia court in Kano state. Umar was handed the 10 years sentence by Aliyu Kanu, the same judge who sentenced singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for same reason. Umar was found using ill words on Allah […]
Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has relaxed the lockdown in the state from 6am to 12pm for today Thursday April 23, to enable residents shop for Ramadan. This decision comes even as the state records more cases of COVID-19. Kano state currently has 73 confirmed cases of the viral disease and as at yesterday April 22nd, testing […]