Tag: Kano

2,340 APC Delegates Decide Tinubu, Osinbajo, Lawan Fate

Abibat Babalola

Fake delegates’ list emerges, stirs controversy, confusion among party members   Over 2,340 delegates of All Progressives Congress (APC) will Tuesday, (today) decide the fate of the party’s presidential aspirants. This is as president Muhammadu Buhari on Monday threw the contest open. The delegates from the 774 local government areas in the country and area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will cast their votes to elect a presidential candidate of the APC. Platforms Africa reports that fake delegate list emerged on Tuesday and was being shared when loyalists…

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Father of Hanifah Abu, 5-yr-old pupil killed by Proprietor Speaks Out

Aliyu Aliyu

“Till I die, I won’t forget this (pain),” bereaved father, in tears, gives full account of how the proprietor of the nursery and primary school his daughter attended kidnapped, demanded N6 million ransom and later murdered Hanifah The father of Hanifa Abubalkar, a five-year-old kidnapped and murdered by her school proprietor, has spoken to the media on his daughter’s death. Platforms Africa reports that emerging facts showed that Hanifa, who was declared missing last December,  was abducted and murdered by Abdulmalik Tanko, the proprietor of Noble Kids Nursery and Primary School,…

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How COVID-19 killed 589 people in Kano – Minister

Damilola Olonade

The death of 589 people, being the 60% of the “mysterious” deaths in Nigeria’s northern Kano state was triggered by or due to COVID-19, Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has declared as he gave graphical details of deaths between April and May. Ehanire, a Medical Doctor, who declared this during a press conference in Abuja, Nigeria’s administrative capital, noted that the peak in deaths occurred in the second week of April, and that by the beginning of May, the death rate had gone back down to the normal rate. Giving…

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