Following public criticisms that trailed the abduction of a 14-year-old girl from Bayelsa State allegedly by a Kano-based man, the Emir of Kano, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, has ordered the girl to be returned to her parents. The girl, Ese Oruru, was allegedly kidnapped by one Yunusa of Kura local government area of Kano State about…
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Hajj Tragedy An Act Of God—Sanusi
**Meets Saudi Officials Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, said he had a meeting with Saudi authorities to request a transparent probe into the unfortunate incident in Mina, Saudi Arabia last month that led to the death of more than 740 pilgrims. Sanusi, addressing pilgrims during a visit to South-South and South-East camps in Mecca,…
Update: 64 Dead, 126 Injured In Kano Blast
No fewer than 64 persons were killed and 126 injured in the bomb explosions that rocked Kano Central Mosque on Friday afternoon. “Two bombs exploded, one after the other, in the premises of the Grand Mosque seconds after the prayers had started,” a worshipper, Aminu Abdullahi told AFP after the incident. The mosque is attached…
Jonathan, Sanusi In Secret Meeting
President Goodluck Jonathan has held a closed-door meeting with the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The secret meeting took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. Both parties are meeting again for the second time after President Jonathan suspended Sanusi as Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in February 2014. They…
Sanusi Visits Jonathan In Aso Rock
Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and current Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday, paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan for the first time since his ascension to the exalted Kano throne. The monarch was at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja, for the breaking of Ramadan fast with…