Kano governor sacks thousands of workers but will renovate deputy’s office for N180milion, four months after it was built for N303 million

Kano governor sacks thousands of workers but will renovate deputy’s office for N180milion, four months after it was built for N303 million

Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday approved the termination of the employment of 2,620 sanitation workers on N10,000 stipend, just as he ordered the release of N180 million for the renovation of the office of the deputy governor.

"Kano will no longer rely on crude oil revenue. It breeds laziness and corruption" - Kano Govt.

Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje: Kano State governor

The new administration of Kano State has unveiled plans to restructure the revenue sources of the state to reduce reliance on the crude oil revenue, the Commissioner of Finance, Professor Kabiru I. Dandago has said.

Stop killing people in Mosques - Sanusi advises Boko Haram

Stop killing people in Mosque - Sanusi advises Boko Haram

The Emir of Kano Lamido Sanusi Lamido has advised Boko Haram to stop killing Muslims. In what appears to be a tip to Boko Haram on how to galvanise Muslims against Christians in Nigeria, the erstwhile Chairman of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who has been fingered in the brutal beheading of Gideon Akaluka by Islamic Fundamentalists, told Boko to stop killing people in Mosque. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Sanusi specifically decried the incessant killing of people in mosques, markets and schools. He however did not condemn the killings of people in churches, beer parlours, Viewing centres etc.