The Kano State Commander of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Hamza Umar, on Thursday said his officers had raided and cleared five major drug joints in the metropolis.
Attempts to include Kano and Plateau States as part of beneficiaries in the proposed North East Development Commission, NEDC, failed at the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, has said that it lost over 100 members in Monday’s clash with the Nigerian Police contrary to the reports by the Police that only 9 people, including a police officer, lost their lives in the violence.
Remember the case of Bridget Agbahime? On June 2, the 74-year-old kitchen utensils trader from Imo State was brutally attacked and killed at Kofar Wambai Market in Kano by a Muslim mob who accused her of blasphemy. According to reports, she was pounced upon and murdered after she refused to allow a Muslim man perform ablution in front of her shop.
