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The National President and Executive Director of the Albinism Association of Nigeria (AAN), Bisi Bamishe, has called for a more inclusive, comprehensive, and multi-dimensional approach to addressing women’s issues in Nigeria, particularly those affecting women and girls with disabilities. Dr. Bamishe made the call on Sunday in Lagos during a press briefing to commemorate the International Women’s Day 2026. IWD:Kano CoP Urges Mothers, Caregivers to Prioritize Immunization She expressed concern over the difficult realities many women continue to face in society, noting that women often shoulder significant social and economic responsibilities as mothers, caregivers, and contributors to national development. According…

Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has flagged off the distribution of 100,000 bags of 10kg rice donated by the Aliko Dangote Foundation to support vulnerable and underprivileged residents across the state. Kebbi Flags Off Distribution of Farming Inputs, Ramadan Palliatives The initiative is aimed at easing the hardship faced by many households, particularly during the holy month of Ramadan, when the demand for food items typically increases. The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Saturday in Kano by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mustapha Muhammad. Speaking during the flag-off ceremony, Governor Yusuf, who was represented by…

A few days ago, the ledger of accounting life recorded a deficit no arithmetic can reconcile. A colossus has withdrawn from the visible balance sheet of our accounting world. Professor Kabiru Isa Dandago was not merely a scholar of accounting; he was an accountant of meaning a meticulous auditor of conscience, a custodian of fiscal rectitude, and a vigilant sentinel of public trust. In him, intellect was not ostentatious but incandescent. His mind did not merely compute; it contemplated. It did not merely analyse; it illuminated. When a Gentle Light Goes Out: The Demise of a Quintessential Dandago Kano has…

How the healthcare reforms of Governor Umar Namadi Danmodi are restoring dignity to the aged while protecting the youngest generation Lamara Garba Azare In every society, the true character of leadership is revealed not in grand speeches or towering structures, but in how it treats those who can no longer compete in the rush of daily survival. In Jigawa State, a quiet but meaningful transformation is unfolding, one that places dignity, compassion, and human wellbeing at the centre of governance. Through the J Basic Healthcare Services for Vulnerable Citizens, the administration of Governor Umar Namadi Danmodi has woven a protective…

The Kano State Ramadan Feeding Committee has conducted an inspection tour of major restaurants and kitchens responsible for preparing meals distributed daily to beneficiaries across the state. Chairman of the committee and Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Ahmed Tijjani, led the delegation to assess food quality, hygiene standards, and distribution processes under the 2026 Ramadan feeding programme. Indonesia Commends Kano State’s Ramadan Feeding Programme The initiative, introduced by the Kano State Government, currently distributes meals across 115 feeding centres, with 1,000 plates of food provided daily at each centre. According to the committee, the programme costs over ₦4 billion, with each…

Sufyan Lawal Kano The true measure of leadership has never been the grandeur of its proclamations. It has always been the discipline of its follow-through, the unglamorous, daily, often invisible work of converting a compelling vision into institutional reality, of ensuring that the ideas articulated in policy documents and public speeches actually reach the citizens whose lives they are intended to transform. In Kano State today, that work is being done with a consistency and seriousness that deserves far wider recognition than it has so far received. And at the center of that effort, serving as both the strategic intelligence…

Nworisa Michael There are moments in the life of a community that arrive without announcement and depart without ceremony, but whose significance, properly understood, reveals more about the character of a society than any formal declaration or policy document ever could. These are the moments of quiet testing, when the distance between a society’s stated values and its actual reflexes is measured not in speeches or manifestos, but in the ordinary decisions of ordinary people confronted with fear, uncertainty, and the ancient human temptation to react before they think. When Kano Chose Peace: A Lesson in the Spirit of the…

Munir I. Publisher In the long and often turbulent history of Nigerian governance, it has become almost axiomatic that the most visible actors attract the most attention. Governors cut ribbons. Politicians make speeches. Press releases are issued, photographs are taken, and the machinery of public perception grinds steadily forward. Yet history, when it takes the longer and more honest view, consistently reminds us that the men and women who shape the intellectual direction of governance are rarely the ones occupying the most prominent positions on the podium. They are, more often, the ones working in the spaces between spectacle and…

Comrade Najeeb Nasir Ibrahim There is a particular kind of public official whose value to a government cannot be measured in project completion rates or budget figures alone. Their most significant contribution is something less tangible but far more consequential: the ability to translate a governor’s vision into a living, breathing public conversation, to take the abstract language of policy and render it in terms that ordinary citizens can understand, trust, and ultimately own. Since his swearing-in on the 6th of January 2025, the Honourable Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs of Kano State, Comrade Ibrahim Abdullahi Waiya, has demonstrated…

Saminu Umar Ph.D In the theatre of governance, the spotlight almost always falls on the principal actor. It is the governor who addresses the crowd, signs the executive orders, and takes the applause or the criticism that public policy inevitably attracts. But anyone who has spent serious time studying how governments actually work, as distinct from how they appear to work, understands a more layered truth: behind every bold agenda that changes a society, there is almost always a bolder mind working in the background, thinking harder, longer, and more deeply than the public ever gets to see. In the…