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The Chairman of the AMG Foundation, Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba, has hosted the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Kano State Chapter, alongside executives of women-led and humanitarian organizations at an Iftar gathering to commemorate the 2026 International Women’s Day. The event brought together female medical professionals and civil society actors to reflect on the challenges facing women in the medical profession and explore collaborative solutions to strengthen support systems for female doctors in Kano State. During the gathering, the MWAN delegation, led by its Chairperson, Dr. Safiyya Gambo, highlighted several challenges confronting female doctors in their workplaces. Ramadan and…

The Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR) and the Youth Society for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Social Vices (YOSPIS), have called for stronger political inclusion of women in Nigeria, urging government institutions to implement the 35 percent affirmative action target for women in leadership positions. The call was made during a policy dialogue organised by the two organisations in Kano to commemorate International Women’s Day 2026. The event, supported by the Aminu Magashi Garba Foundation, focused on the theme, “Advocating for Better Inclusion and Representation of Women at All Levels of Governance in Nigeria.” Minister Advocates Stronger Female…

Health policy advocates have called for stronger and more consistent financing for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) as well as family planning services in Nigeria, following deliberations at the 2026 media briefing of the Health Sector Reform Coalition (HSRC) held in Abuja. The briefing, supported by the Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN), brought together health experts, civil society organisations and policy advocates to review the proposed 2026 federal health budget and assess the implementation performance of the 2025 health budget. Participants at the meeting expressed concern over the persistent gap between budgetary allocations and the actual release of funds…

Bayero University Kano (BUK) has addressed circulating allegations linking an individual reportedly claiming to be a student of the University to acts of online impersonation and financial fraud. In a statement issued by the University Director of Public Affairs, Lamara Garba, BUK stressed that the institution maintains strict standards of conduct, discipline, and character for all students. The University emphasized that the actions of any individual student do not reflect the values or character of BUK as an institution. He pointed out that, in response to the allegations, a preliminary inquiry has been launched to ascertain the facts. University authorities…

Nepal had two per cent of votes left to count on Wednesday after parliamentary elections, with rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah’s centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) having secured a majority. The 35-year-old Shah’s rise from the capital’s mayor to expected prime minister caps a bold gamble and marks one of the most dramatic results in recent Nepali politics. INEC Joins Global Experts to Observe South Korea’s Polls The March 5 parliamentary vote was the first since youth-led, deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government in September. Shah himself defeated veteran four-time prime minister KP Sharma Oli — whose Marxist-led government was ousted in…

Yushau A. Shuaib “The fear of Trump is not the beginning of wisdom. But it is time to tread carefully, with clear eyes and a steady hand.” As a child, whenever I refused to eat or take bitter traditional medicine, my mother would threaten to call Werekaci—the unstable and aggressive man who lived at the end of our street. The fear alone was enough to make me comply instantly. I simply obeyed anything out of fear. Years later, I have come to recognise that Werekaci has many faces—on social media, in political spaces, and sometimes in the corridors of global…

After attending a closed-door, classified briefing on the war with Iran, Sen. Chris Murphy says the Trump administration’s plans are far more incoherent than the public has been told. Murphy said lawmakers spent two hours in a classified briefing reviewing the administration’s strategy. While he emphasized he cannot reveal classified details, he said what he heard raises serious concerns about the lack of clear objectives and planning. President Tinubu Congratulates US 47th President Elect Trump Here is Sen. Chris Murphy’s full thread: I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because…

The Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has relieved the State Head of Service, Abdullahi Musa, of his appointment with immediate effect. The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday evening by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa. Abuja on Standstill as Wike Heads to Court Over Workers’ Strike According to the statement, the decision forms part of ongoing efforts by the state government to reposition the civil service for greater efficiency, discipline and improved service delivery across government institutions. Governor Yusuf expressed appreciation to the outgoing Head of Service for his contributions and dedication to…

The Federal Government has emphasized the importance of a unified communication framework among government institutions to strengthen national security coordination and effectively tackle terrorism and banditry in the country. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known on Tuesday during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, in Abuja. Igboho Seeks FG Approval for Iru Ekun Security Network Idris said improved collaboration and strategic communication among ministries, departments, and agencies of government would enhance coordination of security efforts and ensure Nigerians are well informed about government policies and reforms. He explained that the…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with partners has organized a “Yes! Girl” Podcast Watch Session in Kano as part of activities marking the 2026 International Women’s Day. The session brought together adolescent girls, government partners, civil society organizations (CSOs), and members of the media to listen directly to girls’ voices, reflect on their experiences, and explore solutions aimed at strengthening their rights, wellbeing, and leadership. FG, UNICEF Launch $406,000 Solar Vaccine Storage in Borno Speaking at the event, UNICEF Adolescent Development Specialist, Ngozi Izuora-Songu, said the gathering marked the official launch of the “Yes! Girl” Podcast, a…

Munir I. Publisher There are political ideas that arrive in their time and there are political ideas that arrive before their time, ideas whose significance is not fully understood until the moment has passed and history, with its characteristic unhurried clarity, has arranged the evidence into a pattern that the present could not see. The philosophy of Malam Aminu Kano was, for much of its duration, one of the latter. In the political environment of mid-twentieth century Northern Nigeria, dominated by the patrician certainties of the NPC and the conservative social order that sustained them, Aminu Kano’s insistence that politics…

Saminu Umar Ph.D There is a particular loneliness that attaches itself to leaders who choose the harder path. It is not the loneliness of isolation, of having no one around them, because such leaders are almost always surrounded by people, by aides and advisers, by supporters and well-wishers, by the constant human traffic of political life. It is a deeper and more demanding loneliness, the loneliness of the person who must make decisions that others will not fully understand until long after the moment has passed, who must absorb criticism that cuts personally while continuing to serve publicly, and who…

Abdu Saidu Across the long and complicated history of Nigerian governance, the distance between a governor’s stated vision and the lived reality of the citizens that vision was supposed to serve has been, with depressing consistency, vast. Manifestos have been written with eloquence and abandoned with ease. Slogans have been coined with creativity and hollowed out with indifference. The political vocabulary of people-centered governance, of putting citizens first, of development rooted in the needs and aspirations of ordinary men and women, has been deployed so frequently and so cynically by successive administrations that it has, in many parts of the…

Sufyan Lawal Kabo The most valuable counsel a leader can receive is rarely the most comfortable. It does not arrive wrapped in flattery or delivered through the careful diplomacy of those whose proximity to power has made honesty a professional risk. It comes, instead, from those who have no personal stake in the leader’s approval, whose only investment is in the success of the larger cause, and who understand, from the clear-eyed distance of genuine civic concern, what the leader’s inner circle is too close, too cautious, or too compromised to say plainly. It is in that spirit, with deep…

Saminu Umar Ph.D Kano does not need to be invented. That is a truth so fundamental, so historically self-evident, that it should not need to be stated at all, and yet the circumstances of recent decades have made its restatement not merely appropriate but urgent. There is a tendency, in the discourse of Nigerian development, to treat every governance initiative as a beginning, as though the society being governed had no prior history of achievement, no accumulated wisdom, no tested traditions of institutional excellence on which new efforts might be built. This tendency is not merely intellectually lazy, but it…

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund  AECF through its Investing in Women in Nigeria (IIW-Nigeria) programme supports women-led businesses in agricultural value chains in Kano State. AECF, a development funding institution that supports businesses to innovate, create jobs, and leverage investments and markets to build resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalised communities across Africa, has supported over 400 businesses across more than 40 value chains in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. AECF Leads Push for Women’s Economic Inclusion as Kano Unveils WEE Policy The Investing in Women in Nigeria (IIW Nigeria) programme is a five-year, gender-transformative and economic inclusion…

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), in partnership with Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI), Fable Advisory, the WEE Catalyst Fund, and the Development Research and Projects Centre (DRPC), has supported the domestication of the National Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Policy in Kano State, strengthening the framework for women’s participation in economic activities across the state. The domesticated policy was officially launched by the Kano State Government and adopted by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Children, and People with Special Needs. It establishes a structured approach to expanding women’s access to economic opportunities, strengthening women-led enterprises, and promoting women’s participation in…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the renewal of tenure for three Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service in line with existing public service rules. The approval, which takes effect from April 27, 2026, grants the officials a second and final four-year term following their initial appointments. HCSF Charges Newly Appointed Permanent Secretaries to Drive Reforms The affected Permanent Secretaries include Ms. Kachallom Shangti Daju, Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare; Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba, Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice; and Dr. Mary Ada Ogbe, Permanent Secretary…

Sani Dutsinma The Kebbi State Government has strongly refuted allegations that the administration of Nasir Idris has failed to make meaningful contributions to the development of the Islamic religion and the overall progress of the state. The clarification was made by the Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Muhammad Sani Aliyu, during a press briefing in Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital. Kebbi Ready for Hajj Operations as NCAA Gives Positive Assessment of Facilities Architect Sani Aliyu described the allegations as unfounded and misleading, saying they were a deliberate distortion of the reality of the achievements recorded under the present administration. According…

Sani Dutsinma The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has commended the Kebbi State Pilgrims Welfare Agency following an inspection of facilities put in place to ensure the smooth conduct of Hajj operations in the state. The leader of the NCAA delegation, Engr. Abba Shuaibu Babagana, made this known during an official visit to Kebbi State to assess the level of preparedness ahead of the airlift of intending pilgrims. During the visit, NCAA officials inspected several key facilities at the Kauran Gwandu Hajj Camp to evaluate the readiness of the state for the upcoming pilgrimage operations. NCAA Recognizes Kano, Port Harcourt…