Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation in partnership with the Kano State Ministry of Health, State Primary Healthcare Management Board, and Hospital Management Board donated reproductive health commodities and equipment to the Kano state government KNSG to strengthen the capacity of the healthcare system to reduce preventable deaths from unsafe abortions and provide quality Post Abortion Care services. As part of the Government’s objectives to ending Preventable Maternal Mortality, Ipas Nigeria Health Foundation is working in Kano State to support healthcare systems with relevant health commodities including – Uterine pelvic models, Manual Vacuum Aspirators (MVA), and Medical Abortion Combipacks. The Commissioner of…
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Ramatu Garba The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it would partner with Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA),Bayero University Kano, on entrepreneurship and climate adaptation towards addressing food security in Northern Nigeria. The AfDB Vice President of Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Dr Beth Dunford, made this known on Wednesday when she visited the University Centre for Dry Land Agriculture. “I am very impressed with the track record of the centre in winning multiple grants and awards and in terms of education” she said. READ MORE: Food Security: AfDB Partners With BUK Centre On Climate Adaption, Entrepreneurship According to her, agriculture…
The Managing Director, of Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority ( KNUPDA Architect Ibrahim Yakub Adamu has inaugurated a new unit for the prompt issuance of building approval/permit. Inaugurating the unit at the conference hall of KNUPDA, Ibrahim said the unit was to ease the process of approval by the agency in response to numerous complaints by the public over unnecessary delays in the formalization of building approval/permit. He pointed out that other duties of the unit are to revive all pending plans, approvals and responses to the inspection and monitoring team’s activities. The Managing Director explained that the…
The speaker Kano State House of Assembly KNHA Alhaji Jibril Ismail Falgore has reassured the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano, Professor Sagir Adamu Abbas of his unwavering commitment towards uplifting educational standards in the state. In a press statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker Kamaluddeen Sani Shawai and made available to newsmen. Falgore explained that the Kano House of Assembly is more than ready to deliver quality legislation aimed at improving the standards of the educational sector. He highlighted that, as a legislative arm, the Assembly would explore other means to partner with relevant stakeholders such…
The Commander General Kano state Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa says only 6 out of 12 states in northern nigeria have successfully formalised hisbah. Daurawa disclosed thid while receiving a delegation of Hisbah personal from Niger state. According to him, hisbah has effectively reinforced the 13 points of the Islamic Sharia legal system in their respective communities to better lives. Sheikh Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa further explained that the Kano State Hisbah Board has a cordial working relationship with the military and paramilitary agencies in Kano to ensure the security of lives and properties. The Commander General emphasized the need…
Kano State House house of Assembly KNHA has passed the State Center for Disease control and Prevention Bill KNCDC 2024. This was sequel to deliberations during plenary presided over by the speaker Alhaji Jibril Isma’il Falgore. The bill sponsored by member representing Dala constituency Alhaji Lawan Hussaini Dala was considered in the committee of the whole house and third reading by the clerk Alhaji Bashir Idris Diso. After careful deliberations the house unanimously adopted and passed the Kano state center for disease control and prevention bill 2024. In another development KNHA has called on Kano state government to to complete…
Tomatoes scarcity looms in Kano State as 4,621 hectares of farms in the state has been infested by Tuta absoluta. Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Kano State, Abdullahi Maibreadi has called on the government at all levels to assist farmers with standard insecticide to mitigate the scourge of the reoccurring infestation of Tuta absoluta that has been plaguing farmers for almost 12 years. Maibreadi in an interview said the pest infested Tomato farms at Bagwai, Shanono, Kura, Garin Malam, Bebeji, Bunkure, Rano, Kibiya, parts of Tudun Wada and Dawakin Kudu local government areas of the state. According to…
Zainab Olufunmi Kano A 40-year-old man, Hassan Kabiru was on Tuesday arraigned at a Kano Sharia Court for allegedly causing grievous hurt to one Haruna Ashiru. The defendant, who lives in Rimin Kebe Quarters, is facing a count charge of criminally causing grievous hurt. The prosecutor, Inspector Abdullahi Wada, told the court that the complainant, Ashiru, who resides in Tudun Wada Quarters, reported the matter at Gwale Police Station, Kano on April 19. Wada alleged that on the same day at about 8:30p.m., the defendant had argument with the complainant which led to a serious fight. READ ALSO: Court sentences…
The Kano State House of Assembly (KNHA) has urged Kano state government (KNSG) to call on Kano state electricity distribution company KEDCO to desist from disconnecting transformers without notice. This was a sequel to deliberations on the floor of the house during plenary session presided over by the speaker Alhaji Jibril Isma’il Falgore. Mover of the motion, who doubles as a member representing Kiru constituency Alhaji Usman Abubakar Tasi’u argued that, the Kano state electricity distribution company)KEDCO), has disconnected and removed 150-170 transformers from Kiru Bebeji, Tudun Wada, Rogo and Karaye local government areas. He stressed that most of the…
The Vice-Chancellor, Bayero University Kano Professor Sagir Adamu, said Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital has conducted over 100 kidney transplants since its inception in 2002. Professor Sagir made the indication during a three-day kidney transplant and urology workshop organized by the tertiary education trust fund (Tetfund), held at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH). Represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Management Services, Professor Mahmud Sani explained that, AKTH was one of the first northern teaching hospitals to engage in the indigenization of kidney transplants 20 years ago. He commended Tetfund for initiating the project in AKTH and called for sustainability and extension…