Kano State Governor, Mallam Abba Yusuf has reiterated his administration’s commitment to enhancing the welfare of civil servants as he received the highly anticipated report from the state’s advisory committee on the new minimum wage. According to a statement on Tuesday by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Dawakin Tofa, the committee, led by the Special Adviser to the Governor on State …

Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Yusuf, on Wednesday extended his condolences to the government and people of Jigawa State, following the fuel tanker tragic incident in Majia, claiming over 100 lives, and leaving more than 70 others with varying degrees of burns. In a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Tofa, Governor Yusuf described the incident as a heart-wrenching tragedy, …

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike, Governors, Abba Yusuf (Kano) and Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom) will be awarded the THISNIGERIA Gold Prize award at the second annual lecture and Gold Prize Award themed ‘25 Years of Nigeria’s Unbroken Democracy – Prospects and Possibilities’. While Wike will be awarded for his ‘Infrastructural Revolution and Exceptional Leadership’, Yusuf will …

Kano State Governor, Mallam Abba Yusuf, on Friday, promised to report Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court for allegedly giving an order from the United States, stopping the reinstatement of Sanusi Lamido as the 16th Emir of Kano. He said he would report the judge to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Justice Liman had granted the order in an …

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been restored as the Emir of Kano. The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was deposed by the then Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje on 9 March 2020. Governor Abba Yusuf, who signed the Emirate Council (Repeal) Bill 2024 passed by the state House of Assembly earlier on Thursday, announced the development …

Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf has approved a subsidy of N500,000 for each of the state’s intending pilgrims for this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia. The Director General of the State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Lamin Dan-Baffa, announced this when he addressed reporters yesterday in Kano. “Considering the current economic hardship the people are facing, an increase in the Hajj …

Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, on Friday, rejected the call by the acting National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, to join the ruling party. Yusuf’s reaction came barely 24 hours after Kano APC stakeholders in their majority, resolved to reconcile with the Kwankwasiyya movement. To this extent, it appeared Ganduje may have finally complied with President …

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Kano State Governor, Mallam Abba Yusuf, who had challenged the nullification of his election by the Court of Appeal, which has given judgement in favour of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Nasiru Gawuna. Justice John Okoro, who read the lead judgement on Friday, said that the suit was …