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Police arrest ninety-six suspects in Kano over attempts to disrupt inauguration activities

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Ninety- six suspects were arrested by the Nigeria Police in Kano following alleged attempts to disrupt peace in the state during Monday’s inauguration ceremony.

 

KANO FOCUS reports that State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini Gumel, who disclosed this at a press conference held at the Command’s Bompai headquarters, Wednesday remarked that the arrest followed a series of crackdowns by his men.

 

He noted that the suspects, who were picked up differently across the state within the last one week included 56 suspected mobile phone robbers, 17 illicit drug related suspects, and 20 suspects who were arrested on account of attempts to commit violent crimes.

 

Items recovered from the suspects included five cartons of suspected Tramadol tablets, 83 sachets of suspected Diazepam and 371 pieces of rubber solution, including 12 parcels and 303 wraps of dried leaves.

 

Other recoveries from the suspects included 157 weapons, four locally made guns, one toy gun and 18 mobile phones as well as 34 ATMs .

 

He explained that preliminary investigations had led them to conclude that the suspects were saboteurs and sponsored criminals given that they were found with dangerous weapons and were also under the influence of drugs during their arrest

 

Usaini added that all the suspects would soon be charged to court even as he advised the members of the public to be law abiding.

 

He insisted that the Police would continue to match its words with actions until all the criminally minded persons in the state repented or decided to leave the state.

 

 

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EFCC hands over 324 houses worth N4.1 billion to Kano Pensioners

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Nasiru Yusuf Ibrahim

After many years of legal actions and investigation, the Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday finally handed over documents of 324 houses recovered for Kano State pensioners to them.

KANO FOCUS reports that the handing over of the houses, occasioned by a final forfeiture order granted by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting Abuja, was a result of successful investigations carried out by the commission over a N4.1billion Pension Trust Fund contributed by the pensioners to own houses, which was reportedly denied them by two successive administrations in Kano State.

 

The Commission investigated a petition by Concerned Kano State Workers and Pensioners of alleged misappropriation of pension funds in the state. Findings by the EFCC showed that the state government entered into a tripartite agreement with the Kano State Pension Trust Fund to build housing estates for an aggregate sum of N41billion , out of which the Pension Trust Fund was to contribute N4.1billion.

A statement by EFCC Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, alleged however that the contribution of the pensioners was used to build the houses in three estates located in Sheikh Ja’afar Mahmud Adam (Bandirawo city), Sheikh Nasiru Kabara (Amana city) and Sheikh Khalifa Ishaq Rabiu (Kwankwasiyya city), all in Kano but discounted and sold to cronies and associates of two former governors, leaving the pension trustees with low budget and uncompleted houses.

The EFCC consequently stepped in and upon completion of investigation, filed for and secured a final forfeiture order of the 324 properties to the Kano State Pension Fund Trustees.

While handing over the documents of the 324 properties worth N4.1billion to the pensioners on Monday, the Abuja Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Adeniyi Adebayo, assured that the EFCC would continue to do its best to rid the nation of fraudulent practices.

Representatives of the Kano State Pension Board, Alhaji Hassan Muhammed Aminu, Kubra Ahmad Bichi and Salisu Yakubu Abubakar, who received the documents on behalf of the workers and pensioners, expressed satisfaction with the EFCC for assisting them in recovering their houses.

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Ramadan: Dangote feeds 10,000 people daily in Kano

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The richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, through Aliko Dangote Foundation, in his efforts to assist the populace, during Ramadan has launched the distribution of free meals to no fewer than 10,000 fasting Muslims in Kano.

KANO FOCUS reports that the spokesperson of the foundation, Samira Sanusi, revealed this in a statement made available to journalists on Monday in Kano.

She stated that the gesture was also extended by distributing one million bags of rice, worth over N13 billion across the 36 states of the federation and Abuja to alleviate hunger in the country.

Mrs Sanusi added that this was also aimed to ease hardship for millions of Nigerians amidst economic challenges in the country.

She further disclosed that in addition to the distribution of 20,000 loaves of bread daily to Kano residents and 15,000 daily to Lagos residents, a feeding gesture that started and sustained since 2020 during the COVID.

She explained that the Ramadan free cooked meal includes jollof rice, white rice and stew, jollof spaghetti, yam, beans with chicken and beef, packed with a bottle of water and drink for each person

According to her, the packed meals are distributed at Juma’at mosques, streets, prisons, orphanages, remand homes, and other places in Kano City and its environs.

The statement however disclosed that a beneficiary of the meal, Musa Maikatako, resident of Tarauni, expressed appreciation for the gesture, which he said had helped him break his fast with ease.

Maikatako hinted that the free meal would ameliorate the suffering of a lot of people who might break their fasts with only water, without food, considering the economic hardship faced by Nigerians.

“I cannot explain how happy I am. This meal will go a long way in assisting poor people like me to have something to at least break our fast with some solid food to eat.

“I know a lot of people in this state who could break their fast with water only. So this meal is a great relief,” he said.

While expressing happiness, Maikatako showed appreciation to Dangote Foundation for the gesture, praying to God to increase his wealth and continue to bless his business.

While another beneficiary, Hajiya Inna Tukur, expressed delight in the distribution of the meal, which, according to her, Aliko Dangote Foundation, has come to her aid.

She said; that she was elated to have been given such delicious food for free in the current hardship.

Hsjiya Tukur noted; “In this hardship, when we find it difficult to eat even two times a day, but out of the blue moon, somebody presented this delicious food to me, it is highly incredible.

“I have nothing to say but to say a big thank you to you and Aliko Dangote. I pray to God to bless you more and more”.

Meanwhile, Mrs Sanusi noted that apart from the 4-year-old free bread distribution, according to Mrs Sanusi, feeding of the needy in Kano has been quietly going on for over 30 years by Aliko Dangote.

Dangote has been doing this from his mother’s residence in Koki and from various cooking locations.

She then stated; ” This feeding program feeds 10,000 Kano residents daily with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a unique feat that has been in existence for over 30 years”.

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Undersea cable cuts: services to be restored soon, says NCC

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has assured that Internet services will be restored soon, as operators of the damaged undersea cables have commenced repairs.

KANO FOCUS recalled that in the early hours of Thursday, there were reports of a combination of cable cuts, resulting in equipment faults on the major undersea cables along the West African Coast, which negatively impacted data and fixed telecom services in several countries of West Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cote de Ivoire, among others.

The cuts occurred somewhere in Cote de’Ivoire and Senegal, with an attendant disruption in Portugal.

Cable companies – West African Cable System (WACS) and African Coast to Europe (ACE) in the West Coast route from Europe have experienced faults while SAT3 and MainOne have downtime.

Similar undersea cables providing traffic from Europe to the East Coast of Africa, like Seacom, Europe India Gateway (EIG), Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE1), are said to have been cut at some point around the Red Sea, resulting in degradation of services across on the routes.

Huge volumes of data are transported across continents by underwater cables, which are an essential component of internet connectivity infrastructure. They could, however, be harmed by things like unintentional cuts, natural disasters, or technological failures. The functioning of governments, corporations, and individual consumers can all be severely impacted by disruptions to these connections.

In Nigeria and other West African countries, Internet access and speed have experienced disruptions in the networks of service providers in the affected countries, of which banks and telecoms companies were mostly affected.

However, the NCC, in a press statement sent to KANO FOCUS, said operators of the cables have commenced repairs already, and services were gradually being restored.

They have promised to work round the clock to ensure that services are restored to the affected countries within the shortest possible time, the Commission assured.

 

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