The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Kano State, says it received 61 complaints of alleged human rights abuses in the month of April.
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A 25-year old man, Umar Kabir, has died in a well at Gudantile Village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State.
Two persons have reportedly died, and eight others hospitalalised after drinking tea prepared with leaf popularly called ‘Zakami’ at a wedding over the weekend at Sheka in Kumbotso local government area of Kano state.
Following an increasing number of gender-based related cases in Kano State, the government has inaugurated a strategic knowledge management technical working committee on gender-based violence (GBV).
The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Usaini Gumel, has ordered manhunt for Ibrahim Musa, 22, who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, to death.
The Kano state Command of the Nigeria Police Force, has confirmed that a teenage boy, Iro Kwarangwal of Rimin Kebe, Nasarawa local government area, has stabbed his own mother, Jummai to death.
ASHENEWS reports that the new Commissioner of Police in Kano state, CP Mohammed Usaini Gumel has assured citizens in the state that the adage, “Police is your friend” will come to be fully established as a statement of fact, not ridicule.
The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), an NGO, has trained a section of media and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on fostering accountability in constituency project service delivery.
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Engr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has vowed that the incoming government in Kano will revisit the dethronement of the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, Daily Trust has reported.
The Kano State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 29 suspects for various crimes during and after the Eld-el-fitri celebrations in the state.