The notice of withdrawal of the suit submitted before Federal High Court Kano was contained in a letter signed by the Kano Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Isa Dederi, dated 4th July 2023, and addressed to Sanusi Musa, SAN.

It read, ”We write to notify you that Kano State Government and the Attorney General of Kano State wish to debrief you of the earlier instructions, given to you to handle the case NO: FHC/ KN/71/2023 between Attorney General of Kano State and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“You and your team members are therefore instructed not to take any further steps on the matter, either by appearing in court or filing any processes in respect of the case” the Kano Attorney General concluded.

Recall that the Kano state government under the former governor through the Ministry of Justice had issued a fiat instrument to restrain EFCC from investigating the controversial dollar video.

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, congratulated all Muslims in the state on the spiritual significance of the occasion, which he said, calls for self-assessment.

He called on the Muslim community to use the occasion to seek Allah’s forgiveness, and pray for His intervention to salvage the nation from the lingering security challenges and improvement in the general wellbeing and progress of the state and the country in general.

The governor assured residents of his administration’s readiness to assiduously continue to deliver on its promise by improving their living standards through the execution of people-oriented programmes and projects.

The statement also urged those that are yet to obtain their voter’s card to do so in order to be able to exercise their franchise in the forthcoming general elections.

The first lunar month of the New Islamic Year, Muharram commences on Saturday, July 30, 2022.

The Minister said ”the strides achieved in that sector made the Government in the Niger Republic dispatch a delegation to Kano on a study tour of its skills acquisition programmes for youths.

Moctar made the remark on Tuesday when he paid a visit to Governor Ganduje at the Kano Government House.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor of Kano State, Hassan Musa Fagge, said the Minister added that the youths empowerment initiative of the Kano State Government is worthy of emulation because of its impact on the lives of Kano people.

Responding, Ganduje, represented by his Deputy, Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, said realising that the youths are the backbone of development informed the decision of the State Government to give them priority in its programmes.

“Empowering the youths is very essential to us because it prevents them from idleness, drug abuse and committing crimes,” he said.

While assuring the delegation from the Niger Republic of continued support and cooperation, the Governor, however, described their visit to the youth development facilities in the State as proof of the existing ties between Niger and Nigeria, particularly with Kano State.

The new Emir was appointed following the death of his father, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir, in 2021.

Gaya was among the four newly created emirates by the Ganduje administration. Other newly created emirates were Rano, Bichi and Karaye, in addition to the existing Kano emirate council.

Speaking after presenting the staff of office to the Emir, Ganduje said the state government appreciated the contributions, rendered by traditional institutions in promoting peace and stability in the state.

He urged the Emir and other emirs in the state to continue to assist the government in providing security of lives and property.

The governor urged the Emir to remain a father to all his subjects, without discrimination and to accord priority attention to education and agriculture in his emirate.

In his acceptance speech, the new Emir promised to be just and fair to all people in the emirate. The traditional ruler commended Gov. Ganduje and President Muhammad Buhari for their efforts in providing meaningful projects in the country. His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Sa’ad II, commended the gathering, saying: “We are grateful to Allah for giving us this chance to be here. We are happy that we are here to congratulate one of our own,’ he stated.

The event was graced by the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Bayero the Emir of Bichi , Alhaji Nasiru Bayero, and other royal fathers from within and outside the state and other top government officials

The $563 million funds would be spent on developing rural roads, transport infrastructure, water, sanitation, and agricultural productivity in Nigeria, The Cable reports.

AfDB President, Akinwumi Adesina, disclosed this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, stating that Kano would get $110 million out of the earmarked amount.

He said, “We are spending $110 million in Kano for our programme on special agricultural industrial processing zone. We are, in all, have about $563 million that will be dedicated to that project in various states of Nigeria. With this $110million that will be used for Kano State, just imagine what we could do. Investing in rural roads, transport infrastructure, water and sanitation, we will also invest in agricultural productivity to raise the production of food. With this programme of hundreds of US dollars, we will help develop consolidated infrastructure in rural areas. That will allow private sector food and agribusiness companies to reduce the number of losses they have, create a more competitive value chain, transform the rural areas from the zones of misery to the zone of economic prosperity and increase the number of resources the state has,”

The governor, on the other hand, commended the assured AfDB president of the government’s readiness to ensure the successful implementation of the projects the fund have been provided for.

Ganduje also stated his desire to develop Kano to the status of a megacity where basic infrastructure is not lacking adding that the fund would help achieve his aim.

Ganduje said “This is what we mean by genuine development when institutions are strengthened and individuals or groups of individuals are directly impacted, this is what we mean by genuine development. My dream is to promote Kano into a megacity, which is not only a collection of the population but also, a collection of an environment where things are working, where traffic flows, where health services are excellent. This is aimed at reducing medical tourism abroad and where you can have security using technology,”

Ganduje who was compelled to report herself to EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Sunday was quizzed for more than five hours for her alleged involvement in a land scandal. Hafsat had earlier ignored the EFCC’s invitation following the petition filed against her by first son Abdulzeez Ganduje.

The governor’s wife, who was drilled over alleged illegal hijack of land property worth billions of naira, was granted an administrative bill under the influence of her husband. Governor Ganduje, who accompanied his wife to the EFCC headquarters, was said to have helped to secure her release

The Governor and his wife returned to Kano through Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano on Tuesday morning October 5. Abdulzeez had dragged his mother Hafsat Ganduje to the EFCC, over a property which he claims the mother used to enrich herself.

Premiumtimes reports that Mrs Ganduje had earlier been invited to report to the EFCC’s Abuja headquarters on September 13 but she did not appear and the EFCC then threatened to arrest her. Sources close to her later said she travelled to the UK at the time to attend the graduation ceremony of one of her other sons.

A person, who has the knowledge of the arrest but asked not to be identified, said: “ told the publication she was arrested this (Monday) evening.”

Abdulazeez had dragged his mum, Hafsat Ganduje, to the EFCC, sources familiar with the matter said, suggesting a pattern of corruptly using family access to power for private enrichment.

According to sources who saw Abdulazeez’s petition, he reported that he was approached by a property developer to help facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars and at least 35 million Naira as “facilitation commission”.

According to the petition, Abdulazeez said he paid the sum in dollars to his mother, Mrs Ganduje.

“But three months later, (the property developer) discovered that the plots of land he wanted and had paid the first family for had been allocated to other buyers and he then requested to be refunded,” Premiumtimes quotes the source as saying

This decision comes even as the state records more cases of COVID-19. Kano state currently has 73 confirmed cases of the viral disease and as at yesterday April 22nd, testing was put on hold because the state had run out of testing kits.

Announcing the relaxation of the lockdown, the deputy governor of the state, Nasiru Gawuna, said
“In view of preparation for Ramadan period, the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has relaxed the ongoing lockdown from 6am-12pm on Thursday to enable people buy necessary foodstuff and items needed for Ramadan period which is expected to commence on Friday,”

This was announced at a special sitting of the Kano executive council chaired by Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of the state today Monday March 9th.

Usman Alhaji, secretary to the state government, who announced the dethronement, said it is with immediate effect. He added that a new emir will be announced shortly

The governor made this known during the launch of Basic Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) and the Distribution of Offer of Appointment to 7,500 volunteer teachers, held at Sani Abacha Stadium, Kofar Mata, today Tuesday February 25th.

The governor announced that any child found begging will be caught and the parent prosecuted.

He said “This policy of free and compulsory basic and secondary education goes along with the integration of our Almajiri system into the mainstream policy implementation; which suggests that English and Arithmetic must be included in the Almajiri School’s curriculum. While they will continue acquiring their study of the Holy Qur’an, they would at the same time, learn English and Arithmetic, which will give them an opportunity to continue with their studies to secondary schools and beyond. parents or guardians would also be taken to court for disrespecting our laws.”