Emir Sanusi

Despite a subsisting court order barring the Kano Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Corruption Commission from investigating Kano Emirate Council finances, the commission has gone ahead with its probe, inviting some officials of the council and other individuals to explain why the emirate council paid their foreign medical bills.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Kano State, Abba Yusuf, on Wednesday vowed to reverse the law establishing four additional emirates in the state, if he secures his ‘stolen’ mandate at the election petition tribunal.

The Northern States Christian Elders Forum, NOSCEF, has warned the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, over utterances capable of remarks that could endanger...

The Emir of Kano, His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi II, has commended Air Peace for extending its domestic flight operations to the state. Mr Sanusi made...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano  If anyone had before 2015 told citizen Nayif Ismail, an indigene of Fagge Local Government Area of Kano state, that at...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano The emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has suspended the district head of Takai, Bashir Ado Bayero, for alleged disloyalty. Trouble began...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano The letter Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, sent to the state House of Assembly, urging the legislators to call off probe...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano The Kano State House of Assembly has called off probe of the emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, bowing to a...

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has advised Kano state government to pay more attention to the sector of education, saying a knowledge...

The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Kabiru Rurum, has maintained that the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, cannot escape being...

This morning, I heard that civil society organizations in Kano are meeting to take a stand on the issue of probing the Emir of...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano The Kano State House of Assembly will invite the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, to appear before its adhoc committee...

*This article was first published by African Arguments Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has often been a polarising figure in Nigeria, but he now finds himself at...

By Mustapha Usman The embattled emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, is paying himself an average of N12million monthly salary from the First Bank account...

By Mustapha Usman The president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, have made spirited appeals to Kano State governor,...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano The emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has debunked the allegations that he squandered a whopping sum of N6billion between June...

By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz Kano state Government may place the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II on suspension to give way for “proper investigation” of...

At least five Northern governors including governor of Kano State, Abudullahi Ganduje, have met in Guangzhou, China, where they resolved to take “severe action”...

By Mustapha Usman, Kano The emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, has urged the federal government to introduce teaching of science, technology and social sciences...

While the hyperbolic lyrics of the legendary Sarkin Kotson Kano Abdulrahman’s magnum opus – Sir Sanusi Sarkin Yaki Zakin Daga Na Abashe – turned...

There is a reason the North of Nigeria is yet to be “on top of the situation”, as our policymakers tend to say even when a crisis is...

A famous line from Shakespeare’s celebrated Romeo and Juliet poses a question, thus: “What is in a name?” While Juliet believes that there’s nothing...

In my journey through this wilderness called life, I have lost a number of solid, older friends who have influenced my journalism. One of...

Those of us who read Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson’s Why Nations Fail, have seen, in the best-selling book, some convincing arguments on how...