Kano State government has renamed its Northwest University as Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano. The Northwest University is one of the two state-owned universities established by Kwankwaso Administration.

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, Enugu Collectives and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB have condemned the call by the former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso on Igbo leaders to apologise and disown the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, over their agitation for self-determination, describing the call as “bunkum.”

Former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has advised against call for the arrest of leaders of Arewa youth groups who have given the Igbo a three-month ultimatum to quit the northern part of the country by October 1, 2017.

Inspector General of police special squad Wednesday raided the house of senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s younger brother Lawan Musa Kwankwaso in Kano.

Former national chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change CPC, Sen. Rufai Hanga, has lashed out at a former governor of Kano state, Sen. Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso over claims by the latter that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje were plotting to float a new party outside of the All Progressives Congress APC.