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	Kano - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kano is the major industrial center of N Nigeria; peanut flour and oil, cotton textiles, steel furniture, processed meat, concrete blocks, shoes, and soap are the chief manufactures.
		Kano reached the height of its power in the 17th and 18th cent.
		In Kano are Abdullahi Bayero College (1960; part of Ahmadu Bello Univ., Zaria); Gidan Makama Museum, with examples of local art; and the palace of the emir, the former ruler of the Kano city-state.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KanoNig.asp (346 words)

	Nigeria
		Nigeria is Africa’s most populous state inhabiting some of the most famous soccer players from Africa.
		Nigeria's economy is highly dependent on the oil sector which accounts for about 40 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and accounts for about 85 percent of the country's foreign exchange earnings.
		KANO, Nigeria, July 7 2001 In the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto a man has had his hand amputed after being convicted of stealing a goat.
	us-africa.tripod.com /nigeria.html (1579 words)

	Chippla's Weblog - Thoughts on Issues: Religious Marshals: Kano, Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The city of Kano in Nigeria is awash with history and culture.
		Kano State, the province of which Kano city is capital, used to be synonymous with peanut (or groundnuts as they are called in Nigeria) pyramids, a reflection of its past agricultural prowess.
		Nigeria has always been a good player when it comes to widening the gap between different classes of people especially in the name of culture or religion.
	chippla.blogspot.com /2005/12/religious-marshals-kano-nigeria.html (1158 words)

	Nigeria: KANO STATE - Kano State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kano State was first created under this name on May 27, 1967, when Nigeria assumed the twelve states structure.
		Administrative Areas: With Kano as capital, the state is divided into fortytour local government areas which form twentytour federal constituencies and three senatorial districts.
		Kano State is divided into twentytour federal constituencies and three senatorial districts.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /links/kanoadv.asp?blurb=280 (357 words)

	Promise of democracy may be illusory in Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		KANO, Nigeria -- Kicking up a choking cloud of dust along a highway in northern Nigeria, a small caravan of cars leads a procession of hundreds of people on foot, banging drums and chanting slogans.
		At the state level, Kano is faced with growing civil unrest as more people find their jobs disappearing or their incomes shrinking.
		An unlikely candidate in Nigeria's ruthless political arena, Usman was a schoolteacher and civil servant in the Education Ministry before entering politics in the late 1980s.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/98/04/28/nigeria-witherdemocracy.2-0.html (622 words)

	Kano - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kano (city, Nigeria), city in northern Nigeria, capital of Kano State.
		In ancient times a powerful city-state of the Hausa people, Kano has been an...
		Kano (family), family of Japanese painters that originated in the 15th century and persisted until the 19th century.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Kano.html (71 words)

	Nigeria - Kano and Sokoto Agricultural Development Projects - Operations Evaluation Department - The World Bank
		A combined audit of six of them, including Kano and Sokoto, was conducted in 1993, and concluded that the project targets were unrealistic and based on unproven technological assumptions, that there was too little emphasis on farmers' production priorities, and that the institutional structure led to a top-down effort and overemphasis on physical targets.
		For Kano, the estimated ERR was 38 percent including fadama cropping, and 16 percent for dryland cropping only.
		However, in Kano State, where population densities are high, and not all families have access to fadama land, benefits were reported to be less widespread.
	lnweb18.worldbank.org /oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/996144D276B46FD4852567F5005D12BD?opendocument (3594 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Kano: Nigeria's ancient city-state
		Kano is one of northern Nigeria's ancient city-states
		The Emir of Kano is one of the most highly respected Muslim leaders in Nigeria, whose 130 million people are roughly equally divided between Muslims and Christians.
		But in Kano, Christians are now a tiny minority - around 1% of the population - and have mostly travelled there from other parts of Nigeria.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3708309.stm (511 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Alhaji Abubakar Rimi in Conversation with Helon Habila
		Alhaji Abubakar Rimi's administration was widely recognized as one of the best state governments in Nigeria during his tenure as Kano State governor in terms of spreading social amenities and introducing new progressive measures for the betterment of the people - for instance, educational institutions at all levels tripled during his tenure of office.
		So, the military in Nigeria is the richest group of Nigerians today, because you know when the military comes to power, their concern is not how to rule or in justice; that is not their training.
		So Nigeria is not facing the reality of the situation, and it is not punishing those who are causing the problems, and as long as there will be no punishment, the crises will continue.
	nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/chidi-achebe/060705.html (5784 words)

	Kano State, Nigeria fully endorses OPV
		Kano, Nigeria: 2 October 2004 - The Executive Governor of Kano State, Nigeria, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has reiterated that the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) is safe for consumption by children.
		He has consequently directed all Kano indigenes and indeed all Nigerians to ensure that their children below five years of age are immunized during the forthcoming National Immunization Days (NIDs) scheduled for 9th - 12th October 2004, as well as in subsequent rounds.
		Kano state suspended immunization for polio eradication for about a year following allegations spearheaded by some Moslem clerics that OPV contained substances likely to cause infertility in females.
	www.afro.who.int /country_offices_press/2004/pr20041002.html (435 words)

	USATODAY.com - Nigeria boycotts polio vaccination drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Sticking to its position that the polio vaccine is a U.S. plot against Muslims, an overwhelmingly Islamic northern Nigerian state declared Sunday it would boycott an emergency immunization campaign being launched to stop the crippling outbreak that is spreading across west and central Africa.
		The announcement from Kano state came on the eve of a World Health Organization campaign to immunize 63 million children in 10 African nations as the polio outbreak spreads from northern Nigeria into countries where the disease had been eradicated.
		Nigeria's federal government has been under international pressure to change the position of the three states, as the polio outbreak spreads back into seven African countries where the disease had been eradicated.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-22-nigeria-vaccine_x.htm (548 words)

	Kano Muslims tell Christians to live with Sharia or leave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		KANO, Nigeria, 3 March 2000 (Newsroom) -- Christians and other non-Muslims living in Kano state in northern Nigeria who cannot cope with the Sharia legal system should leave the state, a Muslim group has said.
		Kano's adoption of Islamic law came barely 24 hours after the National Council of States (NCS) agreed to suspend the implementation of Sharia law in the northern part of the country.
		Kano, the economic capital of northern Nigeria has a history of religious riots, with Christians usually the victims.
	www.domini.org /openbook/nigeria20000303.htm (464 words)

	UNICEF - At a glance: Nigeria - Kano’s 4.2 million children protected from polio
		The first drops of vital polio vaccine are given to a child during the launch ceremony of the polio eradication campaign in Kano, Nigeria.
		KANO, 3 August 2004 — The skies are clear and the morning sun is shining as the UNICEF team prepares for the long-awaited re-launch of polio immunization in Kano, Nigeria’s most populous state.
		As the immunization teams head out to the villages, parents open their doors, relieved that the vaccine is now available to protect their children from the paralysis caused by polio.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/nigeria_22786.html (670 words)

	CNN.com - New clashes reported in Nigeria - October 15, 2001
		KANO, Nigeria -- Fresh clashes have been reported in Nigeria after violence in the city of Kano claimed at least 18 lives in two days.
		Nigeria's population of about 120 million is split almost evenly between Muslims and Christians.
		Nigeria has faced an increase in ethnic or religious bloodshed since army rule ended in 1999.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/africa/10/15/gen.nigeria.violence/index.html (393 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: Hundreds of Christians Killed in Ongoing Religious Violence in Nigeria -- May 14, 2004
		Some 1,000 Nigerians died in the Kano riots, Rev. Andrew Ubah, the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kano, told Reuters.
		At Kano's central Bompai police compound, Mama Aisha, a 40-year-old mother of six children, carried a seventh on her back -- a baby whose mother was hospitalized after a machete-wielding mob attacked her.
		Nigeria's population of 130 million people is split roughly equally between Muslims and Christians.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/nigeria_05-14-04.html (526 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Kano: Nigeria's ancient city-state
		Kano, now the scene of anti-Christian riots, was once one of northern Nigeria's most powerful city-states.
		As an Islamic centre, Kano was among the northern states to introduce strict Islamic Sharia law.
		Kano's religious leaders said that the vaccine had been contaminated with drugs as part of a western plot to make Africa women, and Muslims in particular, infertile.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/3708309.stm (511 words)

	Nigeria - Pictures From The Benue Crisis In Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		More than 60,000 ethnic Tivs have fled their homes in central Nigeria, due to the tribal clashes between the Jukuns and the Fulani tribes against the Tivs, and are now in four refugee camps in the neighboring state of Benue, according to a government official report released on Thursday.
		Oct 17 6:30 AM ET The remains of the Brigade-Gwagwarwa Apostolic Church in Kano, Nigeria, are seen Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001, after the church was torched during Muslim-Christian rioting over the weekend.
		Oct 16 9:00 PM ET The remains of the Ahmadiya Jama'at Mosque in Kano, Nigeria, are seen Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001, after the mosque was torched during Muslim-Christian rioting over the weekend.
	www.onlinenigeria.com /benue2.asp (1122 words)

	Travel in Kano - Nigeria - Africa - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kano is the major industrial centre of N Nigeria; peanut flour and oil, cotton textiles, steel furniture, processed meat, concrete blocks, shoes, and soap are the chief manufactures.
		One of the seven Hausa city-states, Kano's written history dates back to A.D. when the city was already several hundred years old.
		In Kano are Abdullahi Bayero College (1960; part of Ahmadu Bello Univ., Zari); Gidan Makama Museum, with examples of local art; and the palace of the emir, the former ruler of the Kano city-state.
	www.africatravelling.net /nigeria/kano/kano_history.htm (206 words)

	Polio program resumes in Kano, Nigeria
		Kano's decision to vaccinate children against polio comes at a critical time in the polio eradication programme.
		The resumption of immunization activities in Kano, the first round of which began on 31 July and ends today, is one of several measures needed to stop polio transmission in Nigeria and to halt the international spread of the virus.
		As of 3 August 2004, Nigeria has reported 430 cases of polio and poses the highest risk to the end-2004 target for the global eradication of polio.
	www.pharma-lexicon.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=11624 (536 words)

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		KANO, 26 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Women in Kano State have been banned from riding in the same buses as men and from riding behind men on motorcycles as the state government extends its application of Islamic Shari’ah law.
		Kano is one of 12 states in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north that adopted the strict Shari’ah code in 2000, but it is the first to introduce segregated public transport.
		Kano, with a population of four million, is the biggest city in northern Nigeria and has long been a hotbed of sectarian violence.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=48309&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=NIGERIA (713 words)

	Nigeria ---->>> Kano State
		Kano first became known to the outside world after the visit of Leo Africanus in A.D. Tradition has it that the earliest settlers found in the area were the Abagayawa whose ancestor called Kano was said to have migrated from Gaya in the vicinity of Kano town in search of iron-stone and charcoal.
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		Nigeria is a global business country where we have millions of business opportunities.
	www.ngex.com /nigeria/places/states/kano.htm (405 words)

	Kano Online - Announcements
		Hausa Film Festival is organized to commence in mid February 2002, to coincide with the Eid-el-Kabir Sallah Festival in Kano.
		This is because, as a major cultural festival, the occasion provides participants with a unique opportunity to avail themselves to the colourful and beautiful festive mood of the ancient city of Kano during the Eid-el-kabir festival.
		It is also envisaged that all NTA stations in the 16 northern states of Nigeria will take part in the festival.
	www.kanoonline.com /publications/pr_announce_hf_festival.html (788 words)

	Kano Online web site
		At this occasion, we will honor one of our Kano Online members and prizes will be given to the KanoOnline Poetry contest winners, but most of all it is an opportunity of KanoOnline.com members and friends of KanoOnline.com to meet one another.
		During the reign of Muhammadu Rumfa (1463-1499), Islam consolidated and it was at that time that the first Kano central mosque was built.
		emir of Kano Alu, was away to Sokoto when Kano was occupied; he was captured, dethroned and exiled to Lokoja where he died in 1926.
	www.kanoonline.com (603 words)

	Kano - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Image:Locator Map Kano-Nigeria.png Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, with a population of 3.626.204 (2005), after Lagos and Ibadan.
		Kano houses a university and a railway station with trains to Lagos routed through Kaduna, while Kano International Airport lies nearby.
		Also in the Old City are the 15th century Sahelian Emir's Palace, neighbouring Kano Central Mosque and the Gidan Makama Mosque.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Kano (494 words)

	Nigeria
		President Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in the ancient city of Kano yesterday a thoroughly disappointed man. He minced no words in expressing his disgust at the perpetrators of the weekend mayhem in the city, which claimed about 150 lives.
		The Kano riots are linked to last Friday's protest by Moslems against the Federal Government's support for the US action against Afghanistan for shielding Bin Laden — the prime suspect in the September 11th attacks on the US in which over 5,000 people were killed.
		He advised the displaced persons to remain steadfast in their faith because God will not abandon them and warned that the people of Nigeria should be careful not to be viewed by other members of the civilized community as unable to differentiate between the good religion of Islam and terrorism.
	www.westerndefense.org /articles/Nigeria/november01.htm (964 words)

	USAfricaonline.com \| Nigeria \| Plane Crash
		Nigeria's Sports Minister Ishaya Mark Aku, the wife and son of retired Gen. Jerry Useni, count among the dead.
		Nigeria has faced numerous airline crashes arising from poorly maintained equipment, overworked and lean flight staff, corruption and bribery of senior quality control officers in government, hurried approvals granted political cronies to own airline services, failure to execute oversight actions by aviation management staff, among other factors.
		Nigeria's former vice president Alex Ekwueme's decision to leave the airport and not make the flight in order to meet a friend who called him for a different reason, apparently, saved his
	www.usafricaonline.com /ngrkanocrash.html (1088 words)

	WHO \| Kano, Nigeria, informs WHO of the intention to resume polio immunization campaigns
		These developments coincide with discussions between the Director-General of WHO, Dr LEE Jong-wook, the President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, and the federal Minister of Health, and requests from WHO member countries for advice on the status of the polio epidemic in Nigeria.
		The resumption of immunization campaigns in Kano is now critical to rapidly increase population immunity and to help contain the international spread of polio from Nigeria which is key to the global effort to eradicate the disease.
		Because international travellers to northern Nigeria remain at high risk of polio, it is important that they protect themselves by being up-to-date with vaccination against poliomyelitis as outlined in WHO's International Travel and Health.
	www.who.int /mediacentre/notes/2004/np16/en (685 words)

	Kano, Nigeria from East Midlands - Flight Comparison.co.uk
		Cheap Flights to Kano, Nigeria from East Midlands, UK Listed below are Cheap Air Flights to Kano from East Midlands in the UK, which we have found on the leading UK travel sites.
		The flights to Kano may not be available at the listed price on the particular dates you wish to travel - they may even only be available for a day or two during the month.
		Nigeria's second-largest city, Kano is just over 200 miles from the national capital, Abuja.
	www.flightcomparison.co.uk /flightcomparison/flights/flykanofromeast_midlandsemakan.htm (453 words)

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