Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, has approved the appointment of an additional 94 senior special assistants.
In a statement issued by his press secretary, Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa, in Kano on Tuesday, only five women were among the 94 newly appointed aides.
The women, Rahama Kabeer Fagge, senior special reporter I, Government House; Amina Isah Bebeji, special reporter, SEMA; Maijidda Garba, special reporter, REB; Fatima Usman Muhammad, senior special reporter, KNARDA; and Asiya Muhammad Umar, special reporter, Hospitality Management Institute.
According to the statement, the new appointments take immediate effect.
This latest appointment by the governor is the second in September.
Yusuf had earlier in the month appointed 14 additional Special Advisers and 44 senior special reporters to various ministries, departments, and agencies in the state.
As against the five in this latest appointment, 10 women were among the 44 senior special reporters and two as special advisers.
Politics Nigeria reports that the governorship election petitions tribunal had sacked NNPP’s Yusuf as governor of Kano and declared APC’s Nasir Yusuf Gawuna winner of the March 18 poll.
