Kano State Govt. Inaugurates Kano State Poly Governing Council

Agency Report

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Tuesday inaugurated the Governing Council of Kano State Polytechnic .

At the inauguration in Kano, he urged members of the council to restore the mandate of the polytechnic in terms of teaching, learning and research.

He also urged them to reappraise the institution’s programmes and ensure probity, transparency and accountability.

Ganduje called on members of the council to examine the laws establishing the institution and propose amendment request that

would raise its status like order polytechnics in the country.

The governor warned that no case of corruption would be accommodated, adding that the council should make the institution a role model for all polytechnics.

Responding on behalf of other members, the Chairman of the council, Prof. Ahmed Abdullahi, thanked the governor for finding them fit to serve.

Abdullahi said that he was confident that the council would live up to expectation in the discharge of its duties.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the council, which has 10 members, has Dr Binta Jibrin, Habibu Yakasse, Prof. Mustafa Hassan, Abdullahi Abubakar, Prof. Muktar Kurawa, Sadiya Bichi and the school registrar as members. (NAN)

Today in History: May 2

1670: The Hudson Bay Company is founded.

1598: Henry IV signs Treaty of Vervins, ending Spain’s interference in France.

1668: Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution in France.

1776: France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.

1797: A mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.

1798: The black General Toussaint L’ouverture forces British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.

1808: The citizens of Madrid rise up against Napoleon.

1813: Napoleon defeats a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.

1863: Stonewall Jackson smashes Hooker’s flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia.

1865: President Andrew Johnson offers a $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President

1885: King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State.

1890: The Territory of Oklahoma is created.

1919: The first U.S. air passenger service starts.

1923: Lieutenants Okaley Kelly and John Macready take off from New York for the West Coast on what will become the first successful nonstop transcontinental flight.

1941: Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction.

1942: Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness.

1945: Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.

1946: Prisoners revolt at California’s Alcatraz prison.

1968: The U.S. Army attacks Nhi Ha in South Vietnam and begins a fourteen-day battle to wrestle it away from Vietnamese Communists.

1970: Student anti-war protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.

Today in History: May 1

408: Theodosius II succeeds to the throne of Constantinople.

1308: King Albert is murdered by his nephew John, because he refused his share of the Habsburg lands.

1486: Christopher Columbus convinces Queen Isabella to fund expedition to the West Indies.

1805: The state of Virginia passes a law requiring all freed slaves to leave the state, or risk either imprisonment or deportation.

1863: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins as Union Gen. Joe Hooker starts his three-pronged attack against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

1867: Reconstruction in the South begins with black voter registration.

1877: President Ruthoford B. Hayes withdraws all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.

1898: The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines.

1915: The luxury liner Lusitania leaves New York Harbor for a voyage to Europe.

1927: Adolf Hitler holds his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.

1931: The Empire State Building opens in New York.

1934: The Philippine legislature accepts a U.S. proposal for independence.

1937: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.

1941: The film Citizen Kane–directed and starring Orson Welles–opens in New York.

1944: The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, makes its first flight.

1945: Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escapes the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advances on Berlin.

1948: North Korea is established.

1950: Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry called Annie Allen.

1960: Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia.

1961: Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba.

1968: In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.

1970: Students from Kent State University riot in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American invasion of Cambodia.

1986: The Tass News Agency reports the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear.