Kano

Date of branch inauguration: 1991

1991– 1993    

Chairperson- Fatima Kwaku

Vice Chair- Aisha Dankani

Secretary- Patricia Mahmoud

Assistant Secretary- Nana Aisha Abdullahi

Treasurer- Dije Abdu Aboki

P.R.O- Amina Adamu Aliyu

1993 –1995

Chairperson – Fatima Kwaku

Vice Chair- Aisha Dankani

Secretary- Timi Ogun

Assistant Secretary- Binta Iliasu                            

Treasurer- Dije Abdu Aboki

Finacial Secretary- Aisha Bello

P.R.O- Eucharia Anyichie

1995 –1997

Chairperson- Hashiya Ben Umar

Vice Chairperson- Aisha Bello

Secretary- Timi Ogun

Assistant Secretary- Eucharia Anyichie

Treasurer- Maryam Ahmed Sabo

Financial Secretary- Aisha Mahmoud

P.R.O- Eucharia Duru

1998–1999

Chairperson-Hashiya Ben Umar

Vice Chair- Aisha Bello

Secretary- Helen Balami

Assistant Secretary-Codiliar Nwabuzor 

Treasurer-Maryam Ahmed Sabo 

Financial Secretary- Aisha Mahmoud

P.R.O- Eucharia Duru

2000 – 2002

Chairperson- Aisha Bello

Vice Chair- Dije Abdu Aboki

Secretary- Cordiliar Nwabuzor

Assistant Secretary- Aisha Rogo

Treasurer- Eucharia Duru

Financial Secretary- Hadiza Jambo

P.R.O- Zuwaira Yusuf

2002 – 2004

Chairperson- Amina Adamu Aliyu

Vice Chair- Zuwaira Yusuf

Secretary- Bilkisu Suleiman

Assistant Secretary- Yadi Nwuche

Treasurer- Aisha Rogo

Financial Secretary- Juwairiyya Badamasi

P.R.O- Rabi Waya

2004 – 2006

Chairperson- Amina Adamu Aliyu

Vice Chair- Zuwaira Yusuf

Secretary- Bilkisu Suleiman

Assistant Secretary- Yadi Nwuche

Treasurer- Aisha Rogo

Financial Secretary- Juwairiyya Badamasi

P.R.O- Rabi Waya

2006 – 2008

Chairperson- Fatima Kwaku

Vice Chair-Eucharia Duru

Secretary- Hadiza Jambo

Assistant Secretary- Fatima Ojo

Treasurer-Maryam Ahmed Sabo 

Financial Secretary- Hajara Buhari

P.R.O- Huwaila Ibrahim

2009 – 2011

Chairperson- Maryam Ahmed Sabo

Vice Chair- Hussaina Aliyu Ibrahim

Secretary- Sakina Datti Abubakar

Assistant Secretary- Fatima Ojo

Treasurer- Fatima Imam

Financial Secretary- Hadiza Rufai Idris

P.R.O- Maryam Inuwa

2011 – 2013

Chairperson- Maryam Ahmed Sabo

Vice Chair- Hussaina Aliyu Ibrahim

Secretary- Sakina Datti Abubakar

Assistant Secretary- Fatima Ojo

Treasurer- Fatima Imam

Financial Secretary- Hadiza Rufai Idris

P.R.O- Maryam Inuwa

2013 – 2015

Chairperson- Hussaina Aliyu Ibrahim

Vice Chair- Zuwaira Yusuf

Secretary- Huwaila Ibrahim

Assistant Secretary- Asmau Muhammed Haruna

Treasurer- Bilkisu Suleiman

Financial Secretary- Zainab Kwaku

P.R.O- Aisha Ado Abdullahi

2015 – 2018

Chairperson- Hussaina Aliyu Ibrahim

Vice Chair- Zuwaira Yusuf

Secretary- Huwaila Ibrahim

Assistant Secretary- Asmau Muhammed Haruna

Treasurer- Bilkisu Suleiman

Financial Secretary- Zainab Kwaku

P.R.O- Aisha Ado Abdullahi

2018 – 2022

Chairperson- Huwaila Ibrahim

Vice Chair- Nibras Tahir Jalalain

Secretary- Aimina Umar

Assistant Secretary- Amina Ado Ibrahim

Treasurer- Salma Ahmad Danbappha

Financial Secretary- Saadatu Mahmoud Ibrahim

PRO- Amina Umar Hussein

2022 -2024

Chairperson – Bilikisu Ibrahim Suleman

Vice-Chaiperson – Hajara Safiyo Hamza

Secretary – Katumi Muhammad Oboiren

Asst. Secretary – Amina Ado Ibrahim

Treasurer – Hauwa Abba Musa

Financial Secretary – Hadiza Bashir Buhari

P.R.O – Sa’Adatu Mahmoud Ibrahim

Asst. P.R.O – Jazira Ahmadu Bello

FIDA, NBA Train Young Legal Practitioners On Ethics, Discipline In Kano

The Kano State branch of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), in collaboration with the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has trained 100 young lawyers on professional ethics and discipline.

According to the FIDA state chairperson, Bilkisu Ibrahim Suleiman, the training, which was held at the NBA state secretariat, was aimed at developing the capacity of the young legal practitioners in areas they are having problems.

She said the upcoming lawyers would not only need to practice but to mingle and learn from experienced and senior members in the profession so they can improve in handling legal proceedings.

Speaking, Chief Magistrate Umma Sani Kurawa, who deliver a keynote presentation on filing processes for civil and criminal proceedings, advised FIDA to be revisiting cases at correctional facilities for review of convicted cases tried outside the jurisdiction.

“I was opportune to visit the prison when I was a Senior Magistrate and my jurisdiction was to impose a fine of N15,000. To my surprise, I met a woman who was convicted and a fine of N50,000 was imposed on her by a magistrate of grade II.

FIDA Kano Commemorate Day Against FGM

FIDA (NIG) Kano State branch marked the International Day for Zero Tolerance Against FGM by paying a visit to Torrey Home Kano , on the 6th of February, 2022. Gifts items were presented to the Children at the home.

The Branch also carried out an Advocacy Walk from the FIDA Office, Kano to the Kano State Government House, received by the Chief Security Officer, SP Mu’awuyya Muhammad.

The Chairperson Bilikisu Ibrahim Suleiman informed the CSOs of the reason for the walk which is to mark The UN day and called on the State Government and relevant stakeholders to ensure that all forms of violence against Women and Children are mitigated and eradicated

FIDA Kano appealed to the state government to pass into law the Child Protection Law and Violence Against Persons Prohibition law in Kano State which will ensure that all the appropriate mechanisms are put in place to protect women and children.

The CSO thanked FIDA and other organizations that partnered with FIDA to carry out the advocacy walk and promised that he will inform the Executive Governor who was unavoidably absent and promise to escalate the demands of the branch to the Governor

Visit to Hanifa Abubakar 

The Chairperson, FIDA Nigeria Kano State Chapter, Barr. Bilkisu Ibrahim Suleiman on Friday led a delegation of Excos to pay a condolence visit to the family of a 5-year-old slain victim, Hanifa Abubakar at Dakata Quarters, Nasarawa LGA, Kano State. The family was assured of FIDA’s support in the pursuit of justice

The Kano State Branch of the International Federation of Women Lawyers has achieved a lot towards realizing the aims and objectives of the Association which is primarily centered on promoting and protecting the rights of women and children through pro bono legal services, counseling and other programmes and activities such as  conducting prison visits on monthly basis to deliver donations and take brief of indigent female inmates, sensitization and awareness campaign on rape, domestic violence, Gender Based Violence (GBV), etc.

FIDA Kano is a member of Kano State Justice Sector Reform Team (JSRT) and  works in collaboration with other stakeholders in the State in it’s effort to achieve the desired objectives. In its effort to promote girls child education, FIDA Kano organizes outreach campaigns occasionally to Girls Secondary Schools within and outside metropolis to sensitize them on the dangers of the social media and other vices in the society especially unwanted and teenage pregnancy.

Again, apart from the prison cases, FIDA Kano also receives cases (relating to women and children) mostly on custody, maintenance, rape and the likes. One of its classical cases was the case of Wasila, a young girl of 12 years old who was married off to a man she doesn’t like and she poisoned him to death. The case was very much publicized which drew the attention of the Government, and with FIDA Kano’s intervention, she was discharged under nolle prose qui on grounds that it was a child marriage. After discharging the victim, Fida Kano made sure she had a better life out of her environment, And many more cases, some of which are still pending in court.

FIDA Kano in conjunction with Isa Wali empowerment marked the 16 days of activism 2019 by visiting four remote villages each in the local governments of Rano, Warawa, Dawakin tofa, and Bichi. They were educated on Persons with Disability Law, Human Rights, Children and Young Person’s Law and also Rape (preventive measures and steps to take after occurrence). More than ten thousand hijabs and caps were distributed and also more than twenty thousand flyers and stickers.