Katsina

Walsh, a therapist who writes about Hopi katsina carvers and owns an Indian art gallery, describes Hopi katsina carvers from 1880 to the present in chronological order, with biographies and photos of each carver's work, based on interviews and other sources.

In a statement, Katsina police said 15 women were abducted, but that 10 of them were freed unharmed following a gun battle with police.

Meanwhile, some of the families that were displaced by the floods have appealed to the Federal Government and the Katsina State Emergency Management Agency to assist them so as to minimise the effect of the disaster on their families.

Musa told reporters in local language at the command headquarters in Katsina that he was working with a Fulani bandit since when he was young before being guided on banditry business.

class="font-size--16 MsoNormalThe bandit gangs maintain camps in Rugu forest which straddles Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger states.

The earliest recorded katsina songs, from the Natalie Curtis Burlin collection, date from 1903.

Thus, in order to disseminate quality information for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of food sufficiency in Nigeria and Katsina State in particular, the target population needs to be identified via environmental scanning.

The Hopi Kachina or Katsina are carved wood "dolls" that accurately depict the dance clothing for a number of very specific men society dances that are ceremonially performed throughout the year at the three mesa villages in Hopi country.

Hopis refer to these carvings as tithu, or dolls, never as katsinam or katsina carvings.

LAHORE, July 18, 2010 (Balochistan Times): Pakistani surgeons visiting Nigeria operated 500 eye surgeries in Katsina and Maiduguri during two days.

Back in the simple Yar'Adua home in Katsina, the framed pictures which crowd the walls display the family's political pedigree.

Another 40 passengers were taken to hospital in Funtua in Katsina State, in Nigeria, on Sunday after the accident.

Nigerian Amina Lawal waits in an islamic courtroom in Katsina in northern Nigeria Aug.