3000 COUPLES BEGIN MEDICAL SCREENING IN KANO AHEAD OF MASS WEDDING
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The Kano State Hisbah Board has finished setting up the medical checks for at least 3,000 couples who are planning to take part in the upcoming large wedding event in the state.
The board‘s Deputy Commander General, Sheikh Mujahedeen Aminudeen, spoke to the media on Sunday and said the checks will start on Monday in all 24 local government areas of Kano.
He named the local government areas as Rogo, Wudil, Tudun Wada, Warawa, Kibiya, Dawakin Tofa, Garun Malam, Kura, Dambatta, Karaye, Tsanyawa, Minjibir, Rimin Gado, Shanono, Kabo, Tofa, Rano, Bebeji, Ajingi, Gwarzo, Sumaila, Kiru, Takai, and Madobi.
He said, “The checks will begin on Monday, 8th June, 2026, if God wills.
The couples, which include 1,500 women and 1,500 men, will go through the required medical tests to check their health.”
According to the Hisba official, the board, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the State Agency for the Control of AIDS, has completed arrangements to screen the couples for HIV/AIDS, drug use, genotype, hepatitis B, and other sexually transmitted infections, including gonorrhoea.
The Deputy Commander General added that the registered couples had been directed to visit Hisba offices in their respective local government areas for the screening, warning that anyone who failed to show up would be delisted.
“After that, only those who pass the health screening will qualify,” Aminudeen added.
The Kano State Government, under the leadership of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, reintroduced the mass wedding programme as part of renewed efforts to check prostitution and other social vices, especially among young women and girls whose parents lack the financial means to marry them off in the state.
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