Historical background of Kano

The city of Kano, Nigeria is the major trade and shipping centre for an agricultural produce including cotton, cattle and peanut from the northern part of Nigeria and it is also a major industrial centre with factories producing peanut flour and oil, cotton textile, steel and furniture, processed meat concrete blocks, shoes and house hold goods. Traditionally the city has been known for its leather work. Its tanned goatskins were exported (from about the 15Th century) to the other parts of Africa and Europe where they were known as Moroccan leather. Historically Kano was Original seven Hausa city-state that flourished in northern Nigeria in the 16Th to 19Th century and its written history dates back to 999 AD, by which time the city was already seven hundred years old. In the early 16Th century, Islam arrived in Kano and it was widely adopted by the population. The city-state of Kano reached the height of its power in the 17Th and 18Th century. In 1809 the city-state was conquered by the Fulani and became part of Sultanate established by Uthman Dan Fodio in northern Nigeria. The present day of city of Kano includes both the ancient city and bustling metropolis that has grown around it. It is the capital of Kano state, one of the 36 states that make up modern Nigeria.

Background information on (AKTH)

Aminu kano Teaching Hospital was established in August1988. prior to its movement to the permanent site along Zaria Road in 1996, the hospital was temporally housed at the mustala muhammed specialist hospital, kano.
Amiun kano Teaching Hospital was designed as a 500 bed tertiary Hospital. currently, the hospital has 8 Departments:Medine,surgery,psychiatry,obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dental and Maxillofacial surgery, Ophthalmology, Anaesthesiology/ICU and paediatrics.