Kano
Kano in Naija City is a 3D city you can walk, drive and work in with other players. Fly in to Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport. A one-way ticket from Kaduna costs ₦21,500 in game money.
Airport Road
✈️ Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
MAKIA, the oldest airport in the country. Hajj flights, cargo planes and harmattan dust on every windscreen.
Jobs here: Airport Ground Assistant
Katsina Road
🎖️ Bukavu Barracks
The army barracks on the Katsina road. Parades, mammy market and very shiny boots.
Old City
🛒 Kurmi Market
Five hundred years of trading in one maze of alleys. Leather, brass, calabashes, kola and prices that begin with “for you, my friend”.
Jobs here: Market Trader
🎪 Kofar Kudu Durbar Ground
The open ground before the Emir’s Palace. Hawan Daushe gallops here at Sallah; weddings and rallies fill it the rest of the year.
🕌 Kano Central Mosque
The great mosque beside the palace. On Friday the rows run out of the gate and down the road. Free public wash area.
🗿 Gidan Makama Museum
A fifteenth-century mud palace. Chain mail, royal drums and the gates the old city wall used to hang.
📜 Gidan Dan Hausa
The old mud house where the first western school in the north began. Books, photographs and very thick walls.
Kofar Mata
🏟️ Sani Abacha Stadium
Home of Kano Pillars. Sai Masu Gida: sixteen thousand voices and drums that never stop.
Jobs here: Fitness Coach
Kabuga
🎓 Bayero University Kano
BUK. Old site, new site, and a shuttle bus that carries one whole faculty at a time.
🎓 Rumfa College
The old Kano Middle School, 1927. Half the emirate’s big men sat on these benches.
Jobs here: Primary School Teacher
Fagge
🍲 Hajiya Ladi Tuwo & Mai Shayi
Tuwo with every soup, danwake, fura, and a mai shayi who has not turned his stove off since 1998.
🚆 Kano Railway Station
The end of the line from Lagos since 1911. The groundnuts left from here; now it is cattle, cement and patient passengers.
Sabon Gari
🪩 Sabon Gari Lounge & Nightclub
The one quarter of Kano where the music is loud after midnight. Hisbah know the address.
Jobs here: Resident Club DJ
⛪ Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral
The cathedral in Sabon Gari. Morning mass, a big choir, and harvest thanksgiving that lasts all day.
⚽ Sabon Gari Football Viewing Centre
A noisy generator, wooden benches, heated arguments and match-day banters. Hold your seat.
Bompai
👮🏾 Kano State Police Command
The state command at Bompai. Bail is free. Everybody says so.
Jobs here: Police Officer
Bank Road
🏦 Kano Community Bank
A local branch for secure savings, everyday banking, and high-drama queues.
Jobs here: Bank Teller
💻 Kano Digital Hub
Fast Wi-Fi, founders pitching in Hausa and English, and an agritech start-up on every desk.
Jobs here: Software Developer
🏛️ Kano State House of Assembly
Where the forty honourable members sit. Bills, budgets and very long “executive sessions”.
Nassarawa
🏢 Audu Bako Secretariat
The seat of Kano State Government. Ministries, files and ‘ka dawo gobe’: come back tomorrow.
Jobs here: Civil Servant
Nassarawa GRA
🏨 Tahir Guest Palace
Kano’s grand hotel. Pool, buffet, governors’ convoys in the car park and wedding dinners every weekend.
Jobs here: Hotel Receptionist
👗 Nassarawa GRA Boutique
Hand-embroidered babban riga, Swiss voile and caps that cost a cow. If you ask for price, you no fit afford am.
Race Course
🐎 Kano Polo Club
Ponies, turbans and Range Rovers on the grass. The emirate has been riding here for a hundred years.
Zoo Road
🌳 Kano Zoological Garden
Gandun Daji: lions, ostriches, a very old elephant and every primary school in Kano on excursion. Public benches under the trees.
🎬 Ado Bayero Mall
The biggest mall in the north. Cinema, shawarma and half of Kano taking pictures on the escalator.
🍢 Zoo Road Suya & Balangu Spot
Balangu off the fire, suya by the stick and yaji the mai nama mixes himself. The smoke is the signboard.
Gyadi-Gyadi
⚽ Gyadi-Gyadi Football Pitch
Red dust, bare feet and a touchline of scouts who are “from Pillars”.
Sharada
🧶 Sharada Textile Mill
One of the last looms running in Sharada. Shadda, atamfa and overtime before every Sallah.
Jobs here: Mill Hand
Challawa
🎣 River Challawa
The river that waters Kano. Fishermen, dry-season farms on the bank and donkeys carrying sand.
Zaria Road
🏥 Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital
AKTH: emergency care, maternity ward, pharmacy, and house officers who have not slept since Tuesday.
Naibawa
🚌 Naibawa Motor Park
Buses to Kaduna, Abuja, Jos and Lagos. Agbero calling every destination at once, and kosai frying at the gate.
Jobs here: Keke Driver