The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has solicited for more collaborative measures from sister security agencies and border communities to ensure compliance on the closure of all routes linking Niger Republic. The NIS Acting Comptroller General, Mrs Caroline Adepoju, made the call while addressing personnel at the Illela border...
Sokoto State
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,.Sokoto – As part of its Cooperate Social Responsibility (CSR), BUA Cement Company has donated drugs to 15 hospitals, cements to 68 communities, educational materials to schools and uniforms to pupils in Sokoto State. The benefiting clinics include, those of Kalambaina, Sabon Garin Alu, Bakin...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has reiterated that no single sector engages skilled and unskilled persons globally like the agricultural sector does The Sokoto State NDE Head of Human Resources Department, stated this at the flag off ceremony of the 2023 Post...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), CLEEN Foundation with support from Mac Arthur Foundation have affirmed that bad governance, weak institutions and impunity are products of corruption in any society. The Senior Programme Manager of CLEEN Foundation, Mr. Benard Ekobay, stated this during the launch...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The philanthropic Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has commissioned a private hospital named ‘Foresight Premier Hospitals’ founded by an indigene of Sokoto State, Dr. Shamsu Aliyu. Wamakko, who was the Special Guest at the occasion, described the foresight of the founder of the health centre...
The Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Sokoto State, Alhaji Jamilu Sanusi, says the state has the potential to generate N2 billion monthly through commodity levies. Sanusi disclosed this on Thursday, when he led the union officials on a courtesy visit to Gov. Ahmad Aliyu...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – At least 13,000 women and girls have graduated from the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Second Chance Education programme being implemented by the Grassroots Entrepreneurship Skills Acquisition Initiative (GESA) in Sokoto State. The National Coordinator of GESA, Cynthia Obazee, said the Second Chance Education is a...
Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North) on Sunday sympathised with the people of Tangaza Local Government Area over bandits attack that led to the death of many people in some villages. Wamakko, in a statement issued by Malam Bashar Abubakar, his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, condoled with the...
The Police Command in Sokoto State on Sunday confirmed the death of 30 persons during an attack lunched by group of armed banditse in Tangaza Local Government Area of the state. A statement issued by ASP Ahmad Rufai, the Acting Spokesman of the command, revealed that the gunmen attacked...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State All Progressive Congress (APC) transition committee has organized a special prayers to seek Allah’s guidance for the incoming administration of the governor-elect, Alhaji Ahmad Sokoto and his deputy, Alhaji Idris Gobir. Speaking on the essence of the prayers, the state party leader,...
The Federal Government has inaugurated the Sokoto State Command Permanent Administrative Headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Mr Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, who inaugurated the project on Monday, noted with pride the tremendous transformation being witnessed by the corps in the past two...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on Monday commenced the orientation and disbursement of N2.980,000 million loans to over 70 beneficiaries in the “Start Your Own Business” (SYOB) and Micro Enterprise Enhancement Scheme (MEES) in Sokoto. The Managing Director of NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu...
By HARUNA AHMED, Sokoto – At least four persons have been killed following an gas explosion from a shop of a local welder in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Three other persons also sustained various degrees of injuries in the incident that occured on Sunday afternoon. The...
The Police Command in Sokoto State said its personnel have rejected a bribe of N 800,000 and arrested no fewer than three suspects with twelve rolls of copper wires suspected to be stolen from an electric pole. This is contained in a statement issued in Sokoto on Thursday by...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the death of its operative, Inspector Abel Dickson, after a scuffle with his colleagues over the custody of some items recovered from a suspect. EFCC sokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the death during a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. Uwujaren...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa has urged the media to be committed in their financial crimes reporting in a bid to expose corrupt public officials in the country. Mr. Bawa, however, affirmed that the task of exposing corrupt...
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya says the Nigerian Army will hold periodic sensitization programmes against drugs abuse and other related issues in all its formations nationwide. Yahaya gave the assurance when he declared open a drug and narcotics control awareness conference, on Thursday in...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sought for more media engagement on budget tracking in Nigeria. Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, the EFCC’s Executive Chairman made the call at a Workshop on Financial Crimes Reporting organised for journalists by the commission in Sokoto on Thursday. Bawa, represented by Mr...
No fewer than 17 boys and girls have died when a boat they were traveling in capsized in Dandeji river in Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The Council Chairman, Alhaji Aliyu Dantani, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto. He said that...
By HARUNA AHMED, Sokoto – Sen. Aliyu Wamakko has secured the release of 62 inmates serving various jail terms in various Correctional Centres in Sokoto State. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Sokoto by Bashar Abubakar, Wamakko’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity. The statement...