BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The chairman of Peoples Democratic (PDP) Chairman in Tambuwal Local Government Area, Alhaji Umaru Sarkin Noma, has appealed for peaceful conduct in the18th March Governorship and State Assembly election. Umaru who made the appeal in reaction to a viral video in the social media...
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Retired Maj-Gen. Modibo Alkali, the National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday says the commission has no political party or preferred candidate in the country. Alkali spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting with the representatives of all political parties in Sokoto State. He said the election body would...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has handed over 11 victims of human trafficking to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) Sokoto. The NIS spokesman, Controller of Corrections (CC), Mr Tony Akuneme, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Muslim Solidarity Forum, Sokoto State chapter has expressed fears over possible violence in the Governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 18th, 2023. The Chairman of the Forum, Professor Isa Muhammed Maishanu, stated this on Wednesday while addressing newsmen at the NUJ...
Hajiya Kulu Abdullahi, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Women Leader, Sokoto State, has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the the March 18 Governorship and State House Assembly elections in the state. This development is contained in a statement issued by Bashar Abubakar, the Special...
The Concerned citizens of Sokoto State, a non-political pressure group, has condemned the words of incitement credited to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal ahead of the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections. The group accused the governor of preaching violence at a recent stakeholders meeting of the People’s Democratic Party...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it suspended the Feb. 25 National Assembly Election in Sokoto State after discovering some anomalies in the process. Retired Maj. Gen. Modibbo Alkali, the INEC National Commissioner redeployed to oversee the state, said this at a stakeholders’ meeting on Wednesday in Sokoto....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Army has reacted to the case of a soldier who shot his colleagues and himself dead at Forward Operations Base, Rabah, Sokoto State on Sunday. Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, whom confirmed the incident in a statement issued in Abuja...
. Six States of the Federation have dragged the Federal Government before the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the last February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The plaintiffs in the originating summons marked: SC/CV/354/2023, are specifically asking for an order of the apex court “directing a wholistic...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State has described the just- concluded presidential election as a positive sign of maturity in the Nigeria’s democracy. Alhaji Isa Sadiq-Achida, the state APC Chairman made the recommendation while addressing a news briefing in Sokoto on Thursday. Sadiq-Achida said the 2023 presidential...
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the only answer to the Nigeria’s challenges. Tambuwal, who made the declaration at the PDP’s campaign rally in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto on Saturday, said the party’s Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar, was...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his government will eliminate kidnapping and bring to an end all other forms of insecurity. “We will eliminate the madness called...
An influential PDP member in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ummarun Kwabo has led high profile members of the party into the APC during the campaign rally of Bola Tinubu in Sokoto on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of those who defected during the APC presidential...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday called on Sokoto residents of Sokoto State to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Asuwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 2023 general elections. Buhari, who spoke at the APC presidential campaign rally in Sokoto said Tinubu was the party’s...
Police in Sokoto State say they are prosecuting at least 10 persons suspected to be political thugs. Police spokesman in the state, DSP Sanusi Abubakar stated in Sokoto on Monday that the arrest and prosecution of the suspects were in line with the directives of the Commissioner of Police,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A group known as The Sokoto Network for Good Governance has passed vote of confidence on all candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general elections. Addressing a world press conference on Sunday in Sokoto, the convener general, Comrade Faruk...
Alhaji Abubakar Kwaire, a Special Adviser to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 general elections in the state. Kwaire, according to a statement by Bashar Abubakar, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Sen....
The remains of late Aisha Maina, the Special Adviser on Female Education Board to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State had been buried on Wednesday in Sokoto. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Maina died on Tuesday at the Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto as result...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State has advised traders and the public to beware of the antics of thugs. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Hassan Sanyinnawal, the spokesperson of the party in the state. According to the Sanyinnawal, the PDP in its...
Water Resources Minister, Suleiman Adamu, said the Federal Government had constructed 260 dams that impounded 34 billion cubic meters of water across the country. Addressing participants at the 29th regular meeting of the National Council on Water Resources (NCWR) on Thursday in Sokoto, Adamu said the figure represented the...