BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – No fewer than 100 million people join the poverty curve each year across the globe because of out-of-pocket spendings on health. The Programme Manager, Center for Social Justice (CSJ), Mr. Martins Eke disclosed this on Tuesday during a one day validation meeting of the...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Governor Aminu Tambuwal has urged Sokoto State University lecturers to resume academic activities without further delay or loss their salaries from now on. He said: ”’Lecturers of the Sokoto State University are to resume work if indeed they have the interest of the state...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Chairman of Gender Based Violence Response Team (GBV-RT) Rabiu Bello Gandi has decried that unnecessary delay in dispensing cases of Gender Based Violence, (GBV) Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Harmful Practices (HP) is an obstacle to achieving the needed milestone...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – NEEM Foundation has organized a 5 day capacity building on mental health and psychological support services for 31 social workers in Sokoto State. NEEM as engaged by Ford Foundation is implementing an 18 month project titled “Prevent and Protect” Project with the aimed of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A group under the auspices of Women in Politics has called for more women participation and visibility in all elective and appointment positions as the 2023 general elections draws closer. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that Women in politics is part of the Electoral Integrity and...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has flagged off a 4 day Basic Business Training (BBT) for 30 participants on Enviroprenurship Development Scheme (EDS) Addressing the participants at the Shamsudeen Plaza, Sokoto, the Director General, National Directorate of Employment, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fipko noted...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto Breakthrough Action-Nigeria in its capacity and sustainability orientation for State Health Promotion Forum (SHPF) has promised to support in the development of specific work plan for its state social mobilization committee. Speaking on Thursday during a meeting with SHPF, The Sokoto State Coordinator of Breakthrough...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Farouk Yahaya has flagged off the 2022 Nigerian Army’s second Commanding Officers’s workshop at the Giginya Barracks in Sokoto State. COAS Farouk who reiterated that training and retraining of personnel is very critical towards achieving success,...
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has donated N25,000 each to 400 participating national handball competition players and other officials as an encouragement to sports development. Tambuwal announced the donations at the closing ceremony of 2022 National Under 12 and 15 Boys and Girls Handball Championship at Giginya Memorial...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State, Alhaji Dodo Oroji says former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has antidote to Nigeria’s myriad of challenges. Oroji, who spoke to newsmen in Sokoto on Sunday said, ”the PDP presidential candidate would take Nigeria out of its current situation, if...
The Dingyadi-Badawa ward leaders, Bodinga Local Government in Sokoto State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A statement from Hassan Sanyinnawal, the spokesman of the party, on Friday in Sokoto said the defectors include ward Secretary, Ummarun Hassan and Assistant Treasurer, Manu Abubakar. Others are Barno Akamawa,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with The National Population Commission (NPC) have appealed to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111 and his Council to help sensitize parents in the state on the essence of birth registration. Speaking to...
At least 60 patients with Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) have been staying at the Maryam Abacha Women and Children Hospital in Sokoto for more than five years without succour. Chief Medical Director at the hospital, Dr Bello Lawal, made the declaration on Tuesday in Sokoto at a stakeholders’ strategic...
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Sokoto State Command, had arrested a suspected drugs dealer, Umar Mohammed, the Village Head of Ruga in Shagari Local Government Area of the state. Briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Sokoto, Mr Adamu Iro, the NDLEA Commander in the state, said the suspect...
A Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded an 18-year-old student, Aliyu Sanusi-Umar, who was charged for alleged reckless driving and causing the amputation of the leg of a female student, Fatima Suleiman. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sanusi-Umar was arraigned for the offences of reckless...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Center for People’s Health, Peace and Progress (3ps) with support from the Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID-SCALE) and the Center for Social Justice (CSJ) has organized a one day workshop on improving the...
By EMMANUEL ANKELI, Sokoto – Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Sokoto State Command has re-arrested an international terrorist who disappeared from its custody in Sokoto State. The Sokoto State Commander of NSCDC, Mr. Mohammed Saleh-Dada disclosed this on Friday while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Sulaiman Usman SAN has reiterated that the state has zero tolerance for perpetrators of all forms of crimes including, that of Gender Based Violence (GBV), harmful practices, amongst others. Sulaiman SAN stated this on Wednesday in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto state Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Barrister Aisha Dantsoho, has called on all stakeholders to work in synergy towards ending Gender Based Violence (GBV), harmful practices, violence against women and girls in the state. The Permanent Secretary, who spoke at...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – BUA Cement has donated projects worth over 275 million naira to host community of Gidan Boka in Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The projects which includes fully furnished clinic, school mosque and 170 tonnes of BUA cement, to 68 communities was part...