Tag: Sokoto state
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Bandits attacked only one of our vehicles – SSTA boss
The General Manager, Sokoto State Transport Authority (SSTA), Alhaji Yahuza Chika, has confirmed the involvement of the company’s vehicle in the kidnapping incident which occurred along Gusau-Sokoto road. Chika made the confirmation during an interview with the newsmen on Monday in Sokoto, he however denied that three of their vehicles were involved. The News Agency…
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Defunct CPC Members Cry Out Over Alleged Maginalisation
By Najem Francis, Sokoto Former Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) gubernatorial candidate for Sokoto State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar, has appealed to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu reconciliation committee to address alleged injustices by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state against the former members of the defunct CPC. He told a press conference…
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Child Destitution Bill passes 2nd reading
By Najem Francis, Sokoto A bill seeking the establishment of a National Commission on Child Destitution has passed second reading at the upper chamber of the National Assembly. A statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakka, Bashir Rabe Mani, issued in Sokoto on Thursday, said that the…
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Tambuwal carries out major cabinet shakeup
…no commissioner sacked By Najem Francis, Sokoto Contrary to expectations, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has announced a major cabinet reshuffle but it only involved assigning portfolios to four recently appointed commissioners and the reassignment of nine others to different ministries. For quite some time now speculations have been rife in the state that a cabinet…
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Sokoto to inaugurate multi-billion Naira cattle breeding project
By Najem Francis, Sokoto The multi-billion naira Sokoto State Cattle Breeding Project scheduled for inauguration in May this year is a model of a long term strategy required to end the incessant farmers/herdsmen clashes across Nigeria and some West African countries, the Commissioner for Animal Health and Fisheries Development, Alhaji Tukur Alkali has said. Conducting…