Tag: Sokoto

  • Female Student Burnt to Death In Sokoto Over Alleged Blasphemy

    A female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education has been killed and burnt in Sokoto by irate youths. According to the police, Deborah Samuel, a level-two student, was accused of making a social media post that blasphemed the holy prophet Muhammad (SAW). The police said the students forcefully removed the victim from the…

  • Assembly wants govt. to provide more boats to towns in Sokoto

    Assembly wants govt. to provide more boats to towns in Sokoto

    The Sokoto State House of Assembly on Tuesday urged the state government to provide more motorised boats to some local government areas in the state. Two communities identified to be in need of the boats are Kambama and Gangam towns in Shagari Local Government Area of the state. The House made the call as it…

  • Buratai in Sokoto, inspects ongoing projects at 8 Division

    The Chief of Army Staff (CAS), Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Sunday was in Sokoto State to assess ongoing projects at the 8 Division of the Nigeria Army, Giginya Barracks Sokoto. Buratai visit was in continuation of his operational tour to North West Theatre of Operations, where he assessed some ongoing projects embark by the Nigeria…

  • COVID-19 restriction: Police arrest 28 violators, 12 vehicles in Sokoto

    COVID-19 restriction: Police arrest 28 violators, 12 vehicles in Sokoto

    The Police Command in Sokoto state has arrested 28 persons  and 28 vehicles for violating the inter-state movement restriction order imposed by the State Government. Mr Ibrahim Kaoje, the Commissioner of Police in Sokoto state, disclosed this on Tuesday, while speaking with newsmen. The commissioner said that the defaulters were arrested between April 11 and…

  • APC wins Kware/Wamakko Federal Constituency Bye-election

    APC wins Kware/Wamakko Federal Constituency Bye-election

      By Najem Francis, Sokoto Predictably, the All Progressive (APC) candidate, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad Kalambaina, has been declared the winner of last Saturday’s bye-election for the Kware/Wamakko Federal Constituency of Sokoto State whose occupant, Alhaji Abdullahi Wamakko, passed on last July. He polled 31,288 votes while his closest rival, Alhaji Aminu Bello Kware of the People Democratic Party…

  • Sokoto to Partner German Firms on Solar Power

    Sokoto to Partner German Firms on Solar Power

    By Najem Francis, Sokoto Sokoto State government has commenced the connection of  a number of rural households with solar power as part of efforts to promote energy usage and enhance rural electrification in the state. The Spokesman to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Malam Imam Imam, said in a statement that a pilot scheme has already…

  • Fire Outbreak In My House Act of God – Wamakko

      By Najem Francis, Sokoto Former Sokoto Governor, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has described the collapse of a section of a building in his residence at Gawon Nama area of Sokoto on Sunday as an act of God. This was contained in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Bashir Rabe Mani, which…