Gunmen have shot and killed one person during a robbery operation at Awaikiti village in Gudu Local Government area of Sokoto State. The victim was killed by the bandits Thursday during an operation at the residence of his neighbour Malam Lawali Akwaikiti, a bureau de change operator in the area close to Niger Republic. More […]
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has inaugurated a 17-man Advocacy and Community Engagement Forum to promote child rights, survival, development and protection. The inter-agency Forum has Deputy Governor Ahmed Aliyu as Chairman, while the Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Alhaji Mainasara Ahmed will serve as its Secretary. […]
The efforts of the federal government to diversify Nigeria’s economy has received a major boost with the discovery of coal deposits in commercial quantity Sokoto state. This discovery boosts Sokoto’s share of solid minerals awaiting exploration by the authorities. Others earlier discovered include phosphate for making fertilizer, gold, limestone, gypsum, iron ore, copper, columbite, tantalite, […]
In an effort to bolster the fight against malaria, the Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has approved the establishment of a dedicated agency for the control of the dreaded tropical disease. To be known as the Sokoto Agency for Malaria Control, the new body will take off in January 2017 and will be the […]
Construction work on a new N250m organic fertiliser plant has started in Sokoto. When completed, the factory will produce 15,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser annually while also providing jobs to over 20, 000 persons. Inspecting the progress of work done so far at the site, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, said 100 percent of the raw […]
The Federal Government said it will assist Sokoto with expertise and other logistics to ensure rapid development of ICT in the state. Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, stated this when he visited Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal at the weekend. “We will deploy logistics and personnel to assist the state government develop its ICT sector. Already, […]
As part of renewed efforts to enhance access to education among females in Sokoto, the state government has announced the establishment of an agency girl-child education. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal made this known during a meeting with officials from the Nigeria Office of UNICEF and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). The new […]
The brother to the Governor of Sokoto State and district head of Wamakko, Alhaji Salihu Barade, has been kidnapped. Barade, 60, was abducted, was abducted along with a former Education Secretary in Wamakko, Alhaji Ango Garba by three gunmen and a driver on Wednesday at about 7pm from his livestock farm in Majiya, on the […]
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, on Friday distributed empowerment materials worth millions of naira to 720 women in Sokoto -south local government of the state. Speaking during the distribution of the materials in Sokoto, Wamakko disclosed that the assorted materials were donated by some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the local […]