BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Police Command has arrested no fewer than over 575 suspected criminals in 2024. The command’s spokesman, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ahmad Rufai, stated this in a statement signed by the Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmad Musa and made available to newsmen...
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of 49, 700. 00 US dollars allegedly recovered from Dr Nura Ali, former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for Sokoto State in the 2023 general elections. Justice Emeka Nwite gave...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has expressed heartfelt condolences and an apology to Sokoto State’s government and people following the tragic loss of lives during a joint military operation against the Lakurawa terrorist group. The operation targeted terrorist hideouts in the Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa communities in the Silame Local Government...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it would conduct a comprehensive investigation into the air strike that led to the death of 10 people Sokoto State. The air strike had occured in Gidan Bisa and Runtuwa villages of Silame Local Government Area in the state. This is contained...
The Defence Headquarters says the death of 10 civilians in Gidan Bisa and Gidan Ruutuwa In Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State, was as a result of secondary explosion and not direct military airstrikes. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, gave the clarification while briefing newsmen...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Following uproar over the recent airstrike on two communities in Sokoto recently, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, has said it was not only precise but also justified. This was even as the CDS warned villagers against harbouring terrorists under whatever...
A fighter jet has mistakenly bombed two communities in the Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The incident, which happened on Wednesday, left at least 10 innocent villagers dead and several others injured. The Sokoto State Government confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday. The Press Secretary...
Sokoto State Police Command has arrested a fake Nigerian Army Major, Austin Anthony, who allegedly led a specialised car syndicate operating in Nigeria and neighboring countries. Anthony, 44, resident of Delta state was intercepted driving a stolen car at a police checkpoint on Dec. 5, along Bodinga road in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State PLAN International Project Coordinator, Sadiya Abas, has called on states yet to domesticate child protection laws to consider doing so. Sadiya who argued that the Violence Against Persons Prohibition and Child Rights Laws when domesticated will enable survivors of Gender Based Violence...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto The American Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills Jnr Thursday said Sokoto state is very crucial in Nigeria because of its religious and cultural relevance. Mr. Mills, who spoke at the Government House in Sokoto during a courtesy visit to the governor, said aside being hospitable,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Marking the International Day of People With Disability (PWD) in Sokoto, the state governor, Ahmed Aliyu, said his administration has not only reintroduced the abandoned allowance to PWD but also reviewed it upwards from the initial 6500 to 10,000. The governor, who also donated...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Unidentified terrorists, believed to be affiliated with the notorious Bello Turji group, launched a deadly attack on a village in Sokoto, killing at least 9 people and abducting several others, according to local reports. The cruel attack which happened in the early hours of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Coordinator of AIDs, Sexually Transmitted Infection and Viral Hypertisis Control Programme (SASCP), Dr. Wadata Hali, has said no fewer than 15,042 persons are currently on HIV/AIDs treatment in the state. Dr. Wadata made the disclosure at an event organized by the Sokoto...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – As Sokoto state executive council Wednesday gave approval for the 2025 budget draft to be presented to the state assembly on Friday for consideration, the commissioner of Lands and Housing, Barrister Nasiru Dantsoho has assured that the governor, Ahmed Aliyu is on course to...
No fewer than 1,160 patients were treated, as 25 persons die in gastroenteritis-related cases from January till date across 18 local government areas of Sokoto State. The Director of Public Health in the state’s Ministry of Health, Dr Abdulganiyu Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Reports from locals in Sokoto State indicate that the new terrorists’ group known as ‘Lakurawa‘ has lowered its recruitment incentive to either a cow or N500,000 per individual. This move is likely a response to the economic hardship faced by the community, with many...
The Acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has called on the residents of Gongono Masallachi in Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto State, to support the Nigerian Army’s efforts to safeguard the country’s territory. Oluyede, who was on operational tour to Sokoto State on Sunday, said the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Government has expressed worry over what it termed emergence of a new criminal group operating under a faith based idealist called LAKURAWAS. Registering his fears over the new group, the state deputy governor, Alhaji Idris Mohammed, said the LAKURAWAS operates with dangerous...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Food Security and Nutrition Response Project, (Kyautata Rayuwa) spearheaded by the Catholic Relief Society (CRS) in collaboration with the Bakhita Initiative Joint Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese with funding from Later-Day Saints Charities (CDC) have commissioned a solarized...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Over 2000 unskilled and unemployed persons in Sokoto State would be provided with vocational, agricultural and entrepreneurial skills in the Renewed Hope Employment Initiative of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). The Sokoto State acting coordinator of NDE, Lukman Abubakar, revealed that 10 people...