Nigeria’s fight against terrorism received a fresh boost on Friday as the Federal Government confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu personally approved the recent airstrikes carried out by the United States against terrorist targets in the North-West. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, disclosed this while speaking on...
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Nigeria has confirmed that its ongoing security and intelligence partnership with the United States played a key role in recent precision airstrikes against terrorist targets in the North West, as authorities intensify efforts to curb violent extremism across the country. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that US President Donald J. Trump,...
Federal High Court in Abuja has cleared the way for the Federal Government to resume prosecution of a high-profile terrorism case involving suspects linked to notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, in a move widely seen as a boost to the country’s anti-terrorism efforts. Justice Emeka Nwite, on Monday, granted...
National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF) has began the distribution of essential and emergency agricultural inputs to 2,000 onion farmers in Borno, Yobe, Sokoto and Kebbi states. The gesture which took place simultaneously was inline with the ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu aims to cushion the burden...
BUA cement plc has given scholarship of N200, 000 each to 200 benefiting students from their business host states of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara. According to BUA’s Director Admin and Corporate Affairs, Muhammed Sada, the idea of the scholarship which started since 2018-2019 was aimed at complimenting the efforts...
Sokoto State Police Command has arrested a 25-year old man identified as Sufiyanu Aliyu of Gwanyal Village, Tangaza LGA, over alleged killing of his 15-year old wife, Suwaiba Abubakar Bawa. Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Rufai, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said the incident occurred...
Yes, Christians have the right to cry genocide. Every right, in fact. In all honesty, if the killings in Plateau, Benue, Owo, Yelwata and countless other communities dropping food, ammunition been the principal victims, were executed by a Christian militia against Muslims, would we still be searching for a...
Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the permanent forfeiture of $49,700 recovered from Dr. Nura Ali, the former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Sokoto State, to the Federal Government of Nigeria. Justice Emeka Nwite issued the order on Wednesday after hearing...
Reactions have continued to trail the recent appeal by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, to the United States not to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), over alleged violations of Christian religious freedom One of the reactions came from a...
Here are four great quotes from Most Rev Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto on the occasion of Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary.
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has pledged sustained collaboration with the Daurama Foundation to combat vulnerabilities affecting women and girls, particularly those heightening risks of trafficking and exploitation. This commitment was voiced during the virtual graduation of 39 young women from the 12-week capacity-building...
Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, announced that the Sokoto-Kebbi axis of the ambitious Sokoto-Badagry superhighway project will cost approximately N3 trillion. Speaking during an inspection of a 40-kilometer cleared section in Silame Local Government Area, Sokoto State, on Friday, Umahi dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has...
By HARUNA AHMED, Sokoto – Sokoto State Police Command has arrested a suspected member of the notorious Lakurawa bandit syndicate and recovered an AK-49 rifle along with ammunition in a targeted operation. Commissioner of Police (CP) Ahmed Musa announced the breakthrough in a statement released on Thursday through the...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sokoto and former governor of the state, Senator Aliyu Wamakko has described the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari as a great loss to the country. Wamakko, who maintained that former President Buhari was a nice...
By EMMANUEL ANKELI, Sokoto – Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), Professor Bashiru Garba, has emphasized that achieving meaningful development in. Nigeria without sustainable energy is impossible. In his inaugural lecture, “Chemistry, Energy and Industrialization: The Tripod of Sustainable Development,” Prof. Bashiru stressed the critical role energy...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja- The European Union (EU) has pledged N900 million to combat malnutrition in nine states in Northern Nigeria. The states benefiting from this intervention include Adamawa, Borno, Taraba, Yobe, Benue, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto, and Zamfara. According to a statement signed by Mr. Modestus Chukwulaka, Press and...
The United States Government Exchange Alumni Association of Nigeria (USGEAAN) Sokoto State chapter recently organized a 3-day workshop on good governance and accountability in Sokoto State. The workshop, themed “Enhancing Good Governance and Accountability in Sokoto State,” brought together 50 participants, mainly youths, to appreciate the essence of democracy...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- In fulfillment of a promise to give free medical services to a Sokoto businessman accidentally shot during an operation, the Department of State Services (DSS) has invited the victim to its hospital in Abuja. In mid-March, the DSS Director- General, Mr. Tosin Ajayi, approved the...
Eagle-eyed operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) in a well-coordinated covert operation on Sunday arrested two high-profile suspected kidnap kingpins as they made to depart Nigeria for Saudi Arabia to observe the holy pilgrimage. Security sources disclosed that the suspected kidnap kingpins had been on the DSS...
Ahead of the Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections, a new political movement under the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Nasiru El-Rufai Solidarity Group, also known as Nasiriya on Thursday inaugurated in Sokoto State. The group’s National Coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Babuga, who led the inauguration of the new state leadership, described...