AdminAug 28, 20162 min readFlood, windstorm kill 3-year-old boy, destroy 100 houses in SokotoNAN also reports that no fewer than 100 houses and public buildings in several adjoining villages were destroyed as aresult of the...
AdminAug 21, 20161 min readMan hacks wife, three others to death in SokotoThe Police spokesperson in the state, El-mustapha Sani, confirmed the incident on Sunday in a statement made available to newsmen....
AdminAug 11, 20161 min readTruck conveying cement somersaults on Zamfara-Sokoto highwayThe National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) officials in Sokoto rushed to the scene of the accident for rescue operation but no one...
AdminAug 11, 20161 min readPDP loses State Assembly candidate to APC in SokotoLiman announced his defection in Tsamiya village at the inauguration of the campaigns for the poll to be conducted by the Independent...
AdminJul 28, 20161 min readSokoto paying 12,915 ‘ghost workers’ – CommissionerAlhaji Mannir Dan-Iya, the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, disclosed this at a media briefing in Sokoto....
AdminJul 28, 20161 min readSokoto nabs racketeers reselling free fertilisers meant for farmersSokoto State Government says it is currently investigating some fertiliser racketeers, who were reportedly arrested in Sabon-Birni Local...
AdminJul 25, 20161 min readFire guts multi-million naira property in Sokoto marketThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire, which started around 10.00pm lasted for about three hours before it was put off...
AdminJul 12, 20162 min readSokoto gets new Head of Service, three additional Perm SecsA statement issued in Sokoto on Tuesday by the Governor’s spokesman, Malam Imam Imam, said the appointment followed the retirement of the...
AdminJul 8, 20161 min readEx-presidential aspirant, Shinkafi buried in SokotoBurial prayer was held after the Friday prayer at the Sultan Bello Mosque, adjacent the Sultan Palace in Sokoto. The prayer was led by...
AdminJun 26, 20162 min readSokoto: Nigeria’s only LGA without secondary school gets oneGudu LGA in Sokoto State has suffered the misfortune of having some of the worst statistics in education in the world. Apart from having...
AdminJun 14, 20161 min readSokoto Government announces 70% subsidy on fertiliserSpeaking at the event, which took place at Silami LGA, Tambuwal announced that the state government has subsidized the cost of commodity...
AdminJun 8, 20161 min readSokoto’s $33m power project for test-run in 90 daysA representative of the contracting firm, Mr Theo Ubani, made the disclosure when officials of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN)...
AdminJun 7, 20161 min readSokoto to provide 1,000 hectres of land for grazing reserve – TambuwalThe sites will be local in six local local government areas of the state. The government said it is also ready to provide lands for...
AdminMay 12, 20162 min readSokoto purchases N1.7b fertilizer, water pumps, to subsidize to farmersThe State Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Umaru Nagwari made the disclosure in Sokoto on Thursday while briefing newsmen on the...
AdminMay 3, 20161 min readSokoto seeks more NYSC doctors; English, Maths teachersGovernor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal made the request Tuesday when the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier...
AdminApr 21, 20162 min readSokoto clears AMCON debt, retakes possession of state furniture companyThe state also announced that it has opened discussion with some German and Kenyan investors ready to bring funds to revive the company’s...
AdminMar 28, 20161 min readBuhari should not lift ban on sale of Forex to BDCs – Sokoto operators’ chairmanThe Sokoto State Chairman of Bureau De Change (BDCs) Operators Association, Alhaji Aliyu Yar-Abba, has commended the ban on the sale of...
AdminMar 28, 20161 min readNo BVN, no more salaries – Sokoto tells workersMalam Imam Imam, Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s spokesman in a statement said this was part of efforts to sanitise the state civil service and...
AdminMar 15, 20161 min readSokoto Government sets up committee for establishment of new fertiliser plantThe plant will be established by Prime Gold Fertilizer and Chemical Company, an indigenous company based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State....
AdminMar 14, 20162 min readMentally unstable woman who gave birth in Kaduna finally taken to her home in SokotoThe lunatic woman was in turns handed over to Sokoto State government, her home state through its ministry of women affairs to be...
