Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi State capital, was a beehive last Saturday, as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo attended the wedding Fathia of Zakiyya, daughter of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). The wedding between Zakiyya and Saifullahi Gishiri held at the palace of the Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Muhammadu…

His footprints in the broadcasting industry have remained evergreen. Mallam Nasir Danladi Bako, Kogunan Sakwatto began to show rare stuff at a tender age of 16 manning the airwaves of then Rima Radio, Sokoto with his masterly delivery of news and different programmes in both Hausa and English languages. The desire to enrich his broadcast…

The first batch of 259 Muslim pilgrims from Sokoto State, on Monday arrived Nigeria from Saudi Arabia after successful 2018 Hajj. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pilgrims from Gada Local Government area were transported by Air Planers Airline to the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal commended them…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday condemned a 300 per cent hike in school fees of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo State. The union also berated owners of the institution- Oyo and Osun state governments- for their failure to allocate subvention and inability to pay salaries of its workforce…

The World Bank will support Nigeria with $611 million dollars to get children back to school under the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme, the Coordinator, Prof. Gidado Tahir, has said. Tahir made this known in Kaduna on Friday at a meeting with officials of Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), on…

The chairman of the Northern Senators' Forum, Aliyu Wamakko, has declared that in the coming days, Nigerians would know who really is in charge of Sokoto State.

The first batch of 440 intending Muslim pilgrims from Sokoto State left for Saudi Arabia on Monday for 2018 Hajj. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pilgrims, from Gada, Rabah and Wurno local government areas, were transported by Air Planers Airline which left the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport at about 4…

A Sokoto State Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered that an 18-year-old man, Mohammed Bello, charged with committing homosexual act, be remanded in prison. The Chief Magistrate, Abubakar Adamu, gave the order on Friday after Bello, a trader of Gagi Area, Sokoto, pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of unnatural offence. Adamu said the court lacked…

The 32 persons killed during the attack by gunmen in Gandi village and nearby communities of Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State were buried on Wednesday. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal who attended the burial, described the attack as unfortunate and said government would continue to support security agencies to check the menace. “Government will continue…

Tenty-six people were killed in two days of violence blamed on cattle thieves in northern Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday.

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday said he would not waste the state’s scarce resources on building fanciful projects like flyovers at the expense of the people’s real needs in health, education and access roads. Addressing civil servants and heads of government agencies led by Head of Service, Dr. Buhari Kware Bello, who paid…

A Syrian engineer who was abducted last week by unknown gunmen in Sokoto state in northern Nigeria has been released, the police said on Wednesday.