Tag: Sokoto
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Sokoto power project requires additional N1.6b to function – Official
The Sokoto Independent Power Project requires additional N1.6 billion to be completed and put to full use, chairman of the state technical committee on the project, and former Minister of Power, Engineer Bello Sulaiman, has said. Speaking when he presented the report of his committee to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in Sokoto, Sulaiman said so…
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Eid-el-Fitri: DSS foils plans by terrorists to attack Kano, Sokoto, others
The Department of State Services, DSS, announced on Friday that it arrested suspected terrorists planning to attack Kano, Sokoto, Kaduna and Maiduguri during the Sallah celebration. The federal government had earlier declared Monday and Tuesday next week as public holidays for the Islamic festival. In a statement on Friday signed by Tony Opuiyo, the DSS…
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Kidnappers of Sokoto businessman reduce ransom to N200,000
Gunmen who kidnapped a 27-year-old businessman, Alhaji Abubakar Kakirko from Kikirko Village in Sokoto State, have reduced the ransom they demanded from N500,000 to N200,000. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Abdulkadir, who gave an update on the abduction to newsmen in Sokoto on Thursday, said that the abductors were in touch with Kakirko’s…
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BREAKING: Sokoto market engulfed by fire
A section of the Old Market in Sokoto, was engulfed by fire Friday night. Goods worth millions of Naira were on Friday night destroyed by fire at a section of the Sokoto old market. NAN reports that dozens of shops containing assorted food stuff, cooking oil, detergents and other household items were consumed by the…
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Corps member dies of heart failure in Sokoto
A Corps member, Anthony Ochai, from Benue State, has died of heart failure in Sokoto, the State NYSC Coordinator, Alhaji Musa Abubakar, has said. Abubakar made the disclosure in Sokoto on Friday, during the passing out ceremony of 1,411 corps members deployed to the state under the 2016 batch ”A”, Stream One. He said:” The…
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School feeding: Sokoto earmarks N5.4bn for 1m students
The Sokoto State Government says it has earmarked over N5.4 billion to feed no fewer than one million students in its primary and secondary schools in 2017. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Alhaji Mainasara Ahmed, disclosed this in Gusau on Thursday. He spoke at a three-day workshop organized by a USAID-assisted…
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Tambuwal, Dangote flag off rice outgrowers scheme in Sokoto
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal along with the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on Wednesday flagged off a rice outgrowers’ scheme which will cover 25,000 hectres of farmland across some selected local government areas of Sokoto state. Speaking at the site of the event which held in Goronyo Dam, Dangote said the project will…
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Dangote to launch 25,000 hectares of rice outgrower sheme in Sokoto
The Dangote Group has announced that its subsidiary, Dangote Rice is set to launch a multi-million naira 25,000 hectares of rice outgrower scheme in Sokoto with a prospect of hundreds of thousands of employment opportunities for the rural communities inhabitants. President of the Group, Aliko Dangote disclosed at the weekend that the Company will on…
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Sokoto establishes task force to ease distribution of petroleum products
As an effective measure of curbing diversion of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) meant for public consumption, the Sokoto State Government has established a task force that will monitor the even distribution of the products in the state. Malam Imam Imam, spokesman to Governor Aminu Tambuwal, said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the task…
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We will revoke C of O of filling stations hoarding fuel in Sokoto – Tambuwal
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said the government will revoke the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of any filling station that is found to be hoarding fuel in order to create artificial scarcity or is selling above official rate. He said the government, along with the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), will set up a…