Tag: Sokoto
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Curfew: Sokoto Govt suspends schools resumption by one week
Sokoto State Government has announced the suspension of the resumption of basic and secondary schools in the state by one week. Thenewsguru.com reports that schools are supposed to resume on Sunday and Monday, for boarding and day students. The suspension was announced via a statement by Malam Ibrahim Iya, spokesperson of the Ministry of Basic…
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BREAKING: CAN writes church leaders to embark on nation wide protest over Deborah’s death
…says enough is enough …as Sokoto boils The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has written to its leaders requesting for a nationwide peaceful protest over the killing of Deborah Samuel in Sokoto by irate youths over alleged blasphemy. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls Deborah Samuel was killed on Thursday by Sokoto youths over alleged blasphemy. In the…
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Reflect on how relevant your actions are in a troubled democracy – Oby Ezekwesili tells NBA
“I shall no longer participate. NBA owes citizens like #DeborahSamuel #EuniceOlawale #BridgetAgbaheme the judicial activism to enforce Justice,” says former education minister and former World Bank executive, Oby Ezekwesili
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Sultan declares Monday as new date for Eid-El-Fitr
The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has declared Monday as the first day of Shawwal following the inability of the National Moon Sighting Committee to sight this year’s Shawwal moon. The Secretary of the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC), Mallam Yahaya Muhammad Boyi, made this known in a terse statement on Saturday…
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Boat mishap: Sultan of Sokoto reacts to death of 29 teenagers
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, says the death of 29 teenagers in a boat mishap at Gidan-Magana village, Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State, as tragic. Abubakar III expressed his feelings on Friday during a condolence visit to the bereaved families, people and government of Sokoto state on the tragedy that…
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Killings: Buhari’s delegation meets Tambuwal, vows to flush out bandits in Sokoto, other troubled states
President Muhammadu Buhari has
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Buhari dispatches security, intelligence heads to Sokoto, Katsina States over incessant attacks, killings
President Muhammadu Buhari
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23 burnt to death as bandits ambush, set vehicle conveying 30 passengers ablaze in Sokoto
The Sokoto State Police
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Police confirm nine killed in fresh bandits’ attacks on Sokoto villages
No fewer than nine persons have been killed in a fresh attack on three villages in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State by bandits.
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‘You have no place to hide’, Buhari sends warning message to bandits as Tambuwal confirms killing of 43 people in bloody Sokoto attacks
Forty-three people have been confirmed killed in the wake of the attack by bandits on Goronyo township in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State.