By Our Reporter on August 11, 2015 National From Tunde Omolehin, Sokoto Sokoto State governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said his unflinching support for the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, was not based on sentiment and personal relations. The former Speaker said he supported the Dogara project against the candidature of his main […]
The Sokoto State Government has started the process of documenting all unemployed youths with a view to properly streamlining government policies for planning purposes. The initial phase of the policy will see government register up to 25,000 unemployed within a two-year time frame. This was contained in a statement to commemorate the United Nation’s International […]
From the street leading to his house, a first timer will think he is going into a market street, but alas, it is not a market street, but the street of a governor. Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State virtually lives among the people and they have access to him anytime he is around. […]
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko yesterday picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket to contest for Sokoto North Senatorial seat in the forthcoming general elections. The governor was elected by no fewer than 2,432 delegates at the Trade Fair Complex in Sokoto city. Announcing the result, Chairman of the Electoral Panel, Alhaji Nasiru […]
Tambuwal, Ambode, others win APC governorship ticket FOR the All Progressives Congress the 2015 contests got underway on Thursday with state chapters electing their governorship candidates. The APC governorship candidates for the 2015 polls, as they emerged on Thursday, include Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto); a Fellow of the Institute […]
Sokoto State Government has spent about N70m on the construction of the first phase of the Almajiri school in Dange-Shuni Local Government Area, the Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Tukur Alkali, has said. Alkali told the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto that the project was part of measures to offer children access to quality […]
The Sokoto State Government has concluded arrangements to sell houses to civil servants on owner occupier basis, the Commissioner for Information, Malam Danladi Bako, said. He made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen in Sokoto on Saturday. Bako said “the gesture is in furtherance of the commitment to good governance as contained […]
From TUNDE OMOLEHIN, Sokoto Former Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has assured President Goodluck Jonathan of his support if he decides to contest in the 2015 presidential election. Bafarawa told the President in Sokoto yesterday at a grand reception organised to formally welcome him and his teeming supporters to the party fold. He said the […]
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North; Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru & Tina Akannam ABUJA — NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday took a swipe at five governors from the North elected on the platform of the party, warning them to show decorum, humility and respect him. One […]
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