Tag Archives: Sokoto State

Two notorious armed robbers who specialized in using motorbike to terrorise residents of Sokoto state have been gunned down by the police.

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The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal by Ahmed Aliyu challenging the election of Governor Aminu Tambuwal in the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Sokoto State. In a unanimous judgment by a five-member panel led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, the apex court held that Aliyu failed to prove his claims against the election. In the lead judgement, read by …

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Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Aliko Dangote Foundation and Africa's richest man on Wednesday in Sokoto State, flagged off a micro-grant scheme to empower and lift 23,990 poor and vulnerable women out of poverty across the 23 Local Government Areas in the state.

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The Nigeria Customs Service, Sokoto Command, has seized contraband worth N30 million in the last six months. The Comptroller, Federal Operation Unit, Zone B, Kaduna, Mr. Usman Dakingari, made the disclosure shortly after inspecting the seized items at the command headquarters in Sokoto Wednesday. He said the contraband, which included rice, vehicles, vegetable oil, second hand clothes as well as …

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