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Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has announced his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. He made the announcement in a tweet on Wednesday via the Sokoto Government House (@SokotoGovtHouse): “I have consulted widely especially with the Sokoto people and they have confidently assured me of my next political move. I hereby defect …

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Sokoto state government and the Bank of Industries (BoI) will disburse the sum of N2 billion to support small scale businesses in the state. Already, the state government said it had released its counterpart fund of N1 billion to the BoI for the scheme. The Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Mallam Imam Imam …

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The Sokoto State Government said it had deleted 13, 415 ghost names from the payrolls of the 23 local councils of the state. The Commissioner for Local Governments and Community Development, Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya, made the disclosure in Sokoto on Thursday. The commissioner, who briefed newsmen on the activities of the ministry in the last two years, said the ghost …

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Sokoto State Government has released the sum of N1bn to support small and medium scale enterprises in the state. The money is part of its counterpart fund in a N2bn intervention fund to be floated in collaboration with the Bank of Industries. Speaking when he led officials on an inspection visit to SG Adiya Farms in Bodinga LGA of the …

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  The All Progressive Party (APC), in Sokoto State, North West Nigeria has won all the seats in the Local Government elections conducted on Saturday. The State Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Alhaji Usman Abubakar, stated while releasing the results yesterday that the APC won all the Local Government Chairmanship seats as well as the Councillorship seats …

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