The Sokoto central market Tuesday morning was gutted by fire with many shops and goods burnt to ashes. Although the cause of the fire was not officially confirmed, ASHENEWS gathered from sources that fire started at 6am as a result of an electricity transformer spark, which also spiked the fire to other parts of the market. ASHENEWS reports that the market, which access roads are all occupied by makeshift shops, initially made it difficult for firefighting vehicles to gain access to the affected areas. A source told ASHENEWS that it took the firefighters close to two hours to have access…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
President Muhammadu Buhari, has posted former President of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, Prof. Tijjani Bande to the United Nations as ambassador. The president also posted former Commissioner of Finance and deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Sokoto state, Faruk Malami Yabo to Jordan in the recent postings of career and non-career ambassadors to the nation’s missions overseas. Other career and non-career envoys were posted to various countries by Buhari. See the list below: Non-career ambassadors: 1. Dr Uzoma Emenike (United States) 2. Ambassador Tijani Muhammmad-Bande (UN) 3. Adeyinka Asekun (Canada) 4. Lawal (Saudi Arabia)…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has observed that the poor conception of the stand of Islam, has given impetus to the evil plots of Islamic insurgents. He made the observation at a book launch held at Sultan Maccido Institute for Qur’an and Islamic Studies in Sokoto on Saturday. According to him, “we are all aware of what is happening in the North-West, North-East and North-Central where some of us have capitalized on poor understanding of the religion by the people to manipulate the general populace, particularly youths, to cause trouble. “No doubt, this works by Dr Jabir is a…
The Federal government says it disbursed N518 million to Sokoto state government in 2020 as National Healthcare Intervention Fund aimed at enhancing the lives of vulnerable persons in the society. The Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr Nasir Sambo made this known in an interview in Sokoto on Thursday on the sideline of the official commencement of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) in partnership with the Sokoto State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (SOCHEMA). Sambo said the Federal government remained committed to attainment of mandatory Universal Health Coverage (UHC) toward ensuring improved healthcare to citizens. He stressed that…
The coming of 2021 has not abated the tragedies of sickness and death associated with 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic. For my friend Ebere, the announcement from his son, Memme, came as a huge shock: “With deep sadness and submission to the will of God, we announce the sudden death of Chief Prof. Ebere Onwudiwe, Mba 1 of Isunjaba, due to the complications of the global pandemic, on January 9, 2021.” I did not know he was sick and we had last spoken just after Christmas, which he spent in the village. I continue to feel that this wicket Covid-19…
Senator Aliyu Wamakko, has felicitated with Ambassador-Designate, Faruk Malami Yabo, MFR, on his recent apportionment as Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senator in a statement by his spokesperson, Bashir Mani made available to ASHENEWS on Wednesday said Yabo’s appointment and posting to Jordan, which is a key Middle Eastern country, is a good omen to Nigeria. According to him, Buhari’s gesture could not have come at a better time than now when Nigeria was repositioning her diplomatic relations with the international community. “Yabo is an elixir for the subsisting cordial relations between…
Sokoto state has introduced e-taxation model for the collection of taxes and other revenues. The Commissioner of Finance, Abdussamad Dasuki disclosed this at the induction of newly employed revenue officers of the Sokoto Internal Revenue Service, SOIR, on Wednesday. According to him, the induction was organised to prepare the officers for optimum performance in the state’s paradigm shift in the generation of Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, Dasuki said. ASHENEWS reports that Sokoto has recorded a marked improvement in internal revenue generation as well as rated best in IGR since 2015 when Aminu Tambuwal assumed office as governor. Dasuki, who is…
The Federal government has disbursed ₦123.348 billion ($324.6million) to states under its States Fiscal Transparency Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) Programme for Results. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed disclosed this in a statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Mr Hassan Dodo and obtained by ASHENEWS on Wednesday. The disbursement, the minister said, followed the achievement of results by the states in the just concluded 2019 Annual Performance Assessment (APA). “The disbursement included N91.048 billion ($239.6 million) of performance-based grants for the 2019 APA results achieved by 32 Eligible States across various Disbursement Linked…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has constituted a 17-man advisory committee on the upgrade of the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE), Sokoto to a full-fledged University of Education. The committee, which would be inaugurated at a later date by the governor, is headed by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) of the Sokoto State University, Prof. Muhammad Zayyanu. Members of the committee are five professors from Usman Danfodiyo University (UDUS), Sokoto: Professors. A. A. Bagudo, Abubakar Umar Dikko, Malami Umar Tambuwal, Nasiru Gatawa and Mansur Ibrahim (Mni). Others are: Dr Mansur Isa Buhari, Mal. Abubakar Usman, Mallam Muhammad Kakale…
More than 100 European and African actors have signed a charter of commitment to the development of the agro-pastoral sectors in Africa, particularly in the Sahel, with the original initiative aimed to resize and strengthen agricultural cooperation between Europe and Africa while ensuring the protection of biodiversity, a global common good. The recent health crisis has revealed the resilient capacities of African agriculture. Faced with the closing of borders, the drop of the purchasing power in urban areas, the major disruptions in the international market of raw materials and the availability of agricultural labor generally unaffected both by the virus…