The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arraigned one Shafiu Suleiman before Justice Raliya Muhammad of the Sokoto State High Court, Sokoto State for alleged criminal breach of trust and misappropriation to tune of N8,040,000.00. This is contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of the Commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren and made available to AsheNews on Monday. According to the statement, Suleiman in 2016, allegedly lured one Samaila Abubakar Jega to supply a truck-load of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO/diesel), valued at N8,240,000.00 to him, paying only N200,000.00 with a promise of paying up after…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Anselm Okolo ’’The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) for 2016 to 2017 showed that Sokoto state has made appreciable progress, resulting in over 50% cut in the number of out-of-school children. It gladdens my heart, seeing the commitment shown by the political leadership and the technical teams set up by the government to work with UNICEF and partners in various sectors for the children of the state’’ these were the exact words of Mohammed Muhuiddin, a former UNICEF Field Office Lead in Sokoto State in 2018, two years after Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal took office as Governor of Sokoto…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe The latest report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) on the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops released on Monday, says Africa is leading with six adopting countries. According to the Dr Margaret Karembu, ISAAA AfriCenter director, who spoke at the presentation event of the latest report through webinar, Africa doubled the number of countries planting biotech crops from three in 2018 to six in 2019, leading the progress among the regions of the world in GM crop adoption. The report also showed Ethiopia, Malawi and Nigeria as the latest countries to…
Dr Mustapha Abubakar Yaro is the Medical Director of the National Ear Care Cntre Kaduna. He had his primary school education in Kaduna as well as secondary school at Rimi College Kaduna. Yaro then proceeded to College of Advanced Studies Zaria and was there between 1987 and 1988. He obtained a degree in medicine from ABU Zaria and did his National Youths Service Corps at Nigeria Navy School, Abeokuta Ogun state. He did his Residency training at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and qualified as a Fellow of West African College of Surgeons, emerging as the best graduating medical student in…
Sokoto state government has commended the Police Command and other security agencies for swiftly responding and foiling a kidnap attempt by bandits around Yabo-Sanyinna forest. This is contained in a statement personally signed by Governor Aminu Tambuwal and made available to AsheNews on Friday. According to him, “the state government will continue to support and encourage the Police and other security agencies operating here, in its drive to rid the state of banditry and criminality of all forms.” Read the statement below: Few minutes after midnight on Dec. 4, 2020, the operatives of State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) attached to…
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday launched a US$6.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 190 million children affected by humanitarian crises amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The appeal for 2021, which is a 35 per cent increase over the funds requested for this year, is the largest ever by the UN agency. It will support essential programmes in 149 countries and territories. It is an “unprecedented” situation, said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. “Today we are facing a child rights emergency in which COVID-19 and other crises are combining to deprive children of their health and wellbeing.…
Former Sokoto state governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa on Thursday, met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila in Abuja. He visited the Speaker to discuss security issues and demand compensation for the victims of genocide and kidnappings in Northern Nigeria. Bafarawa also sought urgent solution to the security challenges facing the North, with the participation of all stakeholders in the country. “It is time to take action to provide relief for the affected communities and to bring about a speedy recovery,” he said. The former governor presented documents containing names and assets of others who had lost…
A bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Army University, Biu, Borno, to make comprehensive provisions for its management and administration has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which originated from the Senate, seeks to give legal backing to the university, which is already in existence, was presented by the Majority Leader, Rep. Ado Doguwa. Rep. Uzoma Nkem-Abonta (PDP-Abia) argued that the army did not need a university to address the security challenge in the country. He said that rather than establish new institutions, the Nigerian Defence Academy and the Armed Forces Command and Staff…
The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Professor Joseph Fuwape has advised the Federal government of Nigeria, to adopt appropriate research strategies that will promote green economy to mitigate the increasing dangers of unbridled exploitation of the environment. Fuwape gave the advice while declaring open a two-day virtual conference of the Commonwealth Forestry Association (CFO), which originated from FUTA Campus in Akure on the 2nd and 3rd December 2020. The conference is themed: Forest Ecosystem Potential in Nigeria, Opportunities for Green Economy in the 21st Century. He described a green economy as a situation where growth…
By Abubakar Shekara If the nineteenth century was a period of learning and political awareness, when the formation of empires and states was inspired more by enlightenment than the exigencies of need and survival, Sokoto Caliphate is one of the most advanced societies of its time. The antecedents of Sokoto in the field of learning and the fine virtues that made kingdoms, states and empires great need no rehash. The Caliphate’s history by right places it among the greatest civilisations in the world. In the current century, however, greatness has assumed a new meaning. While the prerequisite for advancement is…