The African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has reaffirmed his commitment to tackling insecurity, saying alleged attempts to disrupt his party’s campaign will not stop its activities ahead of the 2027 general election. “I enumerated some of the promises I made to Nigerians. One of them is to ensure that security is restored in every part of this country,” he said. Atiku spoke on Wednesday at the flag-off of his presidential campaign in Sokoto, where he urged Nigerians to support and vote for the ADC in the forthcoming election. His remarks came a day after he accused the…
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Disability rights advocate Chris Agbo has called for accessible reporting centres, sign language interpreters and stronger institutional support to improve access to justice for persons with disabilities who experience sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Agbo, chairman of the National Association of Persons with Physical Disabilities, made the call in an interview with reporters on Wednesday. He said persons with visual, hearing, intellectual and physical disabilities faced various forms of abuse, including economic exploitation, verbal harassment and sexual violence, partly because of societal perceptions of their vulnerability. He identified inaccessible Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), police stations and other reporting facilities,…
The Sokoto State Government has sealed an African Democratic Congress (ADC) campaign office on Ahmadu Bello Way in Sokoto metropolis. Aminu Abdullahi, media aide to the ADC governorship candidate, told Channels Television that the state Commissioner for Land and Housing, Nasiru Dantsoho, visited the building with a letter asking occupants to identify its legal owner. The campaign office is located in the former Savannah Bank building, which the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) previously used as its state office. Abdullahi said the letter sought to establish who occupied the property. He added that the state government maintained that the building belonged…
The Lola Cater Foundation says its menstrual health outreach programmes across the country have exposed gaps in students’ knowledge of menstruation, highlighting the need for better education to address misconceptions and period stigma. The foundation’s Chief Executive Officer, Miss Ololade Ogunnubi, disclosed this in an interview with reporters in Abuja on Saturday. Ogunnubi said the foundation’s school outreaches had revealed worrying misconceptions about menstruation, particularly among boys. She recalled that during one visit, a boy described menstruation as a dirty substance that came out of girls every month. “That response showed us that there was a need to educate boys…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Prof. Murtala Muhammad-Ahmad as the seventh substantive Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto. The appointment was announced in a statement issued on Friday by UDUTH Head of Public Affairs, Mansur Wadata. Wadata said the appointment was conveyed in a letter signed by the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate. Muhammad-Ahmad succeeds Prof. Anas Ahmad-Sabir, who completed his two-term tenure in May. Ali Pate urged the new CMD to justify the President’s confidence by working with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective healthcare…
Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu has personally funded a two-week skills training programme for 50 young people, as part of his administration’s 9-Point Smart Agenda. The Commissioner for Budget and Economic Development, Dr Bashir Muhammad Achida, launched the programme on the Governor’s behalf. He said empowering young people is central to the agenda, because no society can grow without them. “For a society to develop, it has to empower its youths,” he said. “Around 73 to 75 per cent of the population is under 31. The remaining 27 per cent covers everyone from 31 to 100. So when you empower…
The Sultan Foundation on Sunday concluded the onboarding of 334 routine immunisation (RI) service providers, calling for greater efforts to tackle the zero-dose challenge among children in Zamfara State. The one-day onboarding exercise was conducted in four phases in collaboration with the Zamfara State Government under the Z-TRACE project. The participants comprised 313 routine immunisation service providers and 21 local government area (LGA) team leads, community-based organisation (CBO) representatives, and LGA Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) officers. The exercise aimed to identify, track and vaccinate zero-dose and under-immunised children across seven selected local government areas. The Foundation is implementing the Z-TRACE…
The Sokoto State Government says it will periodically engage traditional rulers to identify community needs and guide development partners’ interventions in the state. The Commissioner for Budget and Economic Development, Dr Bashir Muhammad-Achida, disclosed this on Friday at the 2027 Budget Town Hall Discussion for Sokoto East Senatorial District, held in Wurno Local Government Area. He said the initiative would be coordinated by the Ministry of Budget and Economic Development, which is responsible for driving the state’s economic development and coordinating development partners’ activities. According to him, the initiative aims to ensure that development partners’ interventions address the actual needs…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Sokoto/Zamfara Area Command, has seized 599 bales of second-hand clothes, seven sacks of second-hand women’s bags, 43 cartons of cigarettes and other contraband in Sokoto. The Acting Area Comptroller, Mr Halliru Isa-Abdullahi, told newsmen on Thursday that the items had a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N722 million. Isa-Abdullahi listed other confiscated items to include seven cartons of coffee, unregistered pharmaceutical products, 100 packages of quinine and 500 packages of amodiaquine drugs. According to him, the other items included 140 packages of paracetamol, 300 packages of anti-cold medication, a carton of analgesic injections, four cartons…
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation has disowned online documents relating to the 100,000-hectare Multi-Crop Project, describing them as unauthorised and misleading. The ministry stated this in a public disclaimer issued by the Office of the Permanent Secretary and made available to reporters on Wednesday. It said the documents, attributed to CARECOM COMFAS and the RBDA National Agricultural Intervention Programme, did not originate from the ministry. The documents include a contractor registration form for input suppliers, an infographic on implementation and field operations, and an alignment map linking river basin development authorities with the multi-crop project. The ministry…