Terrorists set fire to a bus carrying between 24 to 30 passengers in Nigeria’s Sokoto state on Monday, police, and residents confirmed. In the previous year, the terrorists, known locally...
A 20-year-old man, Yashua’u Shehu of Atakwanyo village, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for raping a three-year-old girl. A federal high court sitting in Sokoto, Sokoto State, presided...
Some suspected bandits were seized from a police station and lynched by angry villagers in Tangaza town, Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The incident occurred on Saturday morning,...
A woman identified as Mrs Asma’u Ahmad Tijjani has accused a Nurse at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Folashade Adesinaof piercing the eyes of her newborn baby over...
A man has reportedly returned a customer’s credit card and money to one of the commercial banks in Sokoto State. Facebook user, Musa Ibrahim Babadoko, who shared the story on...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has claimed the elders in the Northern part of Nigeria are behind the insecurity in the South-East parts of the country. The Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Okechukwu Isigurozo,...
The Onion Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (OPMAN) has said it will cut off the supply of the item to the southern part of Nigeria, starting from Monday. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC says it is not compulsory for Nigerians to have bank accounts amid the rising spate of bank frauds and insider crimes in the...
Emir of Kontagora’s son, Alhaji Bashar Saidu Namaska, reportedly tied the knot barely two weeks before he was gruesomely killed by armed bandits. The monarch’s son was murdered on Thursday, May...
The Sokoto Police Command has rescued a 12-year-old girl, Joy Emmanuel, from solitary confinement of eight months. The girl was said to have been caged for that period by her...
A member of the House of Representatives, Abdullahi Salame, has narrated how he shot and killed a suspected armed robber during an attack on his residence in Sokoto. Mr Salame,...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on Thursday, lamented the high rate of insecurity in the North, saying it was the worst place in the country to live. The...
A man in Sokoto was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl and dumping the baby in a bush. The man identified as Shuaibu Aliyu was arrested by the Police...
Sokoto is currently COVID-19 free after discharging all 101 isolated Coronavirus patients in the state. The state’s commissioner for health, Dr Ali Inname also disclosed that the state recorded 14 Coronavirus deaths at a...
A woman who has been on the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) watchlist for 10 years over the sale of cannabis, has been arrested in Sokoto State. The suspect who was...
A High Court sitting in Sokoto State, have sentenced a fraudster, Bashar Umar Abdullahi (a.k.a Abdu Abdullahi and Bashir Abdullahi) to one year in jail without the option of fine...
The EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Office, has arrested a wonder Bank Manager for allegedly obtaining money under false pretences. Amina Kabo (a.k.a Firdausi Kabo) is the promoter of Olive Micro Finance...
The Sokoto state government has granted amnesty to about 8,000 suspected ghost workers and those collecting abnormal salaries under its payroll. Alhaji Abdussamad Dasuki, the Finance Commissioner and Acting Chairman,...
The Court of Appeal which sat in Sokoto on Wednesday, October 30, sacked Alhaji Abubakar Shehu-Tambuwal as Senator representing Sokoto South Senatorial District and Aliyu Shehu, as the lawmaker representing...
Aminu Magaji Bodai, the lawmaker representing Denge/Shuni State Constituency at the Sokoto State House of Assembly, has been kidnapped. A close relation of the lawmaker said that he was kidnapped...
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