Former President Goodluck Jonathan has condoled with the family of late former President Shehu Shagari, describing him as an amiable leader who meant well for Nigeria and the world at large.
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The Federal Government will in due course institute a suitable memorial to immortalize the country’s first Executive President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who passed away on December 28, 2018, aged 93.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has declared December 31 as public holiday in the state to enable residents offer special prayer for the repose of the soul of former President Shehu Shagari.
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will on Monday lead a powerful delegation to Sokoto to condole with the Shagari family, the government and people of Sokoto State on the demise of the first elected President of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Usman Shagari.
The remains of Nigeria’s Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Usman Shagari, have left the National Hospital in Abuja for his hometown in Shagari, Sokoto State for interment.
In a major blow to the second term ambition of Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, 50,000 members of his Peoples Democratic Party have switched allegiance to the All Progressives Congress.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Monday presented the state’s 2019 budget estimates of N169.652 billion to the State House of Assembly for consideration.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Saturday urged journalists to shun fake news and work within the rules of the profession.
A Coalition of Youth Organisations in Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State says Atiku Abubakar’s claim of being an indigene of the area is false.
Nigerian showbiz maestro and rights activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has formally walked his American wife, Diane, down the aisle after 40 years of marriage.
Alhaji Bello Danchadi the spokesman of the state chapter of the APC disclosed this in a statement in Sokoto.
Mani disclosed this on Wednesday at the commencement of Senatorial districts voter education and sensitisation, organised by National Orientation Agency in the state.
The General Officer Commanding, 8 Division of the Nigerian Army Sokoto, Maj. – Gen. Stevenson Olabanji made the appeal in Gusau on Thursday when he paid a courtesy call on the Emir of Gusau, Alhaji Ibrahim Bello.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday took his campaign to the North Central.
The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto on Monday.
Atiku made the promise while addressing thousands of PDP supporters at the North-West Zonal launching of the 2019 Atiku/Obi Presidential Campaign Rally in Sokoto.
Thousands of Peoples Democratic Party supporters on Monday besieged Sokoto and its environs in colourful attires and motorcades for the launching of the North-West zonal campaign of the Presidential Candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar.
The Peoples Democratic Party said its North-West Presidential Zonal Rally scheduled for Monday in Sokoto, would focus on issues that would pave way for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s victory at the polls.
The Police Command in Sokoto state on Saturday dispelled rumours of influx of Juhadists in the state.
A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto and presided over by Justice Hannatu Sankey has sentenced the Chairman of the Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, Murtala Adamu Jengebe, to a cumulative jail term of 41 years.