The Chairman and the Secretary of the group,Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Madueke, respectively, said this in a statement in Abuja on Saturday.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the coalition, representing all tertiary institutions across the state, said in a press statement issued in Sokoto, that recent directive by the federation stopping students from active politics was illegitimate.
Mobile telecommunication customers in Sokoto State have urged National Communication Commission to facilitate more friendly services to them and assist in tracking insecurity in the industry.
Bafarawa while exchanging views with newsmen in Minna, the Niger state capital, during his campaign tour of Niger State, called for a total overhaul of the Commission.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has directed the Muslim Ummah to look for the new moon of Dhul Hijjah 1439AH from Sunday August 12.
A Former Peoples Democratic Party Chairman in Sokoto State, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu-Tambuwal, has led about 10,000 supporters to decamp to the All Progressives Congress in Tambuwal Local Government Area of the state.
Sam Adurogboye, the NCAA’s General Manager, Public Affairs, said this in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday.
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted cloudy conditions in most parts of the country with prospects of thunderstorms and rainfall activities on Tuesday.
The FAAN’s General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, made the condemnation in a statement in Lagos.
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, the group Coordinator, Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi, described Tambuwal’s exit from APC as betrayal of people’s mandate as given him in the 2015 election.
Former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Sunday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo to seek his blessings over his presidential ambition in 2019.
The Director-General of the Sokoto State Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Dingyadi, confirmed the development
The All Progressives Congress says that it is neither distracted nor surprised by the defection of the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has welcome the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, back to its fold. The party, in the same vein, welcomed the Kano State Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, and all other returning and new members of the party.
After several weeks of speculation, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Tuesday defected from the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, to his former party, Peoples Democratic Party.
Nasir Ahmad, the Customs Comptroller in charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, performed the handover ceremony on Tuesday, saying that the items were seized on Saturday at Kamba border in Kebbi.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the pilgrims, from Gada, Rabah and Wurno local government areas, were transported by Air Planers Airline which left the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport at about 4 p.m.
Alhaji Ibrahim Dingyadi, the Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency, disclosed this on Saturday when the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, visited the IDPs to condole with them over the sad incident.
Shagari, former minister of water resources, contested for the seat in 2015 on the platform of the PDP, but lost to the incumbent, Aminu Tambuwal of the All Peoples Congress.
The Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has raised the alarm over the blood letting in the country, while the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, also criticised the “monetisation of politics”.