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”.
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1, 830 people benefited from the free medical treatment offered by the Nigerian Army in an outreach organised in Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
Gunmen on Tuesday attacked Gandi and Tabanni villages in Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State, killing 39 people, injuring and displacing many others.
A Sokoto State Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered that an 18-year-old man, Mohammed Bello, charged with committing homosexual act, be remanded in prison.
The surveillance, the Red Chamber said, would assist in identifying locations and hideouts of bandits and deal with them decisively.
This was sequel to motion under matters of urgent national importance by Hon. Aminu Shagari on the dastardly attack by armed bandits in some villages in Sokoto State.
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the July 9 killing of several people, including a district head, in and around the village of Gandi in Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State by bandits.
The 32 persons killed during the attack by gunmen in Gandi village and nearby communities of Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State were buried on Wednesday.
The Fire outbreak that gutted Sokoto state office of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) and destroyed document had paralysed activities of the commission in the state.
Also some villages in the area were razed by the attackers and residents displaced.
The latest of such killings was those of policemen on stop and search duty in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident occurred on Saturday, July 7, when 30 passengers boarded the canoe transporting them to Isa town from Bafarawa settlement.
The Judge, Justice Saleh Idrissa-Kogo, was said to have travelled outside the state on official assignment.
Malam Abubakar Shekara, Director General Media and Public Affairs in Government House, announced the dissolution in a statement.
Abbas, also the state Chief Judge, had on May 8, reserved July 4, for judgment in the 9-year old legal battle between Bafarawa and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
His own achievements in the area of security as Governor of Sokoto State, which ended the dreadful banditry of restive youths he inherited when he was sworn is as Governor in the state, leaves him in no doubt that is is all a question of method, strategy and the will to follow things through
Speaking at the opening of the National Executive Council meeting of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Sokoto state on Saturday, Tambuwal noted that the current security situation leading to the incessant killings across the country clearly shows that those calling for state police were justified.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the command, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the arrest of the suspected kingpin and 25 others on Friday in Sokoto.
Abubakar’s gave the advice in his Eid-el Fitr message to Nigerians delivered in Sokoto.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, told newsmen that at least eight persons were feared dead during the fracas, including an elderly person that the bandits went to kidnap.