The Nigerian Army on Monday confirmed the attack on a joint military base in Sokoto State. Gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits in the early hours of Friday attacked a military base codenamed “Burkusuma camp” in Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto...
Angry youths on Wednesday burnt down the country home of the Sokoto State Commissioner for Security and Career Studies, Col. Garba Moyi (retd), for allegedly working...
The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, said on Tuesday at least seven states in the Northern part of the country had agreed to recruit 3,000 special...
Angry residents on Saturday, reportedly sacked the Divisional Police Headquarters in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, seizing 13 detained suspected bandits and setting them...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits Friday evening killed one person and abducted several others at a community in Tangaza local government area of Sokoto State. The...
Bandits fleeing from the ongoing military operation in Zamfara State killed six persons in Tureta local government area of Sokoto State on Thursday. Tureta which shares...
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized a truckload of unregistered milk suspected to be fake in Sokoto. The NAFDAC Coordinator...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has said there are ongoing killings in the state that are not reported. The monarch said this at the...
Suspected bandits on Saturday reportedly killed about nine people and kidnapped six others in some villages in the Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State. It...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a notorious bandit, Bello Galaduma, in Sokoto State. Ripples Nigeria gathered that Galaduma has been on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned five management staff of the Sokoto State Primary Staff Pension Board at the state High Court...
Thirteen people, including women and children, have been killed in a boat accident that occurred in Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Thursday night....
Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed three gunrunners and recovered weapons in Sokoto State. The Army Director of Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, who disclosed...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that about 7,000 persons were affected by recent bandit attacks in Sabon Birni and Isa Local Government Areas...
Police operatives in Sokoto State have rescued a 12-year-old girl, Joy Emmanuel, who was caged for eight months by her guardians at their home in Sokoto...
The Sokoto State government says it has so far spent the sum of N339.9 million to provide Ramadan alms and Zakat in the form of foodstuffs...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the 23 chairmanship and 244 councillorship seats in Sokoto State local council election held on Saturday. The Chairman...
The Sokoto State government on Thursday confirmed the discharge of 30 students of the Government Girls College (GGC) struck by a strange illness from a hospital...
Scores of Islamic faithful attending the annual Eid- Maulud celebration have been reportedly abducted by bandits in Katsina State. Sources told journalists the victims were abducted...
Some gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted the sister in-law and brother of Sokoto state Commissioner for Youth and Sport Development, Bashir Gorau, in Gorau...
The Sokoto State police command has established additional five units in a bid to check banditry and other criminalities in the state. The command’s spokesman, Sanusi...
Four people have been confirmed dead with 56 others hospitalised following an outbreak of diarrhea as a result of water contamination in Helele community in Sokoto...
The Federal Government on Monday promised to help the Sokoto State government to rebuild the burnt market in the state. An early morning inferno had last...
Nigeria’s social media space on Wednesday joined the rest of Africa in engaging discussions around Uganda’s forthcoming presidential election. The election is set to be between...
The Sokoto State government has approved the merger of boarding schools in its border towns in a bid to ensure security and safety of students and...
The government of Sokoto and Benue states have, like Zamfara State, ordered for the closure of boarding schools in their respective states in response to the...
Some farmers who fled the Gudu and Tangaza local government areas of Sokoto State to seek refuge in Niger Republic, have narrated how constant attacks and...
The Sokoto State Police Command on Friday confirmed the killing of two suspected bandits in the Yabo Sanyinna forest area of the state. The state’s Commissioner...
The distribution of Federal Government Covid-19 palliatives in Sokoto State has commenced in the wake of widespread looting of palliatives stored in warehouses across the country...
A Sokoto State High Court, sitting in Sokoto the state capital has convicted and sentenced a fraudster, Umaru Isma’il, to five years imprisonment without an option...
A Sokoto State High Court, presided over by Justice M. S. Sifawa, has convicted and sentenced six internet fraudsters to prison for fraud. The internet fraudsters...
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has dismissed reports that a policeman attached to his convoy shot to death, one Abdulrahman Aminu in the state. Eyewitnesses...
The attack on police officers at Gidan Madi Police Division in Tangaza Local Government area of Sokoto State by bandits will not be left unaddressed, so...
No less than three members of the the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites were reportedly arrested on Wednesday by security personnel in...
The latest update provided by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has revealed that as of Friday, August 14, three states namely; Sokoto, Kebbi and...
At least nine people died in a boat mishap in Sokoto Wednesday. The spokesman of the Sokoto State Police Command, Muhammad Sadiq, who confirmed the incident...
The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, in efforts to decongest the state prison and protect the inmates from contracting COVID 19 pandemic, has pardoned...
The Sokoto State government led by Governor Aminu Tambuwal has recorded a new case of the dreaded COVID-19 disease which has thus far claimed over 800...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, said on Monday his state was not one of the poorest in Nigeria, contrary to a current report by the National...
The Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) zonal Office in Sokoto has recovered about N400 million stolen funds. The head of the office, Mr Abdulahi Lawal,...
The Federal Government said on Saturday it has approved N13 billion as intervention fund for pest control in 12 northern states to reduce the impact of...
The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal has appointed Alhaji Sani Garba-Shuni as the new Head of Service (HOS) in the State, replacing the outgoing HOS,...
The government of Sokoto has said that the state had discharged a total of 101 COVID-19 patients and recorded 14 deaths. The state Commissioner for Health,...
The Sokoto State government said on Thursday the last five COVID-19 patients had been discharged from its isolation facilities. The state’s Ministry of Health, which disclosed...
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Friday expressed grief at the increasing banditry in the North-West of the country. El-Rufai, who spoke to State House correspondents after...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Thursday urged the Federal Government to deploy troops to Sokoto to check bandits’ attacks in the state. The forum charged the...
The Sokoto State government said Tuesday at least five COVID-19 patients had been discharged from the state’s isolation facilities. The state’s Ministry of Health, which confirmed...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, Sunday pledged to continue working with the Federal Government to check the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The governor, who...
The Sokoto State government has announced the discharge of 13 COVID-19 patients who had been treated and recovered from the virus. A statement by the state’s...
