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'Don't Involve Shinkafi in Local Politics'
Politicians in Zamfara State have been advised to stop using the name of Marafan Sokoto, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, for their local propaganda as he remains a father figure in the state and an elder statesman at the national level.
Nigeria: Police Arrest Fake Chief Judge, NYSC Officials
The Police in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested one Jafaru Ahmadu Derma for posing as a judge of the Appeal Court, even as Austin Nwaokoro and Ikechukwu Omaya were also arrested for posing as officials of the National...
Nigeria: Turai Advocates Maternal, Child Survival
Abuja — The First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar 'Adua, has embarked on an advocacy visit to improve maternal and child survival in the country. Yar'Adua, who kicked off the campaign in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital recently,...
Nigeria: Group Decries Rising Poverty Rate, Infant Mortality
An international based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Pan African Development on Education and Advocacy Programme (PADEAP), has decried the rising rate of poverty, gender in-equality, maternal and infant mortality in the...
Nigeria: Sultan Declares Nov 27 Eid-El-Kabir Day
The Saudi Authorities have declared Thursday November 26 as Arafat Day following the sighting of the moon of Zul Hijah on Tuesday. Consequently, the Eid-el Kabir celebration will be marked on Friday November 27.
Who is Keeping Countrys Book of Infamy?
You do not need any one with any special gift of insight to know that there will be a day of reckoning in Nigeria. That day will be the day when men and women who have jointly or severally done one thing or another to bring...
Nigeria: USPF Donates Computers, ICT Centre to College
The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has donated 100 desktop computers, ICT facilities and broadband internet connectivity, worth N20 million to Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. The donation was made under its...
Group to Launch Bid for Yar'Adua's Re-Election
Activities heralding the re-election campaign of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will effectively take off in Abuja today, THISDAY can report. Presidency sources informed THISDAY that the campaign team would be named "Yar'Adua...
Nigeria: Two Pilgrims Crushed to Death, Another in Hospital
Two Nigerian pilgrims, one from Sokoto and the other from Plateau, have been crushed to death by a hit-and-run driver in Mecca while another pilgrim also knocked down is on admission at a hospital in Mecca receiving intensive...
FRSC - Road Accidents Threaten Vision 2020
Sokoto, Nov 16, 2009 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Osita Chidoka, has said the nation's quest to become one of the 20 leading economies in the world by the...
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