The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu, has picked the state’s former Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Idris...
Bandits on Tuesday morning invaded Adiya farm in Bodinga local government area of Sokoto State and rustled livestock. The owner of the farm, Abdullahi Adiya, who...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has insisted that its chapters in Plateau and Benue States would go on with their planned nationwide protests scheduled for...
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has postponed a crusade scheduled to hold in Sokoto State following the lynching of a female student of the...
Captain Abdul Abubakar, the son of the former inspector general of police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar has released a statement to retract claims that he supports the...
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, has suspended all Masses in the state. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director...
The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed the killing of eight persons including two women, by suspected bandits who attacked the Taka Lime community of Goronyo...
The Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Manir Dan’Iya, the Secretary to the State Government, Saidu Umar, the Chief of Staff to the governor, Mukhtar Magori,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned five car dealers at the Federal High Court, Sokoto, for alleged violation of its regulations. The...
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has disclosed plans by the state to generate N250 to N300 billion from its exportation of onions on yearly basis. The...
Angry residents of a community near the Nigeria Customs Service checkpoint in Sokoto on Sunday set ablaze two vehicles belonging to the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC)...
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has given President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian government a three-month ultimatum to resolve the lingering insecurity in the North...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday expressed sadness over the gruesome murder of travellers by bandits at Isa local government area of the state. Bandits had on...
The Sokoto State government on Wednesday confirmed that 23 travellers were killed by bandits during an attack in Isa local government area of the state. The...
Bandits have reportedly burnt to death, 42 travellers in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The tragic incident, according to residents of the...
A community leader in Zagzaga village of Munya Local Government Area of Niger State, has confirmed the abduction of 70 people from the village by bandits....
At least nine persons have been confirmed dead in fresh bandits’ attacks on three villages in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The spokesman...
Armed bandits have killed at least 15 persons in Illela and Goronyo local government areas of Sokoto State. The state Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, confirmed the incidents...
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Saturday asked the Federal Government to lift the blockade of telecommunication networks in 14 local government areas of the...
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday confirmed that at least 43 people were killed by bandits during an attack on a crop market at...
An attack by bandits on a village market in the Goronyo district of Sokoto State on Sunday has left about 30 people dead, the state government...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Monday arrested 11 suspected bandits and food suppliers in Sokoto State. The NSCDC Commandant in the state,...
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...