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Sokoto State Government has allocated 10 hectares of land to Group Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP) Morocco, for the establishment of phosphate blending plant in the state. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, made the disclosure on Wednesday in his remarks during a bilateral meeting with the team of OCP Morocco led by its Managing Director Mohammed Hettiti at Government House Sokoto. According ...

The North West Zonal Director, National Housing Programme (NHP) in the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Architect Joseph Toluhi Wednesday said the NHP project in Sokoto state has reached the 95 percent completion stage. Toluhi who spoke while on the inspection tour to the project site in Sokoto also pledged the commitment of the Federal Government to the ...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the sum of N5.202 billion for the construction of a road project in Sokoto State. Minister of State, Power, Works and Housing, Suleiman Hassan, explained that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the award of contract for the construction of Kagigi, Jaro, Goraye, and Takwaco road project ...

Alhaji Abdulrahman Musa, the Governor of Taiwa in Niger Republic, has commissioned two road projects in Sokoto State, as part of activities to mark the third years of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in office. The roads projects included the 3.2-kilometre township asphalt road along NNPC Mega Station to Salame/Mabera axis at the cost of N175 million, and less than 1 ...

Niger State Police Command has apprehended a tenant known as Maaruf Sarki, 34, for allegedly killing his landlord, Tasiu Shittu, after which he buried him in shallow grave in Kontagora Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammad Abubakar, confirmed this on Wednesday, adding that Sarki also stole N1.7m from the deceased, including an unregistered Honda ...

“To ease transportation challenges encountered by commuters plying the Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi and Katsina to Kaduna routes, the Sokoto and Zamfara State Governments spend N100m on federal roads, they have completed the repair work on the 214-kilometre highway.”- The Guardian A statement issued by the spokesman to Governor of Sokoto State, Malam Imam Imam said the roads was repaired at ...

Aisha was worried sick after her husband failed to answer his phone at past midnight. That was the umpteenth time she would be calling him and she was really beginning to lose it. Martins had called her during work hours to inform her that he would be running late. But Aisha never envisaged the lateness Martins talked about will be ...

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has made it known that the government would revoke the Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O) of any filling station found to be hoarding fuel to create artificial scarcity or is selling above the official rate. New Telegraph reports that Tambuwal said the government, along with the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), would set up a joint ...

African Development Bank (AFDB) President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has made it known that AFDB will partner with Sokoto State government in its plan to establish an agro-industrial park for the North- West geo-political zone. New Telegraph reports that to realise this, Adesina said cotton production would be given priority attention as a way of resuscitating the zone’s ailing textile industry. ...

New Telegraph reports that a mobile court in Sokoto State has convicted 34 traffic offenders with one of them bagging a two-month jail term or an option of N 30,000 fine. According to New Telegraph, this was contained in a statement signed by the spokesman of the state’s Sector Command of the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC), Alhaji Aliyu Kanya ...