Sokoto govt, UNICEF, partner to enroll 132,000 Almajiris, adolescent girls in school

Onuminya Ochowechi in sokoto The Sokoto State government and the United Nation Children Fund, (UNICEF) have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate over 132,000 Almajiris and adolescent girls into western education. Addressing journalists after signing the document, A’ishatu Dantsoho, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, said the programme would cover the 23…

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“We are not fake,” says clerics at Shettima’s unveiling

The alleged ‘fake’ Christian clerics who attended the recent unveiling of the Vice Presidential Candidate the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, on Monday, presented proof of their ministries and ordination certificates. Addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, they dismissed insinuations that they were sponsored by the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Their…

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Ex-IGP, Tafa Balogun is dead

A former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, has died. Balogun who was appointed AIG in March 2002, was said to have died at a hospital in Lekki, Lagos at about 8:30 pm on Thursday following a brief illness. He was aged 74, few days to his 75th birthday. He was born on August 25, 1947,…

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