Sokoto, Nigeria News

An engineer from Greater Manchester was unlawfully killed by his kidnappers in Nigeria minutes after a UK-led rescue operation stormed in, an inquest found.

A British construction worker was murdered by his Islamist kidnappers just minutes after a joint UK and Nigerian rescue operation stormed into the compound where he and an Italian man were being held, an inquest heard.

ECHOING wrongheadedness, the Action Congress of Nigeria has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to shelve the plan, if he has any, to impose a state of emergency on some of the northern states worst hit by the Boko Haram crisis.

Officers and men of the Internal Security Force of 1 Division, Nigerian Army, yesterday paraded two suspected petroleum pipeline vandals in Kaduna.

By Rakiya A. Muhammad, Usman A. Bello, Aliyu M. Hamagam, Garba Muhammad, Onimisi Alao, Itodo Daniel Sule And Abdulwasiu Hassan, 8 May 2013 Sokoto/Jos/Jalingo/Abuja/Lokoja/Minna/Kebbi - As farming continues across Nigeria with early planters' crops approaching maturity, farmers are yet to get any of the subisdized fertilizer they are supposed to get ... (more)

Nigerian Prelates Meet With European Union Representatives to Discuss Rise in Corruption and Violence By John Newton ROME, May 03, 2013 - NIGERIA'S leading bishop has told the European Parliament and other politicians that his country is being jeopardised by "the twin monsters of corruption and insecurity". In a meeting organized by Aid to the ... (more)

THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar 111, has appealed to parents to allow their children to be immunised with the polio vaccine because it is safe to be vaccinated.

The military Joint Task Force in Borno State, Operation Restore Order, Friday , killed a top commander of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Chad, in Maiduguri, the state capital, during a joint special operation with the men of the State Security Services .

Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs was in the Corporate Office of Vanguard Media Limited during which he had an interactive session with Vanguard editors on topical issues affecting the polity.

President Goodluck Jonathan, for once, has my sympathies - because he is a prisoner of circumstances.

Should it fail to give Nigerians free, fair and credible elections in 2015, it would mean that Professor Attahiru Jega led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fallen short of all promises of reforms it had made to the people since its inception in 2010.

AN electronic medium last week reported Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode as saying that he has Fulani blood in his veins.

DATELINE : MAIDUGURI, MARCH 8, 2013. It was the second day of his two-day visit to Yobe and Borno states, the hotbed of Boko Haram insurgency in the country's Northeast zone.

Kabiru Sokoto, a suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack of St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla near Nigeria's capital, is guarded by a security official inside the state security service office in the capital Abuja February 10, 2012.

The new Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar, the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, receives a copy of the Qura'an from Sokoto state governor Atahiru Bafarawa, during a coronation ceremony in Sokoto March 3, 2007.

Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has flagged off the distribution of N1.15 billion loans to small holder dry season farmers in the 23 local government areas of the state.