The daughter of the Secretary to the Sokoto State Government lost her life while trying to rescue her children from the fire that gutted their house around 12 midnight yesterday. Her husband who is the current permanent Secretary in the Ministry for Sport and Youth Development, Alhaji Muhammadu Yusuf Bello, was said to be away […]
•Kashim Shettima Vice President Kashim Shettima has extended his condolences to the government and people of Sokoto State over the killing of about 10 civilians in airstrike targeted at the Lakurawa terrorist group at Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa communities in Silame Local Government Area. The villagers lost their lives on December 25, 2024, when t...
•Tchiani and Tinubu Residents of border communities in Sokoto have dismissed allegations of the presence of the French Army in the area. Recall that the Head of the Military Junta in the Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, in a recently circulated video, accused President Bola Tinubu and some members of his administration of colludi...
•NAF airstrike A security expert, Kabir Adamu, has said that the Defence Headquarters’ clarification on the airstrikes that claimed the lives of 10 persons in Sokoto State has not addressed the issue in contention which is the killing of innocent civilians. The Sokoto State Government had claimed that the Wednesday’s airstrikes by the military...
•Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle. The federal government will conduct a thorough investigation into Wednesday’s accidental bombing that killed 10 people in the Gidan Bisa and Runtuwa villages of Silame Local Government Area. This was disclosed in a statement yesterday by the Press Secretary to Sokoto State Governor, Ahmad Aliyu....
•NAF airstrike A Northern advocacy group, Northern Star Initiative has decried the aerial bombing of Gidan Bida and Runtawa communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto that led to the death of at least ten innocent civilians and the destruction of property. This was contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Kaduna today […...
•NAF airstrike A security expert, Kingsley Uzoma, says there is a need for a holistic investigation to exactly identify those that lost their lives during a military airstrike in Sokoto State yesterday. The Sokoto State Government claimed that a fighter jet mistakenly bombed two communities in Silame Local Government Area of the state, killing...
•NAF airstrike Hours after the tragic airstrike in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State, a survivor has recounted the harrowing experience of watching her family perish in the ensuing inferno. In an interview with BBC Hausa, the distraught woman, who requested anonymity, described how her father, mother, and four younger siblings were ...
A fighter jet mistakenly bombed two communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State in the early hours yesterday. The jet, targeting Lakurawa jihadists in the Surame forest, dropped bombs on assemblies of innocent villagers in Gidan Bisa, Gitta Rana, and Runtuwa villages of Silame Ward in Silame Local Government Area. According to ...
A fighter jet targeting terrorists in Lakurawa mistakenly bombed two peaceful communities in Silame Local Government Area of Sokoto State today, leaving many feared dead and several others injured. The affected villages, Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa, were hit around 7 am, according to local accounts. The chairman of Silame LGA, Alhaji Abubakar Muham...
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