An analyst, Tunde Jacobs, has reacted to a recent BudgIT Foundation, a Lagos-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), report that ranked Sokoto, the 36 states based on their supposed compliance with ...

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A member of the Sokoto State Community Guard Corps has accidentally ... The rescued victims had been brought to Isa town in the Isa Local Government Area.

The victims, abducted from different communities in Sokoto and Zamfara states, had been held in the forest before their rescue. A resident of Isa town, recounted that 36 individuals were brought ...

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ABUJA - When vigilantes in northwestern Nigeria's Tungar Kara town prepared to go after an armed gang in a nearby forest last Saturday, residents cheered and prayed for their safe return. Read more at ...

"How do you come to bomb people in the town and not in the forest? The bandits are there in the forest," he told Reuters by phone. In December, an airstrike killed 10 people in nearby Sokoto state ...

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Sokoto residents speak on claims of French ... As reported by The Nigerian Tribune, the residents noted that Balle town and other communities maintained relations with Nigerien communities ...

ABUJA - When vigilantes in northwestern Nigeria's Tungar Kara town prepared to go after an armed gang in a nearby forest last Saturday, residents cheered and prayed for their safe return.