BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto
The Sokoto state commissioner of Lands and Housing, Barrister Nasiru Dantsoho has assured that the Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, is on course to deliver a new state.
The commissioner, who premised his conclusion on the numerous completed, ongoing and newly awarded projects across the state, added that, the viable peoples-oriented developmental projects are pointers to the emergence of a new Sokoto state.
Backing Dantsoho’s position, the state commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Balarabe Kadadi stressed that the 2025 budget of the state will enable the administration to sustain its desire to bring about more employment, with special emphasis on healthcare, education, skills acquisition, religious affairs, as well as the ongoing efforts in the fight against banditry and other forms of insecurities in the state.
On his part, the state Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Nasir Muhammed Binji said that the five-member committee appointed by the governor to study the laws that established the 10 tertiary institutions owned by the state has turned in its report.
According to Barrister Binji, the five member committee, headed by Alhaji Bature Muhammad Shinkafi, was to determine which ministry, agency or parastatal should be responsible for the management and supervision of each of the 10 higher institutions owned by the Sokoto state government.
Binji said the committee’s report concluded that five of the higher institutions should be under the management and supervision of the ministry for Higher Education, while others will be managed and supervised by the ministry for Health, Justice, and Agriculture depending on the laws that established them.
