shinkafi Archives - Freedom Online

Lawmakers approve renaming of Sokoto State Polytechnic after Shinkafi

Ibrahim Ahmadu — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:45:04 +0000

The Sokoto State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to amend the Sokoto State Polytechnic Law, 2014, and rename it Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto. This followed a motion moved on Wednesday by the Assembly’s leader, Alhaji Garba Bello (APC- Yabo), after scrutinising the bill at the committee of the whole […]

The post Lawmakers approve renaming of Sokoto State Polytechnic after Shinkafi appeared first on Freedom Online.

Buhari: Shinkafi’s death, colossal loss to Nigeria; Marafan Sokoto buried

Ibrahim Ahmadu — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:16:33 +0000

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of the Marafan Sokoto, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, as “a colossal loss to Nigeria.’’ Buhari made the remark on Friday in Sokoto in his condolence message to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the people and governments of Sokoto and Zamfara States. The president was represented […]

The post Buhari: Shinkafi’s death, colossal loss to Nigeria; Marafan Sokoto buried appeared first on Freedom Online.

Umaru Shinkafi dies in London; Buhari, Kalu mourn

Ibrahim Ahmadu — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:43:23 +0000

Former security chief and presidential aspirant, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, is dead. He died in a London hospital on Wednesday. Shinkafi, former boss of the defunct Nigerian Security Organisation (NSO), was a Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs in 1975 and a presidential aspirant during the Third Republic. After passing the Police College examination in Kaduna, […]

The post Umaru Shinkafi dies in London; Buhari, Kalu mourn appeared first on Freedom Online.