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To express the Easter joy, The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Most Rev Dr. Matthew Kukah with Legion of Mary Society, Sokoto Diocese today visited patients in two health centres: Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Kware LGA and Amanawa Leprosarium.

The annual visitation which witnessed its fourth year was led by Bishop Kukah and Bro Emmanuel Igono, City of Refuge Comitium President.

The team which was well received at both hospitals donated relief items to the in-patients.

Ever before the outbreak of meningitis that has claimed several lives in over 16 states and still counting, the health department of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, headed by REV. Sr. Christiana Umeadi OP(now late) were proactive and had begun their routine immunization against this dreadful disease.

In the last one month Late Sr. Umeadi and her medical team have covered several parts of Sokoto diocese which comprises: Sokoto, Katsina, Zamfara and Kebbi. And as the outbreak got worse the health team intensified their effort.

While many continue to decry the sharp decline of professional reportage in the country, the advent of social media is adding salt to the injuries created by lack of ethics in the media industry, Mallam Ishaq Kawu Modibo has observed.

Kawu Modibo, who is the Director General, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) stressed that the social media has become the biggest source of inciting,unsubstantiated and insensitive reportage lately.

The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Hon. W. Stuart Symington pays a visit to the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah today at the bishop's residence in Sokoto.

Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah has lamented that the situation in Nigeria has gone so bad that Nigerians are now refugees in their own country.

Bishop Kukah who advised all Nigerians to always work for peace so as to leave a very peaceful country for our children yet unborn,  stressed that,  the country belong to all of us hence the need to tow the path of honour.

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Dr. Mathew Hassan Kukah calls on Nigerians to invest in their country, while he urged the government to create the necessary and enabling infrastructure which will in turn change things for good in the country.

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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has commended the governors of the South East states for giving priority to education in spite of the economic challenges.

Kukah made the commendation at Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Anambra on Thursday while delivering its 17th convocation lecture.
Kukah, who was represented by Prof. Peter Tanko, spoke on the topic “Teaching the Teacher: Contemporary challenges and prospects of teacher education in Nigeria.”

Integration and national unity as the only solution to the conflicts in the northeast, Niger Delta and the clashes between herdsmen and farmers, a cleric of the Catholic church says.

In his speech at the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations in Abuja on Friday, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, expressed the belief that national unity would overcome ethnicity and nepotism, which, in his opinion still reign in Nigeria.