Sokoto State start this year’s Ramadan fast comfortably, Governor Ahmed Aliyu has approved the payment of half salary bonus as Ramadan gift to all civil servants, primary school teachers, local government staff as well as pensioners in the state.
The huge gesture, according to a press statement issued on Sunday night by the Press Secretary to the Governor, Abubakar Bawa, was to assist workers in the state observe this year’s Ramadan fast with a relative ease.
Governor Aliyu, therefore, appealed to the Muslim ummah to use the sacred month of Ramadan to pray for Allah’s intervention in the numerous challenges hindering Nigeria’s development.
