Katsina State football association (F.A) has expressed shock over the unfortunate demise of some athletes, officials and journalists from Kano state who were returning home after participating at the just concluded National Sports Festival in Ogun state.
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has decried the educational neglect in the North saying he almost cry when he travelled from Katsina to Daura and back to Katsina seeing Almajiris and out-of-school children roaming the streets with tattered dresses begging, playing when they ought to be in school in a city where all the first republic leaders schooled.