Sokoto State Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has disclosed that his administration would employ about 541 graduates from the State this month.

The governor averred that the figure was arrived at following a recent census of unemployed graduates in the State.

He said, "We arrived at this figure after a recent census of unemployed graduates carried out by the state government. All these unemployed indigenes have first degrees, Masters or PhD and 44 of them are females and I am assuring you that the State government will employ all of them this month of August.

Governor Wamakko made the disclosure at the Sultan's Palace when he paid him the traditional Sallah homage on the Sultan of Sokoto yesterday.

The governor maintained that the sustained prayers of all the faithful in Sokoto State have helped in retaining the status of the most peaceful State in the federation.