Mr Lawal said upgrading the hospital will transform the facility into the status of a teaching hospital of Zamfara University.
The police said unknown assailants slaughtered the deceased on Friday in Gombe.
On Wednesday, four persons were killed in an auto crash in Lago village in the Darazo council area of Bauchi.
A source had told reporters that the man’s corpse was dumped and found around Benin motor park.
The accident involved a Mitsubishi van carrying 17 persons and loaded with bags of maize, guinea corn and other items.
The NBS recently pegged multidimensional poverty in Sokoto as high as 91 per cent.
Pastor Fred Attabo was said to have slumped and died in his office shortly after a morning prayer programme.
The youths stormed the cement company alongside some armed vigilante group to enforce the resolution of the State House of Assembly.
