Sulu officials win hands down, deliver votes for BBM-Sara

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Incumbent Sulu Governor Sakur Tan and his sons, Vice Governor Toto Tan and Rep. Samier Tan, and daughter Shihla Hayudini, the mayor of Maimbung town have won their re-election bid hands down after running unopposed.

Sulu Gov. Tan, Muslim leaders support Marcos-Sara tandem

A photo from the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas shows presidential aspirant Bongbong Marcos and other Muslim leaders during Friday's, April 22, 2022 event at the Manila Hotel. 

Sulu asks DOST for skills, technology training

A provincial government photo shows Sulu Governor Sakur Tan with officials from the Department of Science and Technology Food and Nutrition Research Institute officials led by Directors Imelda Agdappa and Scientist Maria Teresa De Guzman, of the Internal Audit Service.

‘Hulog ng langit’

Sulu Rep. Samier Tan 

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Todo at taus-puso ang pasasalamat ng pamilyang Fernandez sa Zamboanga City matapos na makakuha ng malaking halaga ng abuloy upang maipalibing ang kanilang namayapang ina dahil sa komplikasyon ng renal disease.

TUPAD program benefits Sulu province

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Over 2,000 people will benefit from the government employment program called TUPAD after the Sulu provincial government on Monday received a check worth some P10.3 million from the Department of Labor and Employment.

Duterte for Senator…

WILL HE or will he not? But Senator Bong Go said President Rodrigo Duterte is considering running for a Senate seat in next year’s polls despite withdrawing as vice presidential bet of the ruling political party PDP-Laban.

Sulu rallies behind Duterte

DAVAO CITY – Political leaders in the southern province of Sulu have assured their "strong and unwavering" support to President Rodrigo Duterte ahead of the national polls next year.

Tausugs laud Tans' re-election bid

 SULU – Tausugs have lauded the re-election bid of Governor Sakur Tan who filed his candidacy with the Commission on Elections for next year’s polls.

8 Sulu villages get new dump trucks

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Sulu Rep. Samier Tan donated eight new multi-purpose dump trucks to different villages in the capital town of Jolo as part of his peace and development projects in the province. 

Sulu opens 2nd Malasakit Center, Tausugs thankful to Duterte, Go

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Muslim province of Sulu inaugurated its second “Malasakit Center,” the eighth in the Bangsamoro autonomous region in the southern Philippines, and 36^th in Mindanao, according to Gov. Sakur Tan on Sunday.

Military honors Sulu leaders

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine military has honored political leaders in Sulu for their unrelenting support to peace and development efforts and in the government’s campaign to defeat terrorism in the southern province.

Duterte ally bares more projects for Sulu

SULU REP. Samier Tan, a close political ally of President Rodrigo Duterte, bares a plan to install more street lights in the municipalities of his province’s first congressional district, especially in the capital town of Jolo.

Sulu employees receive blessings in time for Ramadhan

SULU - Provincial employees thanked Governor Sakur Tan for “all the blessings” they received at the start of the Holy month of Ramadhan.

Sulu’s own community pantry, fresh fish and rice

ZAMBOANGA CITY – While community pantries are sprouting in Metro Manila to feed the poor and the hungry, now tricycle and pedicab drivers and laborers in the southern Muslim province of Sulu are also benefiting from these benevolent acts of Filipinos helping the needy.

Sulu employees receive blessings in time for Ramadhan

SULU – Provincial employees thanked Governor Sakur Tan for “all the blessings” they received at the start of the Holy month of Ramadhan. 

Philippine military chief holds dialogue with Sulu leaders, religious sector

SULU – Philippine military chief Gilbert Gapay flew to the Muslim province of Sulu and met with government officials and religious leaders in a peace dialogue held in the Capitol.

Sulu lawmaker donates digital tablets to grade schoolers

 SULU – Representative Samier Tan distributed dozens of digital tablets to school children in the capital town of Jolo as part of his educational support and assistance to those who cannot afford to buy the electronic gadget.

2 suicide bombers behind daring Jolo attacks

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two female suicide bombers and not one as earlier reported by the military, carried out daring attacks in the southern Philippine province of Sulu that left dozens of casualties, mostly civilians.

Muslim lawmakers want probe on alleged Hajj fraud schemes

'Pilgrims support House Resolution 611'

MUSLIMS ARE supporting a proposed probe on alleged fraudulent schemes in the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia, saying, there had been persistent reports and complaints from pilgrims who paid huge amount of money for services and accommodations, but got less and worse, some had been left to fend for themselves in Mecca.

Muslim lawmakers Shernee Tambut, of the Kusug Tausug partylist group; and Samier Tan, of Sulu province, have filed House Resolution Number 611 directing the Committee of Muslim Affairs to conduct an investigation in aid of legislation in order to implement remedial measures that will put a quietus to the endless miseries being experienced by Muslim Filipino pilgrims.