By Zubairu Idris The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a gender mainstreaming initiative aimed at increasing immunisation uptake by engaging male parents in routine immunisation and other primary healthcare-related issues. Mr Rahama Mohammed-Farah, the Chief of the UNICEF Kano Field Office, described Wednesday in Katsina as a momentous day for all involved. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the initiative was introduced in collaboration with the office of the wife of the State Governor, Hajiya Zulaihat Dikko-Radda. Mohammed-Farah was represented by UNICEF Health Specialist, Hajiya Saudat Basheer. According to him, for the first time in the…
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A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Otunba Segun Showunmi, has advised Nigerians against money politics for the country to move forward and fulfil its potential as one of the most endowed nations on earth. Shwowunmi, who is the National Coordinator of the National Opposition Movement Coalition (NOMC), codenamed “The Alternative,” gave advice in a town hall meeting on Thursday in Kano. The former PDP governorship aspirant in Ogun said bad governance persists in the country because politicians have bought over democracy with their ill-gotten money and have planned to sustain the trend. He urged electorates to shun moneybags…
No fewer than 40 special detectives from the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbedokun monitoring team have intensified search for the arrest of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa. The IGP men who were deployed from Abuja to arrest Bature on the instruction of acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje were said to have been lodged at Tahir Guests Palace in the last two weeks to execute the mandate. Ganduje had petitioned the IGP over the controversy surrounding his suspension from his Ganduje ward in Dawakin-Tofa local government of the state,…
The Headquarters Theatre Command, Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), has issued a counter statement saying that there is no French Military Base in Maiduguri as alleged by an activist, Mahdi Shehu. The statement is issued by Capt. Reuben Kovangiya, the Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Headquarters Theatre Command, Operation Hadin Kai, recently. Mahdi Shehu on his X handle had alleged the establishment of a French military base in Maiduguri, North East Nigeria, where he also placed a video clip of the Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the Nigerian Army and a foreign…
1. Anytime an official denial is issued by Tinubu’s spin doctors, on any subject, take that denial as an official confirmation. 2. Last week, Chief of Defense staff denied any plan to establish France military bases in Nigeria. 3. Yesterday, the Chief of Army staff received the first contingent of French soldiers and immediately deployed them to maiduguri to ” HELP NIGERIA IN FIGHTING BOKO HARAM” . The same boko haram they claimed to have decimated and are scamping for safety. 4. Before the blinking of an eye, a FRANCE military base will be physically seen in Maiduguri, perhaps before…
The Kano state government, under the Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) in partnership with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Lives and Livelihood Project (LLP) has initiated an enlightenment program for farmers against the use of some chemicals as pesticides. This was revealed Tuesday to newsmen in Kura local government of Kano state by the Community-based Facilitator, DanAsabe DanGambo working with the projects in ten villages in the area. He explained that initially, the farmers are not aware of the right chemicals to use as pesticides and have no idea how to use them, and are also ignorant of…
The largest grains market in Africa, located at Dawanau in Dawakintofa local government of Kano state has been renovated by the state government in partnership with Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Lives and Livelihood Project (LLP) through the provision of roads, Secretariat, Police Post, streetlights and drainages. This was revealed by the Infrastructural Engineer of Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project, Zahraddeen Zarewa, while addressing newsmen at the market on Tuesday. “This is a project being carried out by the Kano state government with the support of the Islamic Development Bank to boost the area of agriculture, precisely the values…
Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has forwarded names of six persons to the state House of Assembly for screening as commissioners to fill the remaining empty positions since an earlier cabinet reshuffle last week. The Speaker of the House, Ismail Jibrin Falgore, announced this while reading the governor’s letter during plenary. The nominees include, Ibrahim Abdullahi Waiya, Shehu wada Sagagi, Dr Dahiru Mohd Hashim, Dr Isma’il Dan Maraya, Gaddafi Sani Shehu and Abdulkadir AbdulSalam. The nominees are expected to appear before the Kano state House of Assembly on Tuesday for screening
No fewer than 6000 groups of farmers across Kano have benefitted from enhanced farming techniques, seeds, water pumping machines as well as processing machines from the Kano state government to enhance the sector, to fight shortage of agric products and food inflation. This was made known to Leadership on Monday by the Lead Extension Agent, Ibrahim Adamu of the Kano State Agricultural Development Project (KSADP) at Kabo local government area of Kano. “The purpose of this project is to enhance the lives of the farmers and other beneficiaries in the agric sector, to build their skills and expose them to…
Over 25,000 farmers spread around Kano, Kaduna and Katsina states are going to start benefitting from the Watari Irrigation Project where the state government has renovated reservoirs that will provide 10 million Cubic Litres of water for dry season farming. This was revealed by the project manager Muhammad Tijjani Adam who spoke to newsmen who visited the project on Sunday located at Watari in Bagwai local government area. “As you can see, this is the main reservoir, in which we release water to from the Watari Dam in the night. “It will be gathered here in the reservoir to be…