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As part of efforts to boost agriculture and enhance food security, the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has empowered 400 farmers in Orhionmwon local government area of Edo state with cash grants of N36 million. The beneficiaries, who were drawn from  five wards namely; Abiokunla-1, Iyoba, Ugboko, Urhonigbe-South and Igbanke East were handed N90,000 each. Speaking Read More

  To complement government’s efforts in finding an alternative way of sustainability, the Kebbi state Mallami Youth Progressive Forum over the weekend concluded arrangement to train 50 students on different skill acquisition across the secondary schools in the state. Flagging off the programme,  Sunday at the Government Day Secondary School, Gesse 1, Birnin Kebbi, the General Manager of the forum, Read More

  The Benin National Congress (NBC) Monday lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for sacking Professor Charles Dokubo as Presidential Amnesty Coordinator. They said the reorganisation of the agency was long overdue.  The group alleged that the programme under Dokubo was “reduced to a clan assembly in a village square where germane concerns of other ethnic nationalities were flagrantly dismissed.” This was Read More

  The Emir of Argungu, Kebbi state, Alhaji Samaila Mohammed Mera, has bestowed the traditional title of ‘Kakakin Kebbi’ on the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The emir announced the conferment of the title on the minister in Abuja on Tuesday at a press conference to unveil the programmes lined up for the 2020 Argungu International Fishing and Read More

The Kastina state deputy governor, Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, Monday, said under the state’s agriculture restoration programme, farmers have benefited from subsided fertilizer worth N7billion. Yakubu said under the programme, a bag of fertilizer is sold to farmers at the cost of five thousand naira (N5000) each. The deputy governor stated  this at the 7th  annual lecture and award of Sir Ahmadu Read More

The National Directorate of Employment NDE has commenced the supervision of the training of 190 women and youth in three different skills acquisition programmes under the sponsorship of Senator Abdullahi Barkiya’s constituency programme in Katsina. The participants, drawn from the 11 local government areas of Katsina zone, would receive training skills such as accounting, management and marketing. The programme, which is Read More

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has accredited new degree courses for the Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare, Bauchi state. The courses accreted by NUC are B.A (Ed) Arabic, BSc (Ed) Biology, Bus. Education and Economics all under the undergraduate programmes run by the college in affiliation with the University of Maiduguri. A press release by the public relations unit of Read More

TheExecutive Producer of Showcasing the Artistic of God’s Excellence (STAGE), Mr Andy Osakwe said the show is a deliberate attempt to reduce vices in the society. Showcasing the Artistic of God’s Excellence (STAGE), is a religious based show. Osakwe said this at the STAGE grand music concert tagged ”Unmasking creativity” in Abuja recently. He said the programme was not just Read More