Govt Pledges Free Land For School Proprietresses

The Kano State Government has said that it will provide free lands to women who want to build schools in the state.

Deputy Governor of the State, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, who disclosed this at the opening of a youth camp organised by the Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) in Kano recently, said the gesture was to support the efforts of the association in providing opportunities to women to seek education.

He said that the state government  was fully supporting the girl-child education by waiving payment of girls’ school fees and providing them with transportation.

The state deputy governor also stressed that the state government will do everything at its disposal towards ensuring that women education and development is given special attention ,adding that the free land gesture is the first step been taken, as others will also follows.

Meanwhile, Zamfara State Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Alhaji Bashir Lawan, has commended the Maru Emirate Council in the state for donating land to the corps.

The Commandant of the Corps in the state who made this known in Maru while receiving a certificate of land the council donated, said the Corps had recorded more than 3,000 civil and criminal cases in Zamfara between January and December 2013.

Lawan commended the council for the gesture, adding that the land so donated would be used in building divisional office of the Corps.

He said that when the building of the divisional office of the Corps is completed, that it will help in effective discharge of the Corps responsibilities in the area.

According to him, some officers trained in arm handling had been using the equipment effectively without loss of life, misuse or accidental discharge, pointing that the Corps took more than 200 cases to court while 2,000 were handled by the Corps.

He said the Command also transferred 100 civil and criminal cases to the police and other security agencies in the state and attributed the success so recorded during the period to the support and cooperation given to it by the people in the state.

The Emir of Maru, Alhaji Abubakar Ibrahim, said the emirate resolved to donate the land to ensure peace and stability in the area.

Alhaji Ibrahim said the issue of security challenges concerned everybody and that traditional rulers had to cooperate with security agencies to support their efforts.