Bauchi<\/p>\n
The Bauchi State Government, has released about N10 million to sensitise nomads across the state on the need to allow their children to acquire Western education.<\/p>\n
Chairman Bauchi State Agency for Nomadic Education,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alhaji Umar Mustapha , disclosed this on Tuesday in Bauchi in an interview.<\/p>\n
Mustapha said the agency was established by the incumbent administration in the state\u00a0to cater for the educational needs of pastoralists, fishermen, nomads and immigrant farmers.<\/p>\n
He expressed satisfaction with the increase in the number of primary schools for nomadic pupils and said that the number\u00a0increased from 233 some few years ago to 245 this year.<\/p>\n
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Benue<\/p>\n
The Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Benue, Mr Anum Iho,\u00a0 said on Tuesday that the welfare of teachers in the state would soon be enhanced.<\/p>\n
Iho stated in Makurdi while addressing teachers at the Makurdi Local Government Education Authority (LGEA)\u00a0 that he had already initiated discussions with appropriate authorities towards enhancing the teachers\u2019 package.<\/p>\n
The chairman said that, being a teacher; he would take up the challenges of the sector with urgency,\u00a0 urged primary school teachers to always channel their grievances to the appropriate authorities through dialogue.<\/p>\n
Also,\u00a0 the Education Secretary of Makurdi LGEA, Mr Godfrey Torgeri, commended the state governor for appointing a teacher as the head of the board.<\/p>\n
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Borno<\/p>\n
The Shehu of Borno, on Tuesday renewed call Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai, on the Boko Haram sect to dialogue with the government to end the violence in parts of the country.<\/p>\n
Ibn Garbai made the call at the opening of a capacity workshop for Local Government Hajj Fare Collectors in Maiduguri.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me add my voice to the numerous appeals to our brothers in the Jama\u2019atul Ahlis Sunnah Lida\u2019awati Wal Jihad by well meaning Nigerians. \u201cThey should seek the course of peace and harmony in the months ahead and beyond.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Ibn Garbai pointed out that Islam did not encourage violence in any form. \u201cThe bedrock of Islam is peace and this great attribute of our religion must not be overlooked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am appealing to our brothers to stop the acts of violence and come forward for dialogue if they wish to seek redress on any issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Gombe<\/p>\n
A consultant haematologist\u00a0with the\u00a0Federal Medical Centre, Gombe, Dr Ahmed Girei, has advised intending couples to ensure they go for genotype test before planning marriage.<\/p>\n
He gave this advice during the World Sickle Cell Day commemoration in Gombe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important for intending couples to know their genotype so that they will not produce children who are carriers.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPeople should be aware that sickle cell condition is an inherited disorder and is in existence.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Girei\u00a0advised people to seek the necessary information\u00a0to enable them\u00a0take\u00a0precautionary measures, noting that\u00a0 for those that inherited the gene, it was possible to live a normal live with proper care.<\/p>\n
According to the consultant,\u00a0sickle cell is not curable but there are measures that patients need to take to limit the crisis and complication.<\/p>\n
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Kaduna<\/p>\n
The Kaduna State chapters of \u00a0Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jama\u2019atul Nasir Islam (JNI) on Tuesday appealed to residents of the state to be calm\u00a0\u201cno matter the provocation or agitating passion\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
Addressing a joint\u00a0news conference in Kaduna, the organisations also called on the residents to\u00a0be law abiding and not to take the laws into their hands.<\/p>\n
The conference was addressed by the chairmen, Rev. Samuel Kujiat and Alhaji Ja\u2019afaru Makarfi of CAN and JNI, respectively.<\/p>\n
The chairmen also told\u00a0the residents that they would render account of their deeds before God, urging them to cooperate with government and security agencies to restore peace.<\/p>\n
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Kogi<\/p>\n
The Police in Kogi have arrested four persons for allegedly exhuming a corpse for ritual purposes at a cemetery in Ayetoro-Gbede, Ijumu Local Government of Kogi.<\/p>\n
Briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Lokoja, the Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Katsina, said the suspects were arrested on June 7 by the command\u2019s ambush squad at the cemetery\u00a0after exhuming the body.<\/p>\n
He said his men laid ambush for the alleged ritualists and watched them \u201cdesecrate the serenity of the environment\u201d as they exhumed the body.<\/p>\n
Katsina said the suspects\u00a0were in the process of dismembering the head when policemen swooped on them.<\/p>\n
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Kwara<\/p>\n
A labour activist, Mr Emmanuel Aiyeoribe, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to prosecute those involved in the oil subsidy scam in the interest of the masses.<\/p>\n
Aiyeoribe, former Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kwara chapter,\u00a0 said in Ilorin that the report of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee was unique.<\/p>\n
He said it should be separated from the bribery allegation leveled against Rep. Farouk Lawan and others. \u201cThe Federal Government should separate the issue of subsidy scam from the bribery allegation in the interest of the Nigerian masses and justice.<\/p>\n
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Lagos<\/p>\n
A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), on Tuesday said that good leadership would sustain Nigeria\u2019s existence in the face of security challenges.<\/p>\n
Agbakoba, also a rights activist, said\u00a0 that providing dividends of democracy would avert religious and ethnic clashes among Nigerians.<\/p>\n
He spoke against the backdrop of continued bomb attacks on churches in some northern states of the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil the leadership ensures that Nigerians partake in the dividends of democracy, terrorism, kidnapping, robbery and other vices will thrive. \u201cThere is the need for governments to make sure that Nigerians are provided with good education, adequate and free medicare. \u201cThis is the only way to prevent a revenge of the people,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
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Plateau<\/p>\n
Justice Ambrose Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Jos,\u00a0 Tuesday reprimanded lawyers who appeared before him and expressed regrets that standards had fallen \u201cabysmally low.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome lawyers who come to this court are not worthy to be addressed as lawyers because they mess up cases with their very poor knowledge of even basic processes. \u201cSometimes, I have to be a teacher for things to move smoothly; this is\u00a0not good for the law profession to which I also belong,\u201d\u00a0Allagoa lamented.<\/p>\n
The judge\u00a0said that only \u201cvery few solicitors\u201d were\u00a0serious with the profession.<\/p>\n
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Sokoto<\/p>\n
Secretary of\u00a0Aliyu Magatakarda Advocacy Group (AMAG), Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Yabo,\u00a0 on\u00a0\u00a0Tuesday called on members of the National Assembly (NASS)\u00a0to\u00a0come up with more stringent laws\u00a0that would end the senseless killings of Nigerians in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n
Yabo said\u00a0 in Sokoto that the NASS should also ensure adequate provisions for the purchase of modern equipment and up-to-date training for security agencies to ensure they could more effectively tackle the current crime situation in the country.<\/p>\n
He was of the view that a better trained security force would be able to map out strategies\u00a0that would lead to the arrest and\u00a0prosecution of\u00a0all those involved in planting bombs in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n
Yabo\u00a0said that as representatives \u00a0of the people, time has come for them to work out security modalities that would guarantee the safety of Nigerians.<\/p>\n
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Taraba<\/p>\n
The Deputy Chairman, Taraba chapter of the\u00a0PDP, Alhaji Danladi Shehu, on Tuesday called on\u00a0political appointees and elected representatives of the people to\u00a0commit\u00a0their earnings into the well-being of their \u00a0communities.<\/p>\n
Shehu said\u00a0 in Jalingo\u00a0that\u00a0a situation where politicians\u00a0stayed away from their constituencies only to resurface during\u00a0campaigns was not encouraging.<\/p>\n
He added that restiveness in some of the communities nationwide\u00a0was due to\u00a0unfulfilled promises by the political class.<\/p>\n
Shehu said\u00a0it would\u00a0not take much for politicians to create jobs such as vulcanising, carpentry, bricklaying and farming to\u00a0keep youths in their\u00a0communities.<\/p>\n
He said governments at all levels must also wake up to\u00a0their responsibility of meeting the challenges of development by providing the required basic infrastructure and social services.<\/p>\n
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Zamfara<\/p>\n
The Zamfara Government has voted N50 million to upgrade facilities and renovate dilapidated structures at the College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences at Bakura.<\/p>\n
The Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Alhaji Malami Yandoto\u00a0disclosed\u00a0this on Tuesday during a facility inspection visit to the college.<\/p>\n
Yandoto said that the college would continue to attract the attention of the state government to stand the test of time.<\/p>\n
He said that the college remained one of the lasting and virile legacies of the late premier of the defunct Northern Region, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello Sardauna, adding\u00a0 that the state government had prioritised agriculture as the mainstay of the state economy, adding that it would provide facilities that could assist farmers to imbibe mechanised agriculture.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government would do everything possible to provide facilities that could transform our farming,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
The commissioner said that provision of standard facilities at the college would enhance better learning of modern agricultural techniques and open more grounds for technical training of extension workers.<\/p>\n
He said that the knowledge would be imparted to rural farmers by the extension workers so that agricultural production in the state would triple while the local economy could grow fast.<\/p>\n
Yandoto said that some of the facilities that would be renovated included classroom blocks and students hostel while laboratory and research equipment would be upgraded.<\/p>\n
The Provost of the College, Malam Umaru Muhammad, commended the state government for coming to the aid of the institution.<\/p>\n
He promised to make use of the facilities for high quality teaching and learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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