Tag: Kaduna

Digital gadgets, virtual learning skills: EWEI empowers 50 girls in Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A Kaduna-based NGO, Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI) has empowered 50 adolescent girls with digital skills and access to virtual learning as supplementary education platform in Kaduna state. The founder and Programme Director, EWEI, Safiya Ibn-Garba said that the girls were empowered under the NGO’s Learning without Limit (LWL) project. Ibn-Garba said at the project’s closeout in Kaduna on Tuesday, that the 50 teenage girls were selected from eight public secondary schools in the state. She identified the schools as Government Girls Secondary (GSS) Kabala-Costain, GSS Babban Saura, GSS Rigachikun, GSS Television, GSS…

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Youth Unemployment: Milk Value Foundation, ECOWAS partner to tackle menace in Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

As the advocacy for job creation gets louder, Milk Value Chain Foundation in partnership with Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS is out to implement the enhancement of youth employment project aimed at addressing youth unemployment in Kaduna State. The project particularly aimed the pastoral communities of Luumo Kosam and Damau Grazing village milk producer cooperatives in Chikun and Kubau Local Governments.  The Chief Executive Officer of Milk Value Chain Dr. Ishaq Bello said this at an inception workshop organized by the Foundation to sensitize the public on the project Wednesday in Kaduna.…

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Diphtheria: UNICEF Nigeria raises alarm over unprecedented outbreak, advocates urgent vaccination

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF Nigeria has raised an alarm about the urgent need for widespread vaccination against the unprecedented outbreak of diphtheria. The outbreak has so far resulted in over 11,500 suspected cases, more than 7,000 confirmed cases, and claimed the lives of 453 people, mostly children. In a statement issued Wednesday in Kaduna, UNICEF said most cases are children aged between 4 to 15 years who have not received even a single dose of the vital vaccine, laying bare the urgency of the vaccination situation in Nigeria.…

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Diptheria: 11,000 suspected cases raises need for urgent vaccination in Nigeria

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare says it is aware of the mounting concern regarding the recent Diphtheria outbreak across several states with over 11,000 suspected case. The ministry gave the assurance that urgent vaccination efforts were underway. The Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, gave the assurance in an interview on Monday in Abuja. He said that since the confirmation of the re-emergence of diphtheria, the Federal Government had continued to respond to the outbreaks across different states. According to…

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NOA: Kaduna Directory gets new boss

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The National Orientation Agency, NOA Kaduna directorate has a new Director in the person of Alhaji Hamisu Abubakar who succeeds Alhaji Galadima Zubairu Soba. Soba retires after serving the agency for over three decades. Until his appointment in acting capacity, Abubakar was the Assistant Director Special Duties and Local Government operations in the state directory of the agency. According to the Public Relations Officer of the NOA Suleiman Ibrahim, Abubakar joined the agency on the 4th of June, 1993

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Court nullifies ex-Gov. el-Rufa’i’s order that banished Kaduna monarch

Aminu Imam

A High Court sitting in Kafanchan, Kaduna State has nullified the order by the immediate-past Governor of the State, Nasir el-Rufa’i that led to the banishment of the paramount ruler of Piriga Chiefdom in Lere local government area, Chief Jonathan Parguwa Zamuna. While delivering judgement on the case of breach of Fundamental Rights, the presiding judge, Justice Nasiru U. Sadiq, said the banishing order runs contrary to section 41, subsection 1 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). The Judge explained that the Constitution stated that every citizen…

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Kaduna Ministerial Slot: APC group makes case for Engr. Kailani before Tinubu

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Engineer Muhammed Kailani APC Chieftain

The Confederation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to appoint its Director-General, Alhaji Kailani Muhammed, to fill the outstanding ministerial slot for Kaduna State. The group made the call in a statement by its Director, Publicity, Strategy and Communication, Dr Saleh Bin-Ahmed, in Abuja on Tuesday. Recall President Tinubu had nominated the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, as member of his cabinet but the Senate rejected his nomination due to alleged security report. The Senate refused to confirm the…

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Kaduna: Alleged $50bn Fraud: DSS investigates Olam Nigeria Ltd

Aminu Imam

…Invites company’s top officials The Department of State Service, (DSS), is reported to be investigating a mega economic fraud involving Olam Nigeria Limited, Olam International and their nine subsidiaries to the tune of over $50billion. In a chain of round-tripping foreign exchange deals since 2015, the company, through its Special Purpose Vehicles, (SPVs), had booked about $34 billion with the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), as capital importation at official rates. But instead of investing the money into the Nigerian economy, sources said the company round-tripped the forex and sold…

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Increasing Criminality: CP Garba takes advocacy to Kaduna Mosques, links acts to poor parenting

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Musa Yusuf Garba

By; Abdull-Azeez Ahmed Kadir, Kaduna As criminality and other violent acts increase in Kaduna, the State Police Command Commissioner, Musa Yusuf Garba is taking advocacy to curb the menace to religious houses, while blaming poor parenting as a contributory factor to the acts in the State. Garba made this assertion while speaking at Yahaya Road Jumma’at Mosque on Friday 8th September, 2023 after the congregational prayers where he pleaded with community leaders to take charge of community policing by aiding the security agents with useful information. The Police Commissioner decried…

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Gunmen kill Kaduna Seminarian, set Cathtolic Parish residence ablaze in night attack

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A Catholic Parish house in Kamantan, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, was on Thursday night set ablaze and a seminarian killed in an attack by gunmen. The Parish in Kamantan is under the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area. The attackers were said to have stormed the parish house at about 8:00 p.m. and set it ablaze alongside a vehicle. Sources said the deceased seminarian, Stephen Naman, died from the smoke he inhaled while trying to escape from the grasp of the attackers. When contacted,…

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