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  • Badaru awards 18 roads contract at over N22b

    The Jigawa State government has approved the awarding the contract of 18 number of roads projects at the total cost of over N22.3 billion.

    This was disclosed by the states commissioner of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, Alhaji Bala Ibrahim said the decision was taken in the state executive council meeting.

    Alhaji Bala Ibrahim explained that the roads projects had been awarded to different roads construction firm whom won the project contracts bidding before award of the works.

    According to him the “Contracts includes the construction of Kwanar. Medi- Danzomo- Garki 29.51km, to Messrs Traicta Nigeria Limited at the cost of over N3,59b at the completion period of 20 months,reconstruction of Taura- Garki road, 29.68Km at the sum of over N2.9b to Messrs ALREN Construction Company Limited at a Contract to be completed within 16 months, construction of 42.2km which started from Balago- Kadowawa- Dumadumin Kyaure- Dumadumin Toka- Auyo to Messrs Gerawa Global Engineering Limited at the cost N5.3b with a completion period of two years etc.

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    The information commission maintained that this is in line with the present administration under governor, Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar’s improve the socio-economical lives of the people in the state through the improvements of infrastructure.

    He also stated that “Since the inception of the APC government at the federal and state level we constructed over 1,200 kilometers across the state”.

    He commended governor Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar for his judicand utilization of public founds and providing dividends of democracy.

     

  • Jigawa to complete stadium project

    Jigawa to complete stadium project

    The Jigawa Commissioner for Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, Alhaji Bala Ibrahim, said the Dutse Ultra-Modern Stadium would be completed before December 2017.

    Ibrahim made this disclosure when the executive member of the state’s Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Dutse on Friday.

    He explained that the stadium would be provided with capacity areas for volley ball, lawn tennis, hockey and boxing among other track and field facilities.

    The commissioner said that the Gumel and Birnin Kudu mini stadia would also be upgraded.

    Ibrahim said the completion and rehabilitation of sports facilities in the state will go a long way to encourage healthy competitions and unity among youths.

    The chairman of SWAN, Mallam Ahmad Muhammad, said that the team visited the commissioner to express support for the efforts of the state on sports development.

    Muhammad called on the government to appoint SWAN members into the sport committees wherever it organised competitions and other activities in the state.

  • Ortom warns against breach of anti-open grazing law

    Ortom warns against breach of anti-open grazing law

    Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue, on Monday, warned that any herdsman, who decided to breach the anti-open grazing law would have to face the wrath of the law.

    Ortom gave this warning in Makurdi while addressing members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Muslim community, who were protesting the threats issued by the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association against the new law.

    The governor said that the security agencies were ever ready to arrest anybody or group of persons that decided to resist the implementation of the law.

    According to the governor, the law will be enforced fully in November after the grace period of transition which is to end in October.

    Ortom said that any herdsman, who was not comfortable with the law was free to leave the state and settle where open grazing of animals was not prohibited.

    He further warned that anybody rearing livestock must put them in ranches, adding that the law was meant to protect both the farmers and animals.

    The governor explained that ranching was not only meant for cattle but all livestocks in order to prevent them from wandering into farmlands.

    Earlier, the CAN chairman in Benue, Rev. Akpen Leva, said the herdsmen had co-existed with the Benue people harmoniously for decades and wondered why they had now resorted to the violation of the people’s rights.

    Leva said that the law was not to undermine the economic or social interest of the herdsmen or any other ethnic nationality in Nigeria.

    “The provision of the law for the establishment of ranches is to conform to global best practices for the management of livestock, which is also in the interest of the herdsmen.

    “The anti-open grazing law is the most civilised and best option to resolve this perennial problem between our farmers and herdsmen, which has unleashed a serious crisis ever witnessed in the life of our society,” he said.

    Also, Sheik Bala Ibrahim, who spoke on behalf of the Muslim community, called for the peaceful co-existence of residents of the state and stressed the need for every stakeholder to support the law.

  • LG Chairmanship candidate promises to fight drug abuse among youths

    An APC chairmanship candidate in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa, Alhaji Bala Ibrahim, on Tuesday promised to fight drug abuse among youths in the area if elected in the forthcoming local government elections in the state fixed for July 1.

    Ibrahim made the pledge when he spoke with newsmen in Dutse after obtaining his nomination and expression of interest forms for the election.

    “We are deeply concerned about the misbehavior of some youths in Dutse due to misuse of drugs.

    “So, I assure that we will fight drug abuse and dealers of the substances by identifying the causes of the menace, the level of usage and the sources of the drugs.

    “And we will continue to sensitise members of the public, particularly youths, on the dangers associated with drug abuse,” he said.

    The candidate also pledged to focus on education, health care, agriculture and empowerment to eradicate poverty among the teeming youths in the area.

    “I already have plans to develop education, healthcare, agriculture and empower the people.

    “I will also ensure adequate security of lives and property of Dutse residents.