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  • Ex-Kano dep gov Gawuna urges APC support groups to publicise Tinubu’s achievements

    Ex-Kano dep gov Gawuna urges APC support groups to publicise Tinubu’s achievements

    Immediate past deputy governor of Kano State, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, has called on support groups of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to intensify public enlightenment on the milestone achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to counter opposition propaganda.

    Gawuna also tasked political appointees to join efforts by the President’s media team in highlighting the transformation being driven under the Renewed Hope Agenda across various sectors.

    He made the call at the weekend during a courtesy visit to Dr. Tanko Yakassi, Director-General of the Tinubu Support Group (TSG), at the organisation’s headquarters in Abuja.

    According to him, President Tinubu’s visionary leadership has stabilised Nigeria’s economy despite the difficult conditions at the time he assumed office, earning recognition from global institutions and experts.

    The current Chairman of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) stressed that support groups must take the administration’s success stories to the grassroots to effectively counter opposition narratives.

    “Ahead of 2027 election, we need to let our people know about the giant strides being recorded by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. All support groups should do well to defend Tinubu and FG policies and programmes and help transcend them to the grassroots.

    “I am calling on all support groups like TSG to join hands with Minister of Information and media managers of the President ongoing nationwide townhall public enlightenment meetings. We have to tell our story. We have to let the people know of milestone achievements of this administration. You (support groups) have the spread. You are the organizational structure that we can leverage to inform the people of the achievements of the government.

    “I am also calling on all political appointees of the President to go back to their constituencies and let them know of various life-changing programmes and policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in their positions of assignments.

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    “We have to put a lie to all the falsehood being peddled by the opposition. We have to give our people details of the transformative development of the Renewed Hope Agenda in all sectors of our national life.”

    Assuring President Tinubu and the former deputy governor of the readiness of TSG to embark on massive enlightenment and defense of the administration’s programmes and policies, the Director-General of the support group, Dr. Yakasai recalled that the group was the first to ask the president to contest the 2023 election and would be ready to embark on every legitimate action to see him re-elected in 2027.

    “Like His Excellency, the former deputy governor said, we have the spread and organization. We did it in 2023. This time, we are set to showcase the laudable achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in all the 774 local government areas of the country.

    “We are set to go out and let our people know the laudable achievements of the administration. For us in TSG, we are ready for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.”

  • Maternal health: Kano wins $8.1m, emerges 2018 MNCHW North-West champion

    Kano State has earned $8.1 million emerging the overall winner of the 2018 North-West Matenal, Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW) programme.

    The feat followed the commitment of Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s administration in Saving one Milion lives Programme on the platform of offering low cost intervention to Pregnant Women and Children under the age of five years in the State.

    Dr. Ganduje disclosed this during the Flag-off of the MNCH 2019, held at Getso in Gwarzo Local Government Area.

    Dr. Ganduje who was represented by his Deputy, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna stated that, “during the last round of the exercise, over two million Children were supplemented with Vitamin A, while 1,180,760 Children were dewormed and thousands of women were given LLIN, Iron- Folate supplements and malaria prevention drugs respectively.

    ”Kano State Government which has been consistent in the implementation of all health programmes aimed at improving the lives of our people, has provided all necessary support to ensure this campaign is a success.

    ”This administration has placed the highest priority on saving the lives of especially Women and Children through the provision of essential health services both at Primary and Secondary care levels, and did not relent in taking holistic insight in to the fundamental needs of our healthcare sector and came up with comprehensive action plan.”

    He assured that Kano State Government would strive and work harder in delivering more democratic dividends in housing, transportation, fly-over bridges, improving road network, agriculture, commerce and many other interventions that would improve standard of living and ensure development in the state.

    He emphasized the importance of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week to the lives of Women and Children, maintaining that, “this week exercise would provide Vitamin A supplement for Children, Deworming of Children, immunization, Screening of Children Nutritional Status and Birth registration exercise among others.”

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    On his part, the Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, represented by the District Head of Tudun Wada, Dr. Bashir Ibrahim Muhammad Dankadai, expressed satisfaction on the effort made by Kano State Government and other development partners in promoting the lives of Women and Children in the State despite economic challenges.

    Also speaking, the State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso said the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week is a week- long event during which low cost interventions are offered to prevent women and Children under age of 5 with the aim of increasing coverage levels of some important preventive and curative health indicators that allow mothers and Children to thrive and develop.

    According to him, Kano State Government in collaboration with other developed partners had spent over N1 million in procuring the needed supplements to ensure the successful conduct of the MNCHW Programme across the 44 local government areas in the State.

    On the effort being made by the State to improve the health sector, Dr. Getso explained “The Present administration of Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has renovated and equipped over 300 Hospitals with new working materials to ensure that people benefit more from its health revitalization agenda.

    ”Apart from this, Kano State Government has procured medicines worth billion of naira and distributed to the hospitals across the State, provided free maternal care and free Child treatment in the State,” he added.

    Former Deputy Governor of Kano State, Engr. Tijjani Mohammed Gwarzo, the representatives of CDC Dr. Halladu Sulaiman and that of UNICEF Dr. Muhammad were among the dignitaries that spoke at the occasion

     

     

  • Kano support FG’s school feeding programme

    Kano state government has reiterated its commitment to continue supporting Home Grown Schools Feeding Programme of the Federal Government for the nutritious and economics development of the programme to the people of the state.

    The state Governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje made this known at the Town Hall meeting to sensitized the stake holders and state vendors of the Home Grown Schools Feeding Programme held at the state capital.

    The Governor who was represented by his Deputy Alhaji Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna said, a school feeding is not new to Kano State as the state, the Community Reorientation Committee (CRC) and local governments in the state was since engaged in the activity of feeding programme of the primary schools pupils in the state.

    He further said that engaging of the Federal government in the programme has brings a lot of improvement, and he therefore thanked them for supporting the programme.

    “It is not only about the feeding the programme is about many things, one of these is the issue of the children and their nutrition which will give our children balance diet ” Gawuna pointed out.

    In an area of economics development, Gawuna said “The programme also supporting the local manufacturers and farmers where you find out a lot of economics activities has been revived”.

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    He then thanked the National office of the programme for including a lot of local producers in the programme.

    On his part, the operational manager of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme Mr Dotin Adebayo said that the essence of the programme is to increase the school enrollment in the country and to empower people to increase the local agricultural products.

    He further said, the programme is also aiming to tackle unemployment and to build the capacity of women in the country.

    He also added that the programme has covered 26 states in the federation, hoping to cover 30 states in the next month.

    He therefore appreciated the effort of the state government for giving maximum support to the programme urging the other states to copy from Kano.

  • Flood: Kano support 389 victims with N40m relief materials

    Kano state Government on Thursday disbursed relief materials, including cash, roofing sheets and bags of cement worth over N40 million to 389 victims of flood in Rimin Gado and Kabo Local Government Areas of the state.

    Speaking on behalf of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the state Deputy Governor, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, in a brief ceremony in Rimin Gado, said the gesture was part of the N100 million donated by the Kano state government to cushion the sufferings of the affected flood victims.

    Gawuna recalled that the state Governor had approved the immediate release of N100 million to the flood victims across the state, after the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi 11, briefed Ganduje on the extent of damage caused by flood across the state.

    Gawuna said the sum of N50, 000 each was given to the families of those who lost their lives during the flood, while the injured got N30, 000 each.

    He added that, victims whose houses were submerged and destroyed by the flood got two bundles of roofing sheet and three bags of cement each.

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    Gawuna added that this was in fulfillment of the state government to assist the victims as a palliative measure.

     He appealed to the residents to always take precautionary measures, such as avoid building houses on water ways and blocking drainages.

    He said the distribution will continue in other Local Government Areas affected by the flooding such as Gwarzo, Warawa, Gabasawa, among others.

    Also speaking, the Director Operations, Kano State Emergency Management Agency, Hajia Aisha Lawan said over 848 bundles of roofing sheets and 848 bags of cement were distributed to victims in Kabo Local Government Area.

    She added that in Rimin Gado, the victims got a total of 658 bundles of roofing sheet and 987 bags of cement,  while 424 buildings were destroyed by flood in Kabo, residents of Rimin Gado lost five people and 339 houses to the flood, just as a total of 389 people got government assistance in the two Local Government Areas.

  • Kano partners with BUK to boost large-scale agriculture

    The Acting Governor of Kano state, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna on Tuesday, urged the Centre for Drylands Agriculture (CDA), Bayero University Kano (BUK) to partner with relevant Ministries and agencies of the state government in order to boost food sufficiency through the expansion of large scale farming in the state.

    Dr. Gawuna who is also the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, in his remarks during the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Conference on Drylands organized by CDA in collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, said that moving agriculture from subsistence to large-scale commercial enterprise should be taken seriously at this point of the nation’s history.

    He, however, noted that the theme of the Conference entitled, “Resource Constraints, Conflicts and Changing Climate in the Drylands: Options for Attaining SDGs,” remained timely considering the lingering conflicts between pastoralists and farmers, which has posed serious threat to the development of agriculture in some parts of the country.

    Describing Kano as one of the agricultural cornerstone of the country, Dr. Gawuna recalled the once booming groundnut pyramid in the ancient commercial city, but regretted that the coming of oil boom almost killed agriculture which was once the mainstay of the nation’s economy.

    According to him, the state government was committed, not only to regain the lost glory of agriculture, but to also ensure partnership with centres like the CDA and other development partners, so as to attain the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    Also speaking during the event, the Vice Chancellor, BUK, Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello, noted that the theme of the Conference, “hs in many ways, extended the themes of the two previous conferences on drylands held in 2014 and 2016.

    “I am particularly delighted that the theme for the 2018 conference stands out in the way it challenges speakers and presenters to seek solutions or give insights into understanding the serious challenges posed by climate change, competition for natural resources and conflicts in dryland areas.”

    The Vice Chancellor added that, “I have no doubt that universities have important roles to play in helping governments and other stakeholders to implement the noble objectives of the SDGs by sharing their knowledge and experiences.”

    In his welcome address, CDA Director, Prof. Jibrin M. Jibrin, decried what he described as serious shortage of skilled manpower in sub-Saharan Africa, saying that it has continued to retard the development of agricultural technology in the region.

    According to him, the biennial international conference on drylands is one of the programmes of the CDA that provides a platform for dissemination of research findings, networking and sharing of experiences between scientists, practitioners and other stakeholders.

    He said the theme of the Conference was timely, “because attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the drylands requires concerted efforts towards addressing myriads of problems related to climate change, high population pressure, and unsustainable land use practices. These are the underlining issues that lead to further degradation of land, low agricultural productivity, food and nutrition insecurity, severe poverty, conflicts and civil unrests.”

    The Speakers in the Conference include Dr. Peter Craufurd, Strategic Research Team Leader for Sustainable Intensification in Africa at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT); Bernard Vanlauwe, IITA, Kenya; Mr. Suffyan Koroma, FAO Representative to Nigeria; Raffaello Cervini, Lead Environmental Economist with the World Bank’s Environmental and Natural Resources Global Practice.

  • Kano Assembly confirms Gawuna as deputy governor

    Kano state House of Assembly on Tuesday screened and confirmed Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna as Deputy Governor of Kano state.

    Gawuna is to replace the former Deputy Governor, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar who resigned his position last August and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Gawuna’s appearance at the Assembly followed a letter from Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje requesting for Gawuna’s confirmation as his Deputy.

    Gawuna, a two term Council chairman and one time president of Youths Sports Federation of Nigeria was chosen from five contestants.

    At the plenary, Leader of the Assembly, Bappa Babba Danagundi requested the Assembly for Gawuna’s screening and confirmation.

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    The Speaker of the Assembly, Hon. Kabiru Alhassan Rurum who presented Gawuna before the floor of the Assembly, urged him to present his biography for the public to know his background and political career.

    Gawuna in his brief speech appreciated Governor Ganduje for finding him worthy out of millions of competent people in the state and the trust bestowed on him to serve Kano and humanity as Deputy Governor.

    After answering a series of questions posed to him by members of the Assembly, Speaker Rurum confirmed Gawuna as the Deputy Governor of Kano state amidst cheers by thousands of Gawuna’s supporters who thronged the Assembly complex for the screening.