For years, Christiana Akwabea admired the vast fields she visited in neighbouring districts to buy maize for reselling and dreamed of one day owning a plot of land where she could grow the staple crop. But there wasn’t much land for commercial farming in Seikwa in Ghana’s Bono Region, and the local soil is more suitable for cultivating cashew and yam. In 2017, the mother of six got her wish fulfilled through forest plantation management company Form Ghana, which received a loan from the African Development Bank for a transformative forestry project. After registering as a farmer with the Form…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Adamawa Police Command, say on Thursday that they have recovered additional 30 tractors, 107 bags of fertilisers, 28 hand tractors and 29 cartons of agro chemicals looted by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS protest. The police had on Wednesday, announced that they arrested 238 suspects from whom 35 tractors, nine vehicles, more than 600 bags of fertiliser, 50 hand tractors and hoes, and 18 bags of maize were recovered. Police Command’s spokesperson, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, said that the additional recovery was also made possible with the cooperation of other security agencies in the state. “The Command equally arrested four female…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released guidelines for implementation of the proposed N75 billion Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF). CBN, in a statement by its Development Finance Department, stated that the fund was a built-in strategy to effectively respond to the challenge of youth employment in Nigeria. The Fund, an initiative of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, is to be managed by NISRAL Microfinance Bank. It stated that the major objective of the plan was to address fragmentation of youths initiatives that prevent assessment of impact. “The Federal Executive Council on July 22, approved N75 billion…
The wife of Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, has attributed the successful elimination of Polio in Nigeria to effective contribution of our traditional leaders. She made the statement at the occasion of the 2020 World Polio Day, which held at the Emirs palace, Argungu on Wednesday. Dr Bagudu expressed the wise counsel of traditional rulers in Kebbi state and other parts of the country, individually and collectively through the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee (NTLC). She commended the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Samaila Mera for his role, acclaimed internationally to countering misinformation, which helped to overcome boycott of the exercises.…
The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed that 18 rooms and eight toilets razed in Wednesday night fire at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kano. Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, Public Relations Officer of the Service, confirmed the incident on Thursday. Muhammed said that the Service received a distressed call from one Ibrahim Bashir of fire outbreak at a students’ hostel in the school. He said the fire started at about 6:37 p.m. gutted upper floor of the building destroying 18 rooms and eight toilets. The spokesman said that a team of fire fighters were deployed to the scene who extinguished…
The Republics of Niger, Benin and Togo have remitted a total of N2.04 billion in the first quarter of 2020, as their outstanding electricity bills to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, the Commission’s quarterly report has disclosed. According to the report however, Ajaokuta Steel Co. Ltd and its environs failed to make any payment in respect of invoices issued by the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc to the tune of N0.27 billion and N0.05 billion during the quarter. It further disclosed that a total of N4.05 billion ($13.22m) invoices were issued by the MO to international customers, including Societe…
The MacArthur Foundation has presented 156 episodes of anti-corruption radio drama series tagged Shugabanci, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. A statement by the Spokesperson of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren and made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday, said the series, which were produced by Moving Image Limited and funded by the Foundation, were presented on Friday, October 23 2020, at a brief ceremony in the agency’s headquarters, Abuja. Speaking through a zoom link, Kole Shettima director, MacArthur Foundation Africa, noted that government and civil societies needed to work together to win the war against corruption. He stated that…
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, re-arraigned two Chinese, Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi before Justice Saleh Kogo Idrissa of the Federal High Court Sokoto for alleged fraud. A statement by the Spokesperson of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday, said the suspects were docked on a three-count charge of conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N50 million. “Before now, the defendants had faced a two-count charge before Justice Muhammad Sa’idu Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court for allegedly offering bribe to the Head,…
States able to capture at least 50 per cent of their property that have electricity connections in urban areas before June 30, 2021 using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), will get World Bank’s $2 million each. The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), disclosed this in a statement by its Head, Media and Public Affairs, Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja on Wednesday. Bello-Barkindo said that the states able to update their property records would each unlock the performance grant under the World Bank-funded States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) programme. “However, it is imperative that these property records reflect accurate information about the name of the owner/occupier,…
The Enugu State Police Command said it lost two police officers, who were allegedly murdered by hoodlums during the violence that trailed the peaceful #EndSARS protest in the area. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, said this on Wednesday, when he paraded before newsmen, 23 suspects arrested for their alleged roles in the violence. Abdurrahman said the command recovered 13 machetes, a bag containing 36 mobile phones, some materials suspected to be charms, an iron with the shape of a gun and N26,175 cash from the suspects. He said the suspects were arrested in different parts of Enugu metropolis…