The World Bank International Development Association (IDA) will give Benin US$60 million to help the west African country fight against youth joblessness in poor regions, a statement issued by the bank said in Cotonou on Tuesday. The aid is aimed at helping Benin improve the economic inclusion of the youth in poor regions and strengthen the employment services and the technical and professional training system. The youth inclusion project also aims to improve the economic inclusion of youth, aged between 15 and 30 years, and 50 per cent of girls who are not in school. About 35,000 people will benefit…
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Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project, KSADP, and the Kano Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, KNARDA, have launched collaboration for the implementation of agricultural interventions worth $3.23 million. A statement by the Project Communication Specialist, Ameen Yassar made available to AsheNews on Monday, said $2.23 million is coming from the Islamic Development Bank while Kano state government will release $1 million as counterpart contribution to the KNARDA for its value chain interventions. The interventions target 100, 000 small holder legumes farmers across the 44 local government areas of the state, over a period of five years, beginning from the 2020/2021 planting…
By Tina George, Minna Fifty-five per cent of children between ages 4 to 16 in Yobe and Kebbi states, have never attended school, the 2020 Nigeria Education Data Survey (NEDS), has revealed. The survey, which is for the evaluation of Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) operation, was launched and disseminated in Minna on Tuesday. It also showed that Kebbi state has the highest of 59 percentage of out of school children followed by Yobe and Zamfara states which have 57 and 51 per cent, respectively. At the time of the survey, the children were computed as the number…
By Ahmed Attahiru Gusau The Zamfara state government has ordered the immediate closure of 10 secondary schools that share border with neighbouring Katsina state. The commissioner of education, Dr Abdullahi Gusau, stated this while addressing journalists on Tuesday, explaining that the closure was in response to the recent abduction of students of Kankara science secondary school in Katsina. He explained that the closure was part of measures to protect those school children that were neighbouring Katsina from similar bandits attack. According to him, governor Bello Mohammed had approved the closure of 10 schools, including seven boarding and three day secondary…
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari, says the construction of Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project is currently at 15 per cent completion. Kyari disclosed this at the inspection of the second leg of the project at Karogo community in Igabi Local Government Area, Kaduna State, on Tuesday. “The project is currently at about 15 per cent completion but what is important for us to know is that we are crossing the river Niger, what we call the Ndoni-Aboh river crossing in Rivers and Delta states that will deliver gas from the eastern part…
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad has tested positive for COVID-19. A Supreme Court Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, disclosed this at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday. According to him, the CJN is receiving treatment in Dubai.
Alhaji Salihu Lukman, Director-General, Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has called for sanction against traditional and community leaders where kidnappings and banditry occur to serve as deterrent to others. He made the call in a statement dedicated to the abducted 300 students of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara in Katsina state. Lukman said that security personnel deployed to the areas must also face severe sanction for negligence, describing the abduction as painful and shameful. “Such national security embarrassment must be brought to an end,” he said. Lukman, however, prayed that God will protect and return the students safely to their…
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has stressed the need for a legislation that would strengthen the role of traditional rulers as custodians, to revive the cultural values and norms that have eluded the society. The governor was speaking at a programme held in honour of Dr Mohammed Ndarani Mohammed, who has been conferred with the position of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee and Supreme Court of Nigeria in Abuja. He noted that such issues could be better solved by empowering the traditional institutions. While acknowledging the neglect of some of these traditions as partly responsible…
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Tuesday named seven young scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and activists from across the globe as its 2020 Young Champions of the Earth. The Young Champions of the Earth prize is awarded every year to seven entrepreneurs under the age of 30, with bold ideas for sustainable environmental change. The seven prize winners, all 30 years old or younger, were selected by a global jury of experts following a competitive public nomination. Hailing from different regions around the world, the winners received US$10,000 in seed funding, tailored training, and communication support, to help scale up their…
Sen. Shehu Sani has advised the Federal government to move fast and secure the release of the student of Government Science Secondary School Kankara. The students were reportedly abducted by bandits but leader of Boko Haram, Shekau has laid claim that his men actually kidnapped them. Reacting on his official Twitter handle @ShehuSani, Sen. Sani Tuesday morning, opined that the Federal government should act fast to avoid the students being moved over the borders. “If the abducted students are with the insurgents and not the bandits as purported, efforts must be stepped up to ensure that the students are not…