Tajudeen Abbas, the current Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, is a remarkable personality and an exceptional leader who has been elected by his constituents to the House of Representatives for multiple terms.
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ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago says that his administration will invest N1 trillion within the next two years to boost infrastructural development in the state.
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago says that the state government will match its funds with any investor willing to support the state’s agenda in developing its health sector.
ASHENEWS reports that the Islamic Development Bank (Isdb) has announced plans to commit $500 million for the implementation of various projects in Nigeria between 2024-2025.
ASHENEWS reports that the Jawon Minna, Mohammed Nma Kolo has consoled the Niger state government, and families of victims of the recent boat mishap that claimed several lives.
Contrary to reports by a certain section of the media that Aisha Bala-Muhammad, the wife of Bauchi Governor, was forced to trek through mud water as a result of bad roads in which her motorcade was trapped, the Bauchi Integrity and Credible Information Monitors, BICIM has said the First Lady deliberately stopped her convoy to join a small group of passersby who were trekking through a small area of bad road.
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Tenaciously in leadership style with a head high, Adesina is a replica of Indian Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi used a non-violent strategy to achieve free independence for his native country, India; Adesina was mobilizing human, financial, and other resources to feed Africa. Indefatigability in human salvation, Adesina is a replica of his mentor, Dr. Norman Borlaug, of blessed memory, a prestigious American scientist who covered a distance of 9,859 km to Asia and fathered the Asian Green Revolution, thereby saving millions of souls from ravaging and liquidating hunger in the late 1960s. Adesina has been tenaciously using his talent, position, and connection to empower smallholder farmers to multiply their food production for Africa and beyond.
The world is today treated unceasingly to horrendous pictures of African youth killed, maimed, robbed and enslaved in several North Africa and Middle Eastern countries, and also dead on the high seas, while struggling to reach Europe, in a desperate search for jobs and better lives. Yet Africa where they run away from, is ironically the world’s richest in natural resources like arable land, water and minerals. I will not dwell in statistics here as mine is not an academic paper nor is it a policy statement. Plenty of data on Africa—wrong and right—is widely available everywhere on these issues. What is missing is what should be radically done and why it hasn’t been done to curb this human suffering? That’s what I’m attempting to dissect here as an African who closely watches these matters as a science journalist and a policy advocate. If Africa is today the continent with the “highest, largest, widest, deepest, hugest, most this, most that,” in terms of wealth and potential, why should it be the poorest, to necessitate its young and most precious resource (the human being) dare the worst of conditions along the Sahara Desert, across the seas, taken advantage of and fleeced off by rackets of human smugglers, to be humiliated, degraded and enslaved by would-be employers?
ASHENEWS reports that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted the visa ban placed on Nigerian travelers.