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Liberia’s President George Weah on Tuesday made his first appointments lesst han 24 hours after his swearing in on Monday. Seven names made the first batch of appointees , including former Senate Pro- Tempore Gbezohngar Findley , who has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs . Findley , according to local media , is close ally of immediate past President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf, and staunchly supported Vice- President Joseph Boakai at the initial stage of the campaign period.
He reportedly dumped Boakai , who ran for the presidency
on the platform of the Unity Party and aligned with Weah ,
heavily campaigning for him in parts of the country . This
fueled speculations that Weah was receiving support from
Johnson- Sirleaf, who was recently expelled by the UP for
anti - party activities. Maj. - Gen. Daniel Ziankahn was
immediately retired as the Chief of Staff of the Armed
Forces of Liberia and appointed the Minister of National
Defence , subject to Senate confirmation. Ziankahn replaces
Brownie Samukai at the defence ministry , which is in the
middle of an alleged wasteful spending of “ welfare and
supplementary pension benefits” of members of the Armed
Forces. Brig. Gen. Prince Johnson takes over from Ziankahn
as the new Chief of Staff of the AFL. Weah named
Chairman of the now ruling Coalition for Democratic
Change, Mr Nathaniel McGill as the Minister of State for
Presidential Affairs. Samuel Tweh, a long - time member of
the CDC, is to serve as Minister of Finance and
Development Planning. Until his appointment , Tweh worked
as an economic consultant at the Millennium Challenge
Corporation under the Ministry of Finance . president
appointed Mr Charles Gibson as Minister of Justice , and Mr
Sam Mannah as Press Secretary with immediate effect .
Weah has directed that the heads of other government
ministries and agencies remain in place until further notice.
Meanwhile, some Liberians have urged the new president to
honour his promise of holding government officials
accountable to the people. Speaking to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN ) in Monrovia, one of the respondents , Saah
Clinton, a retired soldier, advised Weah to show courage
and do the right thing in the interest of Liberians.
“ Although , I am confident in the president’s ability to
crack down on corruption as promised in his inaugural
speech , it takes a lot of political will and courage to do
that . “ The president should carry the masses along in
whatever decision he takes against powerful government
officials, and the people will stand by him,’’ he said . Weah
in his inaugural address renewed his promise to tackle
endemic corruption especially in the public service , vowing
to prosecute corrupt government officials “ to the full extent
of the law ’’. “ As officials of government, it is time to put
the interest of our people above our own selfish interests. It
is time to be honest with our people “ For those who do
not refrain from enriching themselves at the expense of the
people, the law will take its course ,’’ the president said .

https://punchng.com/president-weah-makes-first-
appointments/

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Dahiru Musdapher, has died.

Mr. Musdapher died in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 75.

Dahiru Musdapher was appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2011. He served as Chief Judge of the Kano State Judiciary from 1979 to 1985, and as a member of the Court of Appeal from 1985 until 2003.

The cause of his death was not immediately clear but family members took to social media to break the news.

“My elder brother Justice Dahiru Musdapher former CJN passed on tonight,” Muneer Musdapher, a younger brother of the former CJN wrote on Facebook.

Confusion in the land.

Former Kano State Governor, Dr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso and ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) under the leadership of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje are set to hold parallel political rally in Kano on January 30, Daily Trust learnt.

The two separate events were centred on the forthcoming local government election in the state slated for February 10, 2018 and by extension, the 2019 general elections.

According to the APC campaign timetable, the party would hold its rally at Kwanar Dangora along Kano- Abuja road on January 30 January for the presentation of flags to candidates.

However, Senator Kwankwaso was expected to come to Kano from Abuja same day to help his people in the ongoing campaign ahead of the February 10 local government poll.

Confirming the senator’s visit, his media aide, Hajiya Binta Spikin, said the former governor would be in Kano on January 30.

There were fears that supporters of the two groups might clash during the events.

Spikin said, “Despite the purported rumours by the Ganduje-led faction of the APC, Kwankwaso will come to Kano on January 30 to help his people, especially those who are contesting in the forthcoming local government election in their campaign activities.

“We are very much aware of the rumours going round that our leader will not come to Kano. The Ganduje’s people are circulating the rumours but I can assure you that this will not stop our leader from coming to Kano on the slated date,” she said.

Also, the Secretary of the APC in the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Zakari Sarina, affirmed that the APC rally at Kwanar Dangora was scheduled according to the campaign timetable released by the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) for the forthcoming local government poll in the state.

“Unfortunately, Senator Kwankwaso did not inform the party about his planned rally which coincides with ours. Had it been he wrote to the party, the party will have shifted its own rally to another day. But because he did not inform the party, we based our own activities in line with KANSIEC’s timetable,” he said.

When contacted for comment, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Magaji Musa Majia, said he would contact the relevant authorities to find out who between Kwankwaso and the APC notified the command about the two planned rallies.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/kwankwaso-ganduje-set-to-hold-parallel-rally-in-kano.html

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday assured Nigerians that the rising attacks on communities by herdsmen would soon be brought under control by security forces deployed to the vulnerable areas across the country.

He said the unfortunate incident of attacks, which had resulted in loss of lives and properties, had already brought sorrow and hardship on many Nigerians, with the government deeply affected.

Buhari, according to his spokesman Mr Femi Adesina, said this at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday while receiving the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.

President Buhari, however, did not explain how the attacks affected his government.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-my-govt-deeply-affected-by-herdsmen-attacks.html

The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, weekend said President Muhammad Buhari is being unfairly criticised over the current herdsmen-farmers crisis despite the ‘concrete measures’ the government is taking to address the problem.

Ogbeh spoke while on inspection tour at Ahmadu Bello University’s (ABU) Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), National Agricultural Extension Research and Liaisons Services (NAERLS), National Animal Production and Research Institute (NAPRI) and Division of Agricultural Colleges (DAC) as part of Federal Government efforts to find lasting solution to the problem.

He added, “We are in Zaria as part of Federal Government’s efforts to find lasting solution to the herdsmen crisis. Research institutes have the capacity to help create ranches or colonies.”

He said state governments should take most of the blame on the current crisis, as, according to him, they failed to utilise the resources allocated to them to address the problem.

He said: “In 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan gave N100 billion to state governors to solve the farmers/herdsmen crisis once and for all. Though, I don’t have the details, it doesn’t appear if anything was done. If the money went to the states and they have done nothing, what do you expect?

“Let me ask, we have three tiers of government, why does everybody blame Buhari at the centre all the times, why don’t we ask our state governments questions? State governors are autonomous, they were voted in and they own the land. We don’t have any land; the Federal Government has only the Federal Capital Territory,” he said.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-addressing-herders-farmers-crisis-ogbeh-says.html

More than half of the N17.5 trillion total budgets of federal and state governments will be spent on salaries and overheads this year, according to Daily Trust investigations.

Analysis of the budgets revealed that of the N17.5 trillion, N9.35 trillion will go for recurrent expenses, leaving only N8.17trillion for power, roads, rail and other development projects.

This year’s figures are higher than last year’s with about N4 trillion. In 2017, states and federal budgets were N13.5 trillion, with N5.9 trillion (41 percent) voted for salaries and the remaining N7.6 trillion for development projects.

The two tiers voted N12.5 trillion in 2016 with N5.3 trillion going for salaries and overheads and N7.2 trillion for capital projects.

Breakdown of the 2018 estimates shows that the federal government is spending N8.61 trillion, with personnel salaries, overheads, statutory transfers and debt servicing guzzling N5.96 trillion, leaving N2.65 trillion for capital projects.

All the states, except Kebbi which has not yet presented its budget, have a total budget of N8.95 trillion. The sum of N5.52 trillion is for capital and the N3.39 trillion for recurrent.

The 19 northern states (minus Kebbi) have a combined estimate of N2.85 trillion; of which N1.18 trillion was for salaries and overheads and the N1.65 trillion for developmental projects.

In 2018, the 17 southern states have a cumulative budget of N6.12 trillion, voting N3.86 trillion for capital projects and the N2.21 trillion for recurrent.

In 2017, the northern states had a total budget of N2.38 trillion, witnessing a reduction of over N100 billion from 2016’s N2.5 trillion.

Last year, the total budget of the southern states was N3.83 trillion against previous year’s N3.5 trillion.

Of this, N2.15 trillion was capital and N1.67 trillion recurrent, against N1.9 trillion and N1.5 trillion in 2016.

Regional breakdown

The northwest total estimates in 2018 are N1.15 trillion, comprising N747 billion capital votes and N405 billion recurrent.

In 2017, the zone (minus Kebbi) had a total budget of N1.01 trillion slightly lower than 2016’s N1.12 trillion.

The budget had capital and recurrent components of N635.2 billion and N376.5 billion when compared to the previous year’s N698 billion and N479 billion irrespectively.

The northeast budgets for this year is N796 billion with N435.3 billion for capital projects, and the remaining N358.3 billion for recurrent expenses.

Last year’s total budget for the northeast zone was N593.1 billion, about N80 billion lower than 2016’s N676 billion, with capital expenditure consuming N298 billion against previous year’s N347 billion.

The six states of the north-central budgets are N904 billion for this year. Of this figure, N475.3 billion will be spent on capital projects, and N421.3 billion going for salaries and overheads.

In 2017, the north-central figures were N781.5 billion, a rise of about N100 billion from previous year’s N684 billion. N439 billion was for capital and N342.4 billion for recurrent spending, compared to N385 billion and N343 billion in 2016.

The 2018 combined estimates for the southwest is N2.1 trillion, comprising N1.2 trillion capital votes, and N819.9 billion for recurrent.

Last year, the southwest zone’s budget was N1.47 trillion, slightly higher than 2016’s N1.36 trillion, with capital spending consuming N805.7 billion, leaving N668 for the recurrent component. The zone had a recurrent vote of N695 billion and N671 billion capital in 2016.

The five states of the southeast budgeted N805 trillion this year. Capital votes will gulp N503.8 billion, and recurrent expenses N293.5 billion.

The southeast’s total budget last year was N581.2 billion, about N90 billion increase from the 2016’s N490 billion. It was made up of N324 billion capital and N257.3 billion recurrent votes; which was slightly higher than 2016’s N242 billion and N248 billion respectively.

The south south region has a total budget of N3.2 trillion, N2.1 trillion for capital and N1.1 trillion for recurrent in 2018.

In 2017, the oil-producing zone had a total budget of N1.77 trillion against N1.6 trillion of the previous year, comprising N1.03 trillion capital, and N750.6 billion recurrent expenditure. The oil-rich region spent N949 billion on capital projects and N579 billion on recurrent in 2016.

State with high recurrent votes

Of the 35 states that presented their budgets, only eight have swollen recurrent expenditure higher than their capital votes.

Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson budgeted N295.2 billion for the year. He is spending N148.3 billion on recurrent, leaving N146.9 billion as capital votes. In 2017, the governor budgeted N221 billion but spent N137 billion on salaries and overheads, and N84.3 billion on capital projects

In Yobe, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam budgeted N92 billion for the year, N44.6 billion for capital and N47.4 billion for recurrent. The state voted N69 billion for 2017 with N42 billion for recurrent spending and N27 billion for capital projects.

Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Ekiti State budgeted N98.6 billion for 2018. He is spending N66.4 billion recurrent, and N32.1 billion on capital. Last year, the state had a higher recurrent vote of N55.6 billion out of the N94 billion budget, leaving N38.4 billion for capital expenditure.

Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku budgeted N51.2 for recurrent and N45.5 billion for capital in 2018.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State budgeted N182 billion this year, and he’s spending N106.7 billion on salaries and overheads, leaving the remaining N75.2 billion for capital projects.

Another governor in this league is Plateau’s Samuel Lalong, who is spending N75.8 billion of the state’s N145.4 billion on recurrent expenses leaving N69.6 billion for developmental projects. Last year, Governor Lalong budgeted N68.5 billion for recurrent and N64.3 billion for capital.

Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwanyi budgeted N98.5 billion for the state in 2018. He is spending only N30.8 billion on capital projects, channelling the huge balance of N60.7 billion to salaries and overheads.

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo is also spending N81.5 billion of his 2018 annual budget of N171.2 billion on recurrent expenses. He has only N68 billion in capital spending.

States with small expenditure

Some of the states with small estimates this year include Yobe (N92 billion), whose budget rose from N69 billion in 2017. Others are Ekiti (N98.6) billion. The state budgeted N94 billion in 2017.

Niger’s proposed budget is N128 billion, about N20 billion higher than its 2017 budget of N108 billion. Nasarawa budgeted N122.8 billion for 2018, which is almost double the N67 billion, it spent in 2017.

Other states with relatively low annual expenditure are Taraba (N96.6 billion), Enugu (N98.5 billion), Gombe (N105 billion), Zamfara (N130.7 billion), Jigawa (N134.2 billion), Abia (N141 billion), Edo (N146.6 billion), Plateau (N145.4 billion), Kogi (N147.8 billion).

States with above N150 billion but less than N200 billion estimates are Adamawa (N162.7 billion), Anambra (N166.9 billion), Bauchi (N168 billion), Ondo (N171.2 billion), Borno (N172.2 billion), Osun (N173.9 billion), Benue (N178.4 billion), Kwara (N182 billion), and Imo (N190.9 billion).

States with big expenditure

For the first time, Cross River state is leading states with higher budgets this year, with a record budget of N1.3 trillion. Its budget skyrocketed from a modest N301 billion in 2017 and N305 billion in 2016, making it the first state to hit the 12-figure benchmark.

The business rich- Lagos spent N813 billion in 2017, and N662 billion in 2016, but now planning to spend N1.04 trillion next year, trailing the former oil-rich state of Cross River.

Other states with huge expenditure this year are Akwa Ibom, which budget rose from N424 billion in 2016 and N365 billion in 2017 to N651 billion in 2018. Delta state is planning to spend N298 billion this year, having spent N271 billion in 2017 and N268 billion in 2016.

Ogun spent N221 billion in 2017, and it is proposing to spend N345 billion in 2018. Kano is planning to spend N234 billion this year, having spent N210 billion in 2017 and N274 billion in 2016.

Kaduna’s 2018 approved budget is N216.5 billion this year. It spent N215 billion in 2017. Katsina state is proposing N211 billion in 2018.

Other states expenditures this year are Rivers (N510 billion), Bayelsa (N295.2 billion), Oyo (N267 billion), Ebonyi (N208 billion), and Sokoto (N220 billion).

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/fg-states-to-spend-53-of-n17-5tr-budgets-on-salaries.html

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, his health counterpart, Isaac Adewole, former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu and some members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday launched the South-West campaign office for President Muhammadu Buhari.

The campaign office is located at Mokola, Ibadan.

However, Governor Abiola Ajimobi, other South-West governors, the leadership of APC in the region and members of the executive council of the state were absent at the event.

The Minister of Communication noted that what Buhari has done in two and half years, the past administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not able to do it in 16 years, adding that Buhari has created jobs for over 200,000 people in Nigeria.

The Minister of Health emphasised unity and the need for eligible voters to ensure that they have their permanent voters’ cards.

Nnamani said the party needed to maintain internal decorum which is the only way to win the forthcoming general elections.

A former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, warned that the lingering rift between Oyo State governor and Minister of Communication may spell doom for the APC in the state during the 2019 general elections if the party’s national body fails to broker peace.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/2019-ministers-nnamani-kalu-launch-buhari-s-s-west-campaign-office.html

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for bagging a doctorate degree at the National Open University(NOUN).

Buhari, who was the visitor at 7th Convocation of NOUN on Saturday in Abuja, described Obasanjo as the “Father of Open and Distance Education in Nigeria.’’

Obasanjo who was among the 14, 769 graduands, was conferred with Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Theology, thereby making him the first PhD product of NOUN.

Out of the number, 41 bagged first class honours.

Represented by Prof. Abubakar Raheed, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Buhari said that it was Obasanjo’s belief in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) that made him enroll in NOUN.

“Obasanjo, because of his quest for quality education, could have opted to fulfill his desire for university education in Ivy League universities of the world and none of them could have denied him this opportunity.

“NOUN and indeed Nigerians, will continue to appreciate your belief, recognition of and support for ODL in Nigeria; we are proud of you,’’ he said.

Buhari said that his administration desired that Nigerian universities, irrespective of their mode of delivery, would deliver on national needs and aspiration as well as be strategically positioned to compete internationally.

The visitor said that as a result of the centrality of the curriculum in the delivery of quality university education, he had charged NUC to ensure periodic review of Nigerian university curriculum.

Earlier in his address, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor said 14, 769 students across all disciplines marked the largest number of students ever graduated in NOUN.

Adamu said that the greatest pride of the event was the graduation of Obasanjo as NOUN’s first PhD student.

“His successful completion of a rigorous course of study and going through the numerous examination processes leading to PhD in Christian Theology and its confirmation by the University Senate in January is his most powerful statement about lifelong education.

“His patience and perseverance in pursuing a doctorate degree programme at his age and status in life is a roadmap to all of us.

“It clearly communicates three credos: you are never too old to learn; you are never too powerful to learn and you are never too full of learning

“Obasanjo embodies all these and therefore becomes the poster boy of education renaissance. Nigeria congratulates the oldest PhD graduating student in its history,’’ he said.

On his part, NOUN’s Chancellor, Dr Lawrence Agubuzu, said that Obasanjo had made a giant stride.

The traditional ruler said that Obasanjo had proven to be an all-round model to every citizen of Nigeria.

“Whoever needs a lesson on lifelong learning should simply study the trajectory of Obasanjo’s education.

In his remark, Obasanjo expressed delight for being awarded doctorate degree by NOUN.

He described NOUN as one of the best institutions of learning in Africa.

The former president said that he had many honorary degrees but none was as fulfilling as bagging a doctorate degree from NOUN.

“I feel a different sense of joy today from when I receive honorary degrees; at last count, I have received about 20 honorary degrees from top grade universities all over the world.

“The earned doctorate degree I receive today comes with a different sense of fulfillment and accomplishment.

“My studentship of NOUN confirmed that via the ODL platform, there is no age limit, no status barrier, no social lineage.’’

He said that during his student’s days at NOUN, he requested that he should not be given any special privilege because he wanted to go through it as other students.

“I went through the rigours and discipline of post graduate studies like any other post graduate student.

“I thank my supervisors for giving me the opportunity of going through the grail and the crucible of research for my doctoral work.

“I could not have had better supervisors; they were firm, strict but meticulous and tortuous,’’ he said.

He thanked the staff and management of NOUN and congratulated fellow graduands.(NAN)

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non - but we are making progress small small!

Today, former Zimbabwean Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa would be crowned President as had always been planned by the regime. He is eminently qualified to takeover having served his boss Robert Mugabe faithfully over the years. He has already gone down in history as the brutal loyal servant who supervised the massacre of 20,000 people in Matabeleland for daring to oppose their regime. Today, he is being celebrated at home and abroad as the hero who saved the country by disrupting and ending the thirty-seven year rule of Mugabe. The joys of the Zimbabwean people on the transition is however very real and we should all pray that Mnangagwa is a changed man and would deliver the democracy he promised on his return to the country on Wednesday.

The real disruption of the Zimbabwe regime was done by the infamous Grace, First Lady to Mugabe who wanted to takeover a regime that belongs to old war veterans of the liberation struggle. She had used the “other room” to get her husband to disregard the regime pecking order and seek to install her as successor to her husband who was supposed to have been all powerful. We now know that he was not more powerful than the regime. The ZANU-PF regime has always been powerful and the real illustration of the power was when they lost the general election to the opposition MDC party and refused to handover power introducing the concept of a dual mandate in which the loser of the election remains the senior partner in a diarchy with the winner of the election as junior partner. The diarchy was a stepping-stone for returning the country to one party ZANU-PF rule after battering and humiliating the opposition leader.

The coup that ended the 37-year dictatorship of Robert Mugabe had to claim that it was not a coup. The reason was simple; it is very difficult to justify a coup in contemporary Africa for the simple reason that all our regional institutions and the international community have zero tolerance for coups. At the same time, Africa and the world knew that it has been impossible to remove Mugabe from power through elections and democratic means. He had become part of the group of dictators who are the villains of democracy and are determined to rule for the rest of their lives.

Fifty years ago, Professor Ali Mazrui published his famous essay on: “Monarchical Tendency in African Political Culture”. He was talking about the first republic governments in Africa, which were characterised by personal authority of emerging dictators that were sacralising, their authority. That was the process that led to political decay, economic regression and civil wars on the continent. The trend they set placed Africa at the bottom of all political, social and economic indices in the world.

I have just returned from a dialogue in Cotonou, Benin Republic on three decades of democratic transition in Africa organised by International IDEA and the African Union. The meeting was reviewing trends in Africa since the second transition flagged off by the National Conference in Benin in 1990. We identified a number of positive trends that followed the second transition. The first is the end of military rule and the great difficulty of organizing a coup on the continent today. The second is the spread of democratic culture with multiparty democracy, media pluralism and even alternation of power occuring in many African countries. Thirdly, mass protests and demonstrations have emerged as legitimate forms of political action in most countries.

These positive trends notwithstanding, there is a clear pattern of democratic regression especially in Central and East Africa. Mugabe was not alone as a despot determined to rule to the end of his life irrespective of the cost of his rule for the welfare of citizens. The 75-year old Obieng of Equatorial Guinea has been in power for 38 years and has concluded plans for his son to continue after his demise. The 84-year-old Paul Biya of Cameroon has been in power for 35 years and has no intention of ever stepping down as senility creeps into his rule. In Uganda, the former revolutionary, 73-year-old Museveni has been in power for 31 years. Idris Derby of Chad, El Bechir of Sudan, Sassou-Nguesso of the Congo, Kabila of the other Congo, Kagame of Rwanda and Nkurunziza of Burundi have all become despots determined to rule forever. In West Africa, Eyadema the father and his son have been in power for over fifty years. Yes Professor Mazrui, the monarchical tendency is fully back on our continent.

During the first Republic, African dictators were crude. They dismantled multiparty democracy and ruled through one-party regimes or military juntas. Now, they have become more wily. Except for the Eritrean dictatorship, all other despotic regimes in contemporary Africa today claim to run multiparty democracies with regular elections. They have mastered the game of playing democracy to defeat it. We have too many “democracies” that are not ruled by democrats.

There is however another tendency that is emerging within the continent that can checkmate the game of despots. African is breeding citizens who are increasingly able to confront their dictators and even remove them from power. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Senegal, Tunisia and Egypt, citizen action has led to the chasing out of despots. Sometimes, popular revolts fail to achieve their objectives after the first attempt but experience and skills are accumulating. The social media has also provided effective mobilization tools that are broadening possibilities of action. Yes, the despots are determined to cling to power but the good news is that the people too are learning what is means to be a citizen. People like Robert Mugabe who made the transition from nationalist hero to a rampaging despot are beginning to have citizens demanding for accountability.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/african-dictatorship-and-the-coup-that-claimed-it-wasn-t.html

Robbers everywhere...

Chief Orji Kalu has anything good to offer to this country? i do not think so!

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Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation has raised a total of N41m to assist Kano indigene medical students that are currently studying in Egypt and Sudan respectively.

The money was raised yesterday in Kano during a special fund raising organised by the Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation to assist the students.

Speaking at the event, the Director General, Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation, Alhaji Surajo Habibu Tsafe, said Senator Kwankwaso was moved by the condition of the students when he visited them in the two countries recently.

He said, “After he returned to Nigeria, the senator directed the foundation to organise this event in order to generate some funds and assist the students to enable them complete their studies.”

Tsafe said that senator Kwankwaso would soon free over 2,000 inmates across the southern states, saying the gesture was part efforts towards decongesting Nigerian prisons.

He recalled that the senator had last year freed over 2,000 inmates with minor fines across the 19 northern states.

He explained that Kwankwaso would also donate relief materials to victims of the recent Benue ethnic clash, saying he had offered assistance to victims of Ile-Ife ethnic crisis last year.

He said, “The Kwankwasiyya Grand Commander has donated relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and Taraba states.”

The director general added that other assistances rendered by the senator through the foundation include empowerment of over 5,000 Mai Shayi, 5,000 women and youths across 19 northern states and sponsorship to over 500 Kano indigene medical students, who studied abroad.

Also speaking at the occasion, a House of Representative member representing Kano Municipal constituency, Alhaji Abubakar Nuhu Danbburan, who reviewed Kwankwaso’s achievements between 2011 and 2015, said the former governor had recorded tremendous achievement in the education sub-sector when he was governor of Kano state.

He said, “Kwankwaso has built 786 Kwankwasiyya classrooms across the 44 local government areas of Kano state, four Nomadic schools, 874 adult education classrooms, 26 institutes in various fields and one technical school each in the 44 local government area of the state.”

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/kwankwasiyya-raises-n41m-for-kano-foreign-students.html

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I do not know who to vote come 2019.

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Up PDP!