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130 persons registered for mass wedding in Jigawa State.

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No fewer than 130 suitors have registered in Gwaram Local Government Area to participate in a mass wedding, sponsored by the Jigawa State Government.

The Local Government’s Information Officer, Malam Nasiru Yusif, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Friday that the new suitors comprised of 80 men and 50 women.

 

Yusif said the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the wedding in the area, Malam Abdullahi Basirka, announced the figure at a stakeholder meeting held in Gwaram on Thursday.

 

He said the committee would visit the District Head of the area to solicit his support in educating people on the importance of the programme.

 

According to him, the Council Chairman, Alhaji Ilu Shuwarin, has pledged the council’s support towards successful hosting of the mass wedding.

 

On July 16, the Jigawa Government set up a 19-member committee to organise mass weddings for widows and divorcees in the state.

 

The committee is headed by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Abdulkadir Fanini.

Jigawa Governor Offers Scholarship To 60 Students To Study Medicine In China

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The 2nd Batch of the 60 Students sponsored by the Jigawa State Government to study Medicine in in Shenyang Medical College, China arrived Beijing yesterday.

Shenyang Medical College is one of the best medical institutions in China that offers degree in Medicine.

Already 10 of the students had arrived China while the remaining 50 students are expected to commence their studies next week.

The sponsorship of the students was in line with the present administration’s determination to ensure that all heath facilities have qualified Manpower.

The State’s Commissioner for Health Dr Abba Zakar Umar who conveyed the students to China said the decision to sponsor the students was borne out of the state government’s commitment to ensure adequate provision of medical doctors to its heath facilities.

He assured that the state government would ensure prompt payment of their scholarship allowance to enable them complete their studies successfully.

He said the state government would pay 5, 800 dollars per annum for each of the students in the University and “adequate arrangements have been made to ensure prompt settlement of all their fees to enable them concentrate fully on their studies”, the commissioners said.

Auwal D. Sankara (Fica),
Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Jigawa State On New Media

Jigawa Govt. To Train 150 Nurses Overseas, Employ 60 Doctors From Abroad – Gov. Abubakar

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The Jigawa Government says it will train 150 nurses and employ 60 medical doctors in 2016 to address the shortage of medical personnel in the hospitals in the state.

 

 

Gov. Badaru Abubakar, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Dutse, said that the government would establish another school of nursing in Hadejia.

 

Abubakar said that the government decided to take those steps in order to enhance the quality of healthcare in the state.

 

 

“What we have discovered in the health sector is an acute shortage of medical personnel – nurses, midwives and doctors.

 

 

“So we plan to train 150 nurses and 60 doctors abroad next year; also, we plan to have another school of nursing in Hadejia.

 

So that in a short period of time, we can have between 400 and 500 nurses churned out from different schools here and the ones that we will train abroad to take care of the acute shortage of health personnel.’’

 

 

Abubakar said it was in order to address those challenges that the state government allocated N20 billion to the health sector in the 2016 budget.

 

He said that part of the allocation would be used to provide pieces of equipment and infrastructure at the hospitals in the state.

 

According to him, the government has taken huge steps to improve the standard and operations of the existing School of Nursing in Birnin Kudu and the College of Health Technology in Jahun.

 

The governor said that his administration was working closely with the medical and dental council to recruit additional doctors from abroad to increase the number of doctors at the hospitals.

 

 

“We are working with the medical and dental council to help us source quality doctors from abroad and that is the major investment we want to do in the health sector because it is the major challenge.

 

 

“If you provide medicine, infrastructure, and equipment and there is no doctor it is useless; it is not going to work.

 

 

“So the major focus this year is getting the right personnel, while we work hand-in-hand to improve the infrastructure and the equipment of the hospitals.”

 

 

According to him, the state government has worked out modalities to provide the hospitals with modern equipment and infrastructure.

 

He added that new clinics would also be established in communities and furnished with modern equipment “to enhance the quality of healthcare to the people’’.

 

 

“You need to have healthy people to transform agriculture and diversify the economy,” he said.

 

 

(NAN)

Jigawa LG Sets Up Ad Hoc Committee On Revenue

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The Kafin-Hausa Local Government in Jigawa on Monday set up ad hoc committee to boost its revenue generation.

 

The council’s Chairman, Alhaji Bako Tamballe, said at the inauguration of the committee that the task force earlier set up had been dissolved.

 

He said that the new committee was mandated to explore ways to expand sources of revenues in line with the state government’s newly introduced revenue generation formula.

 

The chairman said the local government could not meet its financial obligations due to decimal revenues.

 

“The revenue portfolio is very low despite the high number of markets in the area. We have also provided jackets to revenue collectors to check impersonation,” he said.

 

Tamballe tasked the committee to be diligent in the discharge of its duties and called on the market managers to cooperate with the committee, to enable it to discharge its responsibilities.

 

He said that the committee would be headed by the council’s treasurer, Alhaji Bashir Ringim.

 

Ringim pledged to be fair and dedicated in the discharge of his duties, stressing that the committee would work to improve revenue generation in the area.

 

(NAN)

EFCC re-arraigns ex-gov Lamido, sons, firms for fraud

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A former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido and his two sons – Aminu and Mustapha – were on Tuesday arraigned before Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High Court in Abuja on a 27 counts, bordering on corruption and money laundering.

Also arraigned with them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission were Aminu Abubakar, Batholomew Agoha and companies through which they perpetrated the alleged fraud.

The companies are Bamaina Holdings Limited, Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Bamaina Aluminium Limited and Speeds International Limited.

Lamido and other accused had on July 9, 2015, been arraigned before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of a Federal High Court in Kano, over misappropriation of funds belonging to Jigawa State.

Their case was later transferred to the FHC, Abuja, where a vacation judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, granted them bail and adjourned the matter till September 22, 2015.

At the resumed hearing on Tuesday at the Abuja FHC, counsel for the EFCC, Chile Okoroma, presented the court with the amended charge, dated September 15, 2015, which added Agoha, manager of Speeds International Limited, as one of the accused persons.

The case was however, adjourned briefly to allow the registry to assign a new charge number to the amended charge sheet, since the case was originally heard in Kano.

But when the charges were read to them, all the accused pleaded not guilty and the case was thereafter, adjourned till October 21 and 22 for trial.

 

–Punch

Elected PDP LG Chairmen, Councilors Defect To APC In Jigawa

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All the elected local government Chairmen and Councilors of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) in Jigawa State have resolved to dump the party for the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Investigations show that the move was not unconnected with their earlier decision to embrace the ruling party, based on its ideology of principle of justice and good governance.

The Jigawa State Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Alh. Khalid S. Ibrahim, confirmed the development, adding that “our reasons are clear and straight forward; that we have agreed, in principle, to embrace the APC based on its policies of cardinal principle of social justice and good governance.

Khalid, who is also the Chairman of Birnin-Kudu Council, further stated that the idea was conceived shortly after their maiden courtesy on Governor Badaru Abubakar, where they extolled his good virtue of leadership, describing him as a people-oriented governor.

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