Gunmen kill Village Head in Kano

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

The Governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Gen Ibrahim Sani rtd, has promised to establish police at the local government level to enhance security of lives and property.

“We will support local government police when elected, in order to support policing and protection of lives and property at the grassroots.

“We will also support and empower community policing where the public will be enlightened on how to report issues around breaking of law and order” he said.

Sani stated this Sunday in Kano at a special gathering with newsmen to announce his plans when elected as Kano governor in the coming gurbernatorial candidate.

Sani also stated that he joined the APM because it is a clean party that has people with clean records with no form of indictments.

He announced plans to rid Kano of various social problems that include drug misuse, corruption, indiscipline and youths exhoberance.

Speaking on how to control the persistent Almajiri problem in the state, he said that it is not completely bad, adding that it only needs to be regulated.

“This can be done through the introduction of conventional education in the sysytem as well as entrepreneurship in order to make the Almajiris productive through capacity building.

“It is only people’s oriented programs that will be introduced to solve social problems in Kano” he added.

The General also promised to implement ranching as a solution to the problem of farmers and herders. “This can be done through the introduction of conventional education in the sysytem as well as entrepreneurship in order to make the Almajiris productive through capacity building.

“It is only people’s oriented programs that will be introduced to solve social problems in Kano” he added.

The General also promised to implement ranching as a solution to the problem of farmers and herders.

Unidentified gunmen have killed the Village Head of Rimingado Local Government area, Alhaji Dahiru Abbas on Sunday.

Late Abbas is the father of Barrister Munir Dahiru, serving Chairman of

Rimingado Local Government are in the state.

A nephew to the deceased, Alhaji Sanusi Abbas, told Justice Watch newspaper in Kano that the yet-tobe identified gunmen stormed the residence of the deceased in Maigari village in the wee hours of Sunday.

Abbas, who is a newly-appointed Permanent Secretary, revealed that when the gunmen came, they inflicted various injuries on the deceased’s body before one of them shot him to death.

He informed that the funeral service would take place at 10am on

Sunday at the deceased’s residence in Maigari village.

When contacted, the mobile phone of the spokesman of the Police Command in the state, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, was switched off and no reply to the text message sent to him as at the time of filing this report.

Stakeholders validate Kaduna State gender policy in Agriculture

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

Stakeholders working in the agricultural sector on Thursday validated the Kaduna State Gender Policy in Agriculture to ensure the adoption of a gender sensitive and responsive approach to the agricultural sector. The draft policy was developed by Legal Awareness for Nigeria Women (LANW) with support from AGRA, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, German Cooperation, KFW, The Rockefeller Foundation, UKAid and USAID.

Mrs Rebecca Sako-John, Member of the Board of Trustees, LANW, said at the opening of the validation meeting in Kaduna, that the domestication of the National Gender in Agriculture Policy will strengthen the State agricultural enabling policy environment.

She added that it would also support local governance and institutions to implement gender-sensitive policies and programming that would be responsive to the rights and needs of poor women farmers which was key to women empowerment.

“This is part of LANW effort in the past 20 years to promote social justice for marginalised and vulnerable groups through legal awareness, protection of fundamental rights and facilitation of participatory development.”