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To Ensure Social Protection, AHIP Trains Eight Thousand Women

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To ensure social protection the Adolescent Health Information Project (AHIP) has trained more than eight thousand women on various skills across Northern Nigeria in the past 10 years.

The Senior Programmes Officer of the agency Malam Abba Bello Ahmad stated this during an exclusive interview with the Nigerian Tracker.

 

Malam Abba Bello said social protection is a concept that aims at reducing poverty and vulnerability of citizenry and in our own context it includes women and children and people with disabilities, so any programme or intervention for curbing their vulnerability simply means social protection.

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According to him giving them skills education and if the government in its own volition decided to provide programmes and what will enhance general public life which includes income generation and livelihood, this kind of policies and programme provide social protection and social security to the general public.

Malam Abba added that AHIP as an organization usually trains the vulnerable especially women.

‘ ‘What we usually do is that we have a centre called human development centre along Maiduguri Road where we provide women skills on vocational training where most of them acquire skills like knitting Tailoring and so on and so forth, about ten years from now, the number of women trained by the centre is 8 thousand.

 

Recent findings have shown that women constitute a large chunk of people ridden by poverty in the Northwestern part of the country, and if skills and programmes are formulated that will address the need of the people and the level of poverty will be drastically reduced, Said Malam Abba

 

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Breaking: Court Drops Charges Against Minors

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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday struck out the charges brought against a total of 119 #EndBadGovernance protesters.

All 119 protesters were arraigned on Friday, November 1 on charges bordering on Treason felony, inciting to mutiny, among others.

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The defendants were arraigned in two batches at the previous proceeding.

The first batch comprised a total of 76 protesters which included 32 minors and the second batch a total of 43 protesters.

The trial judge, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, struck out the suit following an application by the counsel to the Attorney General of the Federation, M. D Abubakar, to take over and discontinue the matter.

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NNPP Crisis: Assembly Members Deny Factional Differences

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By Salisu Baso

As the crisis erupted within Kano’s ruling party NNPP, with some members calling for the governor to stand independently, the Kano State House of Assembly has denied knowledge of any of its members being involved in the rifts.

The Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Lawan Hussain, representing Dala Constituency, revealed this to newsmen in an interview with journalists over the publication of an online newspaper, Daily Nigeria, stating that some members of the NNPP in the House have joined the factional crisis.

He described the news as a fabricated and mischievous story from unpatriotic elements planning to destroy the peace reigning within the party. He said that as far as the members of the House are concerned, there are no conflicts between the governor and the leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Senator Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

The Majority Leader therefore assured the party parliament members of their solid support for the leader of the Kwankwasiyya and state governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, adding that the governor considers Senator Kwankwaso his mentor.

On the issue of some party members calling for the governor to be independent (Tsaya da Kafar Ka), Hon. Dala said the governor is operating independently without interference from any person. He therefore accused some opposition politicians from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, of sponsoring unpatriotic people to ignite a crisis in the state with a view to disrupting the government’s development initiatives.

 

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Breaking: Tinubu Orders Release of Minors Arrested Over Endbadgovernance Protest

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President Bola Ahmad Tinubu

President Tinubu Orders release of all minors who participated in the Endbadgovernance protest .

 

The minister of information and national orientation Muhammad Idris stated this to state House correspondents.

Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents, on Monday.

The Minister was flanked by the Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy; Sunday Dare, Special Adviser on Public Communications and orientation.

Idris stated that the President has instructed the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, to begin the process of securing the minors’ release without delay.

“The President has directed that all minors be released on the and also reunited with their families anywhere they are in the country. A committee has been set up to look at the issues surrounding their arrest, detention and release. All the law enforcement agents related to the case will be investigated and anyone found wanting will be brought to book,” he said.

 

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