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NACA empowers 150 indigent and vulnerable people in Kano

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By Muhammad Annur

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has empowered 150 indigent and vulnerable people who are at risk of having HIV in Kano.

 

The Director General (DG) of the agency, Dr Aliyu Gambo, stated this while presenting certificates to the beneficiaries in Kano on Friday.

 

 

Gambo said that the benefiaries were on trained on three income-generating trades in order to make them self reliant and contribute their quota to the economic productivity of Kano.

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He said that the five-day training initiative taught the HIV vulnerable persons skills which included hairdressing, makeup, confectionery among others.

 

 

 

Represented by a staff of the agency, Hafsat Abdullahi Gumel, said the beneficiaries which consists of 75 men and 75 women were drawn from the 44 local government areas of the state,.

 

 

 

The Director-General explained that the gesture was to enable them become self-reliant and employers of labour.

 

 

 

The NACA boss revealed that each of the participants was given N75,000 as economic empowerment package.

 

 

She then restated the Director-Generals commitment in engaging women and adolescents in NACA activities, especially the Prevention Protection and Empowerment (PPE) programme.

 

Earlier, one of the partners of the empowerment programme, Malam Faharadeen Razi, urged the participants to make good use of the money and share the knowledge with others.

 

 

Razi then called for greater commitment on the part of communities toward eliminating HIV.

 

 

 

Amina Isa, who spoke on behalf of the participants, also thanked NACA and its partners for the gesture.

 

 

Isa then urged NACA to expand the programme to accommodate more people in their communities.

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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.

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 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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