By Afusat Agunbiade-Oladipo
Ilorin, Jan. 13, 2020 Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has flagged off the construction of $60 million Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Projects (RAAMP) intervention road projects in the state.
AbdulRazaq, who was represented on Wednesday at the flag off by his deputy, Kayode Alabi, said that the government paid the N400m million counterpart fund to attract the intervention of RAAMP in the state.
According to him, the government cannot lay claim to promote food security or seek investment into the state when the roads were in bad shape, hence his commitment of huge resources into partnership with international agencies.
#KankaraBoys: APC charges security agencies to dig deeper, do better
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By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja
The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has asked security agencies in the country to dig deeper into last Friday’s abduction of hundreds of school boys at the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State.
Governor of Yobe state and Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Gov. Mai Mala Buni gave the charge in a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja.
According to Buni, this is a particularly sad and difficult moment not just for the families of the victims and the government and people of Katsina State but for the entire country.
By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has again chided the All Progressives Congress, APC, for what it called the ruling party’s insensitivity to the plight of parents of the about 600 students taken away from Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina state on Friday.
This is even as the PDP slammed the ruling party for allegedly encouraging President Muhammadu Buhari to visit his cattle ranch instead of Kankara, where the tragedy struck.
In a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said “by not impressing it on President Buhari to cut short his unnecessary holiday and make efforts to rescue the abducted students, the APC has again shown that it is a party of ‘political bandits’, which has no iota of concern for the wellbeing of Nigerians.”
…There’s understanding now, party chieftain claims
By Demola Akinyemi
The recent dissolution of party executives at all levels by the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) had signified a death knell to one of the two warring factions in Kwara state until the announcement came shortly after that the executives should act as Caretaker Committee.
It was therefore the peace of the graveyard in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state of harmony.
Saturday Vanguard reliably gathered that the seemingly irreconcilable political differences that pitched the two warring factions of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed against each other happened during the political horse trading before the primaries where Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq emerged as the party’s gubernatorial flag bearer.
44th National Council on Agric on Dec 16 wrongly timed
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By Arc Kabir Ibrahim
The annual National Council on Agriculture is normally convened in the first quarter or at the most in April when the farmers are preparing to embark on working the land but certainly not in December when they are harvesting and marketing their produce.
The first quarter timing of the National event is designed to really impact the budget and policy implementation of the following year and therefore attracts all stakeholders.
The 36 states and FCT are all represented so that the Agricultural policy implementation is uniform all over the nation especially noting that Agricultural Production essentially takes place in the states.