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Elders from two North Eastern states currently witnessing security challenges -Yobe and Borno, on Tuesday met with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The two state governors, Babagana Zulum (Borno) and Mai-Mala Buni (Yobe), led the delegation to the meeting held behind closed doors.
At the end of the meeting, Zulum told State House correspondents that the elders seized the opportunity of the meeting to seek increased military presence in the two states from Buhari.
He said they also called Buhari’s attention to infrastructural deficit in the two states and the entire North.
By Doris Esa
Abuja,Feb.9, 2021 The Federal Government has distributed free Agricultural inputs to smallholder farmers in Maiduguri, Borno, to boost Agricultural production in the state and Nigeria in general.
The Chief Information Officer, Mr Ezeaja Ikemefuna, in the ministry, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja.
Ikemefuna said Minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Shehuri, disclosed this at the roll out ceremony of the distribution of free agricultural inputs to farmers in Maiduguri.
He quoted the minister as saying that the smallholder farmers operate on little but very significant plots of land for which they toiled all year round producing basic food and cash crops and contribute over 80 per cent to the national food supply.
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Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, has said the state boasts of the largest grazing reserve in Africa.
Yahaya stated this on Friday, while playing host to the Minister of Sate for Agriculture, Mustapha Shehuri, who was in the state to inaugurate agricultural input to smallholder farmers of 14 crops to reduce the effects of COVID-19.
He said, “We are blessed with the Dadinkowa dam, blessed with the Balanga dam, and the Cham dam and the other water body coast of River Gongola, makes the state a very viable one for agricultural purposes.
“On top of that, we have the largest grazing reserve in the whole of Africa, the Wawa Zange grazing reserve which is 144,000 hectares.”
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The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Shehuri, has said that 27,000 unemployed Youths and women will benefit from the Extended Special Public Works Programme (ESPWs).
Chief Information Officer of the ministry, Mr Ezeaja Ikemefuna, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
Shehuri said the ESPWs is of the National Directorate of Employment across the 27 Local Government Areas( LGA) of Borno.
He said the initiative is aimed at cushioning the economic effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic, creating jobs and promoting the maintenance of critical infrastructure at the community levels in all the 774 LGAs across the country.