This was contained in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
Shehu said during the visit, the President commissioned the Zobe Regional Water project, which would provide 50 million litres of water to the state, and the first NALDA Integrated Farm Estate that would create job opportunities for families, and equip many with modern farming techniques for crops and livestock.
The statement said the President also commissioned a 50km Dutsin-ma-Tsaskiya Road in Dutsin-ma Council.
“On Sallah day, the President met with NYSC members serving in Daura and gave them two cows, one million naira and 20 bags of rice.
Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday concluded an eight-day working visit to his home state, Katsina, with the donation of 22 cows to serving military personnel in the state before returning to Abuja.
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a release, disclosed that the President before departing Katsina Friday donated 22 cows to military officers serving in Katsina and Daura areas of Katsina State.
He gave a breakdown of the beneficiaries of the cows to include five cows each to the Brigade and Air Force bases in Katsina, the state capital and five each to the Battalion and the Air Force base in Daura while the soldiers on guard duty at the President’s residence in Daura were given two cows.
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Buhari returns to Abuja after 8-day working visit to Kano, Katsina
The president performed the ground breaking ceremony of the Kano-Kaduna segment of the Kano-Lagos railway modernisation project on July 15.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after eight days working visit to Kano and Katsina States, and spending the Eid-el-Kabir celebration in his country home in Daura.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that during the visit, the president performed the ground breaking ceremony of the Kano-Kaduna segment of the Kano-Lagos railway modernisation project on July 15.
At the event, Mr Buhari reiterated his administration’s commitment to continue to accord railway infrastructure development the greatest priority, describing rail transportation as a potent economic driver.
Beyond the ban placed on open grazing of cattle by many states of the federation to curb incessant violent conflict between herders and farmers, some of the state governments have also come up with novel initiatives to forestall the menace in their domains.
The action of the states is guided by the realisation that the establishment of ranches, which both northern and southern governors point to as the way forward, would not come quickly and cheaply and herders must continue with their business pending when ranches are built.
The journey for the replacement of open grazing with ranching in the country actually began in 2018, when the Federal Government launched a 10-year National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) amid constant clashes between herders and farmers that have cost the country thousands of lives and property worth billions of naira.