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Ex-Kebbi gov, Dakingari, 267 others dump PDP for APC
•… as Bagudu budgets N151bn for 2018
By Kabir
Dankatsina
BIRNIN
KEBBI—
USMAN Dakingari,
the former governor of
Kebbi State on the platform
of Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, alongside 267
supporters, have defected
to the ruling All
Progressives Congress,
APC.
This is just as Governor
Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi
State presented a budget
proposal of N151 billion to
the state House of Assembly
for 2018.
FG
empowers
300 youths
in FCT
By Luminous
Jannamike
A BUJA—THE
F e d e r a l
Government has trained
300 youths in the Federal
Capital Territory, FCT, on
welding and fabrication,
fashion designing and
fabrics as well as
plumbing and piping
skills through the
National Industrial Skills
Development
Programme, NISDP.
The beneficiaries were
also given start-up packs
to commence business.
Speaking during the
trainees’ graduation in
Abuja yesterday, FCT
Minister, Mohammed
Bello, charged the
beneficiaries to make
good use of the start-up
packs to provide
livelihood for themselves
and contribute positively
to the economy.
While cautioning them
against selling the startup
packs, Bello said:
“They are of high
standard. Don’t
contemplate selling any
of the items in the park.
“Please go out and
prove to the world that the
time you spent on the
training is worth the
while. Your destiny is in
your own hands.”
Also speaking, the
Minister of State for
Industry, Trade and
Investment, Aisha
Abubakar, expressed
delight over the
programme, adding that
she hoped to see them
become employers of
labour.
Mrs Abubakar further
said that the Industrial
Training Fund, ITF,
would monitor the
graduands to ensure that
they stayed on track.
Speaking at a reception
organised for him and his
supporters in Birnin Kebbi
by the state government,
Usman Dakingari told the
gathering that they decided
to return to APC because of
the transformation of the
state by the present
government under
Governor Bagudu.
His words: “I saw
multiple projects executed
by this government,
including the ones that I
intended to do during my
tenure, but could not,”
calling on the APC
government to embrace the
new members with an open
heart.
While receiving the new
members, APC Chairman
in the state, Mr.
Mohammed Macido,
assured them that
everyone will be treated
equally and urged them to
be loyal as “I want you to
be in the vanguard of
making sure APC wins all
the elections both in Kebbi
and the country as whole
in 2019.”
On the budget, while
presenting the estimates
before the House,
Governor Bagudu noted
that it was N19 billion
higher than last year’s
estimates.
Responding, Speaker of
the Assembly, Abdulmumini
Kamba, assured of the
budget’s quick passage
and told the governor that
the House will soon embark
on oversight duties, with a
view to inspecting ongoing
projects awarded by the
government.
DONATION: From left— National President, Ansar-Ud-Deen Society
of Nigeria, Dr. Femi Okunnu (SAN); Chairman, Board of Trustees, Summit
University, Dr. Musliu Smith; Vice-Chancellor, Summit University, Professor
Hussein Oloyede; Alhaja Harifat Makanjuola; CEO, Caverton Helicopters,
Mr. Remi Makanjuola, and his wife, Yoyinsola, at the unveiling of late Alhaja
Idiat Abegbe Makanjuola Lecture Theatre donated by the Makanjuola family
to Summit University, Offa, Kwara State.
Tension in Taraba as
Chief of Staff resigns
By John Mkom
JALINGO—THERE is
tension in Taraba State
Government House as the
Chief of Staff to the
governor, Rebo Usman,
tendered his resignation
letter to Governor Darius
Ishaku yesterday.
A source told Vanguard
that Rebo Usman, in the
early hours of yesterday,
went to the office of the
governor to present the
letter.
According to the source,
“he came in without his
usual Police escort; he was
calm and steady. He went
in silently and came out
without discussing with
anybody.
“After a while, a private
vehicle came in and his
personal items were
removed and parked into
the vehicle, with which he
left.”
The source said there had
been a rift between the
former Chief of Staff and
the governor.
At a function at Jolly
Nyame Stadium in Jalingo,
Governor Ishaku had
lamented the fall in
internally-generated
revenue, IGR, from timber
sales.
The timber sector, the
highest revenue-earning
sector in the state, was
under the Ministry of
Environment before it was
moved to the office of the
Senior Special Adviser to
the Governor on Revenue
through the influence of the
Chief of Staff.
Other people at
Government House were of
the opinion that the
resignation was in
connection with the political
rift between the governor
By Peter Duru
M AKURDI—THE
President-General
of Mdzough U Tiv and
tribal leader of the Tivspeaking
people of Benue
State, Chief Edward Ujege,
has dismissed claims by
herdsmen that a Tiv militia
group, yesterday, attacked
and killed 73 of their cattle
in Kadarko, Nasarawa
and the senator
representing Taraba South,
Senator Emmanuel
Bwacha, who is the political
leader of Donga Local
Government Area, where
Rebo Usman also comes
from.
Contacted, Senior
Special Assistant to the
Governor on Media and
Publicity, Bala Danhabu,
said he was yet to be briefed
on the matter. He, however,
promised to get back to
Vanguard later.
Meanwhile, at press time,
Usman did not pick calls to
his phone and also did not
reply a text message.
State.
According to Chief Ujege,
the claim is baseless and
“no doubt a mockery of one
of the saddest periods in
the lives of the Tiv people,
Benue and, indeed, the
entire Nigeria when 73
people, including children,
pregnant women and old
men, murdered by
herdsmen on New Year’s
day, were given mass burial
KOK warns celebrity freaks
in Professor Johnbull
THE fresh episode of
the TV drama series,
Professor Johnbull,
sponsored by
telecommunications
company, Globacom, is
sending out warning to
people to beware of
fraudsters who
impersonate celebrities in
cyberspace.
The episode especially
highlights the activities of
fraudsters who take
advantage of the
anonymity of the internet
to scam unsuspecting
members of the society.
According to a
statement by Glo, the
episode is entitled Fake
Accounts. It dramatises
how scammers clone the
online accounts of known
celebrities and send
spurious requests and
chats to members of the
public, especially the
celebrity freaks, and con
By Suzan Edeh
BAUCHI
State
Agency for the
Control of HIV/AIDS,
Tuberculosis/Leprosy
and Malaria,
BACATMA, said,
yesterday, no fewer than
206 new cases of leprosy
were detected in Bauchi
State in 2017.
Executive Chairman of
the agency, Dr. Mansur
Mustapha Dada, who
stated this yesterday at a
briefing, as part of
activities marking the
commemoration of World
Leprosy Day, said the
2017 state statistics
showed that the number
of children among the
new cases was 32,
representing 15.5
percent.
He said leprosy was a
chronic disease caused
by a bacteria called
Mycobacterium Leprae
and was transmitted by
minute droplets through
the upper respiratory
tract, adding that the
bacteria was very slow,
growing with generation
in Makurdi, the Benue
State capital.
“The Mdzough U Tiv
wishes to describe reports
of the alleged Nasarawa
attacks and display of
cattle in the palace of an
emir as reprehensible,
condemnable and
unacceptable to all rightthinking
members of the
human race.
“This poor parody, which
them out of their hardearned
money.
The episode features
Mavin Records star,
Korede Bello, who is
cloned by a scammer. The
scammer equally dupes
Mai Doya (Funky Mallam)
to the tune of N100,000.
Jumoke (Bidemi Kosoko)
also has an encounter with
a fake Olamide, while
Flash (Stephen Odimgbe)
squares up with a fake
Personal Assistant to
actress, Nadia Buhari.
A new love interest also
springs up for the
restaurateur, Olaniyi (Yomi
Fash-Lanso), in the new
episode.
Fake Accounts airs on
Tuesday at 8.30p.m. on
NTA Network, NTA
International on DSTV
Channel 251 and NTA on
StarTimes, with repeat
broadcast same time on
Friday on same channels.
Bauchi records 206
new cases of leprosy
time of 12 to 13 days and
an incubation period of two
to five years.
Dada said from 2015 to
2017, the agency
renovated the Leprosy unit
at Bayara Hospital in the
state, provided drugs/
commodities and
conducted Leprosy
campaign at Kuturun Kuka
Maimadi Ward of Alkaleri
Local Government, where
the case detection rate was
high.
His words: “The disease
develops slowly from six
months to 40 years,
affecting the skin, mucous
membrane of the upper
respiratory tract and the
peripheral nervous system,
resulting in skin lesions
and deformities such as
eyes, nose, feet, hands and
testicles.
“It tends to occur within
families, which has led
many to think leprosy is
hereditary.
“However, scientists
have proved that the
disease is due to overcrowding,
concentrations
and intimacy with family
members.”
‘Claim of Tiv militia killing 73 cattle mocks New Year day massacre’
is part of a larger conspiracy
script to downplay the
heinous crime committed
against Benue State by the
herdsmen and their sponsors
must be rejected by all.
“We consider it the height
of insensitivity, brutality and
impunity that a group of
people will reduce the
precious lives of human
beings to the same level and
status with cattle.”
C
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