The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Hadejia has appealed to the Federal Government to provide markets that will accelerate sale of wheat at a profit in Jigawa. The Chairman of Hadejia Chapter, Alhaji Usman Mohammed, who made the…
Month: August 2018
NPA Donates 40 Beds, Mattresses, Others to Jigawa Psychiatric Hospital
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has donated 40 sets of beds, mattresses, blankets, bed sheets and pillows to Jigawa State Psychiatric Hospital, Kazaure. The Officer in charge of the facility, Dr Abdulkadir Yakubu, who disclosed this, added that the gesture…
Government to Employ 1,736 Teachers
The Executive chairman of State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) in Jigawa, Alhaji Salisu Zakar, has that the state government is to employ 1,736 teachers, to address the shortage of teachers in its primary and junior secondary schools in the state.…
State Exco approves N2.9 Billion for new Health, Education projects
The state executive council recently approved the release of over N2.9 billion for the execution of various projects in the state health and education sector. According to the state Commissioner for Information, Hon Bala Ibrahim, while briefing newsmen shortly after…
25 Years Anniversary of Jigawa State Radio Corporation (JRC)
Jigawa state Government has expressed satisfaction with the programmes being run by Radio Jigawa in the past twenty years of its existence. Governor Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar made the assertion today in a message to the silver jubilee celebration of Jigawa…
MOWA receive cases of kidnap and rape
The state Ministry of women Affairs and Social Development recently received two reports from the state Ministry of justice and the State Hisba Command In relation to Kidnapping and Rape. According to the Commissioner of the Ministry Hajiya Ladi Ibrahim…
Proposed Sugar Company
The state Ministry of Lands, Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning has solicited the continued support and cooperation of Gumel Emirate Council towards the successful establishment of the proposed Sugar company by Lee Group of Companies in Gagarawa local Government…
NYSC Swearing in
Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has enjoined the 2018 Batch ‘B’ Stream one Corps Members deployed to Jigawa State to pick interest in the in-camp acquisition and entrepreneurship development training. Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘B; Stream…
Government appreciates Women for Health programme
The State Government has promised all possible support and cooperation to sustain the Women for Health (W4H) projects in the State. Receiving the State Team leaders of the project, the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Adamu Abdulkadir Fanini commended…
Despite FAAC delay, Jigawa paid N724m to pensioners for July
Despite the delay witnessed in the release of funds from the Federation Accounts and Allocation Committee, the State and Local Government Contributory Pension scheme paid over Seven Hundred and Twenty Four Million Naira N724,917,981 to 429 beneficiaries across the state.…