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The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kebbi State has commenced  training of 50 unemployed school leavers on “Quick fix demand driven” and techno cultural craft skills. Speaking while declaring the training open yesterday in Birnin Kebbi, the director general of NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said the combined trainings, quick fix and techno cultural craft were introduced by the directorate to assist youths to acquire marketable skills within a short period. Fikpo, who was represented by the state coordinator of NDE, Mr. Francis Amos Ambionto, said the 50 trainees would be engaged in quick fix demand driven skills of make-up, bead making and saloon and  another sets as well as techno cultural skills on mats, bed and hart making. Ambionto commended the director general for initiating such programs which according to him would reduce the current mass unemployment, poverty and create wealth through self-employment. He noted that all the trainees and trainers would ...

The lawmaker representing the people of Okene/Ogori-Magongo federal constituency of Kogi State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Yusuf Ahmed Tijjani Damisa, has trained 100 youths and women of his constituency in Poultry Production Value Chain. The lawmaker has always been training youths and women in rice, snail, poultry, fishery, soya beans, benny seed farming as part of his constituency project to create jobs and improve the livelihood of the electorate that gave him the mandate to represent them three consecutive times. One of such empowerment was a two-day training organised for 30 youth and women in poultry value chain to stimulate development of poultry production in Kogi Central senatorial district. The participants were equipped on modern techniques in poultry farming. At the training held at Afim Hotel in Okene, the headquarters of Okene local government area of Kogi State recently, facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in conju...

The Tinubu For President Action Group (T4PAG) has continued in its quest to drum support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and his running mate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim  Shettima respectively for the 2023 presidential election. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja at a rally and the official inauguration of its Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, chairman of the group, Prince Eyitayo ‘Lanre Adegun, said the Tinubu/Shettima combination is the only hope of Nigeria and Nigerians, and promised that the group would mobilise support for this achievement. Prince Adegun urged all well-meaning Nigerians to join them and work for the victory of Tinubu and Shettima. The director, planning and strategy, Omooba Tokunbo Adegun, added that T4PAG is the only support group that currently has a unit which emphasises on and caters for the inclusion of the disabled in Nigeria’s current political clime. In his response after being officially recognised...

A support group of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu-Shetima Ambassadors (TSA) yesterday inaugurated its state/zonal coordinators, with a pledge to rally support for the party and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. TSA said Tinubu-Shetima’s outstanding leadership qualities, personal attributes and antecedents had proven that Nigerians would be safe under their watch. Speaking during the official inauguration  and distribution of campaign materials  in Abuja, the director general of the group, Prince Oyelude Oladele, said the TSA is grassroots mobilisation campaign for Tinubu-Shetima ahead of 2023 general election. He described Tinubu as a merchant of hope and his running mate, Kashim Shetima, as a merchant’s dream capable of redefining the meaning and concept of modern leadership in Nigeria, adding that they will project their joint ticket as a transformation agenda. “We have identified Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Sen Shetima, as j...

The federal government has said an agreement has been reached between the Kogi State government and Dangote Group to reopen the Obajana Cement Plant. Minister of police affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the National Security Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday. According to him, an agreement has been reached to ensure the re-opening of the plant to give room for peace in the state. “Government is committed to the provision of employment to its citizens rather than closing factories that will make people unemployed and we do hope that the parties involved will respect this agreement and come to terms with the memorandum of understanding signed by the parties involved,” he said. The minister said the agreement was reached under the supervision of  the chief of staff to the president, Pro. Ibrahim Gambari. On his part, minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said counc...

Following incessant cases of kidnapping, residents of three communities in Alagbado area of Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, have fled their homes. The communities which have been under intense attacks by kidnappers in recent times are Aseyori, Alubarika and Aleniboro phase II and phase III; all situated behind the popular Sobi Specialist Hospital, Alagbado, Okelele, Ilorin. LEADERSHIP Weekend recalls that within one week two residents of the areas; one Alfa Aribidesi and a woman (both traders) were traced to their houses and killed by suspected kidnappers during struggles to  abduct their children. The kidnappers succeeded in kidnapping two daughters of Aribidesi and later demanded N10m as ransom. The victims, it was gathered later escaped from the bush when their captors slept off. And just this Wednesday, the kidnappers struck again and abducted three children in the area. LEADERSHIP gathered that pockets of kidnapping cases had occurred in the area, but the relations o...

The village head of Zungeru, Alhaji Tanko Madaki, has called for the reconstruction of the Zungeru -Wushishi road. He said in an interview that the road serves as an alternative from the South West through Niger South,  but considering the deplorable state it could become a death trap for travelers. He noted that Zungeru -Wushishi and the bridges along the road were constructed during the colonial era and now require the attention of government considering its importance as an alternative route. The village head also stressed the need for the state government to rehabilitate the Zungeru-Minna road to ease the transportation of goods and services between Minna and Zungeru. The Bida-Wushishi-Zungeru – Minna road became an alternative for travelers from Bida to Minna last week when the bridge at Sabon-Daga linking the two cities collapsed. Meanwhile, Alhaji Tanko Madaki has enjoined the people of the area to always live in peace and harmony with one another irrespective of tribal...