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  • Buhari approves two new universities of technology for Jigawa, Akwa Ibom

    Buhari approves two new universities of technology for Jigawa, Akwa Ibom

    The Buhari Government has announced the establishment of two universities of technology in Jigawa and Akwa Ibom, while also upgrading and equipping four others.

    The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Sonny Echono disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

    Adamu said that a National Institute of Technology (NIT) would be established in Abuja to serve essentially as a postgraduate centre devoted to research and innovation.

    According to him, this will draw the best graduates from the six universities of technology as well as other exceptional graduates from reputable universities within and outside Nigeria.

    “Recall that at the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, he promised to establish an apex National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Abuja with six Satellite Universities of Technology, one in each geo-political zone of the country.

    “This was captured in the 2015 APC Manifesto and also stressed in the Education for Change: Ministerial Strategic Plan 2018 – 2022 of the Ministry. The objective is to stimulate rapid technological transformation of the country.

    “After a comprehensive review of the policy by key stakeholders in the education sector, it was resolved that the four existing Universities of Technology located in Yola (North East), Akure (South West), Owerri (South East) and Minna (North Central) be upgraded and equipped.

    “While two additional Universities of Technology to be located in Jigawa and Akwa Ibom States, would be established for the purpose.

    “Similarly, a National Institute of Technology (NIT) shall be established in Abuja. The institute shall be patterned after similar institutions in Singapore and Malaysia.

    “This is to serve essentially as a postgraduate centre devoted to research and innovation, drawing the best graduates from the six Universities of Technology as well as other exceptional graduates from reputable universities within and outside Nigeria,” he said.

    Adamu said that the president had also approved the phased development programme, compelled by the country’s lean resources.

    He said that the two new Universities of Technology would be established in 2021, while the upgrade of the existing four Universities of Technology and the National Institute of Technology would come up in 2022.

    Adamu said the president had also observed from the report of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, the weak institutional capacity for disease control and surveillance in the country, particularly with respect to medical facilities, trained personnel and supporting infrastructure.

    “With the recent establishment of the only Federal Government-owned University of Health Sciences, Otukpo in Benue State and the huge gap in doctor-patient ratio as well as in medical research and production of pharmaceutical products, government recognised the compelling need to establish two other specialised universities in Health, Nutrition and Medical Sciences.

    “These universities will be located at Azare, Bauchi State and Ila Orangun, Osun State. These shall lay a solid foundation for building national preparedness and resilience in anticipation of future challenges in the health sector, while reducing medical tourism to countries like India, UAE, Egypt, Europe and the U.S.”

    Adamu said that the president had also approved a take-off grant of N4 billion each for the Universities of Technology and N5 billion each for the Universities of Health Science from the funding Resources of Tetfund.

    He said that the ministry would collaborate with the Federal Ministries of Health, Science and Technology, Communications and Digital Economy, the FCT Administration as well as other relevant agencies and Institutions to facilitate speedy actualisation of these projects.

  • Ex-Jigawa chief judge, Ringim dies in accident, son survives

    Ex-Jigawa chief judge, Ringim dies in accident, son survives

    Former Jigawa Chief Judge Aminu Sabo Ringim has died in an accident in Shafar village, Ringim Local Government Area of the state.

    The accident occurred at about 1 p.m., on Tuesday. His son survived.

    Mr Adamu Shehu, the Public Relations Officer, Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) confirmed the accident to newsmen in Dutse.

    “The incident happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday at Shafar village in Ringim LGA after the deceased, who is driving a Peugeot 206 from Dutse to Ringim, lost control on a sharp bend along Chaichai-Ringim road.

    “The incident involved two persons, the former Chief Judge and his son,” Shehu said.

    He said that all the victims were rushed to Ringim General Hospital where the ex-chief judge was confirmed dead.

    According to the NSCDC spokesman, the son, who sustained various degrees of injury is currently receiving medical attention at the hospital.

    When contacted, the spokesman of the state’s Ministry of Justice, Hajiya Zainab Baba-Santali, confirmed the incident and promised to issue a statement soon.

    “The ministry will issue a statement concerning the deceased, immediately the state’s Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Dr Musa Adamu returned from the burial.

  • 400-level Dutse varsity student jilted by lover commits suicide on Valentine’s Day

    400-level Dutse varsity student jilted by lover commits suicide on Valentine’s Day

    A tragic incident occurred in Ungwa Uku Tarauni Local Government Area of Kano State on Sunday (Valentine Day) as a 400-level Mathematics student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Bashir Abdulalhi, reportedly committed suicide because his girlfriend, one Raf’at, jilted him.

    It was learnt that the late student reportedly took the action to protest his girlfriend’s decision to leave him on Valentine’s Day.

    According to reports, the victim took his life at his Yalwawa residence, located on the outskirts of the state capital, around 5pm on Monday.

    He was reported to have consumed a poisonous substance.

    A spokesman for the Jigawa State Police Command, DSP Zubairu Ismai, confirmed the incident, adding that the university had commenced investigation to unravel the circumstances that led to it.

    ‘’When his friends discovered what happened, they quickly rushed him to the Rasheed Shekoni Teaching Hospital in the state capital, where he was confirmed dead by doctors on arrival.

    “On the spot, they promptly contacted the girlfriend, informing her of the death of Abdullahi,” a source said.

    It was gathered that the lady denied cheating on him, saying it was the deceased, who actually cheated on her.

     

  • Ganduje, Abubakar laud efforts of Kano-Jigawa Forum on addressing post Covid-19 challenges

    Ganduje, Abubakar laud efforts of Kano-Jigawa Forum on addressing post Covid-19 challenges

    The Governors of Kano and Jigawa States, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, respectively have commended the effort of the Kano-Jigawa Professionals Forum (KJPF) for embarking on the Post Covid-19 (ANNOBA) Project aimed at addressing the socio-economic challenges brought about by the pandemic in the two states.

    At separate virtual presentations of the abridged report to the two Governors by the Forum, its Chairman, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, said the project’s framework covers the following eight workstreams: Education; Socio Economic; Governance; Health; Media & Communication; Infrastructure & Logistics; Technology; and Legal & Regulatory.

    Dr Usman further explained that the underlying objective of the Annoba project was to learn lessons from the pandemic and to plan for managing the impact of the present and future circumstances on the socio-economic well being of the people of both Kano and Jigawa States.
    In their separate responses, the two Governors expressed delight with the report and promised to sustain collaboration with the Kano-Jigawa Professionals Forum (KJPF) in implementing the recommendations of the report, as well as in advancing the overall socio-economic development of the two states.

    The Governors commended the unique initiative of the members of the Forum in lending their vast knowledge and experience in providing solutions to the critical challenges affecting the lives and livelihoods of people of the two States, in their capacity as concerned professionals.

    The Governors enjoined the Forum to continue with this collaboration, which draws on the vast knowledge and experience of its members, to enhance the development of their States, in particular and the nation, in general.
    Participants at the virtual meetings with the Governors included the Deputy Governors, Right Hon. Speakers and some Hon. Members of the Houses of Assembly, Secretaries to the State Governments, Some Hon. Members of the State Executive Councils and other officials from the two States.

    The Chairman KJPF, also informed the Governors that the report of the Annoba Project was the outcome of work, over the last 8 months, 0f 159 professionals from within and outside the two states, who worked on purely voluntary and Pro-bono bases. The Forum which was founded in 2018, has its focus as mentoring youths from the two states to become well groomed professionals.

    The membership of the KJPF is comprised of citizens of the two States that have risen to the pinnacle of their professional associations, particularly by serving as national Presidents of their professionals associations.

    The membership of the Kano-Jigawa Professionals Forum-KJPF is as follows:

    1. Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, OFR, CON – Chairman

    2. Engr. Mansur Ahmed – Member

    3. Alhaji Muhammad ABUBAKAR, MFR – Member

    4. Prof. Musa Borodo – Member

    5. Malam Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye, mni – Member

    6. Malam Muhammad Garba – Member

    7. Engr. Habu A. Gumel, OON – Member

    8. Arc. Ibrahim A. HARUNA – Member

    9. Engr. Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, OFR – Member (late) – Member

    10. Prof. Munzali Jibril, OFR – Member

    11. Mal. Ado Jibrin – Member

    12. Alhaji Abdulkadir Kawu – Member

    13. A. B. Mahmoud SAN, OON – Member

    14. Alhaji Ahmed Rufa’i Muhammad – Member

    Engr. Hauwa A. Sadiq – Member

    15. Malam Garba Shehu – Member

    Engr. Mustafa Balarabe 17. Shehu – Member

    18. Bldr. Tijjani Shu’aibu – Member

    19. Malam Isma’ila Usman – Member

    20. Maj. Gen. U. T. Usman (rtd) – Member

    21. Pharm. Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai – Member

    22. Malam Isma’ila M. Zakari – Member

    22. Hon. Muhammad Sani Zorro – Member

    23. Malam Kuliya A. Zubair – DG KAPEDI/KJPF

    SIGNED
    Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, OFR, CON
    Chairman Kano-Jigawa Professionals Forum (KJPF)
    15th January, 2021

  • Gunmen kidnap bride-to-be in Jigawa

    Gunmen kidnap bride-to-be in Jigawa

    Barely less than a month to her wedding ceremony, a 20-year-old bride-to-be, Saratu Sabo Wada, was kidnapped.

    Saratu, a daughter of Sabo Wada Ringim, former clerk Jigawa state house of assembly and currently council secretary of Ringim local government lives in Gida-Dubu Quarters in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State.

    According to a family source who spoke with newsmen, the kidnapped victim, Saratu, was abducted on Monday morning at the front of her father’s residence at Gida Dubu quarters in Dutse metropolitan.

    The family source said: “Saratu went out after receiving a phone call and since then she was nowhere to be found and all her phones are switched off”.

    The source further disclosed that the victim was abducted a month to her wedding and nobody has so far contacted the family for any ransom. Meanwhile, the Jigawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Abdu Jinjiri confirmed the incident, said the police are investigating the case.

  • Hoodlums kill Customs officer in Jigawa, cart away rifles

    The Police in Jigawa have confirmed that hoodlums shot dead a Customs officer and injured one other in Ringim Local Government Area of the state.

    The Police Spokesman in the state, SP Abdu Jinjiri, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Dutse on Monday.

    Jinjiri said the hoodlums allegedly attacked the officers while on routine patrol at Kyarama village on Oct. 25.

    “On Oct. 25, the police in Ringim LGA, received a report that some Customs officers while on patrol at Kyarama village were attacked by armed hoodlums, while one of the officer was shot dead and the other critically injured.

    “It was also suspected that two of the officers’ service rifles were carted away by the hoodlums,” Jinjiri said.

    According to him, the police is making effort to trace and apprehend the suspects, while investigation into the incident was ongoing.

  • 19 injured as farmers, herders clash in Jigawa

    19 injured as farmers, herders clash in Jigawa

    No fewer than 19 persons have been hurt in a clash between farmers and herdsmen in Jigawa State.

     

    One person, Musa Mamman, 55, was killed, police said on Monday, adding that the clash took place on Sunday in Madamuwa village of Guri Local Government Area of the state.

    Police spokesman Abdul Jinjiri said two suspects have been detained.

     

    Some of the injured were shot with arrows and have been taken to Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, he said.

     

  • Sad! 24 perish in Jigawa flood disaster

    Sad! 24 perish in Jigawa flood disaster

    An adolescent and 23 other persons have died in a flood disaster in Jigawa State which affected mostly displaced 51,000 families spread over 24 local government areas.

    The Executive Secretary, Jigawa State Emergency Relief Management Agency, (SEMA), Yusuf Babura confirmed the death of 21 persons yesterday and said: “the majority of the deceased were children.”

    Babura said: “Many of the victims lost their lives as a result of building collapse caused by heavy rainfall in the areas, and others washed away by over flooded rivers”.

    He stated that over 50,000 families have been displaced, while a hundred thousand hectares of farmlands were submerged and all produce lost to the flood.

    Affected areas which include Maruta, Babaldu, Samamiya in Birnin-Kudu and Gwaram local government areas by our reporter indicate crops destroyed by the flood like millet, guinea corn, rice and maize valued at billions of naira.

    “Report available to us show that four people died in Gwaram, while three died in Babura, Ringim and Malam Madori local government areas and two in Birnin-Kudu and Guri local government areas.”

    It was learnt that the disaster affected 24 of 27 local government areas, in which the situation worsened in 17 local Government areas.

    He said so far, the agency has embarked on the distribution of emergency relief items to the victims as the agency partnered with some councils, camped victims in public buildings, mostly schools. “The relief items include food items, medicine, sugar and canoes. So far we gave out 10 canoes to some communities surrounded by water at Kirikasamma and Guri local government areas.”

  • Two arrested for homosexual act in Jigawa

    Two arrested for homosexual act in Jigawa

    Hisbah Command in Jigawa has detained two suspects for alleged homosexual act in Dutse Local Government Area of the state.

     

    Hisbah commandant Ibrahim Dahiru told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Wednesday that the suspects aged 32 and 20 were arrested at a hotel.

     

    He explained that the case was reported by some residents after they heard the suspects arguing over money.

     

    “Today (yesterday), our personnel succeeded in arresting two persons in connection with an alleged homosexual act in Dutse.

     

    “A 32-year-old man identified simply as Adamu, who resides at Ungwa Uku quarters in Kano state, invited his 20-year-old friend identified simply as Tijjani from Garkuwar Sarki quarters in Sokoto State. They perfected plans to meet through Facebook, after which Tijjani came down on agreement that he will be paid N50,000 after the act. They lodged at a hotel and passed the night together,” Dahiru said.

     

    He said a disagreement ensured between them over money in the morning because “Adamu could not provide the N50,000 promised to his guest.”

     

     

    Dahiru said the case would be transferred to the police for further investigation.

     

    The Hisbah Command in Jigawa has arrested two suspects for alleged homosexual act in Dutse Local Government Area of the state.

     

    Hisbah commandant Ibrahim Dahiru told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse yesterday that the suspects aged 32 and 20 were arrested at a hotel.

     

    He explained that the case was reported by some residents after they heard the suspects arguing over money.

     

    “Today (yesterday), our personnel succeeded in arresting two persons in connection with an alleged homosexual act in Dutse.

     

    “A 32-year-old man identified simply as Adamu, who resides at Ungwa Uku quarters in Kano state, invited his 20-year-old friend identified simply as Tijjani from Garkuwar Sarki quarters in Sokoto State. They perfected plans to meet through Facebook, after which Tijjani came down on agreement that he will be paid N50,000 after the act. They lodged at a hotel and passed the night together,” Dahiru said.

     

    He said a disagreement ensured between them over money in the morning because “Adamu could not provide the N50,000 promised to his guest.”

     

     

     

    Dahiru said the case would be transferred to the police for further investigation.

  • Jigawa records first COVID-19 related death

    Jigawa records first COVID-19 related death

    Jigawa has recorded its first COVID-19 related death in Dutse Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

    Dr Abba Zakari, the state’s Commissioner for Health and Chairman, Task Force on COVID-19, announced this while speaking newsmen on Thursday in Dutse.

    Zakari said that the deceased was one of the five patients with confirmed cases of the disease in the state.

    “Eight out of the 11 samples we have at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital came out. And unfortunately five of them returned positive.

    “One of the cases is from Gwaram, one from Miga, one from Auyo and two from Dutse.

    “Immediately we got the result we evacuated the patients to the isolation centre.

    “Unfortunately one of the two patients from Dutse that came in very bad condition passed away few hours later,” Zakari said.

    He said that to prevent further spread of the virus, the team has already swung into action to trace both primary and secondary contacts of the five cases in the affected LGAs.

    The commissioner said that the affected LGAs would be locked down as from mid night of Friday.

    He added that the government has commenced distribution of palliative in the lockdown areas to cushion the effects among vulnerable members of the society.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Muhammad Badaru had on April 28, has confirmed two new COVID-19 cases in Birninkudu and Gumel LGAs of the state

    The two affected LGAs and others areas visited by patients, were lockdown for seven days.