Mr Muhammad Usman, Chairman of the state Joint National Association of Persons With Disabilities (JONAPWD), disclosed this to newsmen in Dutse on Saturday.

Our correspondent reports that the items were part of the 94 trucks of 49,941 packages containing varieties of food donated to Jigawa by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID).

Usman said the items would be distributed to PWDs across the 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.

He listed the items donated as 1,500 packets of 5kg sugar, 1,500 bags of 10kg rice, 1,000 bags of 5kg white maize grills, 1,500 cartons of spaghetti and 1,500 cartons of noodles.

The chairman added that the items would be distributed among the hearing impaired persons, visually impaired persons, persons affected with leprosy as well as the physically challenged.

He that the assistance came at the right time for PWDs in the state due to their vulnerability during the lockdown period.

Usman, who commended the CACOVID and the state government for the gesture, pledged fair distribution of the items.

He also urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the items in order to ameliorate the unbearable socio-economic hardship brought by COVID-19 pandemic.

It was recalled that Jigawa commenced the distribution of CACOVID palliative to 42,312 households across the 27 LGAs of the state n Sept. 15.

The items were expected to be shared among the indigents in the 3,526 polling units of the state.

Twelve households, consisting of nine men and three widows with orphaned children, were also expected to benefit from each of the polling units.

No political appointees, civil servants or salary earners were allowed to benefit from the items.

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Alhaji Usman Bilyaminu, State Technical Facilitator (STF), Polio Immunization, in the area, made the disclosure to our reporter in Mallammadori.

He said 59,300 doses of Oral Polio Vaccines (OPV) were used in the exercise, and the wasted rate of the vaccines stood at seven per cent.

Bilyaminu thanked the local government council for donating biscuits and chocolates used to lure children during the exercise.

On the July round of the vaccination, the STF said the agency had also provided 59,300 doses of the vaccines to the area.

According to him, 109 adhoc staff have been engaged for the exercise, which is expected to commence on Tuesday.

He, therefore, appealed to parents and traditional rulers in the area to ensure that their children and subjects were available for the exercise.

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adaru told newsmen in Dutse on Tuesday that he was trying to strengthen the operations of the councils in the state and not to stifle them.

He dismissed speculations that he delayed payment of June salary for the local government workers because he was against their autonomy.

The governor explained that the council staff collected their salaries late in June because he wanted to ensure transparency and accountability in disbursement and utilisation of funds.

Badaru added that part of the reason was to also screen and ascertain the total number of staff in the payroll of the whole local governments in the state before he finally hands over.

“While doing this, people started insinuating and speculating that I do not want the autonomy given to local government in the country, this is not true.

“Everybody is free to verify, I used to give special intervention to the local government to solve some of their challenges.

“There are many local governments in the state that cannot execute projects after they finish paying staff salaries.

“For instance, staff salary alone of Hadejia Local Government Council is N50 million; there are many local governments with similar problems like that.

“In this case we use to give them bailout to execute some projects for their people.

“Some commissioners and top politicians in local governments influenced employments for their wives, among others, and this type of employees don’t come to work.

“With the latest development, those types of people will be exposed.

“I am not in the right position to tell the local government chairmen to right size or down size their staff but they should know that they have enormous task and responsibilities before them,’’ Badaru said.

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Umar disclosed this in Kano on Monday during a two-day media dialogue on breastfeeding organised by the state Primary Healthcare Development Agency in collaboration with UNICEF to commemorate 2018 breastfeeding week.

He said the figure was based on the 2016/2017 MIX survey conducted in the country.

He also disclosed that only 15.5 per cent of mothers practice exclusive breastfeeding, with complementary feeding at 27.1 per cent in the state.

The official regretted that poor breastfeeding practice accounted for poor development and growth among infants.

According to him, the statistics also indicated that acute malnutrition in the state rose from 17 per cent in 2008 to 41 per cent in 2013, while cases of stunting also increased from 34 per cent to 62 percent, within same period.

He added that inadequate food provision, diseases and unhealthy environment and inadequate access to health services were identified as some of the causes of malnutrition.

“Nursing mothers should not wash away the first thick yellowish milk during early initiation of breastfeeding.

“Early initiation commences within the first hour of delivery.

“The practice enhances brain development and healthy growth of the infant,” he said.

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L-R: Taiwo Bello, Buisness Development Manager, Innovative Technology Literacy Services Limited; Hajiha Hauwa Ibrahim, Director of Resources Centre, Ministry of Education, Zamfara State; Alihaji Lawan Abubakar, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Zamfara State; and Hadizah Isah, MultiChioce Nigeria Branch Manager Kano during the launch of 10 MultiChoice Resource Centre held at Government Girls Arabic Secondary School, Gusau, Zamfara State……..recently

The intervention, a corporate social investment (CSI) initiative dubbed the MultiChoice Resource Centre (MRC) project, involves the provision of a TV set, DStv Explora decoder, satellite dish, a power generating set, uninterrupted power system (UPS), sets of chairs and tables for the laboratory, and other equipment, avails students access to educational TV channels that include: Discovery, Channel ED, National Geographic, History Channel and Mindset, at no cost to the beneficiary schools.

The project, introduced to improve the knowledge levels and understanding of technical subject areas by students, is in its twelfth year and has been launched in 363 schools in 31 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The 10 beneficiary schools in Jigawa State are; Government Model Primary/ Junior Secondary School, Kudai, Government Day Secondary School, Madobi, Government Day Arabic Secondary School, Katangu, Government Day Secondary School, Andaza, School for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Dutse, Government Girls Day (Arabic) Secondary School Baure-dutse, Government Day Secondary School Marabusawa Dutse, Government Day Secondary School Gadadin Dutse, Government Day (Capital) Secondary School Dutse and Government (Commercial) Secondary School Dutse.

While expressing appreciation to MultiChoice Nigeria for donating the resource centres to the state, the Director of Science and Technology, Jigawa State Ministry of Education, Mallam Aliu Shungurum said the state government will work hard to ensure that the centres are put to good use. He however, appealed to MultiChoice to extend the initiative to other schools across the nine educational zones in the state.

“Out of the nine educational zones that we have, only one zone is currently benefiting from the MultiChoice Resource Centre project; we appeal to MultiChoice to provide the other zones with the centre as we will work hard to ensure that all schools put the centre to good use” he said.

At the consecutive launch of the MultiChoice Resource Centre (MRC) in Gusau, Zamfara State, the state commissioner for education, Alhaji Mukhtar Lugga represented by the permanent secretary, Ministry of Education, Alhaji Lawan Abubakar, said that the MultiChoice Resource Centre is a user friendly and child-centred device which is designed to aid teaching and learning in public secondary schools across the country.

He stated: “This is a welcome development in our state’s educational sector and we cannot but ask MultChoice to consider rolling-out its resource centres in more schools in our state” he remarked.

Alhaji Abubakar, who explained that the world is now embracing digital learning processes, appealed to trained teachers to also take it upon themselves to teach other teachers so that all teachers in the state will embrace the digital learning process.

In Zamfara state, the 10 beneficiary schools are; Government Girls Day Secondary School, Samar, Gusau, Government Day Secondary School, Janyau, Government Secondary School, Maru, Government Science Secondary School, Gusau, Usman Dangwaggo Secondary School Bungudu, Government Girls Arabic Secondary School, Gusau, Sambo Secondary School, Gusau, Government Girls Unity Secondary School, Kotorkwashi, Government Secondary School, Tsafe and Government Day Secondary School, Ibrahim Gusau.

Representing John Ugbe, Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, Hadiza Isah, MultiChoce Kano Branch Manager, said MultiChoice launched the project with a view to improving the standard of education in public schools in the country primarily, and to give back to its host community.

“MultiChoice as a company believes that improving the standard of education of its host community is one of the ways by which the company, a socially-responsible organization, can create value for the community. We have a strong conviction that the technological, economic, and socio-political advancement of any country and her future are intrinsically tied to the quality of education that the youth are exposed to. MultiChoice intends to take the learning resource centres to all the states of the federation,” she explained.

She also pointed out that MultiChoice will soon spread the resource centres to all the states in the northern region.

The MRC project, which is MultiChoice’s core Corporate Social Investment in the education sector, started in 2004 with launches in Abuja and Lagos state.

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