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Governments, Humanitarian Actors Asked to Invest Heavily in Education to Reduce Poverty
Governments, Humanitarian Actors Asked to Invest Heavily in Education to Reduce Poverty
Governments and humanitarian actors have been advised to invest heavily in education of Nigerian citizens as the only tenable option to reduce the growing poverty in the nation.
Speaking at a pre-event press conference for the Year 2021 Humanitarian Action Conference in Abuja, Executive Director of the InnerCity Mission, Omoh Alabi said the only way to draw people out of poverty is through education, insisting that the government and all humanitarian stakeholders should heavily invest in education of the teeming populace.
Alabi, while noting that the Humanitarian Action Conference which was held on Thursday was organized to commemorate the International Day of the Eradication of Poverty, lamented that many Nigerians are presently living in poverty, requiring something urgently to be done to alleviate their suffering.
She disclosed that InnerCity Mission, which is a faith based, non-governmental and nonpolitical organisation, is drawing all humanitarian actors to the conference to proffer solutions to humanitarian crises in the nation.
Alabi said: “InnerCity Mission has been in active operation and at the forefront of deploying intervention programmes to help the poor and the needy and eradicate poverty.”
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She noted that: “All our intervention programmes are child centered and aligned with the UN SDGs through which we have impacted over 20 million direct and indirect beneficiaries to date apart from walking in the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria, we work in over 82 countries of the world deploying our programmes, our vision in the InnerCity Mission is pretty straightforward, we envision a world where often vulnerable excluded and deprived children will live free of poverty would achieve their God given potential though becoming adults that are profitable to society rather than task to society.”
She added that: “We believe that this is realisable where critical actors come together, government civil society, NGOs and all critical actors come together and collaborate and we can make a difference children are our future and if we ignore children we are ignoring our future, the world we have today was the one that was designed for us by our forebears but we have opportunity to design the world in front of us when we invest in children.”
Governments, Humanitarian Actors Asked to Invest Heavily in Education to Reduce Poverty
ISWAP Terrorists Kill Hunters’ Leader in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
Suspected ISWAP terrorists have killed the chairman of the hunters’ group in Garjang village, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred at about 5 a.m. on Sunday.
The victim, identified as Habu Dala, 53, was abducted from his home by the terrorists, who took him through Mulharam to Forfot villages in Damboa LGA.
Villagers mobilised in search of Dala and later found his corpse bearing gunshot wounds.
Troops of Operation HADIN KAI, members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), and the hunters’ group visited the scene.
The remains were evacuated to the General Hospital, Damboa, where he was certified dead and later released to his family for burial in accordance with Islamic rites.
ISWAP Terrorists Kill Hunters’ Leader in Borno
Nine Injured in Kwali Farmers–Herders Clash
By: Zagazola Makama
Nine persons sustained machete injuries in a clash between Bassa farmers and Fulani herders in Gomoni Village, Kwali Area Council of the FCT.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the fight, which broke out on Aug. 9 at about 3:30 p.m., followed alleged destruction of melon and maize farms belonging to the Bassa community by cattle.
It was gathered that the Nigeria army troops
along with joint team of operatives, and vigilantes were deployed to the scene following a distress call.
Six Bassa and three Fulani victims with varying degrees of machete cuts were taken to Rhema Foundation Hospital, Kwali, for treatment.
Authorities confirmed that the situation had been brought under control and normalcy restored, while investigation was ongoing.
Nine Injured in Kwali Farmers–Herders Clash
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VP Shettima Attends Wedding Fatiha Of Aisha Shehu Aliyu and Muhammad Jalal Babangida Aliyu
VP Shettima Attends Wedding Fatiha Of Aisha Shehu Aliyu and Muhammad Jalal Babangida Aliyu
By: Our Reporter
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Saturday attended the wedding fatiha of Aisha, daughter of Shehu Aliyu, an Executive Director with First Bank of Nigeria, and Muhammad Jalal, son of former Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, Talban Minna, at the National Mosque, Abuja.
The solemnisation, led by the Chief Imam of the National Mosque, Dr. Muhammad Kabir Adam, alongside other Imams, featured prayers for the couple’s blessings.
Vice President Shettima stood in for the bride, while Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu represented the groom, culminating in the presentation of the dowry and the formal tying of the marital knot.
The event was graced by prominent dignitaries, including former Vice President Namadi Sambo, former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, former Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi, former Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki, Katsina State Deputy Governor Faruk Lawal Jobe, the Emir of Borgu, Niger State, Muhammad Sani Dantoro among many others.
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