By Salis Muhammad Moriki It is part of this government's policy to diversify our "too much import dependent" economy to be able to be food sufficient and save huge amount of our forex spent in importation for other development activities in the country. And in its efforts to diversify Nigeria's economy, the federal government has encouraged more state governments and their people to invest more in agriculture, especially rice production. The federal government has given out huge amount of money to states for distributions to farmers in that area, especially those states with farming history and otherwise. Nigeria is one of the largest rice importing country in the world. It is said that in the last five years, Nigeria imported about 17 million tone, thereby spends about $1.8 billion annually on rice importation which is not favourable to Nigerian export/import index. But according to the United Nations Foods and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Nigeria importe...
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has advised Nigerian youths not to be deceived by the political elite in the All Progressives Congress, APC, who are busy spreading propaganda on the developmental strides of the party in Nigeria. Chairman of the Arewa Social Media Forum, Malam Yusuf Dingyadi, stated this in Sokoto yesterday, at the closing ceremony of a two- day National Seminar, titled 'Role of Social Media In Political Development and Challenges Ahead' organised by the MacFarlane Funds for African Development in Nigeria. Dingyadi, described APC as a party that was built on propaganda to hoodwink Nigerians and therefore cannot move the country forward. According to him, only PDP can salvage Nigerians from poor leadership and deprivation being faced by the masses in the past two years. He said, National Caretaker Committee of the PDP under Senator Ahmed Makarfi has shown to the world that, it is yout...
By Elkabeer Mafara Taking it from the annals of Baba Buhari 's political history in Nigeria, our love, passion and earnest support for Baba Buhari is unprecedented, Zamfara has been one of the Stete you are winning election. Beyond this, Zamfara state plebeians can not be excepted from your well wishers, we joined in prayers even when you are on your medical vocation. Wondered how you attest and subscribe to his Excellency Gov. Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari of Zamfara state as one of your entourage for your UN trip to the disappointment of Zamfara proletariat. Knowing fully well that our situation in Zamfara is critically alarming to an extent, no government system is working in the state, our economy has paralysed, all hospitals were shut down, patients are dying and many were stranded because they can not afford private hospitals, all schools were closed down. in short, everything remained stagnant due to on going labour action in the state. I don't even know the story his...
2nd Lieutenant Ahmed Buhari Bature, 22 from Sokoto State bags all the awards in his passing out parade from the Nigeria Defence Academy Kaduna. His outstanding achievements won the admiration of many who have applauded tirelessly at the event whenever he is called forth to receive an award. He is described by the officers of the academy to be, charismatic, very hardworking and highly disciplined. He joined the academy in 2012, studying B.Sc. Computer Science and his academic performance is also impressive because he is also the best in his department. Due to his impressive performance, young Bature has already become a prep winger as a third termer. This means he was training other cadets who joined the academy for short service. At one point, when he was supposed to go to The Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst for further training, he was asked to stay simply because there was the need for other cadets to have him as a role model! A role model indeed! He will be remembered as a...
By Salis Muhammad Moriki The media has become a major influence in shaping the world. But some introverts on the social media don't know what media management is all about. They think it is just like the N1000 monthly data they buy and write the usual irrelevant jargons on social media. Media consultancy is much more than that. It is highly professional and expensive beyond our faculty of thinking. 5mins in BBC, CNN or Aljazeera is much more than N100milliin if we don't know. Do we know how much Mark Zugerberg is making on daily basis from the data we buy to express our opinion/view on Facebook? He is one of the richest people in the world. Why can't we stop using Facebook and other social networks we use daily after we know the data are too expensive? N45 million is nothing when it comes to media propaganda. Ask your organisation, as tiny as it is, how much it spends on media activities, not talk of a whole government. We are only exposing our ignorance on the soc...
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