Nafisa Umar-Hassan, a female National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) member who is serving in Batagarawa LGA, Katsina State has trained 20 women on poultry farming and feed production as part of her Community Development Service (CDS).
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), a quasi-political and socio-cultural association which seeks to promote the political interest of people of northern Nigeria, noted with dismay the current effect of President Bola Tinubu economic policies calling on the President to take decisive action to tackle the mounting challenges of insecurity, poor education and economic hardship in northern Nigeria.
The Federal Government has lifted the ban to allow corp members to be posted to private sector organisations, including banks and oil and gas companies after the restrictions which only allow postings to be limited to four sectors of the economy, including education, agriculture, health, and infrastructure.
Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed that only Katsina and Kaduna states accessed both their first and second quarters of the 2024 UBE matching grant which 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) failed to access warning that it will cause a significant challenge for basic and junior secondary education which will eventually contribute to higher number of out-of-school children.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued a warning in a statement released on Monday that no electricity distribution companies (DisCos) should illegally force electricity consumers to apply or pay to fund the replacement of faulty and obsolete meters within their franchise areas.
