The foreign ministers of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have rejected Israel’s recent decision to designate lands in the occupied West Bank as “state land” and approve procedures for land registration and settlement stating that the decision affects the occupied territories and the peace process.
He’s the people’s governor. Some call him a servant leader. In other fora, he’s called a visionary governor. These epithets capture Dikko Umaru Radda, the governor who has orchestrated what can only be described as democracy’s finest moment in Katsina’s history. He created a budget that carries the voices of 71,384 citizens, carefully sought the opinions of 6,649 households, and ensured that women (32.1% of attendees) and persons with disabilities (4.9%) were not mere spectators but active participants in shaping their state’s financial destiny.