Bilyaminu Muhammad YS

By Bilyaminu Muhammad

GLOBAL FIRM TO SET UP MOBILITY CARTER IN ZAMFARA AS GOV. MATAWALLE CONTINUES ENGAGEMENT AT THE NEW YORK.

Mobility Worldwide the manufacturers of standard mobility carter has agreed to set up a mobility cart manufacturing plant in Zamfara State aimed at manufacturing locally cater for the disabled persons in the state.

The initiative would help Zamfara produced more carters not only for Nigeria but African countries as a whole and also create employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.

This was part of the outcome of an engagement between Zamfara State government delegations led by Governor Bello Matawalle at New York as part of the continuation of the Governor’s engagement at the United Nations.

Zamfara State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry Yazeed Danfulani who stood in for the Governor during a meeting with the Director of Operations and CEO of mobility Worldwide Mr. Cary Lowaing & Mr. Scott Walters respectively.

The Commissioner in a statement said the meeting was on the outright instruction of the executive Governor and the outcome led to the donation of two containers of mobility carts to about 500 disabled persons in the state.

According to the Commissioner, the WHO data has demonstrated that there are (70) million disabled persons worldwide and Zamfara State houses proportionate number of disabled just like any other states in the country.

EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS


On Being A Hidden Minister
AUGUST 24, 2020 AT 4:43:42 AM


MAHMUD JEGA
Several issues came to my mind yesterday when I read the Daily Trust on Sunday story titled
Buhari’s Hidden Ministers

The story listed several ministers that it said have been almost invisible since they were appointed into the Federal cabinet last year. Most of the men and women mentioned in the story are Ministers of State. The first thing that comes to mind is, how can a Minister of State be visible when the senior Minister must have cornered all the juicy ministerial goodies including the control of money, contracts, appointments, control of agencies under the ministry’s supervision and, most crucially, access to the President or at least to the President’s Chief of Staff?

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Some of the ministers mentioned in the story were highly visible public officers before they became ministers. Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor was very visible as Executive Secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD. In that role she was in the news nearly every day, supervising the once endless verification of pensioners, clearing huge backlogs of pensions and bringing into the payroll ex-staffers of privatized federal agencies that were completely forgotten for decades. Why she is now invisible as Minister of State for Environment, is a mystery. Not that the senior Minister Mohammed Mahmud is very visible, at least compared to his predecessor Mrs. Amina Mohammed.

Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs George Akume was also listed as invisible, until he broke cover last Wednesday and reeled out what he said were his ministry’s achievements. Akume has no reason to be invisible. He was a two-term governor of Benue State, a senator, in fact Senate Minority Leader. He must be used to visibility. In his current portfolio, Akume said he is in charge of federal intervention projects in the st

PRESS RELEASE

OPERATION SAHEL SANITY: TROOPS NEUTRALIZE BANDITS RESCUE SEVERAL KIDNAP VICTIMS AND ARREST MORE SUSPECTED BANDITS IN THE NORTH WEST ZONE.

1. The quest towards riding the North-West zone of banditry and other criminalities by troops of Operation SAHEL SANITY is yielding more positive results as the troops neutralize bandits, rescued several kidnap victims and arrested more suspected bandits and their collaborators in recent clearance operations.

2. On 15 August 2020, troops deployed at Jengebe acting on credible intelligence arrested 3 suspected bandit’s collaborators at Jengebe market. The suspects were arrested while attempting to sale 3 rustled cows to unsuspecting customers in the market. Also, troops conducting clearance patrol along Faskari-Sheme road came in contact with suspected bandits. In a bid to escape, the bandits opened fire on sighting approaching troops. Nevertheless, the resilient troops closed in on them with superior fire power forcing the bandits to retreat in disarray with possible gunshot wounds and in the process, abandoned their victims including two kidnapped teenage boys namely Aminu Alka and Nasiru. The two rescued teenagers have been handed over to Faskari LGA Authority for onward reunion with their family.

3. Similarly, on 16 August 2020, troops conducted aggressive clearance operation to some identified bandit’s enclaves in Dumburum Forest. During the operation, troops successfully neutralized 3 bandits and recovered one AK 47 Rifle, 2 empty AK 47 Rifle magazines and 127 rounds of 7.62mm Special ammunition. Also, same day troops deployed at Dandume LGA of Katsina State rescued 4 kidnap victims from suspected bandits at Tudun Ali village following actionable intelligence from the area. The feat was recorded as bandits fled and abandoned the victims on arrival of troops at the village. In the same vain, troops deployed at Bagega while on fighting patrol rescued 3 kidnap victims from suspected bandits’ ca