BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).
Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...
UNICEF says it has disbursed N53 million to 209 School Based Management Committees {SBMCs} for the improvement of girl-child education in Zamfara stare in northwest Nigeria.The Chief of UNICEF Sokoto field office,Mr Mohammed Mohiuddin,said the fund was part of an intervention on Girl Education Project Phase 3 {GEP 3} by the UKID/DFID and managed by the UNICEF.The project,he said,was designed to be implemented over eight years,from 2012 to 2020,during which one million additional girls were expected to be enrolled and retained in schools in the five states under the scheme.The field officer said, ''an estimated 1.9 million boys would also benefit from the investment through improvements in teacher quality and school governance.An estimated 155,580 girls were expected to be added to the number of girls in school by the time the project rounds off in 2020''.Mohiuddin said each of the schools management committees would receive N250,000 directly into its account for the improvement of the schools to enrolment,retention and improved learning.
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