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The Founder and National President of Favoured Farmers Community Empowerment Trust (FFACET), Ambassador Tanimu Joseph Yakubu, has pledged the support and collaboration of the organization with the federal government in the effort to address hunger and guarantee food security in the midst of festering challenges. Ambassador Yakubu made the commitment in Abuja over the weekend, while inaugurating the senior team of FFACET aimed at fast tracking its operations with a view to impacting on the targeted groups in the country. He disclosed that FFACET has be given a mandate in partnership with a foreign organization to cultivate 25 hectares of arable land for massive wheat production in order to address the current hunger and starvation facing the country, noting that Nigerians, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or sectional creed, would be involved in the clearing, cultivation and planting of the produce. “It’s a task that must be done. We are willing and ready to address hunger in the la...

The question now is, how and when will this war end? Putin’s death will one day be inevitable, but Russia’s defeat is not.’ Russian soldiers walk through the debris of the Azovstal iron and steel works, June 2022. Photograph: AP “On the front page – war, on the back page – the crossword.” A line from my novel The Light and the Dark sprang to mind as I travelled on a train shortly after Russia’s invasion of “ Sitting across from me, a passenger was reading the paper: on the front page, there was the war; on the back page, the crossword. Time has passed since then, and the daily atrocities have started to disappear from the headlines, despite the battles growing more savage each day. But no one in the west wants to hear about war any more – people are tired of horror and solidarity. They want peace, no price rises, a quiet life and a nice holiday. It’s not the first time my writing has sounded the alarm over horrors to come. Before the, I used an analogy with the Russian folk tale ...

When Hon Abubakar Abduullahi Ahmad was declared as substantic PDP winner of the Sokoto South/North Federal constituency, little did the people know that the messiah whom they were looking for had come to deliver the dividend of democracy to them ,which they have been yearning for a long time. Hon. Ahmad Came in almost two years to the end of the 9th assembly ternure , but that did not deter him from achieving his dreams for the people of his constituency, hence all eyes were on him having aspired to represent the people from the township centre of Sokoto State. Already the PDP lawmaker without wasting time swung into action by making huge remarkable achievements in the area of constituency outreach and legislation to Sokoto South /North federal constituency . The Sokoto born lawmaker who served meritoriously with the state government and retired from the civil service is also known for his forthrightness and doggedness. He is respected for his ...

The National Association of Nigeria Drugs Monitoring (NANDRUM) a non governmental organization has mobilized a 5000 match to sensitize the public against Drug abuse in Abuja. The team of men and women were in National Assembly on Thursday in Abuja where they were received y the Committee clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives on Drug and Narcotic on behalf of the chairmen as part of this year sensitization program. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the event,the Organizer and Chief executive of the Organization,Mrs Christabel Okoye said, “the youths were brought together from across the states to discuss on how to reduce drugs abuse among the peers and also to sensitized the youths, producers ,retailers across the Drug chain lines on the danger of drugs abuse in the country . She claimed, NANDRUM has been mobilizing youths across the country over the last five years in it effort to educate drugs abuse among the youths and provide a platform to engage them on technica...