Economy
Jigawa Women Receive 264 Goats For Empowerment In Birniwa

Jigawa Women Receive 264 Goats For Empowerment In Birniwa
Jigawa women receive 264 goats for empowerment in Birniwa. Each of the beneficiaries will receive two she-goats and one he-goat.
The Birniwa local council of Jigawa has empowered 88 women in the area with 264 goats.
Fahad Muhammad, the council’s spokesman, said this in a statement.
Mr Muhammad said Governor Umar Namadi launched the distribution exercise in Birniwa on Monday.
He explained that the governor lauded the council chairman, Mallam Shehu, for emulating his administration’s Goat Rearing Scheme.
The governor said that his administration had conducted various empowerment programmes that supported the teeming youth and women groups across the state.
Mr Namadi noted that the programmes had improved the residents’ living standards.
“My administration has introduced rice cultivation programmes on 100 hectares of land in the state’s 27 local government areas. Under this scheme, several youths in each council area have been engaged to produce the rice.
“Furthermore, my administration, through the ministry of agriculture, is committed to providing adequate and subsidised farming inputs to farmers in the state,” the governor said.
In his remarks, the council chairman, Mr Shehu, said a total of 264 goats were distributed to 88 women selected from the 11 wards of the area.

Goats market
While urging the beneficiaries to take good care of the goats to enhance their economic well-being, the chairman also thanked the governor for his approval of the programme.
Mr Shehu further thanked the governor for approving his other programmes to empower women groups in the area.
Earlier, the council’s head of the agriculture department, Muhammed Aminu, said each of the beneficiaries would receive two she-goat and one he-goat to rear.
Mr Aminu added that the council had arranged for a team of mobile veterinary workers to supervise the goats’ care and keep them healthy.
Some of the beneficiaries, Dija Aminu and Alhajeti Umaru thanked the council for the gesture and promised to take care of the goats.
Economy
PRP Demands Direct Federal Allocation to Local Governments

PRP Demands Direct Federal Allocation to Local Governments
PRP demands direct federal allocation to local governments. The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has raised concerns over reported attempts by state governors to lobby the President against the direct disbursement of federal allocations to Local Government Authorities (LGAs).
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Muhammed Ishaq, reaffirmed PRP’s commitment to fiscal autonomy for LGAs, as upheld by the Nigerian Constitution and reinforced by the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on July 11, 2024.
“It is disheartening that despite the clear legal framework ensuring the financial independence of local governments, some state governors are using their influence to undermine this democratic process,” Ishaq stated.
He emphasized that the Supreme Court’s directive for federal allocations to be sent directly to elected local government councils was intended to enhance transparency, accountability, and proper utilization of funds at the grassroots level.
The PRP criticized the practice of channeling funds through joint state-local government accounts, which has led to financial mismanagement by state governments.

PRP
The party warned that any attempt to redirect these allocations back to state control would violate constitutional provisions and weaken local government autonomy.
PRP insisted that LGA funds should be disbursed directly without interference, allowing elected councils to manage their resources efficiently, meet the needs of their constituents, and drive community development.
It also pledged support for local governments against any efforts to use their allocations to service debts not legitimately incurred for their benefit.
Economy
Nigeria Senate Probes Cameroon’s Alleged Annexation Of Nigerian Mangrove Islands

Nigeria Senate Probes Cameroon’s Alleged Annexation Of Nigerian Mangrove Islands
Nigeria senate probes Cameroon’s alleged annexation of Nigerian Mangrove Islands. The Senate has set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the alleged annexation of the country’s mangrove islands and maritime territories by the Republic of Cameroon. The committee is expected to report back with necessary recommendations in the next two months.
As part of its resolutions, the Senate has urged President Bola Tinubu to take immediate steps to safeguard Nigeria’s territorial waters, including securing over 2,560 oil wells identified within the disputed mangrove islands in Akwa Ibom State.
The Senate leadership has also committed to engaging directly with President Tinubu to explore diplomatic solutions to the crisis.
Lawmakers during plenary on Tuesday, underpinned the need for urgent action to prevent further escalation of what they described as a “provocation by the Republic of Cameroon”.

Senate
Leading the motion under Orders 41 and 51, Senator Aniekan Bassey had raised an alarm over the economic and territorial implications of Cameroon’s encroachment into Nigerian territory.
Senator Bassey said that the affected mangrove islands, located in Efiat, Mbo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, were not part of the territories ceded to Cameroon under the 1913 Anglo-German treaties or the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling of October 2002.
Economy
Tension As Another Explosion Rocks Pipeline in Rivers

Tension As Another Explosion Rocks Pipeline in Rivers
A second major pipeline explosion has rocked the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) of Rivers State, occurring just hours after a similar incident in Bodo, Gokana LGA.
The latest explosion struck a manifold connecting a federal pipeline in the Okwawriwa area on Tuesday morning, sending massive flames into the sky and raising fresh concerns about the safety of oil facilities in the region.

Another Explosion Rocks Pipeline
Another Explosion Rocks Pipeline in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) of Rivers State.
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