The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Katsina Zonal Command, in an exercise that took place in Katsina on Wednesday, at the special refuse dump provided by the state’s emergency management agency at Barawa, in Batagarawa local government area of the state has buried bales of used clothes seized for more than four years.
Whatever the case, the questions by the average man remains, “How can this Budget build our future?”. The poor, the women, the children especially the Almajiris who depends on begging to survive everyday, without a place to call their home, no future, no voice and no vision of anything good in sight.
Local governments in Katsina State have capacity to benefit from this agreement but depends on the priority of this administration as inside sources of the current administration revealed that the governor have some personal priorities which will be his focus for now but KatsinaMirror had reported that people are begging the governor to focus more on projects that will put food on the table of the common man because people are crying for hunger.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), a quasi-political and socio-cultural association which seeks to promote the political interest of people of northern Nigeria, noted with dismay the current effect of President Bola Tinubu economic policies calling on the President to take decisive action to tackle the mounting challenges of insecurity, poor education and economic hardship in northern Nigeria.
The Federal Government has lifted the ban to allow corp members to be posted to private sector organisations, including banks and oil and gas companies after the restrictions which only allow postings to be limited to four sectors of the economy, including education, agriculture, health, and infrastructure.