Our country is seen as the giant of Africa in trade, commerce and culture but now bears another title, the emerging epicentre of lifestyle diseases as traditional eating patterns give way to fast food, and custom practices yield to sedentary routines, Nigeria is topping the charts for lifestyle-related diseases.
Since the enactment of the new law barely six months ago, only 23 states, excluding Federal Capital Territory(Abuja), have domesticated the law.
Katsina state is among the three state governments yet to implement the N70,000 new national minimum wage for workers, other state include Cross River, and Zamfara states while several states have approved and commenced the implementation of the new national minimum wage.
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.
Governor Radda Presents N682 Billion 2025 Budget to Katsina House of Assembly
Press Release: Governor Radda Presents N682 Billion 2025 Budget to Katsina House of Assembly
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.
Nafisa Umar-Hassan, a female National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) member who is serving in Batagarawa LGA, Katsina State has trained 20 women on poultry farming and feed production as part of her Community Development Service (CDS).
Katsina Community Watch Corps (CWC), Charanchi command, has in a coordinated operation apprehended one of those responsible for the killing of Alhaji Sanusi Ango Gyaza, an aide to the Katsina State Governor, and his wife in Gyaza, Kankia Local Government Area.