Jigawa donates goats to 8,000 widows

Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State, speaking with a NewsIntels correspondent, said his administration has concluded arrangement to empower 8,610 widows across the state.

Badaru made this known today in an interview in Dutse, the state capital.

He said between 25 and 30 widows would be selected from each of the 287 wards in the state to benefit from the programme.

Badaru said the beneficiaries would be given two she-goats and one he-goat to rear and that widows would be given the breed that gives birth to three off-springs twice a year because of their economic value.

He said the gesture would go a long way in assisting the women in taking care of their children in terms of feeding and schooling.

The governor said the beneficiaries would not face difficulties in finding feeds for the animals as rural dwellers.

Culled from .Newsintels
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Osoba, Gbenga Daniel To Join APC

If the on-going reconciliation move succeeds, former Governors of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, and Otunba Gbenga Daniel,with their supporters may anytime soon join the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Osoba, one of the founding fathers of the APC defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) over alleged marginalisation of his group by the national leadership of APC while Daniel also decamped to same party ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Olusegun Osoba

An attempt by the leadership of the party to resolve the truce between Osoba and the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosu, proved abortive. Hence, Osoba with his supporters defected to SDP to realise his political ambition.

P.M.NEWS reports that the reconciliation moves is on again as delegations from the APC supposedly met twice with Osoba in his Abeokuta home.

A team led by the National Deputy Chairman of the APC and former Governor of Ekiti State, Engineer Segun Oni, were said to have had a discussion with Osoba immediately after the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

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Information have it that another delegation led by another former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi met with Osoba in his Abeokuta home on the possibility of his return to APC.
In the same vein, Otunba Gbenga Daniel is also making moves to rejoin Osoba in the APC fold.

Gbenga Daniel

It could be recalled that Daniel was a member of the Alliance for Democracy. He left in 1999 to join the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

Interestingly, he contested the 2003 election against Osoba and worn. But his bid to regain his seat failed in 2007 when he was defeated at the poll  by the incumbent governor of the state, Amosun.