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Pandemic Resilience Project: Zamfara First Lady charges coordinating team to remain alive to responsibility

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Zamfara state first lady,Hajiya Huriyya Dauda Lawal. Ahmed Attahir  Zamfara State First Lady Hajiya Huriyya Dauda Lawal has assured of the present administration commitment to remain steadfast in supporting issues concerning maternal and reproductive health, charges coordinating team to be alive to responsibility in the state. Hajiya Huriyya Dauda Lawal stated this at the inception meeting for reproductive health and pandemic resilience KFW project held today in Zamfara State. The project is being implemented in Zamfara State by Marie Stopes and funded by the Government of Germany. Zamfara First lady who was represented by the Permanent Secretary State Ministry for Women Affairs and Social Development Dr. Habib Yelwa said the project is timely and tallies with agenda of the present administration of Governor Dauda Lawal of prioritizing women and children's health. While commending Marie Stopes and other implementing partners supporting the State health sector, the First lady furthe

Zamfara APC Chairman raises alerm Over threat to his life,his Official vehicle seized by GH police.

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  Zamfara state APC Chairman,Alhaji Tukur Danfulani. Ahmed Attahir  The Zamfara state chapter of the All Progressives Congress( APC) has condemned action of the police and the Dauda Lawal Dare led PDP government for illegal seizing of his official vehicle,he alleged that his life is in danger.   APC said the official vehicle of chairman with Zamfara plate number GUS 51 AH was seized on Saturday without warrant and detained the driver for hours at the government house.   In a statement issued by the Zamfara state APC publicity secretary Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau said if anything should happen to APC chairman they are going to hold Zamfara State Government House Police and any other person or body that fits into suspicions responsible.   "The sad incident occurred in Gusau, the state capital when the police who have been secretly trailing the driver descended on the vehicle with the intention of taking it away".   "The driver raised the alarm on the police who were later d

2023 Great Green Wall Day : Over 10m trees planted in 11 Frontline states -- DG

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Pupils of Ibrahim Gusau special Model primary school in Gusau, Zamfara state, during National Great Green Wall Day . Ahmed Attahir The National Agency of Great Green Wall has disclosed that the agency has so far planted over 10million trees across the 11 Frontline states since it inception in the country. Speaking on Thursday to mark the 2023 celebration of National Great Green Wall Day in Gusau,Zamfara state capital,the National Director General of the agency Dr Yusuf Maina Bukar disclosed that the agency has also plan to plant more trees. The Director General who was represented by the Head of administration of the agency Nasiru Samaila revealed that the 11 Frontline states includes Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina,Kano,Borno,Jigawa, Bauchi,Yobe,Adamawa,kebbi and Gombe states. He maintained that the essence is to create green wall and bring among Frontline states alone the corridor to plant trees to protect desertification from Sahara. He stressed that the aimed of the celebration is to brin