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FG to stop milk importation by 2022—Nanono

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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Muhammad Sabo Nanono, yesterday said the federal government planned to ban the importation of milk within the next two years.

He also said that Nigeria has become Africa’s major producer of rice and the largest producer of cassava in the world, he pointed out that a range of policies and initiatives had been put in place to strengthen the rice and cassava production in the country.

Speaking to newsmen at an event to commemorate the 2020 World Food Day celebration yesterday in Abuja, he said the livestock industry had an asset base of nearly N33 trillion that must not be allowed to waste.

“We are planning in this ministry and watch my words, in the next two years we will ban the importation of milk into this country. And ask me why: we have 25 million cows in this country to produce five million litres per day. “The issue is now logistics, which we have started by setting up milk processing plants across the country. I see no reason why we should import milk in the next two years. We should stop the importation of milk”.

He also said fish importation will also be considered for an outright ban.

Also commenting on concerns about the increasing prices of food commodities in the country, Nanono said, “In the next two, three months, most of the prices will level off to a more comfortable level adding that the price of Milled rice is expected to reduce to between N14,000 and N15,000.

He said: “We anticipated the reduction in the price of rice.”

The minister said since the beginning of the 2020 farming season, the ministry had distributed inputs in all the states of the federation to boost food production.

The country recorded a boost in the production of major staple crops last year said the minister, pointing out that maize and rice production rose from 12.8 million metric tonnes (MMT) and 12.3MMT to 13.94MMT and 14.28 MMT respectively.

He added that cassava production also increases from 58.47 MMT in 2018 to 73.91MMT– and further projected to rise to 93.6MMT by 2023.

He said growth had also been recorded for groundnut, tomatoes, and sorghum production adding that cattle beef, milk and fish production also rose by 166 per cent, 146 per cent and 11 per cent respectively between 2018 and 2019.

Nanono maintained that significant progress had also been made to improve agricultural productivity since the inception of the present administration.

He said through various policy initiatives, the ministry had been able to raise the country’s national food reserve stock to 109,657 metric tonnes, adding that the figure is expected further increased to 219,900 MT by the end of 2020.

The minister also said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is not resting on its oars in addressing challenges of the country’s agricultural sector.

He said the federal government through the Agro Processing Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project (APPEALS) had set aside N600 billion as loan support to farmers across the country.

As a result, he said no fewer than 2.4 million farmers are expected to benefit from the loan at zero interest rate.

According to him: “The gesture will support farmers in the country to improve their productivity aimed at boosting the country’s agricultural sector.

“The support was to complement the federal government policy on agriculture, which includes promoting food security, improving farmers production and also increasing exportation.”

The minister further called for massive investment in the sector, if the agriculture must be made more productive and sustainable.

He said such investment will help the country to quickly rise to the call against looming food crisis as already predicted by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Nanono also pointed out that in order to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the country’s food security, he had approved the setting up of a seven-member joint technical task team on emergency response to the pandemic.

According to him, the team, which was replicated nationwide had helped in facilitating the free and unhindered movement of farmers, food, livestock and agricultural inputs across the country during the lockdown.

He said on the orders of Buhari, his ministry had coordinated the release of over 70,000 MT of grains to vulnerable Nigerians to cushion the effects of the pandemic.

He said thousands of hectares of rice, maize, sorghum including livestock and fisheries had been affected by flood devastation this year.

The minister said a special committee had been set up by the ministry to act on the emerging flood issues and come up with strategies to minimise its effects on agricultural production in order to avert food crisis and ensure sustainable food security for the country.

Saudi Arabia’s offer to join UN Human Rights Council rejected

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Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to become a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday but China and Russia were elected to three-year terms.

Human rights groups hailed the snub to Riyadh, which deals a blow to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s attempts to improve the kingdom’s image in the international community.

Fifteen positions were up for grabs on the 47-seat body that has been criticised by rights organisations and the United States for electing countries accused of human rights violations.

Saudi Arabia was the only country up for election that failed to be elected, mustering only 90 votes. 

Human Rights Watch deputy executive director Bruno Stagno said: ‘The Human Rights Council elections today delivered a stunning rebuke to Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman.

‘Only country not elected, shunned by a majority of the UN. The kingdom reaped what it deserves for its serious violations of human rights and war crimes abroad.’

Only four of the 15 spots were contested, all in Asia-Pacific.

China received 139 votes in the secret ballot, a dramatic fall from the 180 votes that it received when they were last elected in 2016.

‘Shows more states are disturbed by China’s abysmal rights record,’ tweeted Louis Charbonneau, UN director at Human Rights Watch.

Pakistan and Uzbekistan were elected with 169 votes while Nepal was also elected with 150 votes.

Democracy for The Arab World Now hailed Saudi Arabia’s snubbing.

Executive director Sarah Leah Whitson said: ‘Unless Saudi Arabia undertakes dramatic reforms to release political prisoners, end its disastrous war in Yemen and allow its citizens meaningful political participation, it will remain a global pariah.’

The organisation was founded by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed by Saudi agents at country’s Istanbul consulate two years ago.

Russia and Cuba were among 11 countries elected unopposed. All 193 UN members were able to vote in each region.

The controversial voting system sees countries strike bargains to agree on who will stand, often unopposed.

President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the council in 2018.

‘Today the UN General Assembly once again elected countries with abhorrent human rights records,’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.

He slammed the body’s membership rules, saying they ‘allow the election of the world’s worst human rights abusers to seats on the council.’

Culled from dailymail online

 Ganduje’s carve-out mentality

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BY MUKTAR AlKALI

Governor Ganduje is a legend not only for his comical demeanor in the infamous dollar-stuffing videos that recently resurfaced on electronic billboards in Edo state during the recent gubernatorial electioneering process but also for his provincial impulses. On a Freudian psychoanalysis framework, he came across as a traumatized and vindictive person. To draw a parallel with the Commodus, the disgraced son of the Philosopher King Marcus Arelius, Ganduje seems to be an unfulfilled leader. One could hazard a guess as to why someone in such an exalted position would fail to demonstrate grace and contentment with all the privileges life has offered to him? The answer is not far-fetched. It would help if you watched the blockbuster psychological thriller, “Silence of the Lamb.” Dr. Hannibal Hecter gave us an insight into how dangerously a person with low self-esteem could turn out.

Like Commodus, Ganduje sits uncomfortably on a robbed mandate. He is struggling with an overwhelming lack of acceptability. He was initially self-absorbed in his provincialism, wholly deluded by the allure of power, but only to receive a shockwave on the Election Day. He became acutely aware of his paperweight approval rating and flawed image when the 2019 gubernatorial election results started trickling in. As a sitting governor, he was losing badly. The election seemed like a referendum mainly on him. Barely a week to the gubernatorial election, his party APC won all the seats in Kano. Yet, here he was trailing far behind a relatively unknown Abba Kabir Yusuf with over 26,000 votes. It was so bad for Ganduje and APC, who had to join forces and mobilized full federal might, as a desperate rescue measure. In the end, he was violently rigged back to the office in what appeared to be a mathematically improbable election for him to win. Yet that shocking trauma left him a permanent impression of low self-esteem. He had an underserved victory with an underlying feeling of misery.  He feels and behaves like a baby caught cheating in his Common Entrance exams.

This brief background might have given you a hint about why Ganduje has a predilection for a carve-out mentality. Ganduje’s second term is akin to laying a siege on Kano’s ancient city. It is a vengeful mission motivated by the psychological trauma of massive rejection by the people he forcefully ruled over. In his poorly written assignment, there is nothing like a city master plan. Every land fits into his primitive grab and accumulation philosophy of life. His only heritage now is to destroy tangible heritages. It is painful while passing on the road to see the old city wall’s remnants replaced by unfriendly petrol filling stations. The land grabbers even go as far as scraping the little trace of our 1000-year heritage to sink their multitudes of groundwater-polluting heavy-metal containers. When approving such “aika-aika”, Ganduje could not be oblivious to his carve-out mentality’s enormous environmental impacts. Thousands of trees that ordinarily reduce carbon prints (coming from our increasing number of vehicles and industries emissions), and provide us with fresh oxygen, have been destroyed forever due to one man’s insatiable greed. Paris agreement, which Nigeria under Muhammad Buhari’s APC-led government was a signatory, is there for a reason.

Climate change is a real phenomenon. If Ganduje looked around, he would see its effect next to him. A few millimeters of rainfall send jitters down the spine of households in Kano because of fear of flooding. Perhaps Ganduje was ignorant of the value the reserved areas add in preventing a flood. Maybe he has no idea what roles detention and retention ponds could play in containing floodwater. As lands are indiscriminately allocated for his cronies to build on reserved areas, the rainwater would not have a space to percolate on impervious surfaces. This water will run off on the streets in a city lacking effective drainages. It is so unfortunate that Ganduje has reduced governance now to creating ponds in the name of an underpass. When it rains, kids now come out to swim in those poorly designed middle-of-the-road ponds cum underpass.

A few years ago, we were hopeful that the era of bad roads in Kano was coming to an end. Unfortunately, with Ganduje’s provincial actions, Kano’s streets are now eyesores. If you discount the major roads built by Shekarau and Kwankwaso, all other roads are now a nightmare. It appears to me that Ganduje wants to be remembered as the only governor in Kano’s history that has failed to construct a single 3km-long road in the city. He will be remembered as a governor that was infamous for converting Eid-ground to corner shops. A governor that carved out Fagge Juma’at mosque and sold it off as corner shops. A governor that carved out cemeteries and offer the lands for sale. A governor that self-appointed himself as Khadimul-Islam only to proudly crave for usury-riddled commercial bank loans. This governor needs to rescue himself from himself.

Muktar Alkali wrote from Sabon Titi, Kano.

Pantami charges NIMC to achieve a 500% increase in citizen’s digital identity enrolments.

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The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), FNCS, FBCS, FIIM has been briefed by the Management team of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on their activities following the final transfer of the supervision of the commission to the ministry on the 7th October 2020. Dr Pantami charged NIMC to ensure a 500% increase in the number of monthly Citizens’ Digital Identity Enrolments- up from the current 500,000 monthly enrolments to 2.5million monthly enrolments.
The Honourable Minister commended the Director-General of NIMC, Engr Aliyu A. Aziz, for his commitment and passion, noting that there has been a considerable increase in enrolments since he became the Chief Executive Officer of NIMC. However, the Minister stated that there is still a need to raise the bar even higher by ensuring that the enrolment rate is 5 times the current rate. This is imperative because the National Identity Number (NIN) will soon be made mandatory for accessing government services and interventions.
Dr Pantami used the opportunity of the meeting to discuss the challenges militating against the success of NIMC’s activities, including the challenge of inadequate funds. He assured the NIMC team that he will do all he can, to address these challenges. He also stated that he will continue to meet with NIMC regularly until he is certain the performance of the Commission is enhanced significantly and efficient services are offered to Nigerians.
The Honorable Minister also stated he is committed to ensuring that citizens easily obtain secure digital identity and urged them to enrol as soon as possible. He directed the Director-General of NIMC to set up complaint units in all the Commission’s Centres in order to ensure that the complaints of the citizens are promptly addressed. He also directed the Commission to interface more with citizens and to also run awareness campaigns on all media channels and in Nigerian languages to encourage citizens to obtain their digital identity.
Digital Identity is one of the key requirements of any digital economy and it is captured under Pillar #6 of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) for a Digital Nigeria. The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy is committed to supporting NIMC to ensure that Nigerians derive the benefits of a functional digital identity system. Nigerians are encouraged to visit NIMC accredited centres soon for their digital identity.

Nigeria to have over 60 airports by 2023 – Sirika

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The number of airports in Nigeria will be doubled by the Federal Government before the end of 2023 to enhance air connectivity and boost the nation’s economy.

Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, said this during the Public Presentation of 2021 Budget Proposal on Tuesday in Abuja.

The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning organised the public presentation to receive detailed budget proposals.

The minister of Aviation said, “We understood the principles and the importance of air connectivity and it is a very important sector. It boosts our economy and we believe investment in this sector will do well for our economy.

“Before the end of 2023, we would have doubled the number of airports in Nigeria. We understand the importance of aviation infrastructure as a critical component for the working of our economy and our national security assets.”

Sirika said the aviation industry was the fastest growing sector in the country and the current administration had developed a roadmap to improve civil aviation and air transportation in general.

Capital Expenditure for the Ministry of Aviation is put at N89.97 billion in the proposed 2021 budget.

The ministry proposed N5 billion for safety and security critical projects and airport certification nationwide and N14 billion for construction of second runway at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

N1.6 billion was also proposed for extension and asphalt overlay of Murtala Muhammed International Airport runway, Lagos; N1 billion construction of new terminal building in Enugu; and N1 billion construction of Abeokuta airstrip.

Barr. Muhy Magaji Rimin Gado and the fight against corruption in Kano State

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BY TAHIR MAHMOOD SALEH

A situation like this when corruption infiltrates all angles and sectors including the anti-graft agencies and civil Society Organizations in Nigeria, then we are in serious danger, it can be particularly devastating, threatening hard gained improvements in human and economic development, security, and population health. Yet, the multifaceted and complex nature of corruption makes it extremely difficult to tackle, despite its enormous costs, which have been estimated in billions. While for those that are charged with corruption allegations always come up with ill and sickness tactics to boycott the investigations either in courts or at the national assemblies.

                                              

Numerous public initiatives have attempted to mitigate the observed consequences of corruption in Nigeria, thus include the ICPC, EFCC, Code of Conduct, Anti Corruption Units in all federal parastatals, Public Complains and Anti Corruption. Anti-Corruption Commissions can be helpful in alleviating corruption issues and strengthening accountability among service providers.

A sampling of these include reducing costs by bulk purchasing of supplies, public hiring and management of personnel in order to keep human resources “in-house”. These initiatives reflect efforts to internally manage and control delivery to safeguard basic standards and improve quality. However, these efforts may have had the opposite effect. They have served to fuel corruption and erode quality precisely because institutions managers and employees are milking down the economy of the country for themselves and their families.

Coming up with Anti-corruption Institute in Kano State deserves an applaud not a political view, Barr Muhy Magaji deserves a medal for this idea, the Institute supposed to conduct researches on the sociological and psychological aspects of corruption, at the same time serving as a capacity-building center for the people working in anti-corruption agencies and projects. I believe the number of corruptions that’s all days on increase should be studied, the attitudinal and behavioral change on corruptions should be given a high priority while the punishment on the other side.

Managing Public Complain and Anticorruption Commission needs a strong man, no-nonsense, considerate, capable of standing for the justice, truthful apolitical, sincere and faithful being and thus what Riming Gado is. I was shocked during the lockdown when I heard him over the radio fighting against hoarding and price skyrocketing in the state, I was like is this development really going on in my state, at the same time having an issue with public office holder, allegedly siphoning public commodities meant for palliative support to poor people.

                                                                                                                       

Establishing desk offices in the 44 local governments of public complaint is indeed a great achievement while having public trust is the greater achievement. All days attending to huge number of peoples complains, mediating, resolving and filing unresolved to courts.

Today many civil society organizations are planning and implementing anti-corruption projects to specifically improve service delivery and openness in the governments’ activities. Fundamentally, a lack of accountability derives from a number of factors, including inadequate management, lack of oversight, poor training, and an absence of performance incentives, which in turn make accountability impossible.

Advocacy is more powerful with partnerships between civil society organizations at the national level, that have access to decision-makers, and the local level, who can ensure that service delivery is supported by systematic or policy changes. Engaging constructively with authorities is the most effective way to resolve issues and achieve change.

The Institute would serve as a training arena for all arms of government and other non-governmental organizations to conduct researches and learn towards evolving a homegrown anti-corruption approaches that reflect the peculiarities of the Nigerian context especially Kano State. Going against it using baseless political affiliations is uncalled for, most especially from the uncultured youth on social media that give regards to no one in the Arewa they always shout for, this is not in the culture of Arewa.

This is not a rejoinder to the video allegation, but let’s ask ourselves is collecting 10% from contracts awardees’ Haram for all the Kano State Governors? If it was legalized so even if that was the same 10% from the contracts then we wasted our times on a baseless topic of discussion for those that blamed Rimin Gado on not treating the file.

Corruption is a killer disease but still no country with zero percentage of corruption, all attempts of prevention and punishment is on reducing the percentage of corruption to the barest minimum but not zeroing it. Social auditing is one of the most successful mechanisms in the fight against corruption it was tested in many countries that include India and South Africa I would prefer it as a citizen-driven mechanism in the fight against corruption.

Countries that were ranked in the corruption perception index like Somalia does not mean they cannot rectify the ugly situation using the behavioral and attitudinal change. While countries that were ranked high like New Zealand and Denmark that scored 9.5 out of 10 (2011) does not mean they have zero percent of it. Having a working anti-graft agency with well trained personnel from anti-corruption centers like the recently established in Kano would contribute towards scoring high. Note that the Index only measures public sector corruption, ignoring the private sector. More so Media outlets frequently use the raw numbers as a yardstick for government performance, without clarifying what the numbers mean.

Trained and supported volunteer citizen committees can be powerful agents to identify corruption and push for improvements, even on technical issues.

The anti-graft agencies should put into consideration corruption cases in some areas that are not on forefront, such as the corruption in the health sector ( diverting public health equipments, payments on non-payments services), education sector (students are asked to pay to pass a course, for one to pass an exam must purchase a book or handout published by the course facilitators, sex for marks), constructions and procurements at Primary Health Care Management Board, constructions and procurements at State Universal Basic Education and service delivery in governments offices.

Barr Muhyi should consider creating a tracking team on the above issues comparison of the PCACC, CSOs, Media Personnel and Influential’s. Establishing anti-corruption consortium that would include all third sector organizations working on anti-corruption in the state and other relevant stakeholders perhaps reviving the Open Government Partnership (OGP).

Tahir Mahmood Saleh, a development worker, writes from Kano.

Lauretta Onochie: exposed for serial fake news, nominated for electoral umpire job

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By Hassan Shehu

President Muhammadu Buhari this afternoon nominated his controversial Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commissioner representing Delta State.

The job has integrity as a constitutional requirement to be fulfilled for its nominees. Yet Ms. Onochie was a subject of many social media posts that turn out to be fake news. In September 2018 she posted a picture of a road construction site that she tagged “Nassarawa-Jos Road BUHARI AGAIN!!! Sai Baba” which turnout to be an iStock photo that was uploaded by Getty in 2015 and has nothing to do with any construction site in Nigeria.

In yet another tweet, Ms Onochie posted on her Twitter handle pictures of houses which she said, “Beginning with Zuba, and later Lugbe and Kwali, all in the FCT, N9 Billion has been provided by the FG to build 550 Low Cost Houses, Decent accommodation for the poorest of our nation. Similar low cost housing projects will be replicated across the 36 States of Nigeri. #SaiBaba” These pictures were actually pictures of houses from Rent-to-Own Programme of Lagos State, Sir Michael Oedola Housing Estate, Housing estates on Malaysia and British Columbia.

A July 2019 tweet by her, that carried a picture of stick wielding people, said, “Lives have again, been lost in inter-communal clashes in Cross River State….” The people in the picture were found to be demonstrators against 2012 fuel subsidy removal in Ikorodu, Lagos.

As controversial as she is, this nomination is also not free of controversy. Femi Falana led Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) has declared Ms. Onochie unqualified to be appointed a commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission. It said a partisan, card carrying member of a political party is not fit for such role, let alone Ms. Onochie that has been an “unrepentant member of the ruling party.”

Her nomination has generally been seen as a move to undermine the nation’s electoral process.

Multiple robberies rock Kano city

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There have been at least three armed robbery incidents in the ancient City this evening.

Sahelian Times reliably gathered that four armed men attacked SHY plaza at Gadon kaya at 8:30 pm, and the daredevil robbers succeeded in carting away valuable property.

The same armed men were allegedly sighted robbing shops at Tukuntawa later in the evening.

An eye witness also told Sahelian Times that the armed men who were operating in a Volkswagen, Golf, were also seen attacking shops at Bawo road all in Kano.
Efforts made by Sahelian Times to reach the state police command Public Relation Officer, however, proved abortive.

INEC: Senate minority group chides Buhari over Onochie’s nomination

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The Senate Minority group said on Tuesday that President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), defied the nation’s constitution with the appointment of his media aide, Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The members of opposition in the senate asked Buhari to withdraw Onochie’s nomination. This was made available by a letter signed by the leader of the opposition.

They noted that Buhari, by nominating Onochie, “has willfully gone against the constitution that he swore to uphold.”

Section of the statement read, “Item F, paragraph 14 of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) forbids a card-carrying member of a political party to be a member of INEC.

“The Minority Caucus of the Senate is against this nomination and call on Mr President to withdraw it.”

One Centaury after, throne returns to mallawa’ s ruling house

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Abba Dukawa

 It has been almost five decades since the people of Zaria (Zazzau Emirate) last witnessed the death of an emir, the agony that comes along with such a tremendous loss and the tension that ensues as a result of the waiting for a new emir to be appointed seem to be overwhelming for the people of Zaria and beyond.

After the third day of mourning, the people had expected the conclusion of the selection process and announcement of the new Emir of Zazzau. But they had waited for 18 days without an emir on the throne, first time in recent history.

Mallawa dynasty of Zazzau Emirate had produced four emirs  – Musa, Abdulkadir Dan Musa, Abubakar Dan Musa and Malam Alu Dan Sidi. But Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli is the fifth Emir from the Mallawa ruling house that has now ascended the throne after 100 years, the last emir from the ruling house was his grandfather Malam Aliyu dan Sidi who reined for 18 years before his dethronement in 1921, after one century, Mallawa ruling house reclaimed the throne on October 7, 2020, when Kaduna state government named Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli as the 19th Emir of Zazzau.

His Royal Highness was born on June 8, 1966, in Zaria City. He is the son of late Magajin Garin Zazzau Alhaji Nuhu Bamalli, a minister of foreign affairs in 1965 and a prominent figure in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence.

After his primary and secondary education in Kaduna, he proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to study law,  in 1998 he went to Enugu State University of Science and Technology for his post-graduate diploma in management, he holds a Master’s degree in international affairs and diplomacy and attended Harvard, Oxford and Northwestern universities as well as the University of Pennsylvania, the new Emir of Zazzau spent 26 years working in the banking, telecommunications, manufacturing and held many positions both in public and privates sectors.

President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Bamalli as Nigerian Ambassador to Thailand in 2017 and also with concurrent accreditations in charge de affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, 2020.

The challenge before the Emir of Zazzau is to unite all members of the ruling houses for the interest of Zazzau people and also to be the leader to all and treat all people fairly in the performance of his duties. He should be like his immediate-past predecessor late Shehu Idris who was a just leader, a detribalized Nigerian and father to all.

Bamalli ascended the throne of his forefathers at a time the nation and northern region in particular are facing serious challenges of insecurity, poverty, illiteracy and poor health, despite enormous endowments, with  Nuhu Bamalli on the throne, Zazzau Emirate, Kaduna State Council of Chiefs and populace in general may look forward for the continuity of the legacy of emir of peace and development in the ancient town, considering the level of Emir Bamalli’s exposure and experience both in public and private world much is expected from him.

Already Emir Ahmad Bammali pledge to ensure peace and tranquility among the peoples of Zazzau and he had a close ties with Beriberi, Katsinawa dynasties and I have a cordial relationship with other ruling Houses base on respect for each other that they inherited.

His subjects expect him to the path of late Shehu Idris exhibited throughout his 45 years on the throne. Late Emir happens to be   a just leader with all sense of fair justice to his subject and remain detribalized Nigerian and a father of all.

 The emir can also use his exposure and experience to promote the welfare of his subjects. Be like your father in-law in assisting the poor, the rich and the royal. Be emir of all not only Zazzau; let your humanitarian activities spread across Nigeria.

Dukawa  can be reached via atabbahydukawa@gmail.com

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