In the spirit of EID -el Kabir celebration, an NGO, Teku Farm Foundation (TFF) has donated food items and cash to families of deceased colleagues in the horticultural business in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria.

Founder of the NGO, Ibrahim Salisu presented the donations to nine families of 21 children and 6 widows of the deceased colleagues at Kabala Doki, Kaduna North Local Government Area on Sunday,

He called on the Government and well meaning individuals to come to the aid of the children of their deceased colleagues even if by offering them scholarship to study horticulture in tertiary institutions so that they could continue with the family business.

“We hope to take the children of our deceased colleagues off the street, and return them to the classroom even up to tertiary institutions so that they go and study horticulture and come back to continue their father’s business,” he said.

Salisu used the occasion to speak on the activities of the NGO which include supporting the development of forestry and protecting the environment against degradation arising from climate change.

It also compliment government’s efforts in providing employment to the teaming unemployed youth through the business of horticulture and other activities which are aimed at protecting trees .

He said TFF would collaborate with the State Government, private organisations or well-meaning individuals to protect the environment through trees planting to fight desertification and climate change.

Also Speaking , Secretary of Horticultural Unity and Development Association, Kaduna, Mohammed Garba, said that the Teku Farm Foundation within its short life span , carried out similar activities during the last Eid-il Fitr celebration and hoped that it would increase the gesture next year.

He said that the foundation will not only stop at distributing food items and cash donations, but also look at financing the education of children of their deceased colleagues as well as take care of their health needs.

Some of the families that benefited from the donation expressed happiness and thanked the foundation for such beautiful effort.

Director African Climate Reporter : Comrade Mohammed Zakaria applauded the effort of TEKU foundation for assisting late family of horticulture bussiness,

He appealed to all business men in Africa to equally emulate such a beautiful gesture

A PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Samuel Ogundipe, who has been detained since Tuesday has been released.

Mr Ogundipe was released on Friday morning after he was granted bail by magistrate Abdulwahab Mohammed of the Kubwa Grade 1 Magistrate Court in Kubwa, Abuja.

The judge had first heard the case on Wednesday after Mr Ogundipe was secretly arraigned without being allowed legal representation. On that day, Mr Mohammed granted a request by the police that the journalist be detained for five days until August 20.

However on Friday morning, PREMIUM TIMES learnt Mr Ogundipe was to be taken to the same court. The company’s lawyer was thus present at the court.

At the court, the lawyer argued for the bail of Mr Ogundipe, a request that was not opposed by the police counsel.

Mr Mohammed granted the bail in the sum of N500,000 and a surety who must be resident withing the court’s jurisdiction.

The bail conditions were met and Mr Ogundipe was released.

Earlier on Thursday, PREMIUM TIMES had responded to a statement by police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, accusing Mr Ogundipe of being in possession of classified document.

Mr Moshood alleged that Mr Ogundipe’s action was capable of causing a breach of national security and a breakdown of law and order.

In its response, PREMIUM TIMES through its lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, said Mr Moshood’s statement was “misleading and prejudicial.”

Source: Premium Times

https://www.africaprimenews.com/2018/03/07/opinion/detained-nigerian-journalist-released-by-state-security-service/

By Ahmad Umar

Gombe State House of Assembly Minority Leader, Ahmed Usman Haruna, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the national ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC).

Announcing his defection at the House plenary session on Thursday, Mr. Haruna, who is representing Gombe North State constituency, revealed that, it was necessary for him to leave APC for the PDP, because the party had failed to meet the aspiration and yearnings of the people.

He said the party at national level also failed to address his grievances, after the party in the state suspended him without duly following the consstitution.

The speaker, Abubakar Nasiru Nono, who received the new member to the party, assured that he would not regret his decision.

https://www.africaprimenews.com/2018/08/05/politics/nigeria-ill-rather-quit-politics-than-leave-pdp-for-any-other-party-makarfi/