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Hon. Usman Gorau Distributes Vehicles and Motorcycles to Youths in Sokoto
By Muhammad Ibrahim, Sokoto
In a bid to empower youths and enhance their economic prospects, Hon. Usman Gorau has distributed tricycles, motorcars, motorcycles and tailoring machines to youths in Gada and Goronyo local government areas of Sokoto State.
This initiative aims to provide young people with the means to engage in productive economic activities, thereby improving their livelihoods and contributing to the overall development of their communities.
The distribution of these vehicles is expected to enable youths to venture into various businesses, such as commercial transportation, goods delivery, and other entrepreneurial pursuits.
By providing access to these essential tools, Hon. Usman Gorau’s initiative seeks to reduce unemployment and poverty among youths in the region.
This gesture is likely to have a positive impact on the local economy, as empowered youths will be able to generate income, support their families, and contribute to the growth and development of their communities.
The initiative also reflects Hon. Usman Gorau’s commitment to the welfare and prosperity of his constituents.
Speaking during the distribution, Gorau urged beneficiaries to utilize the gains accordingly adding that more are on the way especially for the disabled in the areas.
June 22, 2025
Nasarawa Lawmaker, Hon Nana Doles out N40m empowerment tools to constituents.
“… items includes motorcycles, grinding machines, generating sets, sewing machines, provision of boreholes and transformers among others…”
From Leo Nzwanke, Lafia
Member representing Keffi West Constituency at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Hon Aliyu Ibrahim Nana, has distributed empowerment tools worth over N40million to the people of his constituency.
This,the lawmaker said was in fulfillment of his campaign promises aimed at creating employment and improve on the standard of living of the people of his constituency.
Hon. Nana popularly known as Baba Ali made the distribution at the Emir Palace Keffi, Keffi Local Government Area today.
Hon Nana, the Chairman, House Committee on Pilgrims said that the gesture was borne out of his desire to better the standard of living of the people of his constituency.
” Today I am distributing 45 Jincheng Roba Roba, 45 grinding machines, 8 generators, 5 sewing machines among others
” I urge you to use these items in order to be self reliant and to improve on your standard of living and that of your family members,” he said.
Nana has also disclosed that he has provided 15 boreholes across the five electoral wards of his constituency.
” He who provides water provide life as human being cannot survive without water,” he added.
The lawmaker has further disclosed that he has installed a transformer at Keffi stadium community in order to boost power supply in the area.
Nana said that he has trained 86 youths in different skills acquisition programmes such as liquid soap, shampoo, room freshers among others in order to enable them become self reliant and to contribute their quota to the development of the constituency and the state at large.
He has further assured of good representation at the state assembly in order to change the lives of the people positively and for the overall development of the constituency and the state at large.
He called on the people of the constituency and the state at large to support Gov. Abdullahi Sule Administration to succeed.
Also speaking, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, Engr. Idris Mohammed Idris, the State Commissioner for Works among others has commended Hon Nana for touching the lives of the people of his constituency positively and called for its sustenance.
They have also called on the people of the area and the state at large to support APC government at all levels to succeed in order to enjoy more dividends of democracy.
Responding, Mohammed Bello Yakubu, a beneficiary appreciated Hon Nana for the gesture and assured him of their support at all times.
It would be reported that the beneficiaries of the skills acquisition programmes were given N5000 each and certificate of participation.
It would also be reported that a motorized borehole was commissioned at Tudun Kofar ward of the constituency.
The event had in attendance Engr. Mohammed Yahaya Wada, the Managing Director, Nasarawa State Urban Development Board ( NUDB) Arch Shehu Tukur, Hon Baba Shehu, the Executive Charman, Keffi LGA, Hon Abdulrahman Maigoro, the former Chairman, Keffi LGA, Hon Mohammed Dikko- Special Adviser to Gov. Sule on Political Affairs, among others.
January 17, 2022
PMAN unity concert, for youth talents discovery, empowerment- Chiboy
The Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), FCT chapter, says its monthly Stakeholders Forum/Unity Concert and Lecture will promote youths talent discovery and empowerment.
Chioelo Ojirika, popularly known as “Chiboy D” Black, Chairman, Stakeholders Forum/Unity Concert and Lecture, made this known in an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ojirika said: “The unity concert and lecture is packaged to be a monthly event geared toward sustainable national development through youths talent discovery and empowerment.
“We do this by collaborating with relevant non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on advocacy programmes that are focussed at the national renewal and rebirth.
“These are being achieved through lectures, seminars, youths engagement in skills acquisition in music, film and sports, taking advantage of the teeming youthful population of Nigeria,’’ he said.
Ojirika recalled that the maiden event of the concert recorded enormous feat as it had further united the Abuja based artistes and gave PMAN FCT the desired corporate image.
“Our maiden unity concert had the Federal Government’s endorsement, through the participation of Mrs Nonye Ojekwe, the Special Assistant to the President on Political Affairs, in the Office of the Vice President.
“Ojekwe emphasised the powerful tool of music as a social mobiliser toward peaceful co-existence and tolerance,’’ he said.
Ojirika said the PMAN’s initiative premised on the fact that many people love music and movies.
“This is why the association decided to use unity concert to promote peace and unity in the country.
“It is also aimed at contributing to curbing the increasing rate of insecurity in the country, using our voices and faces.
“The overall objective of the PMAN FCT Stakeholders’ Forum is aimed at bringing stakeholders in the entertainment industry in Abuja together to get the industry back on track,” the committee chairman said.
The Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria is an organisation founded by Christy Essien-Igbokwe and Sunny Okosun in 1984 to guide, protect and promote the interests of musicians in the West African nation of Nigeria.
September 8, 2021
Reps Member Empowers 1000 Youths In His Constituency
By Muhammad Goronyo, Sokoto
A Member of the House of Representatives, representing Wurno and Rabah Federal Constituency, under the platform of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Architect Ibrahim Almustapha Aliyu Rabah, has empowered no fewer than one thousand of his constituents with various items, scholarship grants and cash.
The epoch-making event was conducted on Saturday, at Wurno Town, headquarters of Wurno Local Government of the State.
The largesse doled out to the constituents included two vehicles for the Caretaker Chairmen of APC in Wurno and Rabah Local Governments, one hundred pieces each of grinding and sewing machines, fourty vulcanizing machines and fourty wheel chairs and food items.
Others were five hundred students of various tertiary educational institutions who got bursary grants and a free medical outreach for two hundred Indigent patients, among several other interventions.
Speaking at the event, the Leader of the APC on Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, described the day as very historic, just as he commended the lawamker for the invaluable gestures.
Wamakko,who represents Sokoto North Senatorial District also said: ” We should be consistently grateful to the Almighty Allah and appreciate the sustained support of the generality of the people of the state to our causes.
“The event of today is part of the series of its kinds lined up by the APC flag bearers at all levels, to further alleviate the suffering of the people of the state .
” APC aims at assisting the people , rather than unnecessary squabbles. I must commend all our APC elected and appointed officials, as well as call on them to sustain their tempo of support to the electorate.”
Also speaking, the State Caretaker Of the APC, Alhaji Isa Sadiq Achida, said that, the people of the Federal Constituency have never had it so good like under Senator Wamakko, when he was the Governor of the state, between 2007 and 2015.
Achida also commended Architect Rabah for providing myriad of dividends of democracy to his constituents, from 2019, to date.
” He has followed the footsteps of our APC leaders, especially Senator Wamakko and we are proud of him as he listens and needs to our advice,” the APC Chairman, added.
Also speaking, the donor, Architect Rabah, said that, as loyal sons and students of Wamakko, they have no option than to emulate in terms of ensuring the welfare and comfort of the people .
According to him, the various gestures to the constituents were aimed at further alleviating their suffering, reduce poverty and unemployment, as well as curb restiveness.
Rabah also said that, the bursary for the students was part of his sustained efforts to enable Indigent children acquire eduction, at all levels .
The Caretaker Chairmen of APC in Wurno and Rabah Local Governments, Alhaji Musa Marnona and Alhaji Lawalli Muazu Rarah, commended Architect Rabah for the immeasurable gestures and pledged the judicious use of the items and cash.
January 18, 2021
Envoys advocate use of sports for gender equality, empowerment
Officials from both the British High Commission and the U.S. Embassy on Thursday called for the use of sports to empower women and create gender equality in all spheres of life.
The acting British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Moon, said sports was a veritable tool to promote gender equality aside from the various international legislation.
Moon spoke on the sidelines of the Generation Equality Football Competition to commemorate the 2020 International Women’s Day.
“Today is a day to have fun and watch the women play football, but there is a deeper political purpose behind these activities.
“The UK is absolutely committed to identifying more women in sports as part of a wider agenda to promote women and gender equality,” Moon said.
He said the UK would be collaborating more with the Nigerian government to promote women in all sectors, including politics, education and sports.
Similarly, the Chargè d Affaires, U.S Embassy in Nigeria, Kathleen FitzGibbon, while speaking at the same event said gender equality was critical to having an egalitarian society.
She said sports was one of the ways of promoting gender equality and the U.S. was committed to women sports right from the early age.
The six-team women competition was won by Team Helpline Foundation which defeated Team NUJ 2-0 in the final.
Earlier, Team U.S. had beaten their British High Commission (BHC) counterparts by the same scoreline to emerge third.
The football competition was organised by FAME Foundation as part of activities to commemorate the 2020 International Women’s Day.(NAN)
March 6, 2020
Foundation empowers 326 Cameroonian refugees with skills in C/River
No fewer than 326 Cameroonian refugees are undergoing various skills acquisition programmes at various settlements in Cross River.
The Cameroonian refugess, drawn from different camps across the state, are being trained in Information and Communication Technology, pastries and catering, aluminum work, tailoring and fashion design, among others.
Speaking with newsmen after the launch of one of its ICT Career Empowerment Centre at Adagom settlement in Ogoja on Wednesday, the Chairman, Board of Directors, Community Refugees Relief Initiative, (CRRI), Dr Celestine Atangcho, said the aim was to give the refugees hope, as well as show concern and empathy.
Atangcho said the idea behind the empowerment was to give the people from the Southern part of Cameroon a sense of belonging and hope to carry on in life.
“We believe it is better to empower the people in the various camps instead of just giving them food items and medicines, which is equally important.
“We are carrying out this training and empowerment in six camps in Cross River, and we have others in Taraba State too which we believe will reduce a lot of dependency and create durable solutions for the people.
“We want the people to acquire skills so that they can have something to fall back on when the crisis at home is over.
“We know the crisis will not last forever, so our people need to start up from somewhere as a lot of them have lost their homes, jobs and families,” Atangcho said.
On his part, Mr Ayaude Adetoye, the UN High Commisioner for Refugees Livelihood Officer, said the intervention would reduce the burden on both federal and state governments.
Adetoye said the initiative by CRRI was laudable because it would give the people hope and something to fall back on in the nearest future, especially when the Cash Based Intervention ended.
“If other groups follow suit, the refugees will be easily rehabilitated. The Cash Based Intervention will not last forever, so the empowerment will make a lot of them self reliant.
“We really commend the gesture by CRRI, and we appeal to other organisations to take this kind of initiative to reduce the burden on government,” Adetoye said. (NAN)
March 4, 2020
NGO seeks to empower out-of-school girls, physically-challenged through sports, education
A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Additional Plus Sports and Education Initiative (APSE), on Wednesday said it would empower not less than 60 out-of-school girls, women and physically-challenged through sports.
The Executive Director of APSE, Oluwaseun Narwoh, while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, bemoaned the high rate of out-of-school girls in the country.
Narwoh, who spoke on the sidelines of the organisation’s programme aimed at empowering young girls, women and the physically-challenged, urged for an urgent redress.
APSE is a non-profit organisation with the objectives of empowering young girls and women, including those with disabilities.
“APSE shall be empowering 60 participants and this is specifically for young people between ages 6 and 11 in the Mowe area of Ogun, and this empowerment is hinged on harnessing hidden potential through sports and education.
“We also want to create communal unity through leisure experience which will serve as an empowerment scheme towards the discovery and nurturing of identified talents for a more gratifying future.
“It will be an avenue for the participants to be gainfully involved and engaged at their formative stage, since sports is a laboratory for talent and character-building necessary for any national advancement,’’ the APSE executive director said.
She added that the scheme was for the exclusive intention of promoting diversity and social justice through the APSE Academy.
Narwoh then disclosed that APSE would on Saturday hold a programme tagged “Awaken the Giant 1.0 Challenge’’ at the Eminent Kids Montessori School in Mowe.
She said the organisation’s pet project was a start-up innovation programme for the development of young girls through the introduction of sports and Reading Club at the grassroots across Nigeria.
“The management of APSE is launching the programme in Mowe in partnership with Eminent Kids Montessori School owing to the fact that there is no existence of sports there presently.
“We understand that, worldwide, sports is an unrivaled tool that transcends all geographical barriers, age, ethnicity and social status.
“The idea was borne out of the need to promote mass participation of young girls in sports and education, since sports provides hope where there seems to be none.
“Also, education provides knowledge which is power,’’ Narwoh said.
She said the vision of the NGO was to improve the orientation of girls on how they could sustain their education alongside their engagement in sports activities.
“The vision of the clinic is to establish and sustain sports and reading club in local communities, and the mission is a continuous process of grooming participants in various sports.
“So, we have sports such as table tennis, basketball, scrabble, football and athletics, with the aim of grooming the young ones to stardom through an exposure to state, national and global opportunities.
“Having attended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime workshop organised for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria, the resource materials shared on Doha Declaration on Education for Justice (E4J) Initiative tools shall be used in sustaining the reading club.
“Along the line, this will help in promoting the culture of lawfulness amongst young people in Nigeria,” the APSE official said.(NAN)
February 13, 2020
ITF empowers 11,000 Nigerians with industrial skills
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has empowered 11,000 Nigerians across the country with various skills and trades under its 2019 National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP).
Mr Joseph Ari, ITF Director-General made this known on Monday in Abuja at the graduation and distribution of Start-Up Packs to the beneficiaries.
The NISDP began in the last quarter of 2019 nationwide while the training lasted between three and six months, depending on the trade.
According to Ari, the NISDP is one of the numerous skills acquisition intervention programmes introduced and implemented by ITF to facilitate the achievement of the Federal Government policy on job and wealth creation.
“It focuses on skills acquisition to create jobs, to stem rampant unemployment and breed new generation of entrepreneurs to transform the economic landscape of the country,’’ he said.
He listed the nine skills and trades which 300 beneficiaries were trained in each state of the federation and FCT to include Leather Works (Shoe and Bag Making), Welding and Fabrication, Catering and Event Management.
The ITF boss listed others as Domestic Electrical Wiring and Installation, Solar Energy Installation, Plumbing and Pipe-fitting, Tiling, Production and Laying of Interlock Tiles, Auto-gelle and Beauty Care and Furniture Making.
He believed that given the intensity and practical nature of the training, which was 80 per cent practical and 20 per cent theory, they were equipped with necessary skills and attitudes to thrive as employees or entrepreneurs.
“When tied with the trades which were chosen after careful and in-depth need analysis of their locales, we have no doubt they will thrive, as trades they have learned will always be needed,’’ he added.
Ari recalled that since its inception, the NISDP has equipped over 200,000 Nigerians nationwide and 18,000 from the FCT with skills for employability and entrepreneurship.
According to him, its commitment to skills acquisition is premised on the fact that it remains the most viable solution to rising unemployment and poverty which have continued to defy best efforts of governmental and non-governmental approaches.
“We see visible evidence of the Federal Government’s efforts to get Nigerians engaged in meaningful economic ventures through various social investment programmes and skills acquisition programmes being implemented by ITF and other organisations with similar mandates.
“The Federal Government’s effort is not enough in view of the magnitude of the unemployment confronting the country,’’ he said.
Ari, however, appealed to state governments, the Organised Private Sector (OPS), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO), Faith-Based Organisations, Politicians and other stakeholders to collaborate with the ITF in efforts to train Nigerians.
He said that it could be by way of sponsorship of additional trainees for its various skills programmes, or by buying start-up packs for beneficiaries of the programmes for more impact.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha in a keynote remark, urged ITF to conduct a tracer study in the next one or two years to provide more opportunities to expand the NISDP.
Mustapha, represented by Mr David Adejo, the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs Office recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari in his inaugural speech in 2015 had promised to lift 100 million Nigerians from poverty to prosperity in 10 years.
He said the president also singled out unemployment as a problem that needed to be tackled through diverse interventions such as agriculture and disbursement of credits to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to stimulate national economy.
Mustapha said that the Federal Government had remained steadfast to the promise, adding that ITF had trained more than 450,000 Nigerians in various skills and trades over the last decade and half years.
He said that government also provided affordable credits through schemes such as the N250 billion Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) MSMEs fund and the Growth Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP|).
Mustapha said that the government also initiated several social investment programmes, including the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), N-Power and National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) to reduce socio economic problems in Nigeria.
He advised the beneficiaries to take full advantage of the opportunity and ensure that the Start-Up Packs provided were used in the manner intended.
Speaking with NAN, Miss Blessing Idehai, one of the beneficiaries commended the Federal Government and ITF for giving her the opportunity to be trained on Auto-Gele and Beauty Care in the FCT.
Idehai said that she would utilise the opportunity wisely to contribute her quota to development of the nation.
She urged the government to expand the scope of the skills programme so that other Nigerians could benefit and become self reliant. (NAN)
February 11, 2020
SMEDAN trains, empowers 300 entrepreneurs on online business in 6 states – D-G
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has trained and empowered 300 entrepreneurs on online businesses to enhance socio-economic activities in the country.
The Director-General, SMEDAN, Dr Dikko Umar Radda, made the disclosure on Monday in Katsina while flagging off e-business Youths Empowerment programme.
He said that the beneficiaries were drawn from the states of Akwa-Ibom, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Osun, Katsina and Kogi.
Radda said that the programme was aimed at training the beneficiaries on how to market their products and services online.
“As you are aware, online market is a world market place that creates access to millions of buyers across the globe.
“It is important that our young entrepreneurs both men and women are introduced into this digital ways of doing business,” he said.
The director-general said that the agency would distribute laptop computers to each trainee across the benefitting states.
He said that the trainees can conduct business processes on the internet like buying and selling products, supplies and services, servicing customers and processing payments.
Others include managing products control, collaboration with business partners, sharing information, running automated employee services and recruitment.
He urged the beneficiaries to register as cooperative society or business name with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
Radda further urged them to handle the computers with care to enable them continue to apply the skills acquired during the training for speedy growth of online businesses.
He assured that SMEDAN would continue to support entrepreneurs to achieve its dream of job creation, wealth creation and poverty alleviation. (NAN)
February 11, 2020
Rep. empowers 100 indigent Abia widows at Christmas
Rep. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia, has donated empowerment items and cash to at least 100 indigent widows in the constituency, in the spirit of the Christmas season.
Speaking while giving out the items to the women at Isuochi, the headquarters of Umunneochi council area on Sunday, Onyejeocha said that the gesture was intended to make them economically self-reliant.
She advised them to strive to be less dependent on man but to “always look unto God for their sustenance,” assuring them that “the God of the widows will not forsake you.”
She further encouraged them to resist amorous advances from unscrupulous men, saying that they should shun acts that could debase their moral and spiritual life.
The lawmaker expressed concern over the wanton abuse and enslavement of children of unsuspecting widows, given out as house help and admonished widows to be circumspect while giving out their children.
“You should resist the persuasion to give out your children to people who promise to help you train them in the city.
“Most times, these people do not mean well. They come on the pretence that they would train them in better schools in the township.
“Rather than put the children in school, they either use them for child trafficking or deploy them in pitiable child labour.
“I encourage you to stay together with your children. Send them to community schools and not jeopardise their future by giving them out as house help.
“It is better you stay with your children and send them to community schools where they will be safe than give them away to those who will turn them to slaves in the city.
“Some of us also attended village schools, in spite of the obvious challenges and today those who were trained in private schools in the city are not better than us,” Onyejeocha said.
The empowerment items included sewing and grinding machines, freezers and motorcycles worth millions of naira, in addition to rice, wrappers and cash.
The legislator also extended similar Christmas largesse, including bags of rice and cash, to scores of traditional rulers and clergymen in her constituency.
She implored them to continue to pray for the All Progressives Congress-led administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and other political office holders in the country.
The Deputy Chief Whip further spoke on some of her achievements so far, including attracting the construction of 11.5 km Obilo-Nneato Road and Amiyi-Amigbo Road, renovation of some schools and supply of school desks.
She further said that she had helped to secure employment in some federal establishments for many youths in her constituency, among others.
Onyejeocha, who is doing her fourth term in the house, assured her constituents of more dividend of democracy and federal projects in the area in the coming years.
Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries, the Presidents-General of Umuanyi Uturu, Ndiawa Isuochi and Nneato autonomous communities, Chief Celestine Orji, Chief Daberechi Ogbuagu and Chief Solomon Ihewu, respectively, expressed profound gratitude to the lawmaker for her kind gesture.
They extolled her spirit of philantropy and investment in human capital development and promised their unflinching support to her future political aspirations. (NAN)
December 30, 2019