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  • Kaduna State Govt receives #EndSARS report, to set-up white paper committee

    Kaduna State Govt receives #EndSARS report, to set-up white paper committee

    Deputy Governor of Kaduna state, Hadiza Balarabe on Monday December 13, received a report from the Kaduna State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Acts of Police Brutality and Other Related Abuses.

    Describing policing in the country as a “national emergency”, Balarabe called for a quick devolution and decentralisation of policing in other to enhance their effectiveness and get the confidence of the people.

    The Deputy Governor also promised that the state government will study the report and its recommendations and issue a White Paper in response.

    She said;

    “Every state government is aware of the prevailing anomaly in policing: the deployment in all the states of police officers controlled by the Federal Government but whose operations are funded by state governments. As recommended by the APC Committee of The Federalism chaired by our Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, it is time to devolve policing powers and institute the necessary safeguards for lawful conduct and the protection of human rights.

    “The crisis of policing remains a national emergency. It is in the interest of everyone that our country builds an efficient police force, large enough to be effective, sufficiently decentralised to understand the terrain and build local support, properly trained, equipped and resourced for the job and operating with the highest regard for the law and rights and dignity of citizens.

    “As I receive this report, I wish to register the gratitude of the Kaduna State Government, to Hon. Justice David Shiri Wyom and the seven other members of this Commission of Inquiry for their service.

    “The government will study the report and its recommendations and issue a White Paper.”

    Chairman of the panel, Justice David Nyom who also spoke during the presentation, said the panel heard a total of 43 petitions out of the 64 petitions it received after evaluating the evidence and considering the exhibit tendered and admitted.

    Six petitions were struck out on the application of Petitioners and or Counsel, and 13 others struck out due to lack of merit.

    The panel recommended payment of compensation to 23 petitioners in the total sum of two hundred and seventy-one million five hundred thousand naira for deaths, injuries, permanent incapacitation, and others.

    It also recommended the prosecution of some erring police officers as well as the compliance by the Police of rulings/orders of the High Courts.

    Kaduna state and Federal Government were also asked to assist in directing the Police to release corpses of persons they deposited in the mortuary to relatives and petitioners for burial, noting that such people cannot afford the bill charged by the hospitals and for the fact that it was the Police who deposited same.

  • Kaduna State Govt Conducts Fresh Competency Test for 35,000 Teachers

    Kaduna State Govt Conducts Fresh Competency Test for 35,000 Teachers

    The Kaduna State Government has commenced another competency test for primary school teachers as part of efforts to ensure quality teaching and learning in basic schools across the state.

    This comes almost four years after it conducted a similar exercise that led to the dismissal of 22,000 unqualified teachers and the recruitment of 25,000 qualified ones.

    Speaking at the commencement of the computer-based test held in three different centres, the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Tijjani Abdullahi said the competency test is not to sack any teacher but to identify gaps in the subject areas for the purpose of training and retraining the teachers.

    “The teachers that are here will see the difference in the approach of the testing,” the State SUBEB Chairman told journalists.

    In 2017, the Kaduna State Ministry of Education sacked over 20,000 unqualified teachers who failed a test conducted to determine their competency.

    The decision which pitched the Nigerian Union of Teachers, the Nigerian Labour Congress ( NLC) against the state government, saw the two Labour unions embarking on a peaceful protest.

    Despite the dust it generated, the government stuck to its guns and subsequently went ahead to employ about 25,000 new qualified teachers to fill the gaps.

    Four years down the line, the Kaduna State Government is embarking on the same process of assessing the competency of the newly recruited teachers through a computer-based system.

    The teachers are expected to write ten questions per subject; English language, Mathematics, Social studies and basic science.

  • Mass Sack: NLC begins nationwide strike mobilization against Kaduna State Govt

    Mass Sack: NLC begins nationwide strike mobilization against Kaduna State Govt

    …Notify all State Council Chairpersons

    By Gabriel Udeh, Kaduna

    Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has commenced mobilization of workers nationwide for industrial action and protest against what it described as extreme anti-workers policies of the Kaduna State Government.

    This was contained in a letter of notice to all State Council Chairpersons in all NLC State Councils, titled: “Notice on Mobilization for Nationwide strike action”.
    The letter issued Wednesday by the national headquarters of the union and dated 30 June 2021, stated that National
    Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Congress took the decision in June 22 2021.

    Signed by the Union’s Ag General Secretary, Comrade
    Ismail Bello and national President, Comrade Ayuba p. Wabba, and two other officials, the letter explained that the “meeting of the Congress held on June 22, 2021 resolved to activate the earlier decision to withdraw all services by workers nationwide.

    It read in parts: “You may recall that the last National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Congress held on June 22, 2021 resolved to activate the earlier decision by the NEC of the Congress to withdraw all services by workers nationwide as part of an industrial action and protest against the extreme anti-workers policies of the Kaduna State Government.

    According to the release, the decision of the NLC Congress is In tandem with the requirement of the law.

    “The NEC through its communique released at the end of its meeting held on June 22, 2021, issued a notice for a nationwide strike action to all employers of labour.

    “In line with the resolution and notice, you are requested to immediately convene a meeting of the State Executive Council and report back to the Congress headquarters. “This is to ensure broad based participation and mobilization of all workers in the state for the proposed action”, it added.

  • BREAKING: Kaduna State Govt shut schools over COVID-19 second wave

    BREAKING: Kaduna State Govt shut schools over COVID-19 second wave

    The Kaduna State Government has announced the closure of schools across the 23 Local Government Areas of the state.

    This followed an upsurge of the COVID-19 in the state, according to the State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Shehu Makarfi.

    The statement directed all schools in the state to close as from Wednesday, December 16, 2020.

    Makarfi said the measure was taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic following its second wave in the state.

    The Commissioner in a statement issued on Tuesday said the ministry decided to shut down the schools due to the rising cases of COVID-19 infections in the state.

    According to him, the rising cases of COVID-19 showed a replicate of figures recorded in the first wave of the pandemic in April, May and June 2020, indicating that a new wave of the infection is rapidly spreading across the state.

    He noted that the State’s Ministry of Health has further confirmed that, while the infections cut across age groups, the new wave especially, affects those between 10 and 35 years (which form a majority of the populace in the education sector).

    He added that in its effort to contain the spread of the pandemic and save the lives of people in the state, the state “is directing all public and private schools to conclude all necessary arrangements and close on Wednesday, 16th December, 2020 as opposed to the initial closings.”

    All examinations, the commissioner said, must be concluded on or before Tuesday, 15th December, 2020 in all institutions of learning across the state.

    He added that physical classes in the universities and other institutions of Higher Learning would not be held during the period of closure.

    He said Institutions can make other arrangements for teaching and learning and other activities in line with their continuity and contingency plans.

    The commissioner said to minimise the impact on teaching and learning, all schools would continue to plan lessons and where possible, provide online resources for students or online lessons where schools are equipped to do so.

    “Learners in the basic, post basic and secondary school levels could continue learning while at home from the Kaduna State TV and Radio e-Learning Programmes,” the statement noted.

    The statement read, “the ministry wishes to inform the general public, parents, guardians and students of the date of school’s closure due to rising cases of COVID-19 infections in the state which shows a replicate of figures recorded in the first wave of the pandemic in April, May and June 2020. Indicating that a new wave of the infection is rapidly spreading across the state.”

  • Items looted from warehouses are dangerous to health- Kaduna state govt warns

    Items looted from warehouses are dangerous to health- Kaduna state govt warns

    The Kaduna state government has warned that the foods and drugs carted away from the warehouses attacked by some residents of the state are contaminated and dangerous to health.

    The state government gave the warning in a statement released this morning by Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs. Read below

    The National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has updated the Kaduna State Government about the items looted yesterday from their warehouse in the Narayi area of Chikun LGA.

    The looted items include expired, prohibited and dangerous drugs. Persons who consume such drugs are at great risk of serious illness and death.

    The management of a food processing company whose stores were looted in Kakuri has also disclosed that the stolen grains have been treated with chemical preservatives which render them unsafe for consumption.

    Residents of Kaduna State are hereby notified to be vigilant and careful about the source of the food and medications they take and where they buy them, to avoid these dangers.

    The Kaduna State Government appeals to the public for information on the identities of the looters and where they might be hiding the stolen items.

    Signed

    Samuel Aruwan
    Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs
    25th October 2020