Rabiu Omaku
Following an uprising by underage youths in Lafia, the Nasarawa State Government has banned night political rallies and campaigns.
The Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to the State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, Comrade Peter Ahemba, confirmed that some politicians are using underage boys to achieve their objective of making them political thugs.
He said no politician is above the Government of the day. He also described the recent allegation that a Governorship candidate was not given a permit to hold his campaign rally at Government Field in the State as false.
The SSA on Public Affairs spoke on what the State Government is doing to nip underage involvement in political rumpus in the bud.
SSA on Public Affairs to Governor Abdullahi Sule congratulates the New NUJ Chairman over her landslide victory. At the recent NUJ election held in Nasarawa State.
As the SSA on Public Affairs said, the bi-monthly briefing, which started under the former NUJ Chairman, will continue.
The SSA on Public Affairs said the State Government holds the bi-monthly briefing to brief the press on the latest developments in the State. He added
The State Executive Council convened an SEC meeting on issues of mining in the Eddo community of Nasarawa Local Government Area, to be precise, the Eddo Lithium processing plant.
He revealed that the Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has acquired a mining license. He confided that a deal of N2.6bn with the company involved giving out money to the tune of N1.5bn as a signature bonus, which will involve security agencies and traditional rulers,$2.6bn which was meant to execute projects in the host communities, to gulp,$1.5bn.
The Governor has to involve critical stakeholders and has called on them to discuss which projects to embark on with the proceeds.
The agreement for the leasing of the mining activities will last until 2051, that is, after the tenure of Engineer Abdullahi Sule expires
Comrade Peter Ahemba told Journalists that the State Governor will in no distant time embark on rural and urban road projects cutting across the thirteen Local Government Councils of the State
The SSA on Public Affairs to Governor Abdullahi Sule buttressed that the key attention of the incumbent administration in the State has been to approve the sum of N2bn for the entitlement of retirees. He said the State Government is current and carefree on the benefits of retirees, which were paid for quite a long time, up to those from 2012.
He opined that retirees from Nasarawa State did not deserve so much suffering; Nasarawa State retirees did not deserve such untold hardship.
On the issue of recruiting 1000 rural teachers, he said the 1000 primary school teachers would be selected based on merit.
The State Government also announced the construction of a model school, one in each in the three senatorial zones
