The Ministry of Budget, Planning and Multi-lateral Coordination in Bauchi has said that the state government is making concerted efforts to positively impact on the generality of lives of people of the state.

The Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Idris Saleh Giade said, “His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Bauchi state, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has been trying as much as possible to positively impact on the lives of the people of the state, especially in social services such as food and nutrition”.

The permanent secretary was on yesterday fielding press questions at the venue of the Bauchi State Multi-Sectoral Plan of Action for Nutrition Development workshop, organised by Catalyzing Strengthened Policy Action for Healthy Diets and Resilience (CASCADE) in collaboration with the Bauchi Ministry of Budget, Planning and Multi-lateral Coordination.

Alhaji Idris Giade explained that the objective of the workshop is to have a multi-sectoral plan of action with relevants MDAs in the state whose activities are related to nutrition, hence the work plan to cut across all the MDAs that have complimentary relevance on one platform, which is nutrition.

According to him, the International partners that brought about the CASCADE project to support Bauchi state have a multi-sectoral plan of action for implementation, saying Bauchi state has domesticated the National policy on food and nutrition, and its implementation has already been approved by the State Executive Council (SEC).

“The Council has already approved for the implementation of the domesticated document, the ACFN national policy, and it has been put into implementation. So we’re here to make sure we go through the national multi-sectoral plan of action, to make all the scrutiny that is expected to have a document relevant to the local setting of Bauchi state”.

Gaide gave the relevant state MDAs as the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, State Health Management Board, BASPHCDA, among others, whose representatives as workshop participants are all in Plateau state for the occasion.

Also speaking to the press, the CASCADE Project manager, Mr. Isaac Ishaya Audu said that CASCADE as a program has the particular interest around strengthening multi-sectoral coordination in food and nutrition service delivery in Bauchi state.

“To achieve that, we have the national multi-sectoral plan of action that has come into play, to be a key driver in terms of leading implementation of food and nutrition policies in the country”, Audu said.

Audu further stated, “So for Bauchi, our particular interest is to ensure that a multi-sectoral plan of action for food and nutrition is actually used as a driving template to lead actors in terms of implementation of food and nutrition service delivery.”

The manager also stated that CASCADE keeps particular interest around maximising technical and financial investment specifically around food and nutrition service delivery, as it has multiple layers of actors and donor investments going into nutrition.

“But how can those investments be maximised to drive efficient results. If we can have a multi-sectoral cost plan of action to drive that process, it will significantly maximise the cost investment and guide actors who are leading most of those investments process in terms of achieving results”, Audu concluded.

Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y Suleiman has felicitated with the people of Bauchi State and all Nigerians on the occasion of 63rd anniversary of Nigeria’s independence.

This was contain in a signed statement by Abdul Ahmad Burra Spokesperson to the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly and made available to Sahel Reporters on Sunday.

The Speaker said that Nigeria has attained appreciable level of development in all sectors of human endeavour, hence the reason all Nigerians celebrate the auspicious day.

He recalled the sacrifices made by the Country’s founding fathers and the political, religious and community leaders which saw Nigeria emerging strong and united despite many challenges that the Country faced since 1960.

However the Speaker noted that problems of insecurity, inflation, economic downturn and corruption are still posing serious danger to the existence and progress of the Country, stressing the need for all Nigerians to take leap from our heroes past by making sacrifices and joining hands with the authorities to bring lasting solutions to the cancerous problems bedeviling Nigeria.

As a solution to the serious hardship and dwindling economy of the Country, Speaker tasks youth in the Country to take lead in agriculture and private sector, saying heavy reliance on civil service and other paid jobs spell doom to the prosperity and economic status of Nigerians.

He commended the Executive Governor of Bauchi State Senator Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad CON (Kauran Bauchi) for turning the misfortunes of the State around since his emergence as Governor in 2019, describing the Governor as the true heir of the founding father and first Prime Minister of Nigeria Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of blessed memory.

While praying to Almighty Allah to bless Nigeria and bring solution to its problems, the Speaker stated that the Bauchi State House of Assembly will remain strong and resolute in enacting laws and legislations that will continue to put the State in the pedestal of economic growth and development, the statement added.

In commemoration of Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Day celebration, Dan Jarma Adamawa Foundation felicitates with President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President Senator Kashim Shettima, Governor of Adamawa State Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and his Deputy Professor Kaletapwa George Farauta.

In a statement made available to Sahel Reporters, the foundation also felicitates with Khalifa Tijjaniya of the Nigeria, Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Speaker Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley and other Members of the 8th Assembly, Secretary to the state Government Barr. Awwal D. Tukur, COS Doctor Edgar Amos and other members of the State Executive Council.

From R: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Dan Jarma Adamawa

The foundation felicitates with all the 21 Local Government Council Chairmen, Adamawa State Council of Emirs and Chiefs as well as entire Nigerians on this joyous occasion of Nigeria @63.

It urges Nigerian youths to be vanguard of peace and involve themselves in productive ventures for them to be good feature leaders.