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Nearly 60% of children suffer malnutrition in Kano – official
Nasiru Yusuf
About 58.9% of children are suffering from malnutrition in Kano state, a state nutrition officer Halima Yakasai said.
Kano Focus reports that Yakasai revealed this on Thursday at a one day high level advocacy dialogue on the nutrition situation in Kano state organised by Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) in collaboration with state ministry of planning and budget.
To address this, she said Kano state government has procured 2,128 cartons of ready to use therapeutic food (RUTF) worth fifty million Naira for onward distribution to malnourished children.
She said the RUTF will be distributed to three thousand children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition in the state.
Yakasai added that the state government has empower rural women at Sumaila and Bichi local government areas on goat rearing in an effort to address malnutrition.
In her remarks the wife of Kano state governor Hafsat Abdullahi Ganduje said the state government has attached priority attention to addressing severe acute malnutrition among children.
Mrs Ganduje who was represented by the commissioner for higher education Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure said malnutrition poses a serious challenge to child wellbeing in the state.
Dr Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure
“I think it will always useful to remind ourselves of the magnitude of the problem our children are facing which we are trying to solve in Kano state. Malnutrition has continued to remain a key challenge at both individual and community level and impact negatively on the well being of the people.
“On this note, I will like to fashionably inform this forum that state government under the leadership of his Excellency the Executive Governor of Kano state Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje OFR Khadimul Islam is strongly committed in reducing the problem of malnutrition in the state using a multi sectoral and multi disciplinary approaches including various intervention at the state local and community levels through improved implementation and funding of state nutrition intervention in the state and ensure timely releases of fund and appropriated annually in order to reduce the multiple burden of malnutrition in Kano state,” Mrs Ganduje said.
In his presentation the project manager Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) Okoronkwo Sunday appealed for improved funding for nutrition in all government ministries and agencies in line with costed state strategic plan of action for nutrition.
Mr Okoronkwo Sunday
Mr Sunday also appealed for on time release of allocated funds to reduce and eliminate malnutrition in Kano state.
The CS-SUNN project manager also advocated for scale up of Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) intervention being implemented in 13 local governments to the remaining 31 local government areas, as a child with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) has just about seven months to survive or die of malnutrition.
Hajiya Zainab Musa
Also speaking the Kano state coordinator of CS-SUNN Zainab Musa thanked Kano state government for it’s strategic intervention in addressing malnutrition through budgetary allocation and women empowerment to become self reliant.
Participants
The Kano state Government under the able leadership of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has announced it decision to revisit the abandoned trailer park projects in Kano south zonal.
The decision was announced by Gov. Abba Kabir Yusuf through his spokesperson Sanusi Bature after an unscheduled to the Dakatsalle site of one of the abandoned projects.
According to the statement, these trailer park projects were initiated by the Rabiu Kwankwaso administration in 2014 at Dakatsalle, Gundutse and Dawanau but they were abandoned the immediate past administration of Ganduje.
The Governor who lamented the rampant blockage of road by heavy duty vehicles creation unneccesary hardship to road users within the metropolis, said the decision to revive the projects particularly at Gundutse and Dakatsalle in Kano South.
“It was unpatrotic for the immediate past administration to have vandalised the third location of these projects in Dawanau, which was expected to serve Kano north but the project site has allocated plots to members of thier families and cronies.” Gov. Yusuf lamented
The Governor further stated that the reasons for resustsiting were for maintaining of safety, ease vehicular movement and economic development.
Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa added that the Governor has directed all relevant agencies to ensure strict compliance of road traffic and ensure that no major road is blocked by any gathering including Friday mosques within and outside the Kano city.
Similarly, the Governor has revocked all lands allocated within the two trailer parks in Kano south (Gundutse and Dakatsalle) as part of the plan to revisit the projects.
It could be recalled that the projects were handed over to National Association of Road Transport Owners (NATO) to operate after completions
Sanusi Bature DawakinTofa
Director General, Media and Publicity, Government House, Kano.
The Executive Governor of Kano State His Excellency Abba Kabir Yusuf has flagged off the second phase of women empowerment on livestock entrepreneurship.
A statement from the office of the Governor’s Spokesperson Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa revealed that the women beneficiaries were given three small ruminants (goats) across the 44 Local Government areas of the state.
The iniative was championed under the State’s Livestock Fattining Programme of Kano Agro-Pastoral Development (KSADP).
While flagging off the second phase of programme, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf said as part of his administration’s commitment to fighting abject poverty, it has been resolved to coordinate a multi-dimensional approach to supporting the plight of women and youth for self-reliance.
He said under this iniative, the state is distributing seven thousand one hundred and fifty eight (7, 158) goats to two thousand three hundred and eighty six women beneficisries.
The Governor further stated that the programme will include the distribution of one thousand three hundred and forty two (1, 342) cows to women and youth and also one thousand eight hundred and twenty two rams.
While distributing the empowerment, the Governor issued a stern warning on diversion of the animals other than the purpose it was meant for.
Nasiru Yusuf Ibrahim
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano has inaugurated a 7.3 kilometer rural road equipped with solar-powered streetlights valued at over N4 billion in Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area.
KANO FOCUS reports that the project which was launched Sunday, was originally initiated by Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s administration in 2012 but was Abandoned by the immediate past governor in state.
Gov Abba Kabir Yusuf
Speaking during the commissioning ceremony, Yusuf expressed joy at fulfilling one of his campaign promises.
“Today, we witness the realisation of a commitment made to the people of Dawakin Kudu,” he said.
Dawakinkudu road
“I am delighted to commission this project, which will significantly enhance the socio-economic well-being of the community.”
The road project was revalidated last year under an agreement with H&M Nigeria Limited, the contractor, to complete and deliver it within the first quarter of 2025.
Sani Ahmad Mairago, Chairman of Dawakin Kudu Local Government, commended the governor for prioritizing and completing the project, describing it as a vital development for the local community.
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