“So, you can add that to the deficit because when you say that you will sell government assets to finance the budget. Since 2019 when I was in the Senate, that has been a reoccurring decimal, year in, year out, they sell government assets to finance the deficit. You can’t realise anything that way.”
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FG moves to create jobs through regulation of Halal Sector
The federal government has begun the process to regulate the halal sector to stimulate job growth and enable the country to compete internationally in the $7.2tr global halal business.
Daily Trust reports that the ministry of trade had last year established a technical committee to fashion out ways the country could regulate the halal sector to improve the exportation goods to other countries.
Speaking during the presentation of the technical committee report yesterday, the chairman of the committee, Noir Sani Hanga, said the country could develop a competitive halal industry if the government launched initiatives and adopted standards recognised globally.
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Hanga, said the sector is the fastest growing diet segment in the world, thus, the need to create awareness on its benefit to grow jobs and stimulate the country’s economy.
“We are proposing that Nigeria certify the sector to develop a robust halal industry. This industry will create job opportunities and open the gate of the over $7tr global halal market for our products and services.
“We need to prepare Nigeria to be a player in the global halal market. This will create an avenue for entrepreneurs in the food industry to have a larger market to sell their goods while following the standards approved by the government.”
On her part, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Amb. Maryam Yalwaji Katagum, said the committee was necessitated as the country has a huge market for halal products.
She added that a stakeholders meeting will be convened to adopt and make suggestions on the report before taking it to the Federal Executive Council.
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Fulani facing existential threat, 156 killed Jan-March – Group
Fulani facing existential threat, 156 killed Jan-March – Group
A socio-cultural group, Fulbe Global Development and Rights Initiative (FGDRI), has decried ethnic profiling in the country, saying profiling of the Fulanis particularly in Nigeria was a set up for genocide.
The group, while calling for concerted efforts to change the narrative, also bemoaned constant clashes between the Fulani and Hausa in Northern Nigeria, and distanced itself from banditry as well as other criminalities.
The President-General of FGDRI, Dr. Salim Musa Umar, who stated this in Abuja at weekend during the group’s Annual General Meeting, said the Fulanis were being profiled and linked to criminal activities in Nigeria in order to be maimed without recourse.
According to him, the Fulani race currently face existential threat, calling upon well-meaning Nigerians to rise and avert impending genocide against the race, adding that over 156 Fulani were killed and 7,000 cattle killed in the first quarter of 2024 mostly in Plateau, Kaduna, Zamfara Taraba and Niger States.
“The Fulanis anywhere in this country and many other countries have become an easy prey and likely to be linked, compared or attached to all form of vices. The narrative that is being sold in Nigeria. Trying to pitch the Hausa man against the Fulani is not something we can fold our hands and watch.
“A Hausa man killing a Fulani man and a Fulani man killing a Hausa man is such a big challenge. All of them are Muslims in Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and so many other states in Northern Nigeria and our revered fathers are keeping quiet.
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“It’s high time we set up a committee that will take us to the Sultan to take leadership seriously and settle the Fulani and Hausa feud. As a race, we are facing existential threat, If a Fulani is not safe in Sokoto State, I don’t know where he will be safe in this country,” Dr Umar said.
He, however, admitted that there are what he described as “miscreants among the Fulani race committing crimes” likewise other ethnic groups, arguing that it is improper to generalise and profile all Fulanis to be criminals”.
“The criminals among us are not representing us, they are not our ambassadors, we didn’t ask them to go and do banditry or kidnapping on our behalf, they are criminals and must be identified as such.
“They are not representing Fulbe, so no Fulbe should be tagged because some of his brothers are doing kidnapping and banditry. Overtime, our people have been subjected to pressure, most of which are orchestrated by some evil personalities, hence, our responsibility to addressing the challenges have become difficult and seemingly impossible sometimes.
“However, it is possible if we can come together with the strongest of determination to say enough is enough, I believe we can do it,” the Fulani group leaders said.
He disclosed that the National Human Rights Commission is now investigating the Nigerian Air Force over the massacre of herders in Nasarawa.
“The NHRC is now investigating military authorities for extrajudicial killings of innocent pastoralists. They were labeled as criminals and killed extrajudicially,” he added.
Speaking on the Benue anti-open grazing law, he said the group lost its case at the State High Court in Makurdi but has appealed against the judgement.
“We have lost our case against the Benue State government challenging the anti-open grazing law at High Court 1 sitting in Makurdi, however, we have appealed against the judgement. We have expended close to N8m on that case.
“Thanks to our elder statesman who does not want mentioned here who paid differently to the coffers of the lawyer N6m, we have been struggling with the remaining fees.”
Fulani facing existential threat, 156 killed Jan-March – Group
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Fuel: No need for panic buying, we have enough stock, says NNPC
Fuel: No need for panic buying, we have enough stock, says NNPC
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has allayed the fears of the citizenry over the fuel scarcity ravaging some parts of the country.
The corporation assured Nigerians that it has enough product and the long queues would soon disappear.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, had on Sunday said the fuel scarcity crisis being experienced in some states would take another two weeks to be resolved.
However, the Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC Ltd, Olufemi Soneye, disproved IPMAN assertion.
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He expressed optimism that the queues will be a thing of the past in the coming days, adding that NNPC Ltd has adequate stock.
He also assured the citizenry that the corporation will not increase the pump price of petrol and appealed to them not to engage in panic buying.
He stated: “The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, wishes to clarify that the tightness in the supply of Premium Motor Spirit currently being experienced in some areas across the country is a result of logistics issues and they have been resolved.
“It also wishes to reiterate that prices of petroleum products are not changing. It urges Nigerians to avoid panic buying as there are sufficient products in the country.”
Fuel: No need for panic buying, we have enough stock, says NNPC
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Ex-Benue Governor Suswan attacks Tinubu, ministers over economic policies
Ex-Benue Governor Suswan attacks Tinubu, ministers over economic policies
Former Governor of Benue State and Senator who represented Benue North-East Senatorial District in the 9th National Assembly, Gabriel Suswam, has declared that the ministers appointed by President Bola Tinubu have no value.
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