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Katsina State Government moves to empower secondary school children. Approves 50m for AGILE Project

Gov Masari Katsina Governor Aminu Bello Masari has approved the disbursement of 50 per cent of the N100m budgeted for the Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) school Project. The fund is expected to improve the implications plans and help create priority during the engagement of the activities. The State Coordinator of the AGILE Project, Shehu Mustapha, made this known while addressing newsmen shortly after the celebration of the International Day of the African Child. He told newsmen that the State Government has already so far released the sum of N35m for the project. According to him, the AGILE project is getting all support needed from the State ministry of Education through it Commissioner and efforts are being made to guarantee it's success. ‘’All other stakeholders and individual actors also have given us the necessary support needed", he said. The two day event organised by the Katsina State Ministry of Education in collaboration with Adole

Ekweremadu Withdraws from Enugu Guber Race, Congratulates Mba

  *Says it’s time to unite   *No sacrifice’s too much for Enugu   *My ambition not worth the life of anybody   Former Deputy President of the Senate and foremost aspirant to the Enugu State governorship seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has withdrawn from the race.   Ekweremadu has also congratulated the winner of the PDP primary election, Barr. Peter Mba.   He made this known in a statement he personally issued after meeting with his supporters and political associates in Enugu on Thursday.   The lawmaker, who regretted that his lofty plans for the transformation of Enugu, “A Pathway to a New Enugu”, was sabotaged by betrayals, high level of ingratitude, fraudulent political practices, and persecution of his supporters, however, noted that the light of political emancipation he lit together with his supporters, though dimmed temporarily, would never be extinguished.   He said: “In the last two years, we set out to run for the governors