DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  - All Northern Govs Should Emulate Gov. Abba Yusuf Two northern groups, the North East Youth Progressive Union and the Coalition for Democratic Rights Group, led by Dr. Kabir Hassan Sambo, have called on all northern governors to create policies that advances youths in the region and especially once with direct impacts on educational and human capital development of the region as is clearly exemplified by the governor of Kano state, Abba Kabir Yusuf, in the last five months of his time in office. The group said the north has remained backward in terms of development compared to other regions in the country, and that Kano state governor, Abba, has already set the pace for a forward thinking northern Nigeria by sponsoring over 6000 thousand indigenes for post graduate studies in India, paying the tuition fees of thousand of indegenes studying at various tertiary institutions of learning, paying the NECO fees of over 57,000 secondary schools students, amo...

Daily Rendezvous A non-governmental organisation, Emmanu Global Foundation inspired the current economic harsdship and reality faced by millions of Nigerians as a result of the severe hunger and frustrations experienced in the country and the need to bring succour to humanity, has flagged-off the distributions of food and non food items across the 21 local Government areas of Adamawa state. The flag-off ceremony which was held in Kala'a, Hong local government area of Adamawa state was designed to reach about 30,000 vulnerable residents of Adamawa state with specific emphasis on people living with disabilities, the extremely poor, among other vulnerable members of the Adamawa society. Speaking at the event, the president of the foundation, Mr. Emmanuel Musa represented by Dr.Akaka Wesley said that the distributions of the food and non food items is in line with the foundation's objective of bringing succour to humanity stressing th...

Daily Rendezvous No fewer than 18 persons, including children, are feared dead in a boat mishap in Bauchi State. The boat which was carrying 23 farmers capsized on River Buji in Itas Gadau local government area of the state on Thursday. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday. Wakil said five others were rescued alive while the driver and one passenger were unconscious. He said that the deceased included eight children and eight teenagers and two adults. He said the Village Head of Majiya, Nuhu Kaila, reported the incident at the Itas Gadau Police Station. “On 12th November, 2020 at about 11am, one Ali Adamu, Village Head of Majiya came to Itas-Gadau Police Station and reported that, on same date at about 10.30am, one Nuhu Kaila, Male of Zango Majiya village, carried about 23 persons in a Canoe, from Zango Majiya to the farm, ” the statement said. ...