By Aisha Gambo

The Kaduna State office of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Monday says it is fast-tracking it’s sensitisation campaign at the grassroots on the benefits of the Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP) .

The agency’s Coordinator in the state, Zubair Galadima-Soba, said this at the training of NOA’s Community Orientation and Mobilization Officers (COMOS) on GEEP, held in Kaduna.

The GEEP program is implemented by the ministry of Humanarian Affairs,Disaster Management and Social Development under its National Social Investment Programme(N-SIP).

"NOA is the desk office of the program, the community orientation and mobilization officers would be the registers of the participants of this program.

"We shall sensitize them on the advantage of the program and urge them to get themselves involved so that they would earn some income and better their lives", he said.

Earlier, the minister of Humanitarian Affairs,Disaster Management and Social Development,Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk said that the beneficiaries of the programme would be people that have no access to credit.

The minister,who was represented by her special assistant,Maimuna Idris stated that government would provide non collateral and non interest loans for youth,artisans,vulnerable groups and farmers in order to assist them enhance their businesses.

She explained that the GEEP had three categories namely, Trader Money targeted at youth and artisans, Market Money targeted at vulnerable women and Farmer Money targeted at Farmers.

According to her, those for Trader money would recieve N50,000 ,Market Money would also get 50,000 loan while Farmer Money would get N300,000 worth agriculture inputs.

Meanwhile, the state focal person,N-SIP ,Saude Amina Atoyebi said the implementation of the programme would assist small and medium scale businesses in the state.

She urged Kaduna residents to make use of the opportunity to enhance their business and stop procrastination adding it was an open program for citizens.

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Lai Mohammed: 'We will not rest until social media is regulated'

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August 19, 2021 9:29 AM

The minister says the administration won't stop until social media is regulated.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed [DW]

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has again stressed that the Muhammadu Buhari administration won't give up on its mission to regulate the social media space in Africa's most populous country.

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Social media platform Twitter has been banned in Nigeria, the administration is pushing a slew of anti-social media bills around the National Assembly and Mohammed has never missed an opportunity to berate fake news merchants who have found in social media a platform for their dubious trade.

“When you talk about fake news and its danger, we need to take it seriously and I am happy that the entire world is now seeing what we saw more than two years ago.

“I can assure you that we will not rest until we regulate the social media, otherwise, nobody will survive it,’’ Mohammed said on a day a news platform accused him of sneaking to the United States for a meeting with Twitter.

The Buhari administration has repeatedly been accused of stifling free speech, suppressing press freedom and of attempts to take the wind from the sails of the tech ecosystem in Nigeria.