Present at the event were around 200 participants comprised of traditional leaders, doctors and other experts from the field of maternal health, and officials from the Federal and
Jigawa State Ministry of Health and
Jigawa State authorities.
Jigawa State is within the north western part of Nigeria.
"We have about two million people affected," in a state which has 4.3 million people, Umar Kyari, the spokesman of
Jigawa state, said on Friday.
We conclude that ADF's gift acceptance authority permits it to accept funds from Botswana, Namibia and
Jigawa State because those governments donate funds to supplement amounts that ADF grants to recipients within their respective states.
Unknown gunmen stormed Danladin Gumel of Sule Tankarkar local government area and kidnapped the 70-year-old mother of the Special Adviser to the
Jigawa State Governor on political affairs, Alhaji Yahaya Muhammed Bigman in the early hours of Tuesday.
He said while his father, Garba Atiku Abdulkadir, hailed from Wumo in the present-day Sokoto State, his mother, Aisha Kande, hailed from Dutse, now
Jigawa State.
The truck was on Friday intercepted with 48 motorcycles and 123 men coming from
Jigawa State.
The affected people, who were paraded at the headquarters of the Task Force, by the chairman of the agency, Mr Yinka Egbeyemi, were all from
Jigawa State.
The first, on rice milling plant in
Jigawa State, and the second, on packaging and storage strategies of perishable farm produce in northern Nigeria and the third, a compilation of regions where perishable produce are cultivated in 19 northern states.