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Fundamentals for good governance G overnment and Citizens' Groups in Kaduna state have teamed up to engender effective budget tracking and implementation to create the enabling environment for increased internally generated revenue (IGR), in accordance with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). This was the fallout of a three-day eye opening event, facilitated by Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL-ECP), in collaboration with the Kaduna state government. The engagement touched on the urgent need to conduct budget trend analysis across key sectors - Economics, Social, Law/Justice as well as Administration, including audit report, all aimed ultimately at putting Kaduna state in good stead for sustained economic growth. Addressing participants drawn from government and citizens' groups, Mr Timothy Effiong, a Public Financial Management Consultant, maintained that even in Kaduna a state that is very policy-driven, there exist gaps in g...

'Our lives depend on our Environment'                                                                                                                                                                 -Environmentalist Dr. Emeghara with participants at the roundtable Dr. Emeghara Ursula Ukamaka is the Deputy Provost Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna State. She represented the College at a recent round table engagement involving non state actors for Climate Action and Sustainable Development Goals in Kaduna State. She spoke to Cubink's Bala Shekari  ...

President Muhammadu Buhari By EDDY OCHIGBO  Farmers in Nigeria and critical stakeholders in the nation's agricultural sector have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the National Agricultural Seeds Council(NASC) Amendment Bill, towards taking agriculture to the next level in the country. Speaking during the week, at a one-day strategy session in Abuja, put together by the National Agricultural Seeds Advocacy Group (NASAG)  in collaboration with Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn(PERL-ECP), NASC's Director-General, Dr Olusegun Ojo, said the call for the president to sign the Seed Bill became necessary because access to quality seeds of improved crop variety would no doubt go a long way in enhancing and sustaining agricultural productivity and food security to compliment the on-going efforts by the Buhari administration to diversify the economy. "The general decline in growth rate of agriculture's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) ...

Cowpeas mostly produced across Northern Nigeria ''Advocacy brief on agriculture if carefully developed would undoubtedly go a long way in enriching the quality of farmers' yield in Nigeria's agricultural sector and the time to actualize that is now". Mustapha Kurfi of of the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) who made this observation in his goodwill message to participants at  a program facilitated by the Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace, Empowerment and Development (CALPED ) and her partners in Kaduna, revealed  that the one day event with the theme 'Developing An Advocacy Brief for the Kaduna  State Agricultural Advocacy Group' , was conceived and convened to enhance the on going efforts by stakeholders to diversify the economy through agriculture in Nigeria. Yusuf Goje Head, Governance and Advocacy, CALPED, reaffirmed the importance of the State Development Plan, Sector Implementation Plan and relevan...