NGF: Northern Governors Meet To Chart New Course For The Region - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
September 12, 2019
Governors of the nineteen northern states are meeting in Kaduna today to discuss issues that affect the region and chart the way forward .
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At the meeting which is holding atthe Kaduna State government house, the governors are expected to discuss issuesof insecurity, economic growth, regional integration, poverty, educationalproblems among other challenges ravaging the northern region.
In attendance were the Chairman ofthe forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, Governors of Nasarawaand Jigawa States as well as the Deputy Governors of Sokoto, Kaduna, Bauchi andBenue States
In his opening remarks before themeeting went into close door, Lalong, said the meeting was summoned for theGovernors to deliberate and take a common position on the issue of livestockmanagement in the country, which he notes, has generated controversy,misinformation and politicization among various stakeholders, as well as todevelop best ways of keying into the federal government’s National LivestockTransformation plan.