Saude Amina Atoyebi
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If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me - John Bunyan
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Call me a frugal mom but I don't see the need to change my son's school bag just because it's a new school year. I'll change it when it's worn out or no longer serves it's purpose. Besides, one of the things I keep telling him is don't do something cos everyone else is🤷♀️
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I am now overseeing this in Kaduna State and I shall explain.
Indeed approval has been given for payments to commence this week.
The reason why the cash transfers aren't so popular in the social media space is because the beneficiaries and not in the category of citizens who own
Such lies !!!! What's the criteria in determining poor households ? Cash transfer? It's obvious we live in a different country from you, because these people have no accounts
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Having a second child changes one's approach to parenting or at least it changed mine. As I have heard from some parents, the toughest leap is from 1 to 2 kids, subsequently it gets easier. The thing is, while the adjustment can be tough on parents, it is also tough on the kid...
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This would have been the perfect time for Julius Berger to concentrate and fix the Abuja-Kaduna highway
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Happy birthday dear Mallam
@elrufai
💫💫 .
To us, you are Mallam and will always remain Mallam.
Thank you for exemplifying courageous leadership and sincerity of purpose. We are grateful for your tutelage.
I wish you many more impactful years on earth Sir.🎉🎂
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He’s been right by her side the whole time, allowing her to flourish given her medical expertise. Good leaders tap into the strength of their team members and allow them to be the best versions of themselves. I stan!
In Kaduna state it’s the Deputy Gov that has been giving updates. Mallam El Rufai’s ego, authority isn’t threatened in anyway.
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Never take for granted a boss who lets you make mistakes and still keeps you on
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So much pain and suffering in the world.
God Almighty, please have mercy and heal the land!!
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After I tossed the heels yesterday.
I felt really proud when my friend said she noticed how Nigerians always wore traditional outfits at international functions.
One of the reasons for me is because it is a conversation starter.
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Providing for your children is the easy part.
Instilling values that produce sensible and compassionate adults is where the work is
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N15,000 per day for high risk staff
N10,000 for medium risk staff
N5,000 for low risk staff
N5m death benefit
N2.5m disability benefit
N100k daily infection cover for 10 days
10% net pay increase to other health workers
Commissioner of Health, Dr.
@AMBaloni
has announced details of the Occupational Safety Incentive approved for health workers by the Kaduna State Government. KDSG is also providing additional insurance coverage for death and disability for all the frontline health workers.
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Thanks to everyone who stood by us through this crazy past month.
Those who dropped food at the door.
Those who bought drugs at odd hours and left them off.
Those who offered to take the children...💖💖
Those who called and prayed.
God bless and reward you all.
We are COVID free
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My heart bleeds everytime I see people trying to crowdfund for medical bills, especially for cases not treatable here. I can't even open such posts anymore. Government needs to do better in terms of healthcare.
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So proud of my baby (or big boy) Asher.
Best in Maths
Best in Creative Writing
Spelling Bee Champion
Best Overall Student
God be praised 🙏🙏
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I really want to respond individually to all the goodwill messages coming in on the new, temporary assignment but looking through, it’ll take so much time. So here’s my gratitude for your kind words while trusting God for wisdom to do what’s in the best interest of the people.
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Dear Lord,
Please let the abducted boys be rescued in one piece.
The pain and horror is just too much
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Mallam stopped Eid in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the public interest. Some muslims are cursing and praying for his demise, and the people who are quick to criticize everything
@elrufai
are seeing nothing wrong there. Issorai!!
We’ll all be alright laslas
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This is why a lot of you will fail your dissertations: trusting information from wikipedia which can be edited by anyone.
When I was in Uni, Wikipedia couldn't be cited as a credible source. Or have the rules changed?
@OgbeniDipo
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I can understand disagreeing with people, ideologies or political parties. But hating your country or wishing for the worst because you dislike who is at the helm of affairs is sick. In the end who loses when the country fails?
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Today has reinforced that no matter what you do, irrespective of best intentions, people will still be offended.
Las las do your bit, please your God and go to sleep with your conscience clear.
Never ever do things for the validation of people, just do what is right!
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My dear Uncle, the one who gave me out in marriage has gone to be with the Lord.
We were together some weeks ago, didn't know it would be the last time we saw.
I pray that your gentle soul rests in peace. May God strengthen Aunty Josephine and every member of the family.
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The goats reproduce and they are able to sell them off to buy grinding machines, chicks for poultry or fund their subsistence agriculture. Biko how is this a problem?
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Moving Nigeria forward is not only dependent on leadership.
With the orientation of the average person, the work ahead is enormous.
There is a dearth of quality citizens.
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Have you folks noticed that the happiest married men are those who let their wives thrive?
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You people will not understand why I can’t seem to talk about anything but COVID.
You won’t, but my prayer is that you do not contract the disease or lose loved ones to it.
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I live in Kaduna but keep getting lost in town 🙈
Kaduna is beautiful.
Travel advisory: Factor in an extra 15-30 minutes commute time in consideration of the blocked and newly dualized roads that require commuters to make U-Turns
#KadunaUrbanRenewal
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Lord please protect and guide our precious ones as they go back to school. Amen!
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I buy shoes, the boys outgrow them in 2 months. I now see my parents’ wisdom in buying age 10 clothes when we were 6. I am therefore introducing Asher to the world of tissue-stuffed shoes. He’ll grow into them and we’ll all be alright laslas.
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#LetterSaturdays
I miss you grandpa 💖😇
Grateful to my mum for keeping these letters.
Mama please give me my N50 🙄
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#LettersFromMyDad
My parents were big on doing right even when they didn’t have to. This has stuck with me and I’m eternally grateful.
Grateful for these handwritten letters.
I have lost all the text messages he sent before he died but these remain.
Such a timely reminder.
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Not many Nigerian academic institutions, in fact, I dare say, public institutions encourage critical thinking.
People are appreciated for their ability to cut and paste rather than their innate creativity.
In the end, you only get out, what you put in.
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Are any researchers documenting this pandemic from the Nigerian POV? Perhaps, just maybe, there may be lessons for the next generation that would witness another pandemic.
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Was missing my daddy yesterday.
Mummy gave me this today 💜💜
God rest his soul
My daddy (on the right) was a baby boy sha 😁
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You people should be playing with COVID. We don’t even know what the long term effects are. So far, some days are good and ‘normal’ other days are crap. Like the malaria that never goes away. Some days no headaches, other days it’s unrelenting. My energy levels are just low
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Sigh!!
Once you begin to pursue reforms, the powers benefitting from corruption begin to creep out from every crevice. We should be worried that people in positions of authority have financially secured their future via graft
💪🏽💪🏽
@hadizabalausman
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Mr. Atoyebi is the real MVP!!
He is really the wind beneath my wings.
I recall the countless times men would tell me at work “I cannot let my wife do your job” 🙄🙄 and I’m like “That’s why I’m not your wife”
All I can say is marry right oo. Not who society expects you to marry
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Marry someone who ‘gets’ you and not the one everyone thinks you should marry.
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Zainab has done well with the Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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smart phones.
Now, about selection of beneficiaries.
In Kaduna State, beneficiaries were identified by the World Bank poverty rankings of Local Governments. The poorest LGAs identified are Birnin-Gwari, Lere, Sanga, Kauru, Kachia, Sanga, Chikun, Kubau, Kajuru.
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One thing I've also realized in Nigeria is that when a proactive, visionary government comes in and enacts laws/policies to tackle social ills, the people call it a misplaced priority because they can't see the immediate danger or future disaster waiting to happen.
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So a lot of people think 5k is nothing. It's my data money, e.t.c. Yes, 5k may be chicken change to you but it is a big deal to these people. They have been able to form savings groups and are engaged in different forms of livelihood activities. I'll share success stories
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These are the types of areas the teams go to in order to identify beneficiaries for the Social Register.
You won’t find the beneficiaries on Social Media.
Kudos to the team.
Kadsocu is doing it again, as you can see, the Supervisor of zangon kataf LGA trying to locate some difficult to reach areas in the Communities under his supervision.
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Always a pleasure to meet and have conversations with
@DeleOlojede
He’s such a ‘cool dude’ who is ‘young’ beyond his years 😁
📷:
@elrufai
Mallam takes nice pictures
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On a lighter note, I hear some people are fighting about my heritage and how I have deprived the original Kaduna people of their ‘slot’. At least I am Nigerian. 😂😂
I hope we move past all this nonsense some day sha
I really want to respond individually to all the goodwill messages coming in on the new, temporary assignment but looking through, it’ll take so much time. So here’s my gratitude for your kind words while trusting God for wisdom to do what’s in the best interest of the people.
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On days like this, you're reminded that life is temporal.
Your position is just a position.
When you're gone, people will fight to take your place.
Heck, this even happens when you're alive. The most important thing is to do your best and spend time on what/who matter most.
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You know how much you love someone by the amount of sacrifice you're willing to make for them
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Paraphrasing Kamala Harris: “It takes a certain kind of man to be comfortable with his wife’s success”
No truer words have been said.👌👌
A man with any form of an inferiority complex will stand in the way of his wife’s success either outrightly or through emotional blackmail.
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Thank you very much Sir. Amen to all your prayers.
I am privileged to know and work with the 'you' that most people don't know, so the work comes easy.
As a boss, you have given me plenty of room to learn, flourish and do meaningful work. God bless you Sir 🙌🙌🙌
Happy Birthday Saude. You are the best amongst the crop of the best public servants we have in our state. May you live long in happiness, good health and prosperity. You deserve these and more. Thanks for managing a cranky, erratic, and difficult
@elrufai
so well!
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Many times I want to refute lies spread on Social Media based on FACTS available but then I ask myself, do people want the truth or are they just trolling?
One thing that is clear though is that there are communication gaps as relates to government policy. We will do better.
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It's a small world. Never ever underestimate how your fate could one day lie in the hands of someone that was once beneath you. Be kind!
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These LGAs make up about 40% of the total LGAs in Kaduna state and as you can see, they cut across the 3 senatorial zones.
They were chosen as the pilot LGAs.
Did this mean that other LGA's won't be reached? No. But the process is to conclude obtaining data in the pilot LGs
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Being from Kaduna is hard.
You are expected to be either
Southern Kaduna - Christian
or Northern Kaduna - Muslim
It's just tiring when you get disqualified for something once you don't fall into those clear cut lines.
For those who don't know, there are Christians from Zaria
Mrs. Aisha Pamela Sadauki.
Kaduna's 1st female Deputy Governor.
Southern Kaduna.
Hausa/Fulani.
Christian.
Heaven did no fall and we lived happily ever after. 💃
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She advises other beneficiaries to make the best of the monies being received
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The reason some people think you don't have problems is because you don't ask them favours when challenges strike
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You only have control when you're alive.
The moment you're gone, all decisions will be taken on your behalf without a right to appeal.
May God help us put our affairs in order before our time here is up.
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We are fortunate in Nigeria oo.
Our parents pay for our education right up to post-graduate studies as an obligation.
In "the abroad", you take loans, find scholarships or if your parents can afford it and choose to pay your tuition, it is a gift to you.
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Finally!! Bad market for NRC racketeers.
No more queues. Monies go straight to government coffers. Technology can go a long way in plugging leakages.
Here’s what you need to know about the e-Ticketing system for Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line.
Work is ongoing - I saw technicians at work on the system’s Server room at the Idu Station.
NRC confident that test-run of Phase1 of e-ticketing system can start by end-Oct/early Nov.
#Thread
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All the people saying action should be taken on almajiris, I hope you won't change your minds when parents/caretakers get arrested for leaving their wards to wander around town.
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No point trying to explain to people who have their minds made up, whose nuances are deeply entrenched in tribal or religious sentiments. They'll only argue for the sake of it & not to understand. I keep praying to remain open minded & be reasonable in every situation
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Based on the established criteria (poverty interpretation varies across communities), those who are deemed poor are enumerated. Their hoseholds are visited, information about poverty verified and then they are captured in the Nigerian Social Register after data validation.
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these LGAs, engage them and guide them towards identifying the poorest among them via Proxy Means Tests. E.g it could be that most have pit latrines but some don't or some are old and disabled and unable to fend for themselves.
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Can't wait to hear
@DrJoeAbah
speak today at the
@GovKaduna
Inaugural Lecture.
Last time he was in Kaduna for the
@KDSG_KIF
Speaker Series, I was on maternity leave so I missed the talk.
I also remember Prof Pius Adesanmi's lecture 4 years ago during the inauguration.
RIP Prof!
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Happy birthday dearest
@Mareeyama
Our chief organizer and the one who takes care of us.
May God bless you and prosper you in all you do 💜💜
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The Social Register is the national database of poor and vulnerable households/individuals in the country.
@NasscoNigeria
has this data but states can mine from it for social protection interventions or even for planning purposes.
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What my muslim sister
@Mareeyama
did for me and my family during this isolation. It’s only God that will reward her 💜💜
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before moving to the rest.
What's the process?
Beneficiaries are identified via Community Based Targeting. There are government officials at the State and Local Government levels who are trained to coordinate these activities. Summarily they go to communities and villages in
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Sarkin gari na 🙌🙌
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I personally know and have seen people who have been able to pool resources from the N5,000 given to them. They have formed cooperatives and run group businesses that have improved their livelihoods.
A lot of people speak from a place of privilege
It is amazing what these women did with the stipends they received from Government.
Watch this before you say that 5,000 is too little to change anyone’s life.
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Chayi!! My life!
I was telling Asher that if he doesn't eat well, his baby bro would grow to be bigger than him.
He shrugs and says: 'Isn't my aunty (referring to my younger sister) bigger than you?
🙆♀️🙆♀️🙆♀️ *Temi ba mi*
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Meanwhile plix stop stigmatising those who have had COVID. As long as you didn’t test that time that you had ‘malaria and typhoid or normal cough’ e fit be COVID wey you treat with coartem and antibiotics.
We are all in this together oo.
Na who test, know say in get COVID
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Positions and power are very transient!
What is real is who you are as a person stripped of all the glory and the values you hold dear.
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There is a National Cash Transfer Office which does the Cash Transfers.
They mine data from the Social Register to enlist beneficiaries of the cash transfer programme and those mined are the ones who receive the N5,000 monthly
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My one request for the FCT Minister is to ensure that we have an efficient and effective public transportation system in the nation’s capital
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If you're a journalist, the least you can do is research before making a fool of yourself in public. Know the context and understand the roles and reponsibilities of your interviewee before you start asking a shoemaker how to make ventilators
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If you didn’t get your SIM card in a container like this, don’t talk to me anyhow
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Ermm I just discovered the kids’ masks fit me perfectly. Don’t be shocked if you see me coming through with some dinosaur swag. And if you called me agbaya, agbaya to you too 😝
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would be automatic. Thankfully we are getting there and I love all three of my boys (yep, the third is the number 1 big baby, their papa)
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People criticising social assistance in Nigeria would hail the social security systems abroad that provide succour to their vulnerable populations 😢
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After winning an argument over this homework, Asher tells me: ‘Mum it’s okay. Even though you didn’t go to a good school, you do an important job now’ 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🙆🏽♀️
I shall report to his grandmother who will deal with him appropriately.
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My favourite lady is 60 today .
I don’t have a lot of words to say surprisingly but I’m really grateful that she’s still here and I love her loadddds. She’s one strong woman. Still standing...still standing
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The way issues quickly degenerate to religious/tribal matters is very worrying to be honest.
I’m scared for this country.
We don’t see one another as humans first, it’s always through tinted lens which has been handed from generation to generation. Tufiakwa
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Me: Please get me my computer from the room
Asher: Do you know why being rich is cool?
Me: 😕🤷🏽♀️😐
Asher: If you’re rich, you’ll be able to afford people to send on errands instead of your children.
Me: I had children so that I can send them on errands 🙄🙄mscheww
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