From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse
A team from federal Ministry of Water Resources arrived Jigawa state to supervise the greater Dutse Water supply Project for continuation.
The professional team led by Deputy Director Urban water supply and Sanitation, engineer Abu Hassan announced the move when the team paid a courtesy visit to state governor on Tuesday at government house Dutse.
He explained that, the team is in Jigawa to represent minister of Federal ministry of water resources engineer Joseph Terlumun Utsev on two major issues.
The deputy director said, the first purpose of the visit was to pay a visit to the governor and to request his permission to interact with his professional team and look at designs already made for the project at state level.
Engineer Abu Hassan maintained that, the team will also look at proposed water supply sources and existing facilities with view of improving on it after gathering all the needed information and estimated cost and design a report which will be submitted to the minister.
“The letter was written to federal Ministry of Water resources for the inclusion of Greater Dutse Water supply Project in the year 2024 proposed budget, and the request was granted by the honourable Minister. Therefore, we are delighted to inform you that the project is inline with items of federal Ministry of Water resources 2024budget”.
He said that the training and retraining of reporters would enhance productivity and enable the agency to deliver on its mandate.
According to Danladi-Bako, constant training and retraining will build capacity to enhance speed and accuracy in reportage.
“They have to be up to date. When I took over as DG of NBC in July 19,1999, between July and December, I trained about 60 per cent of all officers between Grade Level 13 and 17.
“I trained them. While some went to abroad for more training, others had theirs within the country. Some went to Centre of Management Development, University of Jos consult. I made sure that everybody got trained and was up to date.
“Today, some people buy phone worth over N70,000 and don’t know how to use it to edit a story. Some news stories happen without notice and you have to be up to date to report it as it happens.
“Retired staffers could come and do the training because they know what is obtained locally.
“Their experiences are not found on a text book shelf. What I told you today is not found in a text book; these things are not found in text books because you are dealing with people.
“When Malam Wada Maida was here in NAN, he used a lot of his former bosses to train staff. NAN must set an agenda. I set some quarters for various reporters, announcers, editors and marketers.
“So, there has to be an agenda; there must be an internal system for where you trained. External training requires the budgets from National Assembly,” he said.
Danladi-Bako, who birthed the Morning Ride Talk Show on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), many years ago, recalled that at NBC, he allocated N180 million for training in the year 2,000.
He said in trying to achieve that, he went to the National Assembly.
