The Katsina State overnment has paid its N40.3 million counterpart fund for the Fadama III programme.Alhaji Magaji Abubakar, the state Coordinator of the programme, made this known on Monday in Katsina.

The Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has condemned the recent killing in Jos, the Plateau State capital, in which no fewer than 500 people lost their lives. The organisation’s Executive Director, Mr Ibuchukwu Ezike, said in a statement in Lagos, said “we received with intimidating shock, the news of resumed pogrom in Plateau state, few months after over 300 persons were murdered in cold blood in Jos”.

A child rights group has denied allegations of fraud levlled against it and published in the current edition of a national news magazine. This was contained in a press statement issued by Stepping Stones Nigeri- a British based group was – signed by its Advocacy and Campaigns Officer, Lynda Battarbee.

On the second question, it seems that the use of the words “written declaration” is unduly restrictive in the midst of words like “transmit” and “otherwise” already discussed above. No doubt, the intention of the words “written declaration” was to have a permanent record of the decision of the president.

Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, is expected to be among the state governors that would attend the forthcoming nineth edition of Nigerian-Business Mission, scheduled to hold in Potsdam, Germany from the 16 to 24 April 2010.