The minister of regional development, Uba Ahmadu, announced this while inaugurating a 250-bed capacity hostel constructed by the North-East Development Commission.
He commended the state government for empowering the inmates.
Ms Arukwe said the initiative exposed over 2,000 beneficiaries to climate-smart agriculture under the Gombe Cluster comprising Gombe, Adamawa, and Taraba.
He stated that the move was aimed at improving the health status of rural dwellers in the North-East region.
Snakebite patients in Gombe State have decried the soaring cost of life-saving treatment and called for urgent government intervention
Mr Dahiru further said the state had identified 70 suspected cases in nine local government areas (LGA) and had collected 63 samples.
“But within the next 10 days, all farmers are expected to have received their inputs to commence cultivation,” he said.
Surveys carried out in Dutse and Gombe, showed that prices of food items dropped slightly by about 10 per cent occasioned by the ongoing harvesting.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has unveiled a liquid-based supplement to enhance child nutrition and stem malnutrition in Nigeria.
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“Some of them spent 15 to 20 days at home before reporting snakebite cases to the hospital.’’
