The Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency (BYSEMA), says flood has affected no fewer than 1.3million people. This is according to data released on Monday by BYSEMA in Yenogoa. The agency said no fewer than 1.2million were displaced and compelled to seek refuge in temporary camps. “As at November 4, 96 deaths were reported with Yenagoa local government area worst hit,” Mr Walamam Igrubia, BYSEMA Chairman said. Ibnubia said that collation of data from the field was still ongoing. “The flood affected a number of farmlands, school buildings,health structures and other facilities. “The folld also affected some 300 communities across the eight…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Against speculations that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) might not conduct the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 2023/2024 session due to effect of ASUU strike, the Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has said preparations are ongoing for commencement of sale of registration documents for its 2023/2024 UTME. Oloyede gave the assurance during a media chat on Sunday in Lagos to debunk the speculations. “I want to clearly state here that there is no truth in such a rumour. To start with, it is not all the universities that went on strike. “To some others, academic sessions were uninterrupted…
The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed has revealed that the commission received N12 billion in its 2022 budget and is receiving much more in the 2023 appropriation, which the commission did not requested for. The Executive Secretary made the revelation when he appeared before the Senate and House Joint Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND for budget defence. According to him, the N12 billion was meant for World Bank projects which are not processed in that mode. “We had additional money given to us that we didn’t request. I later went to finance to find out…
The three-day Strategic Communication Conference for State Commandants, Provosts of Colleges and Public Relations Officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) tagged, “STRACOMM 2022,” which was declared open, by the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, ably represented by the Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President, Mr Femi Adesina on Wednesday 2nd of November, 2022 has come to an end. The conference was declared close by the Commandant General, NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi on Friday 4th November, at the Corps’ National Headquarters, Abuja and…
…Police confirm, begin search and rescue operations for passengers AFP has reported that a domestic passenger plane has plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early on Sunday due to bad weather shortly before landing in the northwestern city of Bukoba, police said, adding that rescue efforts were underway. “There was an accident involving a Precision Air plane which crashed into water about 100 metres from the airport,” regional police commander William Mwampaghale told reporters at Bukoba airport. No information was immediately available on the number of passengers aboard the plane, but local media reports said around 49 people were on…
ASHENEWS reports that Niger state governor, Abubakar Sani on Saturday, attended a ‘Charity Polo Match’ in a bid to strengthen the entertainment campaign for early detection of Breast Cancer in the society. The Charity Match was part of the series of programmes organized by his wife, Dr Amina Sani Bello and founder of Raise Foundation. Speaking at the event, Sani Bello said that he was at the exhibition match to support the Foundation in the awareness campaign in discovering the ailment early for proper treatment. “We are here because of Raise Foundation, to lend our support to Breast Cancer awareness and…
Raisi spoke after Biden said U.S. would ‘free Iran’ Those who create insecurity ‘must be dealt with’ – Raisi President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran’s cities were “safe and sound” after what he called a failed attempt by the United States to repeat the 2011 Arab uprisings in the Islamic Republic, Iranian media reported on Saturday as protests continued for a 50th day. Iran’s clerical leadership has struggled to suppress demonstrations which erupted in September after the death of young Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini who had been detained by morality police for flouting strict laws on women’s dress. Hundreds of…
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain Development Programme, has distributed rice farm inputs worth more than N25m to farmers in Enugu. The inputs were distributed on Saturday during the beginning of the Agency’s 2022/2023 dry season Agro-input distribution at the IFAD/VCDP office in Enugu. The items to include bags of rice seeds, bags of NPK fertilisers, bags of Indorama Urea fertilisers, herbicides of selective and non selective. Others are, rice planters and harvesters, de-stonning machines, water pumps, rice milling machines, casava processing machines Addressing the famers, the National Programme Coordinator, Dr. Fatima Aliyu,…
Twitter has announced a subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check now given only to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk works to overhaul the platform’s verification system just ahead of U.S. midterm elections. In an update to Apple iOS devices available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K., Twitter said users who “sign up now” for the new “Twitter Blue with verification” can receive the blue check next to their names “just like the celebrities, companies and politicians you already follow.” But Twitter employee Esther Crawford tweeted Saturday that the “new…
By Justina Auta The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has urged state governments to establish safe spaces where survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) can seek medical, psychological and social support. Tallen made the call at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. Safe space is a place or environment in which a person or category of people can feel confident that they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other emotional or physical harm. The term safe space also refers to places intended to be free of bias, conflict, or potentially threatening actions,…