The Kano State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, said that 54 persons lost their lives and 30,356 houses destroyed due to flooding this raining season in the state. Dr Saleh Jili, Executive Secretary of the agency, disclosed in an interview in Kano on Friday that the data which cut across the 44 Local Government Areas of the state was recorded from June to date. The Nigeria Metrological Agency, NiMeT, in collaboration with Nigerian Hydrological Service Agency (NIHSA) predicted 20 LGAs in the state as flood prone areas this season. Jili listed the affected local government areas as Rogo Kabo, Gezawa, Bebeji,…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Sokoto state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused governor Aminu Tambuwal of playing politics with Nigeria’s security. The PDP Governors Forum had, in a communiqué issued after its meeting on Wednesday, observed that there were discrepancies in S.12(2) and S.12(4) of the Act on the appropriate authority with responsibility to deploy Police. “While acknowledging the many important innovations in the new law, the Forum emphasised the need to make the Nigeria Police Council, which has Mr President as Chairman and 36 state Governors as members, fully operational and the clearing house on all issues bordering on…
The Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has advised associations in Nigeria against balkanisation or duplicatation of professional associations. He gave the advise in Abuja when two professional bodies – the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), paid him courtesy visits on Friday. Omo-Agege applauded the organisations for identifying vibrantly with national aspirations, adding that more home-grown solutions can be developed by them for the benefit of citizens. Congratulating Dame Onome Joy Adeniyi on her election as National President of ICAN, the federal legislator expressed the willingness of the National Assembly, NASS, to…
President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Mr Chidi Ilogebe, has urged Federal and States Governments to waive school fees in tertiary institutions as a palliative to students. Ilogebe made the request while speaking on national issues affecting Nigerian students in Enugu on Friday. “It is our earnest desire that students in Nigeria are made comfortable while studying. “It is no news that the federal and some state governments have continuously doled out palliatives/grants to help resuscitate small and medium businesses for youths and women. “It is on record that students were not considered in any of these…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday dashed hopes that the Ebola drug, ‘Remdesivir’ and three other existing medications could be useful tools against COVID-19. Trials with four drugs conducted among 11,000 patients in 30 countries “appeared to have little or no effect’’ on survival and on the progression of the disease among hospitalised patients, the WHO said in Geneva. The UN Health agency’s Solidarity Trial involved Remdesivir, the HIV treatment lopinavir/ritonavir, the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and Interferon, which was developed for multiple sclerosis. The European Union had placed its bets on Remdesivir. The European Commission announced a contract this month…
President Macky Sall of Senegal has commended the way and manner Nigeria is supporting the cost of war against insurgency and terrorist activities in all the Lake Chad Basin areas. The Senegalese leader gave the commendation at the end of a dinner meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and President Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday. He also lauded Nigeria for supporting the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) toward the restoration of peace and constitutional order in Mali. “What I can say on Mali is that I did know that…
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase has disclosed that the House would consider the creation of states, state police, true federalism, local government and judicial autonomy in the review of the 1999 constitution. Wase, who is the chairman of the House Special Ad hoc committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution, made the disclosure at the inauguration of the committee at the National Assembly, NASS, on Thursday. “Let me start by stating the need and importance of reviewing our extant constitution cannot be overemphasized as a vast majority of Nigerians consider the 1999 constitution…
The U.S government has barred Nigeria from the 2022 visa lottery application. According to a 19-page document published on the US government website, Nigeria is the only African country barred from the visa lottery. “For DV-2022, persons born in the following countries are not eligible to apply, because more than, 50,000 natives of these countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam,”…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 148 new cases of coronavirus in the country, according to its official twitter handle on Thursday. It said that the 148 new cases were from 14 states in the last 24 hours, distributed as follows – Lagos State (66), FCT (25), Oyo (13), Plateau (11), Kaduna (7), Rivers (6), Ebonyi (5), Ekiti (4), Ogun (4), Imo (2), Ondo (2), Edo (1), Nasarawa (1), and Taraba (1). The NCDC said the 148 new cases brings the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infection cases to 60,982. The public health agency noted that till date, 60,982 cases have been confirmed,…
The Federal Government has agreed to release N30 billion as part payment of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Sen. Chris Ngige. Minister of Labour and Employment said this at the end of a meeting between the Federal Government and ASUU on Friday in Abuja. “The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) was committed to release N30 billion on or before Nov. 6. “The remaining N10 billion would be spread equally over the two tranches to be paid in May 2021 and February 2022 respectively. The OAGF should quickly conclude the verification of…