The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Osun on Thursday confirmed the death of two persons in an accident involving a truck and Toyota Hiace bus at Iwaraja junction on Ipetu-Ijesa highway. The Sector Commander, Mrs Kudirat Ibrahim said this in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Mrs Agnes Ogungbemi in Osogbo. Ibrahim said the accident occurred about 4km from Iwaraja junction on Ipetu-Ijesa highway on Wednesday at 10:0p.m. “A Truck with registration number XP 817 EPE collided with another Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number DKA 597 BQ involving six persons. “Two persons lost their lives in the…
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The Kebbi governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu has approved N468.5 million for the execution of projects and empowerment programmes under the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development. Hajiya Aisha Maikurata, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, made this known while briefing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday. She said,”As part of Gov. Atiku Bagudu’s continuous efforts to reduce poverty and uplift the standard of living of the people, especially the vulnerable in the state, the governor has approved the execution of projects worth N468.5 million for the ministry. “The ministry of women affairs and social development…
A local office of global pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. is expected to submit an application for the approval of its COVID-19 vaccine to South Korea’s drug safety agency, industry sources said on Thursday. The company is planning to submit the application to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety before the end of this month, they said. Approval would mark the country’s first batch of vaccines as part of a procurement program. Earlier, the government signed a COVID-19 vaccine procurement contract with Pfizer for 10 million people. About 50,000 doses are highly likely to be part of the first batch,…
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, has sympathised with the Sokoto state government and the victims of the inferno, which razed the Shehu Shagari Modern Market. Fintiri, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Yola by Mr Humwashi Wonosikou, Press Secretary to the Governor, described the fire incident as unfortunate and a great loss. He urged the victims to regard it as “an act of God’’. “I was disturbed by the news of the disaster, more so at a time that Nigeria is confronted by the twin problems of coronavirus pandemic and biting economic challenges,” he said. The governor, however, expressed regrets…
Osun government has again imposed curfew as a result of the resurgence of COVID-19 and directed civil servants below grade level 12 to work from home effective from January 25, to minimise the spread of the virus in the state. A statement by Mr Wole Oyebamiji, Secretary to the State Government, on Wednesday in Osogbo, however, said that teachers, health workers and other workers on essential services, irrespective of grade, were exempted from the directive. Oyebamiji also said that there would be a dusk-to-dawn curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00a.m. everyday. The SSG also said that vigils and crusades are…
The federal government, states and local government councils (LGCs) have shared N619.343 billion as federation allocation for December, 2020. The Director of Information, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr Hassan Dodo announced this on Wednesday in Abuja. Dodo said the allocation was released after a virtual conference of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). The committee, in its communique, noted that N619.343 shared included cost of collection to Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). It also said that the federal government received N218.297 billion, the states received N178.280…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,386 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 114,691. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday. Nigeria has so far tested 1,198,758 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020. The NCDC said 14 new COVID-19 patients were confirmed dead in the last 24 hours, while the total death toll stood at 1,478. The health agency website showed that Nigeria had successfully treated and discharged 92,336 COVID-19 patients, following the discharge of 1,136 additional patients…
Beneficiaries of the N-Power initiative who have concluded the two-year job programme will now be able to access permanent job opportunities or business prospects in line with the N-power exit strategy now activated by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Under the plan, 200,000 beneficiaries will be engaged as financial services operators under a Shared Agent Network Expansion Facility (SANEF) scheme operated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Another 30,000 have already been engaged as geospatial experts and enumerators in the Economic Sustainability Plan’s Mass Agric programme while several others will have the option of benefiting from the GEEP micro-enterprise loans. Some…
The Kwara state government on Wednesday started the disbursement of the sum of N92.5 million to 2,300 victims of the recent rainstorm in Ilorin, the state capital. The week-long exercise will see the each of the victims, in three categories, get between N25,000 and N100,000 in preloaded ATM cards. Mrs Habibat Yusuf, the Chairperson of the Implementation Committee on Ilorin Rainstorm Disaster, said at the flag off exercise in Ilorin that the move was in line with Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq’s commitment to cushion the effects of the disaster on the victims. “This disbursement is the state government’s way of giving succour…
Some 5, 144 persons and 828 companies have so far benefited from the Federal Government (FG) Payroll Support Fund under the Survival Fund Scheme in the last three months in Ondo State. Mrs Kosemani Kolawole, the state Focal Person for the government’s programme, made this known on Wednesday in Akure, during a meeting with beneficiaries of the FG support programme. Kolawole, who said that about 13,000 slots were allocated to the state by the FG, said that hospitals, hotels, chambers, schools, and other private enterprises had benefited from the programme. “This is the first component. Other components have been benefiting too. There…