The Sokoto state government to ensure that the 3.1 million Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) are not diverted to the open markets. Dr Muslimu Gobir, the Director-General of the Sokoto State Malaria Elimination Agency (SOSMEA) made this known while briefing newsmen in Sokoto. Gobir said that the state government has set guidelines in place to ensure that the ITNs are not misused for fishing purposes and other misdoings,. ”The transportation, storage and distribution of these ITNs would be under tight surveillance,” he said. The event was organized in collaboration with USAID Breakthrough Action Nigeria as part of the implementation partners. The…
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The 36 states of the federation grew their combined Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by N360 billion in two years. They grew the IGR from N1.31 trillion in 2019 to N1.67 trillion in 2021. Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti made the declaration in Abuja on Monday at the 8th IGR Peer Learning Event and launch of the NGF public finance database. He said the share of IGR in total recurrent revenue of the states also rose from 31 per cent in 2019 to 35 per cent in 2021. Fayemi attributed the improvement to the…
Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni of Yobe on Monday inspected Jumbam and Kaliyari communities ravaged by devastating floods in Tarmuwa local government area of the state. The governor had to use a helicopter to access the affected communities as all roads leading to them were destroyed by the floods. Shortly after the aerial inspection, Buni directed the state’s Commissioner for Works, Umar Dudaye, to immediately rehabilitate the road leading to the area. He also directed the state Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to ensure that all victims of the disaster were given relief materials and those admitted in the hospital…
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has joined world leaders and Goodwill Ambassadors in a global call to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and get back on track to building a better world that “leaves no one behind”. The 2022 SDG Moment, which places an annual spotlight on the 17 Global Goals agreed by countries in December 2015, took place on Monday in New York. “The world has a long ‘to do’ list”, Guterres told world leaders, asking for more finance and investment from the public and private sectors, to meet growing needs. Acknowledging the current “moment of great peril”…
President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the recent successful operation of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) leading to the smashing of an international drug syndicate and recovery of 1,855kg of cocaine. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, said in a statement on Monday in Abuja that the president made his feelings known when he originated a telephone call to Chairman of the NDLEA, retired Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, from New York. The president is currently in New York, United States, where he is attending the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 77). Buhari said that the news…
A Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the Labour Party (LP) submit the name of its candidate, Clarita Ogar, for the 2023 Cross River House of Representatives election. Justice Donatus Okorowo, in a judgement, held that the Electoral Act, 2022 is superior to INEC guidelines on elections. Justice Okorowo stated further that Section 31 of the Electoral Act, 2022 allows parties to still submit names of candidates that emerge from substitution primaries not later than 90 days to the election. He said that the electoral umpire, by its own manuals, cannot limit the time provided for by…
The Abia Police Command has arrested 10 members of a dare-devil armed robbery gang that allegedly robbed a bullion van on July 26 and carted away about N390 million. The Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbede, said that the suspects belonged to a 14-member gang that specialised in bullion van robbery in different parts of the country. She said that they were arrested at different times and locations in Abia, Delta, Lagos, Ondo, Rivers and Imo. Parading the suspects before newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Umuahia on Monday, she said that the arrest was made possible by “a special intelligence,…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) said Nigeria’s total public debt stock, which was N41.60 trillion ($100.07 billion) in March rose to N42.84 trillion ($103.31 billion) by June. According to a statement obtained from DMO’s website o Tuesday, the total debt represents the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), the 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It, however, said that while the foreign component of the debt remained at the same level of N16.61 trillion ($39.96 billion), the local component increased to N26.23 trillion ($63.24 billion). The local component of the country’s borrowings…
The chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami has disclosed that the mandate of the Service is to collect taxes that are due to the federation and the federal government and not to grant tax waivers to any taxpayer in the country. Nami, in a statement by the Special Assistant (Media and Communication) to the chairman, Johannes Oluwatobi Wojuola made available to ASHENEWS on Monday, was reacting to allegation that his Service granted waivers to some companies. Among the companies alleged to have got the waiver include Dangote Sinotruck Limited, Lafarge, Honeywell, etc on pioneer status between…
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in a biggest single operation in the agency’s history, has busted a warehouse in an Ikorodu estate of Lagos State. A statement by the Head, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi made available to newsmen on Monday, said the agency’s operatives seized 1.8tons (1,855 kilograms) of cocaine worth $278,250,000 (equivalent to N194,775,000,000) in street value. The statement said, “four drug barons, including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager were arrested in the well coordinated and intelligence-led operation that lasted two days across different locations in Lagos state. Names of suspected barons “Kingpins of the…