At least 21 people died in India’s eastern state of Bihar in incidents of lightning amid rains over the past 24 hours. An official at the state’s disaster management authority on Tuesday said that those who died were farmers or workers in agriculture fields who were busy sowing crops or engaged in other agriculture-related activities. Accordingly to the official, the deaths were reported around 10 districts in the state. Purnia and Araria both reported four deaths, three died in the Supaul district, two deaths were reported each from Banka, Jamui and Nawada, and one death occurred each in Begusarai, Sheikhpura,…
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday inaugurate Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) for Sustainable Development. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja, said the Nigerian leader would perform the inauguration on the margins of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA77) in New York. Adesina said, ”Proposed within the broader Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) is a planning and delivery tool to finance sustainable development at the national level.” According to him, the INFF helps policymakers lay out a strategy to increase investments for sustainable development, manage financial and…
The United Nation’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced the release of $10 million under the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERT) for urgent aid to victims in a Northeast Nigeria food and nutrition crisis. This is contained in a statement by OCHA in Maiduguri on Monday. The UN says no fewer than 1.74 million children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in north east this year. “This CERF allocation is the latest in a concerted effort to address the food and nutrition crisis. In May 2022 CERF allocated $15 million to…
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to resolve the lingering crisis between them. Sanusi made the call in an interview in New York on the sidelines of a three-day Transforming Education Summit after he chaired an event tagged ‘Transforming Education through Grassroots Innovation: A Localised Teacher-Led Approach’ on the sidelines of the ongoning UN General Assembly. Sanusi, said ASUU strike could be addressed through dialogue, noting that the union needed to know that the longer it stayed out of school, it was…
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…
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…