Some Civil Society Organizations and other stakeholders in Kogi State have urged the State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) to release the Local Government election results almost one year after winners were innaugurated and the oath of office taken.This was contained in a communique issued at the end of a one -day strategic meeting with Civil Society Organizations (CSP) partners and Media on prioritizing Anti corruption and and Accountability issues during the upcoming 2023 elections.The communique was signed and issued by the executive director of the Conscience for Human Right and Conflict Resolution(CHRCR) Idris Miliki Abdul who organized the event held…
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State in what seemed like a homily on end times on Thursday urged everyone to prepare for death at all times as no one knows when it will come.Pastor Kolawole, aged 50, died at a Lagos hospital recently following an illness.Bello spoke as he again sympathized with the Speaker of the State’s House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Prince Matthew Kolawole over the death of his wife Pastor (Mrs) Esther Kolawole. The Governor who was among the dignitaries that attended the burial ceremony to pay their last respect to the deceased charged members of the society…
By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse The Jigawa Youth Concern (JYC) forum has written to the commissioner of police in the state seeking for protection/guidance on an organized peaceful demonstration scheduled to hold on Saturday in Dutse the capital against the biting economic hardship and security challenges bedevilling the country. This was contained in a notification letter seeking for protection/guidance to the state’s commissioner of police which was signed by the chairman of the forum comrade Umar Danjani The letter reads, “The Jigawa Youth Concern has decided to embarked on a peaceful demonstration as part of the effort to finding solution to…
Against the promise by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, that the 2022 Appropriation Bill would be passed this week; feelers around the National Assembly suggest that it might not be passed by either chambers before this week runs out after all. The senate President who also doubles as the Chairman of the National Assembly, while presiding over the Senate’s plenary of Tuesday, November 23, 2021, made a commitment on behalf of the National Assembly, that the budget would be passed by Tuesday, December 14, 2021. He dropped the hint at a time the budget defence sessions with Ministries,…
**Gives approval for to $10m grant component The Senate has approved the sum of $5,803,364,553.50 USD and a grant component of N10 million USD under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan. The approval was coming after the consideration of a report by the Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. Chairman of the Committee, Senator Clifford Ordia, in his presentation, said the $2,300,000,000 would be sourced from the World Bank, $2,300,000,000 from the German Consortium, $90,000,000 from the Islamic Development, 786,382,967 from the China Exim Bank, $276,981,586.50 from the Bank of China, and $50,000,000 from the International Fund for Agricultural Development. …
By Friday Idachaba ActionAid Nigeria Country Director Ene Obi has indicated that the organisation has engaged 1,614 youths and women in programmes on preventing violence in Kogi in the last six years. Obi stated this at the end of the second phase of the System and Structure Strengthening Approach Against Radicalisation to Violent Extremism (SARVE I and SARVE II) project learning and dissemination meeting in Lokoja on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria NAN reports that the occasion also featured the inauguration of the Kogi Youth Action Plan for the domestication of United Nations Security Council resolution 2250. The country…
From Abel Abogonye, Lafia The Dalhatu Arafat Specialist hospital (DASH) in Lafia, Nasarawa State has lost two senior consultant Gynecologists to lassa fever. The two consultants contracted the disease during an emergency caesarian operation conducted on a woman who was admitted into the hospital bleeding but unknown to the doctors she had lassa fever. A Source told our reporter in Lafia that the pregnant woman was rushed to the hospital over complications arising from lassa fever but unknown to the medical experts they attended to her believing it was pregnancy related complications. The woman died some hours after the surgery…
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq has applauded the review of the National Social Protection Policy. (2017-2020) The special adviser to the minister on media Nneka IKem Anibeze in a Statement in Abuja on Wednesday quoted the to have given the commendation at a High Level Discussion on the Draft Revised National Social Protection Policy held at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. Umar Farouq stated that Social protection is at the forefront of the development agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, given its positive social and economic impact and its ramification and life…
There was disagreement on Tuesday over constitutional mandates and extant laws between the Chairman of Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Ellias Mbam and the Minister of Finance , Mrs Zainab Ahmed and the Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr Muhammad Nami.There were divergent opinions among the heads of the various agencies on powers for collection and monitoring revenues accruing into the Federation Account and the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF).This came to the fore in their separate submissions to the Senate Committee on Finance on the 2021 Finance Bill.While the Chairman of RMAFC in his submissions, faulted…
***Launches multi hazard analyses dashboard, website The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs , Disaster Management and Social Development has launched a National Risk Analysis Tool Dashboard and website designed to improve disaster risk preparedness and response plans among others. Special adviser Nneka Ikem Anibeze said the Minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq launched the dashboard on Tuesday after a presentation by the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA and UNICEF in her office in Abuja. Unveiling the platform, the Minister congratulated NEMA and UNICEF’s emergency team for their collation and harmonization of baseline data and development of the resource-base. Umar Farouq stated that the…