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The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Ita Enang, has lamented that stakeholders in Akwa Ibom and Cross River States have not done enough to draw the federal government attention to repair the Calabar-Itu federal road. Enang made the accusation when he appeared on the Correspondents' Arena in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, at the weekend. The presidential aide, who was the immediate-past Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, challenged all National Assembly members from Akwa Ibom and Cross River States to declare what effort they have made to draw federal government attention to the state of the road. According to him, "I challenge all members of the House of Representatives, all senators representing Akwa Ibom and Cross River States and the Governor of the states to mention their efforts towards the state of Calabar/Itu road." Speaking on the need to diversify the country's ec

The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced People has stated that 2.6 million people are currently displaced in Nigeria. Besides, the commission disclosed a plan to build 600 housing schemes for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kano State. The Federal Commissioner of the commission, Bashir Mohammad Garba, disclosed this on Sunday while flagging off the distribution of food items and materials to 7,500 persons affected by natural disasters at the Kano State Government House. Garba submitted that those displaced from their ancestral home were victims of insurgency attacks from the North-east region and natural disasters in many states in the southern part of the country. He noted that the federal government had concluded on a place to resettle the displaced persons in line with the mandate of the commission. The commissioner further posited that the federal government has partnered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to build resettlement housin

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has shared N343 million as food aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs), and soft loans to petty traders in Gamboru, a Nigerian border town with Cameroon. Zulum, who was in Dikwa and Gamboru at the weekend, supervised the disbursement of N343million and varieties of food and humanitarian interventions to residents of the border community in Ngala Local Government Area of the state. The total sum of N343 million was shared-N150 million distributed as soft loan and grants to small and medium scale traders, while N193 million was disbursed to 48,700 vulnerable residents. The governor personally took time to verify the list of beneficiaries, explaining that his action was to ensure that only deserving persons were allotted the loans, aimed at stimulating the local economy. Nineteen traders received N1 million each; 25 traders received N500,000 each; other categories received cash ranging from N250,000, N100,000 to N30,000 each, depending

Goods worth millions of naira were last Saturday night destroyed by fire, which razed a section of the Ikpoba Hill market in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. It was learnt that the fire, which started at about 9p.m. last Saturday night, affected mainly makeshift shops made up of caravans. It was also gathered that the owner of one of the electronic shops affected by the fired simply identified as Tony, was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed on hearing the news. A witness identified as Peter said: "At about 9p.m., we saw smoke billowing from one of the shops, and before we knew what was happening, the whole place was engulfed in fire." He said the fire fighters, who came later, couldn't salvage the goods, as the fire had already engulfed the shops and razed goods worth millions of naira. The witness said the shop owners could not salvage their goods either, as the shops were already engulfed by fire before their arrival. When THISDAY inqui

The healthcare delivery services in Ondo state government-owned health facilities may be paralysed totally from tomorrow, as nurses under the auspices of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) will embark on a three-day warning strike starting from today. Already, medical officers under the umbrella of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) had been on strike for about three weeks due to issues relating to payment of monthly salaries. Similarly, the nurses said they are embarking on the warning strike to press home their demand on the half payment of salary by the state government. The decision of the nurses was contained in a letter dated February 26, 2021, and signed by the state Secretary of NANNM, Aina Emmanuel Oluwasegun. The secretary said the nurses’ decision was reached after the meeting of the leadership of the union and its members. He said the industrial action would commence from 12 noon tomorrow to March 3, 2021. The notice stated: “Sequel to

Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe, at the weekend recounted his experience as the Deputy Governor to Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, when the latter was the governor of Abia State in 1999, saying he fell out with Kalu for refusing to be one of his (Kalu) mother's ‘Egusi’ peelers. He also narrated how he survived three impeachment attempts as deputy governor of the state from 1999 to 2003. These revelations are excerpts from 10 chapter of Abaribe's 334 page autobiography titled: ‘Made in Aba’, which will be unveiled today in Abuja. The ranking senator in the book explained that his trouble as deputy to Governor Kalu started when he refused to join the league of ‘Egusi’ peelers who thronged his mother's abode for whatever reason. He stated on Page 155 of the book: "I was just not toadying to Orji Uzor Kalu enough that was my greatest undoing. I was not in the league of ‘Egusi’ peelers that thronged his mother's house for whatever reason. His minions

As distressing incidences of abduction of schoolchildren rage in the northern part of the country unabated, the National Association of Nigerian Student (NANS) has advised the federal government to list bandits perpetrating such ‘horrendous crime’ as terrorists. NANS averred that the abduction of over 300 schoolgirls from Government Girls Junior Secondary in Jangebe, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State in the early hours of last Friday, was an indictment and clear indication of the failure of the country’s security apparatuses. Also, the students’ group advised the government to convey a national security summit towards galvanising the best brains in providing ideas and innovation to combating the multi-faceted security challenges in Nigeria. In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, NANS National President, Sunday Asefon, expressed disgust at the rate of kidnapping of schoolchildren in quick succession in the country, saying the experiences from Chibok, Dapchi, Kagar

As preparation for the 2023 general election continues, the African Democratic Congress ( ADC) has rejected plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to create additional polling units in the country. The issue of additional polling units, which was shelved ahead of the 2015 general election, seems to have taken the centre stage again. In August 2014, INEC, under the leadership of Prof. Attahiru Jega, sought to create 30,027 additional polling units ahead of the 2015 general election, with 21,615 in the north and 8,412 in the southern part of the country. Addressing a press conference on the state of the nation at the weekend, the ADC said creating more polling units in addition to the existing 120,000 would further increase the cost of electioneering in the country. The ADC National Chairman, Chief Okey Nwosu, who stated this at the party's national secretariat in Abuja at the weekend, urged public officials to exercise restraint while formulating poli