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Flood: NEMA Warns Anambra Residents To Relocate

FG Donates Relief Materials To Flood Victims In Kebbi

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has donated relief materials to over 351 victims of 2019 flood disaster in three councils of Kebbi.
Director-General of the Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, who was represented by Head of NEMA, Sokoto Operations Office, Dr. Kofoworola Soleye, distributed the relief materials in Yauri Local Government Area, yesterday.
Soleye said the materials were given to alleviate the sufferings faced by flood victims in the affected local government areas.
“We know that it will not be enough to take care of all what you lost, but just for you to know that the federal government is …

FCT Women Empowered With Materials, Cash

Women the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have received empowerment materials from a nonprofit making organization, Women for Peace and Unity Growth Initiative (WPUGI), to boost their standard of living.

The items which include grinding machines and accessories, sewing machines and accessories, coolers, cash, and others were presented to the women of Dakin-Biu community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Abuja, by the Founder and Convener, WPUGI, Yemisi George.

George who also is a gender expert and charted mediator and conciliator disclosed that the organization also marks its first anniversary with launch of this pilot scheme on empowering women with the …

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PDP Boycotts Kogi Election Materials

Ahead of today Kogi West Senatorial supplementary re -run election,  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has boycotted the observation of  distribution of election material by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at Central Bank . This is as the PDP agents refused to come forward for accreditation and collection of tags from the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Chairman Inter Party Advisory Council ,Ilyas Badanga made  this known while speaking on the sideline of a stakeholders meeting where 16 political parties declared their support for two term senator representing Kogi West, senatorial district, Smart Adeyemi. He however said that the …

Building

How New VAT Law’ll Affect Cost Of Building Materials

Althoughcost of building materials rise often without major developments in the economy, the planned increased of Value Added Tax by the government is enough reason for building material prices to spike. Now that the Federal Government has decided to increase value added tax (VAT) on some goods, it would be difficult to isolate its effect outside the bulding materials sector. Of course, it will include cost of building materials and houses in the property market. Today for instance  cost of accommodation is high because the cost of building materials is correspondingly high. This is why the decision

Jonathan Decries Late Arrival Of Election Materials

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed disappointment over the late arrival of election materials to his polling unit, 39, in Otuoke, ward 13 in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa.

Jonathan, who was expecting to cast his vote, stepped out of his house to check if the election Officers had arrived but met only journalists on ground at the venue at 8:30a.m.

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“Well this is where I will vote, but since they are not here yet let me go back inside.
“You see now, youths of nowadays, you need to …

SEMA Distributes Relief Materials To Anambra Flood Victims

SEMA Distributes Relief Materials To Anambra Flood Victims

Victims of recent flood disaster in Ogbaru Local Government of Anambra State were yesterday provided with relief materials by the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).

The relief materials mainly food items and loaded in two trucks included bags of rice, beans, garri, gallons of groundnut/red oil, salt, beverages, soaps and toiletries etc were meant for victims in Atani, Odekpe and Osamalla.

Handing over the materials to Ogbaru Council officials at Atan, the Executive Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on SEMA (media), Mr Emeka Obinwa, who represented the SEMA Executive Secretary, Chief Paul Odenigbo said the items were to mitigate the …

Electoral materials seized in Zamfara

Two vehicles carrying election materials to Sokoto were separately intercepted in Gusaum, capital of Zamfara state capital on Tuesday afternoon.

One of the vehicles was engage in an accident when it collided with two motorcycles along Sokoto road while the other was intercepted near Faru, a border town in Sokoto from Zamfara.

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INEC: We only experimented with Server in 2018

INEC and stakeholders inspect retrieved materials in Gombe

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Gombe State on Tuesday led stakeholders to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to inspect retrieved sensitive election materials. The material had earlier been distributed to the 11 Local Government Areas, but had to be retrieved as a result of the shift in the date of the elections. Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state  told newsmen that the purpose of the exercise was for the stakeholders to see things for themselves.

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