Arch. Waziri Bulama Arch. Waziri Bulama was on Monday 18th may 2020 inaugurated as Acting National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at party’s National Secretariat. The inauguration was conducted by the National Chairman, Comrade Adam’s Oshiomhole with members of the National Working Committee in attendance.
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Phase 1 of the gradual easing of the lockdown has been extended by two weeks. The relaxation of the lockdown will last till June. Kano Lockdown extended by two weeks. PTF tells the Nation as import of their report to President Buhari
The ESSTF is a public-private partnership initiative set up to compliment the existing efforts of the State & FG in facilitating Safety & Security in Ekiti State through the deployment of innovative thinking and cutting edge global best practices in security. Ekiti State Security Trust Fund was established by the Ekiti State Security Trust Fund Law of 2015 as amended by the Ekiti State Security Trust Fund (Amendment) Law of 2019.
In a press release signed by the Spokesperson to the Honourable Minister of Communications & Digital Economy, Uwa Suleiman (Mrs), she said that the Order shall “specifically target all sectors of Ekiti State including rural homes, farms, small businesses, manufacturing and production sites, transportation systems, and healthcare and educational facilities”. It is also noteworthy that the Order specifies that “Right of Way charges related to the laying of broadband or any other telecommunications infrastructure in Ekiti State shall not exceed N145 per linear metre”. The statement read, “This action of providing a policy backing to the Right of Way charges…
Due to shortfall in the federation account and collapse in the internally generated revenue (IGR) because of COVID-19 challenges, all political office holders in Kano state are to receive half salary with immediate effect from this Month of May. Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje lamented that “Due to shortfall of the price of Oil in the global market which affects world economy and eventually causes serious shortfall in the federation account for states, the state slashes the salary of all political office holders by 50 percent.” Adding that, “There is also a serious set back in the IGR, due to COVID-19…
Ekiti State Government has commenced the grading of farmstead roadsacross the sixteen local government areas of the State.The State Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development,Prof. Adio Folayan while monitoring the project in some localgovernment areas explained that the government embarked on grading ofrural roafds to ease movement of farm produce from the grassroots tomajor towns.Some of the council areas visited by the Commissioner and his teaminclude Efon, Ekiti South-West, Ekiti West, Irepodun/Ifelodun andAdo-Ekiti Local Governments.Prof. Folayan noted the road grading would enhance economic activitiesat the farmstead and thereby boost the Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) of the councils in the State.The…
The Ekiti State Government on Friday said it has received a total N631 million from the Covid-19 Response Resource Mobilization Committee set up last month to raise and manage funds and projects to aid government’s fight against the spread of the coronavirus in the state. The government also announced the arrival of its molecular laboratory for covid-19 test in Ado-Ekiti, just as it announced that it has discharged four Covid-19 patients after their second test turned negative. It also confirmed another four positive cases among the people in the State quarantine centre. The four discharged were part of the five…
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has received the news that the Federal Government of Nigeria is about to import a herbal concoction called COVID Organics (CVO) from Madagascar with utter disbelief. While in principle we would not mind Nigerian government importing any new drug that is proven to cure COVID-19 or indeed any other disease for which we have neither the capacity, nor the technology to produce locally, we are totally appalled that Nigeria is about to spend scarce foreign exchange to import ‘COAL INTO NEWCASTLE’. Even if we are not going to pay for this, it is thoroughly…
We, members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), at our meeting held today deliberated on the COVID-19 pandemic in the country and resolved as follows: The NGF Chairman briefed State Governors on existing coordination activities with the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on COVID-19, multilateral and bilateral partners, and the private sector through the Coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID). In addition to ongoing activities aimed at strengthening the public health response and the delivery of palliatives to vulnerable persons, the Forum is coordinating an additional response with the support of the Dangote Foundation to set up a volunteer work force of health personnel…
Governors of the 36 states will be holding their 8th teleconference meeting since the outbreak of the Covid19 pandemic. The teleconference is to review the situation in the various states in the country and find paths for a quick way out of the effects of the pandemic for the country. The meeting takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 13th May 2020. An invitation from the Director General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Mr Asishana Bayo Okauru to the governors lists the issues to be discussed at the meeting including an update from the Presidential Task Force, on Covid19, a new initiative code-named CACOVID -…
