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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Dave Oso abeokuta—A former member of the  House of Representatives, Mr. Abiodun Akinlade, has commended Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State for his public endorsement of the Ogun West zone as his successor. Ogun West zone of the state is yet to produce a governor 41 years after the creation of the state. But Governor Amosun recently expressed his resolve to support the Ogun West district for his party’s ticket in the build-up to the 2019 governorship election. Speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta, Akinlade, who represented Yewa South-Ipokia Constituency between 2003 to 2015, said the governor has chosen to follow the path of justice and equity, adding that posterity will not forget his bold step. According to him, Ogun West has been the most marginalised of the three zones in the state, adding that it is only just and right for all political parties in the state to follow the governor’s path and the All Progressives Congress (APC), in zoning their gove...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN—GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, suspended the Head of Administration of Egor Local Government Area of the state, Mrs Rachael Iriefo, and other staff over what he described as their lack of seriousness in the management of the affairs of the council and lateness to work. The governor, who paid an unscheduled visit to the council about 8:20a.m., regretted that of the 599 staff in the council, only 36 were on seat when he arrived, just as he attributed the indebtedness of the council during the last administration to their alleged inefficiency and lack of focus and vowed to deal with the situation. The angry governor, who went round the council premises in company of the former deputy governor of the state, Mr Lucky Imasuen, said: “You see, they do not come to work, but at the end of the month, their wage bill is almost N50 million, outside that of teachers. No senior person is here, no Head of Service; so how can they man...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio YENAGOA—DISTURBED by the continued degradation of the Niger Delta environment by activities of oil and gas explorations, the Ijaw Professionals Association, IPA, has accused federal agencies saddled with responsibility of regulating the activities of multinationals of “indifference and ineptitude.” The group noted that the institutional weaknesses of National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, and Department for Petroleum Resources, DPR, both regulatory agencies, have rendered them ineffective and culpable. President of IPA (Homeland Chapter)  Iniruo  Wills, in a statement to commemorate this year’s World Environment Day, called on the Federal Government to empower and fund relevant agencies to take quick and sustained measures to correct the behaviour of the oil and gas producing and allied corporations. Wills, while also calling for an end to gas flaring in the Niger Delta, urged the Federal Governm...

http://ift.tt/2cRdPvi … as Taraba professionals back Amnesty Int’l on farmers/herdsmen’s probe By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief, & Peter Duru MAKURDI—The leadership of the three major ethnic groups in Benue State—Mdzough U Tiv, Ochetoha K’Idoma and Onmiyi Igede— have charged the people to defend themselves and resist any attempt by members of Mayetti Allah Kautal Hore to invade the state over the state’s Open Grazing Prohibition Establishment Law, 2017, popularly called Anti-Open Grazing Law. The call was sequel to a media briefing by the leadership of Mayetti Allah Kautal Hore, which urged its members to resist the law. At a briefing yesterday in Makurdi, the leaders of the socio-cultural groups, led by Chief Edward Ojege, President General Mdzough U Tiv, threw their weight behind Governor Samuel Ortom and the new law, urging all the communities in the state to form vigilante groups to ensure peaceful co-existence in the villages. Amnesty international’s investigation Meanw...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Gbenga Olarinoye Osogbo—A Member of the Osun state House of Assembly, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has commended the Federal Government on its sincerity on the implementation of whistleblowing policy through instant reward. Oyintiloye in an interview with newsmen in Osogbo yesterday said the N 375.8 million reward paid by FG to 20 whistle-blowers would serve as a moral booster towards recovering more looted funds. He said the payment was a clear signal that President Muhamadu Buhari’s administration was committed to the fight  corruption in the country. Oyintiloye, who is the House Committee Chairman on information and Strategy, said the payment would encourage others who have information on looted funds to ‘ blow the whistle ‘. He also commended the Federal Government for protecting the identity of information providers, saying this would also serve as an assurance for others whistle-blowers that their identity would be protected. He urged patriotic Ni...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Tare Youdeowei Founder, Aba Oil and Zaria Mimano Foundation, Zaria Aba Mimano, has kicked against the less than five percent 2017 budget allocation for the Health sector. She made her stand known during an interview with Vanguard following the kick off Zaria Mimano Foundation’s nationwide outreach to indigent patients in hospitals that cannot pay their bills. According to her, the neglect of the health sector is the reason Nigerians that can afford it, go abroad, but what happens to those who cannot afford it? “That only four percent of the national budget is going to health care, is something that needs to be addressed right away. Not everyone can afford to travel outside Nigeria for healthcare, it is highly immoral. “Less than five percent of the N13.5 trillion combined budgets of the federal and state governments will be spent on public health this year, and this is because of the sector’s poor infrastructure. Nigeria is one of the biggest sufferers of m...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In line with its desire to build young, dynamic and talented workforce through its graduate recruitment scheme, new inductees that passed out of Fidelity Bank’s Fidelity Crest Academy after three months training, have been admitted into the bank’s workforce. Recruited early this year and sent to the banking school, the inductees underwent training on the fundamentals of the banking business with course modules on culture, bank processes and products; fundamentals of banking business and personal effectiveness; comprehensive banking operations and understanding banking business; financial statement analysis and fundamentals of credit. Speaking at a ceremony to celebrate the graduands in Lagos, the bank’s Managing Director/CEO, Nnamdi Okonkwo, urged them to make use of the exposure and training to excel in their various job functions. According to him, the bank places great premium on its people and the academy, which is pivotal to grooming the next set of leader...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Delta State Commissioner for Economic Planning,  Dr Kingsley Emu, has commended Governor Ifeanyi  Okowa for his initiatives which have progressively transformed all sectors of the state. He said that the Okowa administration has performed creditably within two years in the areas of massive infrastructure development, peace building, revolution in health and education sectors, sports, open door policy in governance and prudent management of financial and material resources. “We have also done well in youth empowerment, human capital development, investment drive, micro- credit loans to market men and women, cooperative societies, youth start-up packs for young entrepreneurs under the various vocational training and skills acquisition programmes of the SMART agenda and prosperity for all Deltans mantra,” he said. Emu spoke in Asaba,  when he received the newly appointed Executive Assistant on Communication to the State Governor, Mr Fred Oghenesivbe,...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Bashir Bello KATSINA— A teenage boy (names withheld) was reported to have been killed by a windstorm that destroyed about 300 houses at Nwala-Jan Gahe in Katsina State. The incident also left about five persons with bone fractures. The Executive Secretary of Katsina State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Dr. Aminu Waziri, confirmed the incident. Waziri said the teen died when he ran out of his parents’ house as a result of the wind, which blew off the roof of their house, causing confusion among the occupants. He said the agency had already carried out cautionary intervention of providing the displaced persons with food stuffs, adding that assessment was on to ascertain level of damage and losses suffered by each individual. He said government will provide relief materials for the affected persons. The post Teenager die, houses destroyed in Katsina windstorm appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rJQYL6 via Blogger http...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Former Ugborodo Community Trust Vice-Chairman, Mr. Isaac Botosan, has lauded Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, for the inauguration of the new Ugborodo Community Management Committee, UCMC, saying that the move will ensure the final resolution of the unending crisis rocking the oil-rich community. Botosan, who charged the state government to disregard those he termed trouble makers, pointed out that the inauguration of the UCMC was supported by the entire people and leaders of the five kindred communities that make up Ugborodo. Earlier,  Chairman of UCMC, Mr. Austin Oberogbeyi in his remarks, promised not to let the state government down in the discharge of their duties. He also called on the state government to deal with those still bent on fomenting trouble for the new executive. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Festus Ovie Agas, had stated that oil-rich Ugborodo community in Warri South-West Local Go...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Tare Youdeowei Founder, Aba Oil and Zaria Mimano Foundation, Zaria Aba Mimano, has kicked against the less than five percent 2017 budget allocation for the Health sector. She made her stand known during an interview with Vanguard following the kick off Zaria Mimano Foundation’s nationwide outreach to indigent patients in hospitals that cannot pay their bills. According to her, the neglect of the health sector is the reason Nigerians that can afford it, go abroad, but what happens to those who cannot afford it? “That only four percent of the national budget is going to health care, is something that needs to be addressed right away. Not everyone can afford to travel outside Nigeria for healthcare, it is highly immoral. “Less than five percent of the N13.5 trillion combined budgets of the federal and state governments will be spent on public health this year, and this is because of the sector’s poor infrastructure. Nigeria is one of the biggest sufferers of m...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In line with its desire to build young, dynamic and talented workforce through its graduate recruitment scheme, new inductees that passed out of Fidelity Bank’s Fidelity Crest Academy after three months training, have been admitted into the bank’s workforce. Recruited early this year and sent to the banking school, the inductees underwent training on the fundamentals of the banking business with course modules on culture, bank processes and products; fundamentals of banking business and personal effectiveness; comprehensive banking operations and understanding banking business; financial statement analysis and fundamentals of credit. Speaking at a ceremony to celebrate the graduands in Lagos, the bank’s Managing Director/CEO, Nnamdi Okonkwo, urged them to make use of the exposure and training to excel in their various job functions. According to him, the bank places great premium on its people and the academy, which is pivotal to grooming the next set of leader...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Delta State Commissioner for Economic Planning,  Dr Kingsley Emu, has commended Governor Ifeanyi  Okowa for his initiatives which have progressively transformed all sectors of the state. He said that the Okowa administration has performed creditably within two years in the areas of massive infrastructure development, peace building, revolution in health and education sectors, sports, open door policy in governance and prudent management of financial and material resources. “We have also done well in youth empowerment, human capital development, investment drive, micro- credit loans to market men and women, cooperative societies, youth start-up packs for young entrepreneurs under the various vocational training and skills acquisition programmes of the SMART agenda and prosperity for all Deltans mantra,” he said. Emu spoke in Asaba,  when he received the newly appointed Executive Assistant on Communication to the State Governor, Mr Fred Oghenesivbe,...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Bashir Bello KATSINA— A teenage boy (names withheld) was reported to have been killed by a windstorm that destroyed about 300 houses at Nwala-Jan Gahe in Katsina State. The incident also left about five persons with bone fractures. The Executive Secretary of Katsina State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Dr. Aminu Waziri, confirmed the incident. Waziri said the teen died when he ran out of his parents’ house as a result of the wind, which blew off the roof of their house, causing confusion among the occupants. He said the agency had already carried out cautionary intervention of providing the displaced persons with food stuffs, adding that assessment was on to ascertain level of damage and losses suffered by each individual. He said government will provide relief materials for the affected persons. The post Teenager die, houses destroyed in Katsina windstorm appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rJQYL6

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Former Ugborodo Community Trust Vice-Chairman, Mr. Isaac Botosan, has lauded Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, for the inauguration of the new Ugborodo Community Management Committee, UCMC, saying that the move will ensure the final resolution of the unending crisis rocking the oil-rich community. Botosan, who charged the state government to disregard those he termed trouble makers, pointed out that the inauguration of the UCMC was supported by the entire people and leaders of the five kindred communities that make up Ugborodo. Earlier,  Chairman of UCMC, Mr. Austin Oberogbeyi in his remarks, promised not to let the state government down in the discharge of their duties. He also called on the state government to deal with those still bent on fomenting trouble for the new executive. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Festus Ovie Agas, had stated that oil-rich Ugborodo community in Warri South-West Local Go...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J …lauds Emmanuel over N600m provision By Chioma Onuegbu Uyo—AKWA Ibom State House of Assembly has passed the bill for the establishment of  the State Health Insurance Agency and Scheme into law, commending Governor Udom Emmanuel for making budgetary provision of N600 million for the scheme. The bill was passed after the third reading on the floor of the House during yesterday’s plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr. Onofiok Luke. While passing the law,  Luke explained that the State Health Insurance Bill brings to a total of 15, out 40 bills passed by the current Assembly  during the second legislative year. Luke, who was the lead sponsor of the bill, noted that the budgetary provision of N600 million by Governor Emmanuel will help the smooth take-off of scheme, adding that citizens will count on the wisdom of the state executive to appoint competent hands to manage the agency created by the law. The Speaker who listed some of the reasons tha...