Author: Npo_report

The House of Representatives has advocated for the subsidisation of malaria drugs in Nigeria, and even making them freely available at all Government Health Centres. Rep. Amobi Ogar, Chairman, Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Control (ATM), highlighted the urgent need for this action during the inaugural meeting of the Committee in Abuja on Thursday. The call, he said, is aimed at combating the widespread issue of limited access to the life-saving medications, often hindered by their exorbitant costs. He pointed out that a vast majority of Nigerians were affected by Malaria, yet access to affordable drugs remained elusive. Ogar…

Some residents of Ibasa Ijegun-Egba, a riverine community in Oriade Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos on Thursday decried the invasion of the community by alleged police officers and land grabbers. The residents told newsmen that since Oct. 27, peace had eluded the town and its markets as it had allegedly been over-run by the Police and hoodlums. Chief Tajudeen Ibikunle, the Traditional Ruler of Ibasa Ijegun-Imore community, said he was sleeping in his house on Oct. 27, when some police officers and hoodlums came to arrest him. “They took me and some other residents to the Police Command in…

Old students of the Federal Government Girls College Owerri have on Thursday evening protested against Marriott Hotels giving out their rooms booked many months ago for their reunion programme. Members of the old student’s association had arrived at the hotel as scheduled on Thursday and made to claim their rooms only to be told that their rooms had been let out to politicians. It was gathered that the hotel was one of those whose rooms were taken over and paid for wholly by the Imo State Government. The government, it was learnt booked all available hotel accommodation in the state…

Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo has said that he does not interfere in the affairs of the labour unions in the state. Uzodinma said this while fielding questions from the State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. He said that his administration accorded priority attention to workers’ welfare and wellbeing, adding that he never delayed the payment of their salaries. “I don’t interfere with labour matters, but I have convinced Imo workers to believe in me, and that trust is what opposition parties are trying to fight. “But I can assure you that Imo people already have…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has assured Nigerians that there is adequate supply of Naira notes in the economy. The bank’s Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some bank customers in recent times have been complaining about scarcity of Naira notes at the counters, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) Points of Sale (PoS), and Bureaux de Change (BDCs). According to Abdulmumin, the seeming currency scarcity is occasioned by large volume withdrawal of cash from various CBN branches by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs). He said…

The Senate has passed the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N2.17trillion. President Bola Tinubu had written the Senate seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and other urgent issues. The President had also sent the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) to the Senate for consideration. The passage of the bill followed the presentation, consideration and approval of report of Senate Committee on Appropriation at plenary on Thursday by the Chairman of the Committee, Sen.Solomon Adeola (APC-Ogun). Adeola ,in his presentation ,said the committee…

By Halimah Olamide The Redline service of the Lagos state Transport Management Authority is set to commence test running in the coming weeks. This was disclosed on Thursday by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu while commissioning the Yaba overpass will serve as an alternative route to access Ebute Metta, Oyingbo, Yaba and Surulere. The Yaba flyover is one of the four bridges being concurrently constructed by the Lagos State Government along the Red Line rail corridor. It opened to traffic on Thursday at a brief ceremony. The Governor said the remaining overpasses at Ikeja, Mushin and Oyingbo were at their completion stages,…

By Kamil Opeyemi Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state and the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the forthcoming election in the state, Senator Dino Melaye have traded accusations over the threat of insecurity ahead of the election. While Melaye accused the governor and the party of importing fake police and army uniforms into the state ahead of the November 11 election, the governor, in a response by Kingsley Fanwo, on behalf of the campaign body, said Melaye is only showing signs of being dazed by his impending defeat. Melaye, in his press conference, alleged that one Alfa…

By Halimah Olamide The Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday alleged that it has credible information that Governor Douye Diri and the Peoples Democratic Party have concluded plans to cause violence a breach in Bassambiri-Nembe, a stronghold of the APC. show that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state in cahoots with the incumbent government of Senator. A statement signed on Thursday in Yenagoa by the State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, alleged that hoodlums are being mobilised from neighbouring states to carry out the mayhem. The statement added that the hoodlums are to plant…

By Kamil Opeyemi The Presidency has on Thursday released more facts over the presidential yacht it budged for in its N2.17trillion supplimentary budget proposal sent to the National Assembly. Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said the response followed what he called “public reactions over the provision for what is termed presidential yacht and other line items in the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation presented to the National Assembly.” NPO Reports that the House of Representatives dismissed the proposal while approving the president’s proposal. The lower chamber of the National Assembly scrapped the budget for the…