By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has said the state government would distribute about 20, 000 bags of rice to vulnerable households aimed at cushioning the prevailing economic hardship being experienced across the state. Governor Sule disclosed this on Thursday while commissioning a...
Palliatives
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The lawmaker representing Enugu North Federal Constituency, Senator Okechukwu Ezea (LP-Enugu) on Monday said he has yet to receive bags of rice from the Federal Government for distribution as palliative to his constituents. Ezea, who represents Enugu North at the National Assembly,...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on members of the National Assembly (NASS) to ensure proper distribution of thousands of bags of rice and other foodstuffs recently given to them for sharing by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. MURIC said this in a...
Senator Diket Plang (APC/Plateau), has said that Plateau people want permanent solutions to the security challenges bedeviling the state “instead of temporary palliatives”. Diket told newsmen on Wednesday in Jos that a permanent solution would save hundreds of lives and end the bloodshed that had become the lot...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has distributed palliatives to flood-prone communities across the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State, as part of its efforts to mitigate the effects of flooding on the people of the state. Speaking during the handover of...
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia on Tuesday flagged off the distribution of 56 trucks of palliatives to Benue residents to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy removal. Performing the ceremony in Makurdi, Gov Alia said all Benue residents would benefit from the third phase of the state-wide palliatives....
Kano State Government has uncovered a warehouse where food items meant for palliatives were being diverted in the state. The Press Secretary, Malam Bature Dawakin-Tofa, who made this known in a statement on Sunday in Kano, said the warehouse was at Sharada Industrial Estate Dawakin-Tofa said Gov. Abba...
The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of Tasiu Al’amin-Roba, a Senior Special Assistant (SSA), to Cabinet office and one Abdulkadir Muhammad for alleged diversion of the state’s palliatives. The Commissioner of Police, Hussaini Gumel, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In continued efforts to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal and resettlement drive of Borno State Government, Prof. Babagana Zulum on Monday visited Baga town and Monguno town of Kukawa and Monguno Local Government respectively. In Kukawa, the governor transverse 20km...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The eleven electoral wards in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, today smiled home with the sum of five hundred thousand naira (500,000) each as palliative. Similarly, a total of 1500 bags of 50kgs of maize and another 1500 bags of...
Pensioners in the Calabar branch of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) say the 400 bags of rice given to 2.5 million of them to share as palliative are grossly inadequate. The Calabar branch of NUP covers Odukpani, Calabar Municipality, Calabar South, Akpabuyo and Bakassi local government areas...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governoor, Bassey Otu has suspended the Director General (DG) of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Chief Angela Odey, over alleged poor handling of palliatives meant to cushion the effect of subsidy removal. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor,...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo- The Academic Staff Union Of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) Taraba State Chapter has appealed for more teachers recruitment in the state, especially in the area of science and arts subjects. The ASUSS Chairman Taraba State Chapter, Comrade. Prince Sule Abasu made the call while...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja — Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the 36 state governors in the country over “their failure to account for the spending of the N72 billion palliative collected from the Federal Government, including details of the beneficiaries...
My brother and friend, Kayode Komolafe (the man we all call KK) is an uncommon patriot. With an unassuming depth as a public intellectual, KK is equally disarming in his witty humour, a matter to which I shall return some day in the future. But he is unfailingly felicitous...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has inaugurated a 7-man committee to investigate the alleged diversion of palliatives by government officials and stakeholders in the state. The Speaker, Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, inaugurated the committee on Monday at the conference hall of the...
The House of Representatives has dismissed a statement credited to the National Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Christopher Onyeka that each member collected N100 million as palliative. Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Rep. Akin Rotimi, said this in a statement...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has flagged off the distribution of palliatives to beneficiaries in the Southern Senatorial District of the state. The governor distributed 1000 bags of 50kg rice and five thousand naira each to over 3000 beneficiaries at the headquarters...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Kashim Shettima has flagged off the distribution N15 billion food palliatives to the people of the north east across the 112 LGAs of the 6 North East states. VP Shettima also declared opened the 8th North East Governors Forum Meeting...