The Ondo State Government on Tuesday, September 20, said it had disposed some unclaimed corpses at the mortuaries of the University of Medical Science Teaching Hospital in Ondo town and Akure. According to PUNCH, Ondo government said about 496 corpses at the mortuaries were affected and they had been given mass burial. The Special Adviser to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Health, Dr Francis Faduyile, disclosed the development in a statement issued by the Press Officer of the Ondo state Ministry of Health, Bisi Lawani. Faduyile revealed that the Ondo government took the action after he and some other government officials recently…
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History was made on Saturday, October 15, 2022, when the first aircraft touched down at the newly constructed Ekiti Cargo Airport along Ado-Ijan road, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. The inaugural landing of the aircraft was witnessed by a jubilant crowd and other dignitaries, including Governor Kayode Fayemi; Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Niyi Adebayo; Ekiti Speaker Funminiyi Afuye, his deputy, Hakeem Jamiu and other top government officials, The Nation reports. The flight with registration number NAF 930 belonging to the Nigerian Air Force landed at the airport around 10:20 am with the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and officials of the…
The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) and the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Imo State chapter have called on the Imo State Government and the Nigeria Police Force to immediately arrest and prosecute one Mr Confidence Amatobi, for assaulting his 2-month-old baby, Miracle. Amatobi was said to have assaulted little Miracle with a plastic hanger and broke the baby’s arm for disturbing his sleep. The incident led to the amputation of the fractured arm at the Pediatrics ward of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Owerri. NAWOJ, NHRC and the aggrieved mother of baby Miracle, made the call for justice in Owerri…
Three workers of a recycling plant have lost their lives in a fire incident on the company’s premises at Abule Ododo, along Papalanto-Ilaro Road, Ogun State. A source said the company went up in flames on Sunday, October 16, 2022, when the lid of a charged machine fell, leading to an explosion. The source noted that three factory workers on duty were burnt to death. She said, “There was a fire incident around 7 pm yesterday (Sunday), and this happened due to the failure of the company to follow standard operating procedure. “The company is trying to cover it up;…
More than 600 people have perished in Nigeria’s worst floods in decades. The disaster has also forced more than 1.3 million from their homes, The ministry of humanitarian affairs reveals. “Unfortunately, over 603 lives have been lost as of today (Sunday) October 16, 2022,” Nigeria Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq said. The previous toll from the previous week stood at 500, but the numbers had risen in part because some state governments had not prepared for the floods, the minister said. The flooding also destroyed more than 82,000 houses across Nigeria and nearly 110,000 hectares (272,000 acres) of farmland, said…
The minister of water resources, Suleiman Adamu, has said that 80 percent of the floods in Nigeria are caused by rainfall, and not Cameroon’s Lagdo dam as widely believed. During the ministry’s 2023 budget defence in Abuja on Wednesday, October 19, Adamu said that the stories on social media attributing the floods to Cameroon are misleading. “All these stories I’ve been seeing on social media are misleading,” the minister said. “The contribution of the Lagdo dam in Cameroon to flooding in this country is only one percent. “Sometimes they release the water without notice and when they do that, it has impact…
Pandemonium broke out on Sunday, October 23, 2022, in Owode-Idi-Iroko, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State when some soldiers shot a resident dead. An angry mob, in reprisal, attacked and hacked an innocent Air Force officer to death shortly after the soldiers left the scene, PUNCH disclosed. The soldiers came from Badagry, Lagos, in an alleged search for contraband. They later shot the victim, 30-year-old Saheed Egusi, in the head. Egusi, a 30-year-old businessman, was reportedly killed for challenging the soldiers who were dragging his elder brother. The military men reportedly stormed Owode Market and broke into some shops in…
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Farouq, has said that 612 people have been killed while approximately 2,776 others have been injured in various flood incidents across the country in 2022. She stated this during a press conference held in Abuja on Monday, October 24, 2022, PUNCH disclosed. According to the Minister, the Press Briefing is to keep Nigerians abreast of the response and interventions being handled by the Ministry and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on the flood situation across the country. She said that thousands of houses and hectares of farmlands had been totally…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has donated the sum of N55 million to flood victims in Bayelsa state. Atiku, while speaking at the government house, Yenagoa, during a sympathy visit on Tuesday, October 25, said that the donation was his token to support the recovery process of those affected by the flood. He lamented the effect of the flood on the lives and economy of people of the state, and called on the federal government and public-spirited individuals and organizations to support Bayelsa state in this difficult moment. The former vice-president advocated the setting up…
The federal government, on Wednesday, October 26, said that it would take about 30 years of consistent investment to be able to control the current flood menace in different parts of the country. The minister of water resources, Suleiman Adamu, disclosed this after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, presided over by vice-president Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday. The minister, who said he made a presentation to the council jointly with the ministry of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, also noted that this sort of disaster cannot be prevented permanently but the government can only minimise its impact, according to The Nation.…