Nigeria Hosts 3.2 Million Displaced People In 2022- UNHCR

The UN High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, reported in June 2022 that Nigeria hosts 3.2 million displaced people, including approximately 82,000 refugees, a 9% increase from 2021. Ms. Chansa Kapaya, UNHCR Representative in Nigeria, in a World Refugee Day statement, had said displacement in Nigeria has been increasing rapidly since 2018, with 500,700 people newly displaced in 2021. Kapaya added that Nigeria also hosts 6,900 refugees and asylum seekers from Syria, Niger, the Democratic Republic...

Flood: FG, World Bank To Conduct Post Disaster Rapid Impact Assessment

ABUJA — The Federal Government of Nigeria is collaborating with the World Bank to conduct a post disaster rapid impact assessment of flooding across the country. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development announced this at a Ministerial briefing on Thursday in Abuja. She said that the most rapid impact assessment will use the Global Rapid post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) and called on all stakeholders to work towards...

Insecurity Contributes To Out-of-School Children-Education Minister

ABUJA — The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has attributed the rising number of out-of-school children in the country to insecurity. The Minister who spoke in Abuja at the ministerial session of the 66th National Council on Education (NCE), with the theme ‘Strengthening of Security and Safety in Nigerian Schools for the Achievement of Education 2030 Agenda, said schools must be safe and secure at all costs. He said the government was working towards reducing...

HEFAMAA Sealed 42 Health Facilities In Lagos

A total of 42 health facilities have been sealed by the Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) out of about 1040 visited between January to September 2022. Dr. Abiola Idowu, Executive Secretary of the Agency who disclosed this in Lagos while reviewing the activities of the agency in the nine months, said the facilities were sealed for non-compliance with regulatory standards, non-registration of facilities, and lack of qualified medical personnel as well as the...

Bandits Abduct Over 40 People in Katsina, Demand N30 Million As Ransom

DAURA — Bandits have abducted over forty people including 39 children working on a farm from different parts of Faskari and Funtua Local Government Areas of Katsina State. Faskari Local Government Area which shares borders with Zamfara State has been at the receiving end of armed banditry and kidnapping in the last six years, with over fifty villages now deserted by residents fleeing the incessant attacks by bandit gangs in the Rugu Forest. Salisu Shehu,...

House Of Assembly Candidate Arrested With 326million, $140,500 Cash

A Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi was arrested with N326million and $ 140,500 cash. Atumeyi, who is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the State Assembly, was arrested on Sunday. According Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, that one Abdumalik Salau Femi, a former bank employee, was arrested in connection with the fraud alongside one Joshua Dominic, an alleged serial...

Kidnappers Resort To Demand Dollars, Hard Currencies For Ransom-Sheik Gumi

On Saturday, the controversial Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Gumi, said the decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign the naira to curtail ransom payment will fail, as kidnappers will resort to dollars and other hard currencies. Gumi who posted this on his verified Facebook page, while reacting to CBN‘s redesigning of the naira, warned that the redesigning of the naira will further put more pressure on the economy making the...

Commercial Drivers In Lagos To Embark On Strike

The Joint Drivers Association of Nigeria (JDWAN), Lagos State Chapter is set to commence a seven-day day warning strike on Monday, October 31, 2022. Drivers expected to participate in the strike are drivers of mini buses (Korope), coaster buses, federal Mass Assisted Transit, Mazda buses, T4, LT, and Ford. The joint drivers disclosed this at a press briefing on Friday, which was held at the Right’s House, Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, Lagos State. Comrade Akintade Abiodun,...

17 of 10,313 N4.6 Billion Diverted To Finance Presidential Campaign Of Goodluck Jonathan- EFCC

Shuaibu Shehu, an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the sum of N4.6 billion allegedly diverted to finance the presidential campaign of former President Goodluck Jonathan is still under investigation. He stated this at the ongoing trial of a former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Nenadi Usman, and two others, who are all standing trial on...

FCT Donates 60 Operational Vehicles To Security Agencies

It is a determined effort to ensure the lives and property of residents are protected. The FCT Administration has procured and distributed 60 operational vehicles with communication gadget features to security agencies across the Area councils in the Territory. Benefitting organizations include the Police, Armed Forces, NSCDC and other Paramilitary organizations, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), and Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). While handing over, the vehicles, the Minister of FCT, Malam...

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