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Osun LG Chairman Impeached
The Chairman, Irewole Local Government, Osun state,Hon Remi Abas has been reportedly impeached.

It was gathered that the acting Chairman has been nominated and sworn in immediately.

The Acting Chairman according to the information is Hon Sulaiman Ojekunle

Details later …..

The Federal Government has secured the release of Zainab Aliyu who was arrested in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug trafficking.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.

He said the government has been able to establish the innocence of Zainab and the second Nigerian involved in the case, Ibrahim Abubakar will be released tomorrow to the Nigerian Mission in Saudi Arabia.

The Senate has passed the 2019 Appropriation Bill of N8.916 trillion.

This is N86 billion higher than the proposal of N8.83 trillion presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly for the 2019 fiscal year.

The lawmakers passed the bill during Tuesday’s plenary after considering the report of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on the 2019 Appropriation Bill presented by Senator Danjuma Goje.

Governor of the State of Osun, Mr Gboyega Oyetola meets with American Ambasador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington; Mission Director USAID, Stephen Haykin, former Governor of Marryland, USA, Mr Martin O’Malley on how to partner and invest in the State of Osun at the dinner organized for New and Returning Governors in Nigeria by American Ambassador to Nigeria at Maitama, Abuja on Monday, 29th April, 2019.

A member of the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, has disclosed that Boko Haram members receive as much as $3,000 daily which he claims serves as payment for carrying out terrorist attacks in the North-East since 2014.

Nigerian ArmyMohammed made this disclosure at the Presentation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Sub-Sahara Africa’s Economic Outlook Report, in Abuja on Monday April 29th seen by NationOnlineNews.
According to Mohammed, the payment makes the N1,000 daily allowance paid to Nigerian troops at the war front ridiculous.
“I will give you an example. The Nigerian military for example, gets N1,000 per day for being in the North East, at the war front, as an allowance. 
The same North-East, where if you are a member of Boko Haram you get $3,000 per day as allowance. So it is lucrative. Sometimes, they even give you money upfront. 
So we must do something about the youth from where they are recruiting.” he said.

Happy Birthday, Comr Olorunfemi Olatunji Awoko!

Today, I celebrate one of Ijesha’s finest. A young man I secretly admire for his rare mixture of achievements and humility; a young man who does not envy the success of his contemporaries, but would rather lend his effort to make them succeed; a young man who has made Ijesha North proud through his consummate professionalism in works that has become a reference concentric for others to emulate.

With his intellectual equipment and mental wealth, I see him becoming a billionaire, but that should be a discussion for another day. Family and friends, join me celebrate our own!

Many happy returns, Awoko worldwide.

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has pledged to hand over to the Governor-elect, Dapo Abiodun as the next Governor of the state on May 28, 2019. 

Dapo-Amosun Amosun said he would not hand over empty government to his successor like he experienced when he was taking over from the then Governor, Gbenga Daniel. 

The Governor said this during the inauguration of transition committee led by Deputy –Governor, Mrs Yetunde Onanuga and meeting with the 15-member transition committee of Abiodun at Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. 

Amosun who was represented by Secretary to the state government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, met with the transition committee led by Deputy Governor-elect, Noimot Salako-Oyede The Governor said he alongside his officials squatted for months due to non-readiness of the Government House when the then Governor Gbenga Daniel was handing over power to him in 2011.

The outgoing governor who said contrary to insinuations in some quarters that he had no plans to handover, his transition committee had been put in place “since December 2018.” He added that keys to the Government House and the Presidential Lodge are ready if he intends “to move in tomorrow.” 

Amosun promised to be truthful, accurate and helpful by presenting “a comprehensive handover note” on May 28, in a bid to ensure a seamless transition of government in the state. He said “We will be in position to hand over a comprehensive handover note to you on May 28, 2019. 

“By God’s grace, 28th of May, 2019, we can sit down like this and hand over to you. “We have not been sleeping so as to have a smooth running of the transition. “Government House,  Oke-Igbein is ready, If you want to move in tomorrow. Both the Presidential Lodge and Government House are ready. 

As soon as you tell us when you need the keys, we will make them available.” The Deputy Governor-elect while speaking with journalists, expressed satisfaction on the government’s preparation for the transition on May 29. 

She said the two committees would exchange views while her committee would ask questions wherever it did not understand.

The United Nations (UN), has revealed that Nigeria’s life expectancy is the third lowest in the world in its new report released on Monday. 

According to the United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA), Nigeria’s life expectancy which is the third lowest in the world in 2019 is placed at 55 years. 
It was further learnt that the life expectancy of an average Nigerian in 2019, is only better than those of people in Sierra Leone, Chad and the Central African Republic.
The three countries have respectively 53, 54, 54 years as their life expectancy rates, the report states. War-torn Afghanistan has 65 years; Somalia has 58; and Syria has 73.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ruled out the adoption of electronic voting method in the country in the nearest future.

INECAn INEC National Commissioner, Professor Okey Ibeanu argued the country was not ripe for electronic voting because of the absence of “robust technical and physical infrastructure.”
Prof Ibeanu noted that t there were key factors to be taken into consideration before e-voting could be adopted in the country, which he said, include stable power supply and the ability of electorate to conquer their “fundamental trust issues in the system”, by believing in the capability of the electoral body to function independently without external manipulations.
“Each time we are demanding more ‘complexification’ of our election, we should remember that our infrastructure may not be adequate to take care of the process.”
He spoke in Abuja on Monday at the “Stakeholders’ forum on future of elections in Nigeria, put together by the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (NCSSR), with the support of the British Department for International Development (DFID).

On this year’s World Malaria Day, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has called on communities across the country to take action against malaria by cleaning their environment. 

Mosquitoes, Malaria At a medis forum to commemorate the Day in Lagos, the President of PSN, Pharm  Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa urged Nigerians to be active with the theme: “Zero Malaria Starts with Me”, by getting rid of stagnant water and pools, covering up gutters in residential areas while ensuring the garden was not overgrown. 

Ohuabunwa said  interrupting at least three mosquito life cycles can potentially stop the transmission of malaria parasite by mosquitoes. “A concerted effort is required to achieve this, so we call on Local Council Development Authorities to coordinate and implement an environmental policy to achieve this. “We also call on other health professionals to come ensure a quick and effective response to save lives especially in at risk populations- children under 5 and pregnant women,” he stated. 

Ohuabunwa who insisted that zero malaria was possible said to end malaria for good, while communities are taking actions to control the vector, health professionals must do their part by providing effective treatment. 

He said a combination of disruption of breeding and elimination of the parasite from the system has been proven to lead to zero malaria. The PSN President further called on the Federal Ministry of Health to strengthen the National Malaria Surveillance by incorporating reports from pharmacists operating in a community setting. 

Noting that pharmacists are also involved in malaria treatments and prevention, he disclosed that evidence currently showed that most patients visit their community pharmacists when the suspect malaria and that data reports from community pharmacists would help improve data quality and intervention strategies. 

Throwing light on the seriousness of malaria, Ohuabunwa also urged parents to take sustainable actions that will eliminate malaria in order to protect the children who are among the worst hit by malaria. He recalled that the 2017 World Malaria report revealed that children aged under 5 were the most vulnerable group affected by malaria and they accounted for 61 percent of all malaria deaths worldwide. 

Quoting the report he said: “Nearly 80 percent of global malaria deaths in 2017 were concentrated in 17 countries in the WHO African Region and India, seven of these countries accounted by 53 percent of all global malaria deaths.  

Nigeria has 19 percent, DRC 11 percent among others.” He further noted that pharmacists also play three roles in the fight for zero malaria including malaria prevention, case management and policy advocacy.