A truck conveying food items was looted by some residents of Ondo State amid the current hardship ravaging the country. It was gathered that the driver of the truck was overpowered after his vehicle developed a mechanical fault at the popular cultural centre junction on Ondo express road, reports Daily Trust. However, remnants of the […...
•Douye Diri Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri has said offering palliatives is not the lasting solution to the economic hardship in the country. Diri made the remarks while speaking during the Easter Sunday service at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church in his community, Sampou, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, reports The Nat...
No fewer than two female students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, have reportedly died following a stampede that occurred at the university’s convocation square today. The convocation square was the venue for the distribution of palliatives to the students by the Nasarawa State government, reports The PUNCH. A source within the university...
The Senate has been thrown into a rowdy session following revelation of uneven distribution of the federal government’s palliatives to senators for onward disbursement to their constituents. The Red Chamber was debating the allegation by Senator Abdul Ningi, the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, during an interview with BBC Hausa, repor...
•Tinubu and palliatives A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has slammed the Tinubu-led federal government for “running the economy on palliatives” since the removal of petrol subsidy some eight months ago. •Sowunmi on television last night Sowunmi, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, called on the P...
•Nigerian Senate The Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu has denied media reports that senators received rice worth N200million from President Bola Tinubu for distribution to their constituents as palliatives during the Yuletide. However, a Senate source confirmed the development, saying some of the rice pa...
•Soludo In what looked like a twist of fate for civil and public servants in Anambra state over Subsidy removal palliatives, Anambra State Government has announced an end to all payments to that effect from December 31. Speaking on the palliatives distribution, Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Paul Nwosu, disclosed that the distribu...
•Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite All is set for the disbursement of the N275 billion palliative support funds announced in July by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to mitigate the pains arising from the removal of petrol subsidy. Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, yesterday said that two programmes under the multi-layered inte...
•Governor Abba Yusuf In a startling revelation, the Kano State Government has unearthed a warehouse brimming with diverted food palliatives meant for the underprivileged. Tasiu Al’amin Roba, a Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abba Yusuf was apprehended by the Kano State Police Command in connection with the alleged diversion of these suppl...
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