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Jigawa LG supports 1,000 poor households with N10m
The Maigatari Local Government Council of Jigawa has disbursed N10 million support to 1,000 poor and vulnerable households in the area.
The Information Officer in charge of the area, Alhaji Daudu Sulaiman, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Wednesday.
Sulaiman said the council’s Chairman, Mallam Uzairu Nadabo, announced the disbursement while launching the exercise on Tuesday in Maigatari, indicating that each of the benefiting households, selected from the nooks and crannies of the area, received N10,000.
He quoted the chairman as saying that the gesture was aimed at reducing the suffering of the people of the area due to the high cost of living.
The information officer added that Nadabo assured that the second batch of the disbursement will be launched soon to support more poor and needy in the area.
According to him, the Emir of Gumel, Alhaji Muhammad Sani, commended the council for the gesture, nothing that it would, in addition reduce hardship experienced by people as a result of the current economic problems.
A Student Of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, has died after being hit by a trailer driver on Monday, April 15.
The Accident was said to have occurred when the driver, who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying a student named Olanrewaju Olatona and another passenger along the Ikirun-Osogbo road area of the state.
Due to the severe impact, Olanrewaju Olatona, a National Diploma 2 student, suffered fatal injuries. He died at the scene.
Olatona, who was the Financial Secretary of the Department of Mass Communication, was preparing for the one-year Industrial Training programme.
The driver fled the scene after the accident and has not been apprehended.
Subsequently, Osun State Polytechnic students organised a procession in front of the school gate and blocked the expressway for several hours.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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