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This is deep and according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo "opportunity usually comes disguised as a challenge, a drawback, even a tragedy; it hardly ever looks like the next great leap of mankind that it really is."

By Francis Sardauna

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has commenced arrangement for the building of 325 houses for communities that were displaced by the 2018 flood in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The housing scheme located in Farun Maje community, comprises schools, clinics, shops, security outposts, mosques and other basic social amenities.

The Director-general of NEMA, AVM Muhammadu Muhammed, who unveiled this to journalists while inspecting the project site on Tuesday, said the project would be executed in collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) through its Work Centre.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had on July 15, 2018, visited the flood-ravaged local government area to assess the level of damage caused by the natural disaster.
The flood, caused by torrential rains on Nigeria’s border with Niger Republic, killed more than 52 persons and destroyed thousands of houses in the border town, according to the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).

During the assessment visit, Osinbajo said the federal government would resettle and compensate the victims, adding that drainages and culverts will also be constructed in the areas affected to prevent further occurrence.

Muhammed, represented by the Director, Planning, Research and Forecasts of the Agency, Kayode Fagbemi, explained that 325 households affected by the flood were expected to benefit from the two-bedroom prototype houses.
He reiterated that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved and provided money for the immediate commencement of the project in order to alleviate the predicaments bedevilling victims of the natural disaster.

He said: “The National Emergency Management Agency team comprising the federal government implementation team is here for the relocation, reconstruction and resettlement of people affected by flood in Jibia in 2018.

“We had discussions with the Katsina State Government implementation team yesterday (Monday). The president of the Federal Republic has approved and provided the money for it and we have secured a collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force Work Centre.
“So, we are going to work in collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force to ensure that we build 2-bedroom flats comprising 325 houses for the people that were displaced by the flood. There will be clinics, shops, schools and other facilities in the housing scheme.

“Each household is expected to get 2-bedroom flat and we have taken into consideration the suggestion of Katsina State Government to make sure that the cultural practices are included in the design of the 2-bed room flats.

“If not for the COVID-19, we would have gone farther than this, but we hope that within the next short possible time we should be able to put on this buildings. It is a direct labour project, even the people affected will be employed to do some of the labours and it is a kind of cash for work.”

The NEMA boss stated that President Buhari has also approved the implementation of a similar project for victims of flooding in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Also speaking, the Katsina State Implementation Committee Chairperson, Halima Lawal, said the state government would work with NEMA to ensure speedy implementation of the project.

THISDAY reports that the federal government’s implementation team consists of experts from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, NEMA and the consultants.

I think national livestock transformation plan will be the lasting solution

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday raised the alarm that the country is currently in a critical situation with the increasing number of confirmed COVID-19 cases.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Vice President made the observation when he toured the facilities of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s Reference Laboratory, Gaduwa, Abuja, accompanied by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire; Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora; and the Director-General, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu.
The statement was titled “Not yet where we want, but we are making significant progress in public health sector, says Osinbajo.”

Akande quoted Osinbajo as lamenting that “we have a critical situation on our hands currently with the increasing number of cases being recorded.”

Despite this, however, the Vice President was further quoted as saying that a lot of progress has been made since Nigeria’s first case was reported in February 2020.
He said, “We have activated nearly 120 laboratories nationwide – 70 of them public laboratories – and have significantly ramped up our testing and case management capacity.

“We have expanded the footprint of our sovereign public health response capabilities especially at the subnational level and in areas where previously such capabilities did not exist.

“Not so long ago, test samples had to be flown out of the country for examination. This is no longer the case as we now have the capacity to process samples internally.”

Osinbajo said the achievements recorded so far should not be taken for granted.

He added that the present regime was committed to consolidating on them.

“While we are not yet where we want to be as a nation, we are most certainly not where we were at the onset of the pandemic,” he said.

The Vice President then commended Nigeria’s public and private healthcare specialists and workers in the line of duty for ensuring the safety, cure and prevention of the majority of Nigerians from the COVID-19 virus, sometimes und
er extremely challenging circumstances.
He said, “Thousands of health professionals have been working tirelessly on Nigeria’s COVID-19 public health response.

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“From the people across sample collection sites and laboratories ensuring testing, and our dedicated physicians, nurses and other health workers in treatment centres providing care to the sick, to our medical scientists that are conducting research on various aspects of this plague.

“We also have state public health teams working hard to ensure data reporting and analysis, contact tracing, risk communications and so much more
“Within this period, you have all worked extremely hard to activate testing in all states of our country, you have increased our knowledge of this disease, grown our capacity to swiftly identify those infected by the plague and render aid to them.”

Osinbajo said he was aware that the work they do can often seem thankless and the long hours put in unnoticed and unappreciated.
“Often it happens in the background and in the shadows, away from public attention and it will not often grab the headlines. But it only seems this way. In truth, this is the sort of work that builds nations and saves lives.

“When the record of our response to this unprecedented threat to our public health is written, the efforts of our healthcare professionals will occupy a significant place with the thanks of a grateful nation,” he said.
The Vice President spoke on the research of Nigerians towards getting a cure for the COVID-19 virus.

He said, “Last week I was in briefing meetings, listening to the landmark research of a team of Professors from LUTH who are investigating the efficacy of some of the drugs in the therapeutic management of COVID-19 and are researching its prophylactic use.

“A few days later, I was listening to Prof Christian Happi and his team who have produced a ground-breaking COVID-19 rapid test, but more remarkably, are developing a Nigerian anti-COVID-19 vaccine.”
Osinbajo urged Nigerians to continue to comply with COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical measures.

We need to commend the effort of this administration for the good job

LabuleofNigeria:
So this Yoruba Bastard still dey alive ?

Buhari dey dickride SW & SE, forcing us out of our lands for herdsmen, where were you?
Buhari dey kill, kidnap,butcher your people with armed herdsmen everyday, no one was arrested.
Buhari & corhorts dey destroy Lagos, ordered armed military men to open fire on innocent protesteants, yet, no one was brought to book.

Now listen. Whoever is quiet in the case of an injustice is on the side of the oppressor.

U all shall taste the equal measure of the pain in due time.

Why are you talking like this ,do you know the impact Vice President Yemi Osinbajo took to end the issue of herdsmen,have you ever read about NLTP

Kaduna1stson:
The VP is very smart.

How do you mean

The industrial park would provide convenient business environment for industrialists in the state.

Dabronze:
Nothing will be more pleasant than if this COVID-19 could Eliminate all these politician before 2023

Hahaha why nah

We need to applaud Nigeria’s public and private healthcare specialists and workers in the line of duty for ensuring the safety, cure and prevention of majority of Nigerians from the COVID-19 virus, sometimes under extremely challenging circumstances.

covid19 is real and we shouldn't play with our health

Pls COVID-19 is real and let everybody adhere to the rules and regulations, modalities laid down by the NCDC.

By Yinka Kolawole

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that heads of regulatory agencies involved in persistent corruption, duplicity of functions, poor service orientation and several anti-business dispositions should be held accountable for service failures in the public sector.

Osinbajo stated this while presenting the “Cost of Compliance Report” by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, PwC, to the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC).
He directed that CEOs and heads of such government regulatory agencies involved should be presented with the outcomes and interaction should take place regarding some of the worrying disclosures in the report of the survey conducted by PwC. The vice president said: “In a renewed attempt at further deepening the reforms of the nation’s business environment, PEBEC has resolved that CEOs and Heads of some Federal Government regulatory agencies be presented with the outcome of a recent survey that exposes major pitfall
s in the operations of the agencies.”

According to a statement made available to Vanguard by the vice president’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, the Cost of Compliance Report which was presented to the Council at its first virtual meeting of the year on Tuesday revealed persistent corruption, duplicity of functions, poor service orientation, and several anti-business disposition in some of the regulatory agencies.

This is by way of improving the livelihoods of the beneficiaries through enhanced household .

if the environment on account of regulatory authorities is so difficult or expensive, such that people are discouraged.

Better to avoid the widespread of coronavirus

Condusive business environment matters alot because if the environment on account of regulatory authorities is so difficult or expensive, such that people are discouraged or it doesn’t make sense for people to do business, then we are shooting ourselve.

All this will improve the business

Soulsymbol99:
Instead of coming up with ways and policies to improve the economy, na 2 give peanut. Ok 5k will solve their problems abi?

A lot of opportunities are going on with this government, COVID-19 loan,survival fund,payroll support and so on

OLULAW:
How will 5k fix their problems. Teach them to fish rather than giving them fish to eat.

Guy let us appreciate the government, the 5k is just for the less privilege people

This is another way to help the less privilege people in Nigeria,the government of our people

The economic sustainability plan is a great program that has lifted so many Nigerians from poverty level and I must commend the true effort of this administration

Let follow the man who is inspiring to lead masses and which is VP Osinbajo

last week was full of activities and achievements and hoping for more this new week

Thanks for this administration for their wonderful job in making life easier for the Nigerians

They said the voice of masses is the voice of God,so we need osinbajo to be our president come 2023 in jesus name.Amen

The Punch headline is a sensational one out to fulfill a sinister motive!

The Punch headline is a sensational one out to fulfill a sinister motive! and everyone knows that this is a fake news

This is coming from the mischievous media

thorough research is being going on daily to find a lasting solution to the COVID-19 and soon it will be available

We really need to commend the effort of these men and women who are risking their lives to save ours .

Buhari intentionally did that to lessen some burden in the life of masses who reduced little pay or that their businesses are not up to the task