STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

All 28 States that established Judicial Panels following the EndSARS protests last year have now completed the assignment, except Lagos State’s panel which will conclude later this year in October.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, made the disclosure today at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting, adding that 8 States have turned in their reports and Council looks forward to discussing them in full at its next meeting as more States are expected to make their submissions as well.

This was among resolutions reached at the end of the Council’s 119th meeting (8th in 2021), held virtually and presided over by the Vice President, with State governors, federal ministers, and other senior government officials in attendance.

Speaking on the consideration of the panel reports, Prof. Osinbajo said already the 8 States: Abia, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Kwara, Nasarawa, Ondo, and Rivers, have submitted reports of their respective panels, while Lagos State has also submitted an interim report.

SOME OTHER HIGHLIGHTS TODAY’S NEC MEETING:

NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL (NEC) MEETING 119TH (8TH IN 2021)

*FINANCIAL UPDATES:

1. EXCESS CRUDE ACCOUNT (ECA)

BALANCE AS AT 13THJULY 2021 STANDS AT
$60, 855,153.31

2. STABILIZATION ACCOUNT
BALANCE AS AT 13TH JULY, 2021 STANDS AT
N30,757,901,458.81

3. DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ACCOUNT

BALANCE AS AT 13TH JULY, 2021 STANDS AT
N33,891,412,441.85

PRESENTATION ON AT-RISK CHILDREN (&YOUTH) PROGRAMME BY SPECIAL ADVISER, SOCIAL INVESTMENT, MRS MARYAM UWAIS

The Memo was to acquaint Council that the mission was to facilitate programmes that will ensure the integration of at-risk children and young adults by creating opportunities for skills and empowerment to reduce their vulnerabilities.

Key Partners are Federal Ministry of Education; State Governments; UBEC/SUBEBs; Relevant Federal MDAs, SDG Office, World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, UNODC, AfDB; IsDB and the Private Sector.
Goals

Standard 1-A Purposeful Educational and Empowerment Model

Standard 2- Quality Citizens

Standard 3-Build and Institutionalize Learning Capacity

Stakeholder Strategy

Caregivers being paid cash transfers based on their regular attendance at the PHCs nearest to them, where they would be availed nutrition education and also general information to improve hygiene, sanitation and the well-being of their families and environment. There is an identified need to incentivise the mothers through the cash transfers (which would include awareness), to thereby support their offspring to remain in the CHs, through the transfers and the training sections.

Encouraging the resumption in formal schools for those who are able and willing to remain in primary school. For the youth who are trained in vocations and skills and who demonstrate an interest in setting up MSMEs, the formation of cooperatives, phased payment of stipends and the distribution of tools and equipment to facilitate their being engaged in productive activities, under the mentorship of designated Facilitators, CBOs &community members. Clustering or forming cooperatives for the youth who have an interest in starting a business (post-CH) to facilitate teamwork and the possibility of them engaging in activities to facilitate a better appreciation of the benefits of staying the course to actualise the benefits of starting a small business.

Next Steps
Program Kick-Off, Engaging States, Scoping &Forging Local Alliances &Building capacity at State level.

Governance Strategy/ Implement Short term plans Implement Mid-Term Plans

Hand over Coordination Platform to States/ NEC as Long-Term Plan

*COUNCIL RECEIVED MEMO FROM NATIONAL AGENCY FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE (NASENI) PRESENTED BY ENGR. PROF. M. S. HARUNA, FNSE, AGENCY'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE.

The operational mandate of NASENI is in the areas of capital goods research and production through the development of local capacity and capability for machine building and fabrication. The agency is strategically established to produce relevant technologies, set up industries pilot plants to stimulate knowledge-based entrepreneurship for indigenous socio-economic advancement of Nigeria using applied research for science, technology, and innovation.

Some examples:
• Establishment of a 7.5mw panel manufacturing plant at karshi, FCT for solar electricity generation

• The factory is a limited liability company (NASENI SOLAR ENERGY LIMITED) with the IGR Paid into Consolidated Revenue Account.

• Also NASENI Solar Modules are in commercial supplies in our markets

NASENI’S approach in the vision of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCR Administration is to enable local ownership job creation, technology, advancement and sustainable industrial revolution through bridging technology gaps for Economic Diversification.

NASENI can coordinate the proliferation of technologies developed either within or outside of its Development institutes. Technologies so developed in the areas of spares components and systems engineering are to be transferred to Entrepreneurs and SMEs for the production of goods and servers for rapid technology development.

CONCLUSION
*Following President Muhamadu Buhari's approval of the implementation of remittance of 1% of the federation account as contained in the establishment Act as NASENI Statutory fund, NEC also concurred and endorsed.

*PRESENTATION ON OF PROGRESS REPORT OF THE NEC AD-HOC COMMITTEE INTERFACING WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE (PTF) ON COVID-19 TO EASE THE LOCKDOWN OF THE ECONOMY BY THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE

• Lagos State Governor on behalf the Governor of Delta State informed Council about the new vaccination drive moving on further to seven States by yesterday 25th August 2021;

• By the end of September Federal Government will get a reasonable amount of vaccine from the 30 million dose;

• The Ad-Hoc committee interfacing with the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 is to work hand in hand with the staff of National Primary Health Care in administering the vaccine

• In Lagos the No. of Covid-19 cases rose last week

• As at yesterday positivity rate rose from 10 to 10 .5%

• States to ensure that mandatory isolation is observed

• There is an increase in the usage of oxygen

*STATE PERFORMANCE REPORT ON COVID -19 BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL, NATIONAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL

No of Cases = 187,023

No of Cases tested = 2,727,834

Active Cases = 16,300

Discharged Cases = 168,455

Number of Deaths = 2,268

Council was informed on global information on Covid -19 as at 22nd August 2021 as follows:

• African Situation at 23rd August 2021 over 5.4million confirmed cases and over 130,000 deaths due to Covid -19

• Increase in cases for 8 consecutive weeks

• Testing is more in Lagos than any other State

• Lagos contributes the highest case load

• Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, FCT, and Kwara has the most cases in the last four(4) weeks

• The Delta variants has remained the dominant variant in the country recently and is now present in 8 States

Update on cholera

Suspected No of Cases =47,603

NO. States with Cholera = 23+FCT

No of confirmed cases = 427

Number of Deaths = 1,768

• State which have reported suspected cases in 2021 are: Benue, Delta, Zafara, Gombe, Kogi, Sokoto, Plateau, Kebbi, Cross River, Niger, Nassarawa, Jigawa,Yobe, Kwara, Enugu, Adamawa, Kastina and Borno;

• Rapid response deployed to Bauchi, Benue, FCT, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kastina;

• Minister of Health advised the public to boil drinking water

• Water purifier to be distributed to high burden states


Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
26th August 2021

When we said you should meet with people who you said were killed during the EndSARS and direct them to judicial panel, our didn't listen, and call the tribune that would ensure justice is served for the victims of police brutalities, you call it names and it is scam, now, those that have been benefited have, though we know it can't bring the dead back, but government set up this, why not get justice and nail the police that cause your relative untimely death.


Nice. I hope Nigerians follow thE judicial panel in their respective states

Na here e die put

You have given report to the same people who sent the killers

Una no really get sense

It seems some people somewhere are benefitting by deliberating on this endsars matter.
ABEG THEY SHOULD GO AND SITDOWN

They should follow up on the report

Abeg who be Nigeria president again self?

Time wasted meetings... what a Lawless country....

Good

Would anything come out of it?

anambraamaka:
Good

mhen banga

https://www.facebook.com/punchnewspaper/videos/1968824766618433/


For those saying there was no shooting in Lekki toll gate, Listen to Nicholas Okpe on the link

After almost a year we are still getting report and no one in jail yet..

Report will be as useless as confab report and NPF report on Abba tailor

Lol.


After 10 months.

Reports that won't be acted on.

Bcock3030:
mhen banga

The song?

Watin won comot for the matters.....

No need for a change of name. That unit need to be scrapped completely and new personnel with proper training and orientation recruited to a new unit

Yoruba media and fraud. They are doing everything to sell the incompetent Osibanjo to Nigerians before 2023 as the other old thief chances are fast dwindling. What they don't know is that the incompetent Prof is the Vice President of Nigeria during the worst administration since the return to civilian leadership. And he did nothing. A failure is always a failure. We can't reward a failed deputy with a higher position. No, we can't. Nigerians are wiser.

TheRareGem1:
When we said you should meet with people who you said were killed during the EndSARS and direct them to judicial panel, our didn't listen, and call the tribune that would ensure justice is served for the victims of police brutalities, you call it names and it is scam, now, those that have been benefited have, though we know it can't bring the dead back, but government set up this, why not get justice and nail the police that cause your relative untimely death.


Nice. I hope Nigerians follow thE judicial panel in their respective states

We already know their names, James Nwafor, Abba Kyari and the rest. Until they face serious punishment for their crimes the panel will never be enough.

Oh they are still on this fruitless end SARS panel that only favours the police.