29 states show a lack of preparedness for flood incidents in 2023
A review of the 36 states’ 2023 budgets showed that all, except 9 states, earmarked funds for flood and erosion control.
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Numbers To Ponder: 1.9m Displaced, 4000 for Evacuation, N6bn NEMA Scam and N40bn more
For Today’s Numbers to Ponder, 1.9 million people are displaced from their homes in the North-East. The figure reported by UNICEF, is another alarming figure, a day after NBS reported high numbers of poor people in the region. Away from Northeast, the country’s opposition party has challenged VP Yemi Osinbajo to defend himself in the alleged N5.8 billion NEMA scam. The Government is already looking for ways to weather a pandemic tsunami on the economy and may further review the crude oil price in the 2020 budget down to $20 per barrel. Another FG effort will start evacuating about 4,000 stranded citizens across the world as a result of COVID-19 from today.
Federal Government Withheld N31.6 Billion Meant for Victims of Human and Natural Disasters
The latest audit report of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that the Federal Government denied the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) of its statutory share of the Ecology fund to the tune of 12.6 Billion naira from 2012 to 2016.