Heavy Rains Leave 50 Dead, Others Homeless in Jigawa
The Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said that 50 people, including a newborn, were killed in a building collapse due to heavy downpours in different parts of the state. The tragedy occurred across the state at the beginning of the rainy season. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Alhaji Yusuf Sani, told newsmen that several houses were either damaged or destroyed, rendering several families homeless. Sani said the displaced persons were currently taking refuge in 11 temporary camps, while others stayed with their relatives, as the agency was making efforts to open camps to accommodate the victims. He added that the agency had been providing the victims, including those staying with their relatives, with items and other basic needs. Executive Secretary of the agency, Alhaji Yusuf Sani, told newsmen, “The disaster occurred in all the 27 LGAs because it’s a matter of rainfall and we had rain for good three days in Jigawa nonstop. So all the 27 LGAs are affected”……….. READ MORE
The NBS claims that increases in the cost of bread and cereals, food items, potatoes, yams, and other tubers, as well as meat, fish, oil, and fat, are to blame for the rise in food inflation. In July 2022, Nigeria’s inflation rate reached a 17-year high of 19.64%, according to the National Bureau of Statistics’ recently released Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for the month of July 2022. The latest inflation data represents a 1.04 percent increase from the 18.6% recorded in June 2022. Nigeria’s inflation rate last exceeded 19.64% in September 2005, when it reached 24.32%. This is according to Nairalytics, a web portal that publishes historical macroeconomic data for Nigeria. Notably, increases in the food and core indexes drove the inflation rate up. From a reading of 20.6% in June 2022, food inflation increased to 22.02%. The NBS claims that increases in the cost of bread and cereals, food items, potatoes, yams, and other tubers, as well as meat, fish, oil, and fat, are to blame for the rise in food inflation. Also, core inflation, which excludes the price of erratic agricultural products, increased from 15.75% to 16.26% in July 2022. Prices for gas, liquid fuel, solid fuel, passenger transport by road, passenger transport by air, garments, cleaning, repair, and clothing hire recorded the highest increase for the month of July……… READ MORE
Insecurity Killings, Kidnaping, Govt. Insensitivity Make Nigerians Live In Fear
The pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has described the handling of the security situation in Nigeria by the Federal Government as tantamount to ceding the country into the hands of terrorists, stressing that the government’s insensitivity to the killings and kidnapping across the country makes Nigerians live in fear. A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the organization, Comrade Jare Ajayi on Monday noted that the confession by President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, that terrorists ‘deceived’ the government into releasing his wife and children without releasing victims of Abuja-Kaduna train as very unfortunate and an admission of failure on the part of the government. The organization maintained that the manner insecurity issue is being handled is, unfortunately, lending credence to the views of those who are alleging that there could be a hidden agenda to this issue of banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism, Ajayi stated, “Otherwise, the government would have been more decisive in the way it tackles the monster that is fast eroding the very essence of our being.”……… READ MORE