Workers attack FG over Cross River Basins Development’s poor management
The agency’s fortune and impact has continued to dwindle for some years now, due to poor management.
Workers of the
Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA) recently took to the streets to protest the poor running of the federal agency.
The workers protested round the agency’s host community, Ikot Eneobong, Cross River State, according to a
The tenure of the last management expired a few days ago.
Cross River Basin Development Authority, one of the 12 River basin development authorities in Nigeria, was established in 1976 to, among other things, help develop water resources and control flood and erosion in the areas within its jurisdiction which today has been reduced to only Cross River and Akwa Ibom states.
By Tosin Kolade
Abuja, Jan. 14, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the renewal of tenure for seven managing directors of the river basin development authorities.
The president also approved the appointment of new managing directors for two other river basin development authorities.
Mrs Kenechukwu Offie, Director, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Water Resources made this known in a statement in Abuja on Thursday evening.
According to the statement, the appointment took effect from Jan. 5.
The managing directors whose appointments were renewed for a second and final term are; Prof. Abdulkarim Muhammad, Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority, and Dr Adeniyi Aremu, Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Ilorin.
Tambuwal Commissioner for Home Affairs, Jeli- Abubakar is dead
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Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, on Friday announced the death of his Commissioner for Home Affairs, Alhaji Abdulkadir Jeli-Abubakar.
A statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Malam Muhammad Bello, said Jeli-Abubakar died on Thursday at 64 after a protracted illness.
Tambuwal described the deceased’s death as a great loss to the state and the nation at large.
He prayed that God will grant his family and loved ones the fortitude to bear the loss.
The deceased has since been buried according to Islamic rites, NAN reports.