Farmer-herder crisis: Six states reject FG’s livestock scheme
OYETUNJI ABIOYE and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE
Published 14 March 2021
OYETUNJI ABIOYE and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE
Published 14 March 2021
• FCT, Ekiti, Ondo, Ebonyi, 17 northern states sign up for NLTP
Six state governments, namely Delta, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, and Edo have said they will not donate any land to be used as grazing reserves for herdsmen under the National Livestock Transformation Programme.
However, 17 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory, as well as three southern states, namely Ekiti, Ondo, and Ebonyi, have signed up for the programme.
The Federal Government had in February said it had mapped out 30 grazing reserves across the country for the planned implementation of the NLTP.
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Tofarati Ige
Published 14 March 2021
The pair of Mbuotidem Johnson and Ukpeme Uwakwe has been selected as the winner of the renowned Annecy International Film Festival, which holds in France. Egbelughe Philip and Stanlee Ohikhuare, OyikanOdunlami and Temidayo Odunlami, Brian Wilson and Eseme Joseph, Oluwayomi Samson and Omotunde Akiode, were also among the top five finalists with the best creative animation projects to pitch their works as part of the Nigerian focus during the 2021 edition of the festival.
Annecy International Film Festival is regarded as the world’s top reference for animation films. It gathers every year in the city of Annecy in the French Alps with over 13, 000 industry professionals from around the world in attendance.
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Friday Olokor and Okechukwu Nnodim
Published 14 March 2021
Published 14 March 2021
…Expect rise in petrol price soon – Oil marketers
Nigerians may pay an increased sum of about N12.61bn every month for the purchase of petrol should the Federal Government implement the N212.61/litre price published by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency on Thursday night.
Going by this, users of petrol across the country may need to pay as high as N37.83bn quarterly for the purchase of the commodity if the government enforces the recently published price.
PPPRA had published the expected new lower and upper prices for petrol at retail outlets, putting the rates at N209.61/litre and N212.61/litre respectively.
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ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS
Published 14 March 2021
For most parents of children born with a hole in the heart (atrial septal defect), the greatest frustration is raising the required funds for corrective surgery to save the children. Some of the parents share their emotional stories of struggling to raise millions of naira to save their children.
ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS reports
When a civil servant with the Lagos State government, Wahab Abidemi Alao, received a distress call in 2020 that his nine-year-old daughter, Alimat, had fainted in school, he had no idea that it could be something serious.
On seeing the head teacher, Alao was told that Alimat had been rushed to Massey Street Children’s Hospital.