Today's Headlines: Borno gov signs bill to support Boko Haram victims, Lagos has blood bank capacity for emergency — Official.
Borno gov signs bill to support Boko Haram victims.
According to Punch news, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State signed into law a bill on Wednesday to provide legal backing for the state to render special support to victims of Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, the state capital.
The bill called the Borno State Social Investment Bill, is one of the nine bills he signed into law. The nine bills were recently passed by the State House of Assembly.
The other eight bills were: the Borno State Criminal Justice Administration Laws; Borno State Penal Code Law; Borno State Secondary Education Board Bill; Borno State Investment Protection Bill; Borno Primary Healthcare Development Bill; Borno State Drugs and Other Medical Consumables Bill; Borno State Livestock Management Bill; and Borno Local Government Amendment Bill.
“The Social Investment Bill provides social services such as cash and consumables assistance to the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency,” Zulum said.
He commended the State House of Assembly for its cordial working relationship with the executive arm.
Lagos has blood bank capacity for emergency — Official.
According to Punch news, The Lagos State Government has said that it has the capacity for timely and adequate supply and access to safe blood and blood products in the event of emergencies and disaster occurrences in the state.
The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service, Dr Bodunrin Osikomaiya, who stated this on Wednesday, noted that the state government, through the LSBTS, has developed the capacity to provide safe blood for emergency services during disasters, a statement said on Thursday.
Speaking during the LSBTS quarterly management review meeting at the agency’s headquarters located within the premises of the Gbagada General Hospital, Osikomaiya explained that the state blood transfusion service is designated to organise the emergency plan and coordinate actions to be taken by public and private blood banks, blood donation centres and third-party logistics companies in times of disaster and emergencies.
She explained further that “Lagos has 28 public blood banks, 126 private blood banks, a network of blood donation centres, blood transportation and logistical support by ambulances, motorcycles, and third-party blood logistic companies licensed under the supervision of the LSBTS for the movement of blood from blood banks to hospitals and in times of disaster, and from the disaster site to the hospital where the transfusion is required.”
Fee hike: NANS to storm UNILAG again, issues 48 hours ultimatum.
According to Punch news, The National Association of Nigerian Students has issued a 48-hour ultimatum for the management of the University of Lagos to reverse fee hike in the institution.
NANS executive members, led by the National Public Relations Officer, Giwa Temitope; National Vice President, External, Akinteye Afeez; and the Deputy Senate President, Ekundina Elvis among others, on Thursday, condemned the arrest of students who were protesting fee hike at UNILAG Junction on Wednesday.
The PUNCH reports that some of the protesters, Adeyeye Olorunfemi, Philip Olatinwo, Aduwo Ayodele and the Giwa, among others, were later released by the police in the evening. The security agencies had fired teargas to disperse the students at UNILAG Junction during the protest.
The Lagos State Police Command had on Tuesday said the students should inform the police of its protest plans for adequate measures to be provided but the students kicked against this, saying protest is a fundamental human right.
Addressing a press conference at the International Press Centre, Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos, the student leaders said, “We want to state that the repression that was meted out during our protest on Wednesday against the astronomical increase in fees payable at the University of Lagos is condemnable.”
FUOYE students demand justice over colleague’s murder.
According to Punch news, The students of Federal University Oye Ekiti have demanded justice in the killing of one of their colleagues, Modupe Atanda, who was until her death, a student in the Nursing Department.
The students, under the aegis of the Students’ Union Government, called on the security agencies to get to the root of the matter and bring the perpetrators of the dastardly act to book.
The police in the state had on Thursday disclosed that the student, who was earlier declared missing, was found dead and buried in a shallow grave near the university’s Nursing Lecture Theatre.
FUOYE SUG President, Emmanuel Ajayi, and the Public Relations Officer, Elizabeth Akuraku, who mourned the slain student, said, “The cause of death and manner in which she died is a thing of great pain to the entire student populace in FUOYE”.
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