Run for your lives, Awoniyi appeals to residents living in flood prune areas

Following the release of water from Lagbo dam by the Cameroonian authorities and the warning by the National Emergency Management Authority, NEMA, of expected flooding, Kogi State Government has warned residents along the Riverine area to leave and move to higher ground. 

The State Deputy Governor, Mr. Yomi Awoniyi stated this in his office after the meeting of the State Flood Management Committee, however said the State is in a better position to handle any negative effects of flooding that may occur this year in the State. 

Awoniyi who said the State Flood Management Standing Committee has identified nine local Government (Ibaji, Bassa, Idah, Lokoja, Kogi, Ajaokuta, Omala, Ofu and Igalamela Odolu LGAs) to be affected by the predicted flooding said adequate preparation have been made to cushion the effect in the event it becomes devastating. 

Nine Workers in Kogi State Die Over Non-Payment of Salaries

Nine out of the 142 staff placed on compulsory leave without pay since 2011 by the Kogi State Transport Company have lost their lives under hunger-related circumstances.

Two of the deceased’s colleagues– Ndakwo Mohammed and Anate Audu— who disclosed this in a statement circulated among media houses in Lokoja on Sunday, said that a number of their colleagues were also in life-threatening situations .

They said that the workers who had put in years of services ranging from 10 years to 23 years, had been facing untold hardship and were now in deteriorating health condition due to lack of money to

feed and pay for medical treatment.

Wada Building The Needed Health Infrastructures

By Micheal Abu

The efforts of Governor Idris Wada rebuilding decayed infrastructures in the health sector of the State goes to show the importance the administration places on the health of the people.

Health is undoubtedly every human’s most prized treasure.  It is a key to the future and sustainer to the present.  That is why Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said, “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses”.

But important as health is, it's not automatic given; it sometimes needs to be carefully cultivated and actively nourished.