House members have urged the federal government to set up and adequately equip mobile emergency clinics for road accident victims on federal highways across the country.

The lawmakers also urged the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to work closely with the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, as well as state emergency management agencies, to ensure that accident victims receive prompt medical care.

The resolutions followed the plenary’s Wednesday adoption of a motion sponsored by Hon. Mallam Bukar Gana.

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Moving the motion, Gana stated that while road traffic accidents have become a global public health concern, the government is not paying enough attention to them in terms of public health education and strategic policies to achieve long-term control.

He claims that Nigeria has only 47 traffic accident clinics, 15 of which are furnished but non-functional, 14 of which are not furnished and non-functional, and only 18 of which are furnished and functional.

According to a report by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), there were 11,363 accidents in 2016, with a total of 30,105 injured victims, of whom 28,250 were adults, 1,855 were children, and 5,053 died.

He expressed concern that the poor state of major highways, as well as reckless driving caused by excessive speeding, intoxication, and complete disregard for traffic rules by commuters, have contributed to an increase in the number of road accidents, and that the country requires functional clinics to prevent needless deaths.

“Also notes that, while some accidents are unavoidable, much can be done to reduce fatalities by establishing functional road traffic clinics across the federation,” Gana said. Recognizing that the federal government has a constitutional obligation to protect citizens’ lives and property by providing security and essential amenities, and that Section 10(3)(q) of the Federal Road Safety Commission Act authorizes the Federal Road Safety Commission to provide free treatment to road accident victims across the country,

“Also aware that the FRSC was established to, among other things, rescue road accident victims from the crash site, administer first aid, and run road accident clinics to treat minor accident cases and stabilize critical victims before transferring them to the nearest hospitals.” Worried that the number of available roadside clinics is grossly insufficient to meet the medical needs of commuters, and that those that are operational are poorly managed, resulting in commuters dying needlessly due to a lack of immediate medical attention.”

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The lawmakers mandated the Committee on Federal Road Safety Commission to ensure compliance after passing the motion.

Muhammadu Sanusi, the former Emir of Kano, has blamed civil servants for the recent spate of insecurity.

Boko Haram, banditry, and killer herder activities, according to Sanusi, have increased as a result of civil servant corruption.

He accused them of stealing billions of naira inte

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The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, spoke at the AIG Public Leadership Program Class of 2021 closing ceremony in Abuja yesterday.

“Today, you see civil servants stealing millions and billions of naira meant to build roads, provide electricity, water, education, food, and transportation, to the detriment of the majority of Nigerians,” Sanusi says.

“All of these have given birth to Boko Haram, killer herders, bandits, and numerous arms conflicts, particularly among the youths, resulting in the gravest threats to human life across Nigeria.”

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With the activities of Boko Haram and banditry in the north, Nigeria’s level of insecurity continues to rise.

The federal government asked the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday to dismiss a suit seeking a “declaration that the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) does not have the statutory powers by its establishment Act to make guidelines for the regulation, monitoring, and operation of the State Joint Local Government Accounts or any other account into which funds from the Joint Account are paid into,” according to the government.

The Attorney General of the Federation made the plea in a case involving the Attorneys General of 36 states, the Incorporated Trustees of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the AGF, NFIU, and Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (1st to 3rd Defendants), which was argued before Justice Inyang Ekwo on Wednesday.

Beginning June 1, 2019, the NFIU issued guidelines on May 6, 2019 to encourage the reduction of crime vulnerabilities created by cash withdrawals from local government funds across the country.

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According to the agency, the guidelines include full enforcement of corresponding sanctions in the event of violations.

The guidelines set a daily limit of N500, 000 on the total amount that could be withdrawn from a local government account.

Any other transactions, it said, must be done with valid checks or electronic funds transfers, among other things.

Cash withdrawals and transactions from State Joint Local Government Accounts (SJLGA) “posed the most significant corruption, money laundering, and security threats at the grassroots, as well as to the entire financial system and the country,” according to the report.

State governments, on the other hand, had brought the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), the Nigeria Federation of Industrial Unions (NFIU), and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to court as the first, second, and third defendants, respectively.

The plaintiffs (state governments) argued that the directive violated the Nigerian constitution’s guarantee of financial autonomy.

The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) had approached the FHC, which was presided over by Justice John Tsoho, in 2019 to stop the NFIU’s guidelines from being implemented, but the court declined.

Tijjani Gazali, SAN, counsel for the AGF, said the NFIU had not infringed on the powers of the states or local governments during the resumed hearing.

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In his own submission, NFIU counsel Arthur Okafor, SAN, stated that the agency acted within its statutory powers to prevent abuse of office and other types of financial crimes from occurring at the institution.

the level of local government

Justice Ekwo has scheduled a hearing on the case for May 23.

Former governor of Anambra, Peter Obi, believes that for Nigeria to truly develop, it must ensure that the right people are in positions of leadership.

He made the remarks during a speech to course 4 participants in the strategic management and policy course at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre in Abuja on Wednesday.

He also believes that there is a need to address waste in the public sector.

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Obi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, said the country must also address the high cost of governance at all levels while developing policies to create public wealth.

“Public wealth benefits everyone, but private wealth depletes the people and the country,” he said.

“Whether we agree or disagree, leadership failure is wreaking havoc on our country, and it could get even worse if we don’t put the right and committed people in charge of critical sectors.”

“My main goals were education, health, and basic infrastructure provision, and I was able to achieve them because we planned our programs using a universally certified development formula.”

Persons in positions of power, he continued, must pledge to ensure good governance and responsible management of public resources in the public interest.

When it comes to pensioners being owed money, he says that “owing people at a time when opportunities are scarce is the worst thing you can do to them.”

He also addressed Nigeria’s debt situation, saying that while borrowing is not inherently bad, it must be used for production rather than consumption.

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Obi, who recently announced his intention to run for president in 2023, urged governments at all levels to improve revenue generation efforts.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that training of ad-hoc staff for the 2022 gubernatorial election in Osun State will begin soon.

The Corps members’ training will begin in their various Community Development Service (CDS) groups and will last until a few weeks before the election, according to the Commission.

The electoral umpire also stated that it was prepared to deploy registration machines to all wards across the state in order to facilitate the ongoing Continuous Voters’ Registration (CVR) process ahead of the gubernatorial and general elections in Osun State.

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Prof. Abdulganiy Olayinka Raji, the Osun INEC Residential Electoral Commissioner (REC), stated this in Osogbo on Tuesday while hosting the leadership of the Osun Online Media Practitioners Association.

Raji advised residents to take advantage of the ongoing Continuous Voters’ Registration to register or transfer their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) to polling units near their homes as part of the state’s preparations for the upcoming gubernatorial election.

According to the Osun REC, the commission created new polling units in Osun State to reduce the number of voters in units with large populations.

“By the end of March, we will have completed the State’s continuous voter registration.” However, by the end of March, we will have deployed additional machines, at least one per ward.

“We want residents of the state to use the CVR’s registration window to register or transfer to polling units closer to their homes.” To decongest polling units, new polling units were created.

“In addition, unlike in the past, when we would begin training our ad hoc staff days before elections, we will begin training corps members, who make up a larger percentage of our ad hoc staff, in May.” This will help them become more familiar with our machines and reduce the number of failures we have on election day,” he said.

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The Commissioner, who praised the media for their support of the commission, called for more collaboration before, during, and after the State’s gubernatorial election.