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SAD! Flood k!lls 68 in Kano, Jigawa
•Washed away 12,000 hectares farmlands in Jigawa, 976 hectares in Kano
•Displaced 15,000 people in Jigawa, 313 others in Kano“
No fewer than 68 persons have reportedly lost their lives to flood recorded in Kano and Jigawa states since the beginning of rainfall sometime in July.
Giving the breakdown on the number of casualties, Executive Secretary, Kano State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Isyaku Kubarachi puts the figure of casualties recorded in the state at 31 while his counterpart in the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Haruna Mairiga, said death toll hits 37.
Kubarachi who confirmed this while speaking to newsmen in Kano, said the flood which affected about 156 communities across 21 local government areas of the state also left 135 persons sustaining injuries.
He further said the flood also destroyed 5,280 houses with 31,818 persons affected and 313 persons displaced.
In a related development, in a phone interview with Vanguard, the Executive Secretary, Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Haruna Mairiga said death toll from the heavy downpour resultant flooding has risen to 37 in the state.
Dr. Mairiga said the flood has also left 15,000 persons displaced while 12,000 hectares of cultivated farmlands were washed away.
He said the flood affected 17 councils out of 27 LGAs that made up the state.
According to him, “We started experiencing flooding since July and we are not yet in the middle of the raining season. We have recorded flooding in 17 out 27 LGAs that made up Jigawa State.
“Death toll hits 37 as a result of the flood, 15,000 people displaced and currently taking refuge at our schools as government have provided them beddings (mats) and blankets.
“Similarly, 12,000 hectares of cultivated farmlands awaiting harvest were washed away,” Dr. Mairiga said.
Bishop Godwin Elim, the Senior Pastor at Live for Christ, aka Lifting Assembly in Abuja has said God’s Kingdom is the birthright of believers as this is not negotiable.
Naijablitznews reports Bishop Elim made this assertion on Saturday in his sermon drawing vivid examples from bible passages and real life examples.
This is part one of the series to run through the week.
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The All Progressives Congress, APC has won all 20 Chairmanship and 236 Councillorship seats in the Ogun LG Polls.
Naijablitznews reports that the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) on Sunday, declared all the 20 chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winners of Saturday’s local government elections conducted in the state.
The Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Osibodu also declared all 236 APC councillorship candidates as winners of the election while presenting the official results of the polls at the commission’s headquarters at Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital.
Osibodu said the ruling party, APC, emerged victorious across all the 20 local government areas and 236 wards in the state by polling a total of 613,156 votes cast in the exercise which witnessed major political parties like the Accord Party (AP), African Action Congress (AAC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), participating.
Other political parties that participated in the exercise included the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Young Progressive Party (YPP), Action People’s Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Boot Party (BP), People’s Redemption Party (PRP), National Rescue Movement (NRM) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the guber election conducted in Ondo State on Saturday.
Aiyedatiwa, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election.
He polled a total of 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival in the election, Agboola Ajayi, who is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the election.
The APC cleared all 18 local government areas.
While the PDP polled a total of 117,845 votes, the Labour Party (LP) polled 1,162 votes and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) polled 2,692 votes.
Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi announced the result of the Ondo governorship election at the State headquarters of INEC in Akure.
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