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WINET Seeks Improved Budgetary Allocations to Empower the Girl-Child
Menkiti said that the project was designed to seek partnership with the two local government areas involved., reports Ikenna Oluka
Women Information Network (WINET), an Enugu-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has called for improved budgetary allocations to empower the girl-child and end child marriage.
The Executive Director of WINET, Mrs Miriam Menkiti made the call on Tuesday in Enugu during a ‘Media Roundtable for Journalists on Use of Budgetary Provisions to End Child Marriage’.
Menkiti said that the NGO was currently carrying out a project on Budget Advocacy to End Girl-Child Marriage’, funded by Girls Not Brides, UK.
The executive director said that the organisation was a global network of over 1, 500 Civil Society Organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and ensuring that girls could reach their potentials.
She said that the project which was in its pilot phase was being implemented in Aninri and Enugu South Local Government Areas of the state.
“The objectives of the project are to advance to the chairmen in the two councils of the state the need for increased budget line for interventions to end child marriage.
“This can be done by keeping girls in school and the provision of good healthcare services.
“The second objective is to train local government budget teams on making implementable budgets to end girl-child marriage and promote girl-child retention in schools,” she said.
Menkiti said that the project was designed to seek partnership with the two local government areas involved.
She said that interventions that would address child marriage must be planned for, costed and funded across sectors in the budget.
In a lecture, a former Permanent Secretary, Budget and Planning in Enugu, Mr Casmir Ugwu, said it was important the local councils directed substantial sum of their annual budgets toward empowering the girl-child.
Ugwu said that such could be done in form of incentives to support the parents to keep girls in school.
He said that it was also necessary to engage community leaders and parents to stop the practice of child marriage, bearing in mind the value of education for girl child.
“The need for ending child marriage is hinged on so many benefits which include educational attainment, improved healthy development and maternal mortality of the girl-child among others,” he said.
He said that the end result of such advocacy would be the attainment of the sustainable development goal 15 which washinged on achieving gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.
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“80% Of Buildings In Lekki Have No Approval” – Lagos State Commissioner For Physical Planning & Urban Development Reveals
The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Oluyinka Olumide, has stated that 80 per cent of buildings in Ibeju Lekki have no approval.
Olumide disclosed this while speaking to newsmen recently.
In his words; “Just last week Thursday and Friday, myself and the team were in the Ibeju Lekki and Epe axis and you would agree with me that anybody passing through that corridor would see a lot of estates marked. We went there, and I can tell you that from what we saw, over 80 per cent of them do not have approval.
The procedure to get approval is first to get the planning information, as to what those areas have been zoned for. In this case, what we have is agricultural land, and people now go to their families to buy agricultural land. Of course, those lands would be sold because those families do not know the use such land would be put to.
The next thing to do is the fence permit. If you missed the earlier information on not knowing the area zoning, at the point of getting the fence permit, you would be able to detect what the area is zoned for. After that, the layout permits a large expense of land follows.”’
Olumide noted that a layout permit cannot be obtained if it is not zoned for the purpose it was designed for or for the purpose it was being requested.
“So, you can see all these layers, but people still go ahead to start advertising. Some have even gone to the extent of displaying the sizes they want to sell. Imagine someone in the diaspora who wants to send money without any knowledge. Then, no approval is eventually gotten. Even if they pass the assignment and the survey to them, we would not grant the individual permit, because that area is not zoned for that purpose’’ Olumide said
This partly explains why some of the houses are being turn down currently in the state.
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Lady Dies After Friends Pushed Her Into Boiling Pot Of Fresh Pepper In Delta State
A Nigerian man identified as Israel Joe, has revealed how his friend, Roseline, died after she was pushed into a boiling pot of fresh pepper and tomatoes by her two female friends in Sapele, Delta State.
Joe stated that Roseline, a caterer, went on a trip with her friends to Sapele for a catering job where the bitter ordeal occured.
She tragically passed away on Saturday, April 13 after spending two weeks at the hospital in a very horrible state.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Joe said that before her untimely death, Roseline confided in him about two of her friends who were treating her coldly.
And he has vowed to bring them to justice.
This is such a heartbreaking event.
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IPOB Declares May 30th As Sit-at-home Day Across The Southern East States To Honour Biafran Fallen Heroes
The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared May 30, 2024, as a sit-at-home day across the South-East to celebrate Biafran soldiers.
The pro-Biafran group said that day is set aside annually to celebrate the men and women who died in the Biafran war between 1967 and 1970 and beyond and even until now.
This was made known in a press statement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, on Thursday, adding that every Biafran in the South-East is expected to sit at home and reflect on the war.
He cautioned South-East residents to avoid loitering about on this day, adding that those who intend to travel to and fro Biafra land must do so before the evening of May 29.
The IPOB statement also directed that all the residents of “Biafra Land” are to stay indoors from 6 am to 6 pm on May 30, 2024.
He also called on christians and traditionalists to pray to Chukwu okike abiama for the fallen heroes, And also for the independence of Biafra from Nigeria.
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