By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade The Federal Government yesterday( Monday) announced the transfer of Regulatory Oversight of the Electricity Market in Imo State to the state electricity regulatory commission, otherwise known as (ISERC). In a statement issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Common( NERC), the development is in compliance with the amended Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN) and the Electricity Act 2023 (Amended), reiterating that all transfers envisaged by this order shall be completed by 31 December 2024. According to the Commission,the transfer Order’s provisions include: “Direct Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) to incorporate a subsidiary (EEDC SubCo) to assume responsibilities for intrastate supply and distribution of electricity in Imo State from EEDC, and that EEDC shall complete the incorporation of EEDC SubCo within 60 days from 27th June 2024. The subcompany shall apply for and obtain licence for the in
By Akinola Ajibade
Beneficiaries of Senator Tokunbo Abiru COVID-19 Financial Relief Scheme have gotten more than N150million in the last twenty three months..
The money, which was directly credited into their
respective bank accounts was for the social services support of the beneficiaries.
They have also received payment for November this year.
In a statement made available to the News Mirror, and signed by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to Mr Ibrahim Olukotun, Senator Adetokunbo Abiru, has disbu over N150million to the vulnerables, especially poor people in Lagos East Senatorial District under his COVID-19 Financial Relief Scheme. The scheme, the statement said, covers over 2,500 beneficiaries comprising widows; people with physical disabilities; aged; unemployed youth and women who receive direct credit transfers of N5,000 each into their respective bank accounts every other month. .
" Those who received payment for the month of November 2022, belong to batch A category" he said.
These beneficiaries, the statement said,
were nominated by 98 ward chairmen, Local Government Party chairmen, Community d
Development Committees (CDCs), Governance Advisory Council(GAC)leaders, Royal fathers, League of Imams, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and notable leaders in the 16 LGs/LCDAs of the Lagos East Senatorial district.
The scheme which kicked off in January 2021 was earlier planned to terminate in December 2021, but Abiru to his kind heartedness and the
economic headwinds occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to fully abate, shifted it forward.
According to Abiru, concern for the plight of the poor necessitated the continuation of the financial support to ease the hardship of the vulnerable at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.
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