The National Emergency Management Agency has expressed its readiness to draft a seven-year national disaster risk reduction strategy. The agency, in collaboration with United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) and other stakeholders, are expected to come up with a national strategy for reducing disasters in the land. The federal agency said this is meant to reduce cases of flooding, boat accidents, kidnapping, banditry, and other disasters in the country.

After two days of Industrial action, the Joint National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have called off the ongoing strike over the rough-handling of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, allegedly by the police in Imo state among other issues with the labour union. Accordingly, the industrial action was suspended following the intervention of the Federal Government through the Office of the National Security Adviser, NSA. 

The Lagos State Government has announced that it has shut down 20 important roads on Lagos Island and Victoria Island. The State announced that the road was closed for two reasons, for the continuation of repairs by the Federal Ministry of Works and also for Saturday’s Women’s Marathon.

In the build-up to the November 11, 2023 elections scheduled to hold in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states, the Department of State Services (DSS) has released a statement on its official X (Twitter page) on Thursday. The statement was signed by Peter Afunanya, the DSS Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications and titled, ‘DSS Cautions Against Inflammatory Statements-Calls for Peace During the Elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States’.

Following the call by the Nigerian labour Congress for industrial action yesterday, many top government officials, together with their armed escorts, business guests and hundreds of other Nigerians have been denied from entering the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. As of 9.15 am a source disclosed that at the Airport entry lane down to some few kilometres, scores of vehicles carrying air passengers have gotten into a traffic jam stranded and have remained without room to manoeuvre over a distance of about four kilometres to the airport main gate.

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma has been declared a persona non-grata across airports in Nigeria by Nigerian aviation workers. It was also revealed that all flights from Owerri International Airport have been blacklisted due to the incident that led to assaulting the NLC President, Joe Ajaero. The directive was disclosed in a joint statement by the aviation union. These included the National Association of Aircraft Pilots And Engineers (NAAPE), the National Union Of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN), and the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals (ANAP). The General-Secretaries of the union signed the statement on Wednesday, November 8. They are Umoh Ofonime, NAAPE; Frances Akinjole, ATSSSAN; Comrades Ocheme Aba, NUATE; and Abdul Rasaq Saidu, ANAP.