NOC planning to impose illegal SOC in Kogi – NMA cries out

September 20, 2024

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has raised an alarm that the National Officers Committee (NOC) is planning to impose an illegal State Executive Council (SEC) in Kogi State.

This was contained in a communiqué of the NMA Kogi State branch after an emergency general meeting, signed by its Chairman, Dr. Abubakar Alhassan, and Secretary, Adaranijo Rasheed Kolapo, on Friday.

The association faulted the latest letter from the Secretary-General of the national body, Benjamin Egbo, dated 13th September 2024, recognizing the duo of Dr. Aazee Jimoh and Dr. Daniels Sebastine Tunde as Chairman and Secretary in the state.

The communiqué reads in part: “The Emergency General Meeting (EGM) of the State Executive Council (SEC) of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Kogi State branch held today in Lokoja to address the state of the association, especially regarding the continuous meddling of the NOC in the internal affairs of the branch, resolved as follows:

“That the general public, particularly the offices copied in the letter, should discountenance the correspondence because the Secretary-General, including the National Officers Committee (NOC), overreached themselves in the letter.

“The NOC acted outside their jurisdiction and are doing everything possible to impose an illegal SOC on the congress of the NMA Kogi State branch.

“The State Officers Committee (SOC) should continue to provide the needed leadership in line with the NEC position at the Maiduguri NEC meeting of August 2024.

“The State Officers Committee (SOC) should schedule, in the coming days, a statutory State Executive Council (SEC) meeting of the NMA Kogi State branch to respond more appropriately to the letter and the issues raised therein.”

It was learned that the NMA Kogi State branch meeting had in attendance members of the State Executive Council (SEC), including the State Officers Committee (SOC), affiliate heads, and past chairmen.

DAILY POST recalls that the immediate past Chairman of the NMA in Kogi State was impeached from office alongside some executives over allegations of corruption, misappropriation of funds, and abuse of office.

NOC planning to impose illegal SOC in Kogi – NMA cries out

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Nigerian Govt allays fear over Abuja tremor

The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, NGSA, has allayed the fears in Abuja residents over the recent tremor experience in Mpape, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. This is contained in a statement by the Director-General of the Agency, Prof Olusegun Ige, on Wednesday in Abuja. Ige said the NGSA
Nigerian Govt allays fear over Abuja tremor

This is contained in a statement by the Director-General of the Agency, Prof Olusegun Ige, on Wednesday in Abuja.

Ige said the NGSA is monitoring the tremors, adding that they found the tremors to be low and did not pose any threat to the environment.

According to him, the Monitoring Station at Katampe has been capturing several significant ground motions with high moment magnitudes in the past five days, beginning from September 13, 2024, till date.

He added that only one mild event was recorded on September 13th, stressing that six of the events were captured on the 14th of September, while over 21 events were captured on the 15th with higher intensities and more than twenty events were recorded on the September 16.

The statement read, “The intensity and frequency of the tremor appear to increase from the 13th to 16th September. There are a few weak events recorded today, 17th September.

“Preliminary analysis of the waveforms showed that the sources of the ground motions are less than 5 km away from the monitoring station.

“The NGSA team also visited the affected areas for on-the-spot assessments of the events. From the accounts of the residents of the affected areas, the observations by the NGSA team, and findings from earlier interpretations of the airborne geophysical data over the area and adjoining areas, the following conclusions were made: The tremors are a result of accumulated stress along the identified faults and released seismic energy, which may have travelled through associated fractures to areas where the tremors were felt around the FCT.

“There are multiple epicentres associated with the recent tremor. Most of the epicentres are located northeast of the NGSA-5 Seismic Station around the Mpape axis, while a few are located southwest of the Station around the Katampe axis.”

Nigerian Govt allays fear over Abuja tremor