Death toll from the gas explosion on Aduke street in Ajegunle area of Lagos has risen to four.
Two children were initially confirmed dead yesterday from the explosion but two more among those with severe burn died during treatment at Gbagada General Hospital.
General Manager of the Lagos state emergency Management Agency, Femi Osanyintolu told Inspiration fm that twenty one people are now left in the Hospital.
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The Zamfara House of Assembly has repealed the law approving jumbo pensions for former state governors, deputies as well as Speakers and deputy speakers.
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The bill was passed and signed into law under the administration of immediate past governor, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, who recently expressed his frustration with the current state governor for stopping the payment of his 10 million Niara monthly pension.
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Presenting the bill before the House, House leader Faruk Musa Dosara, urged his colleagues to, as a matter of urgency, consider the repeal of the law which provided jumbo pay for former political leaders in the state to the detriment of retired civil servants who have not been paid their entitlements over the years.
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Dosara said the category of past leaders were collecting over N700, 000m annually, which, he said, the present state economy could not accommodate for now.
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After serious deliberations and contributions by House members, the Speaker, ordered the clerk of the House to give the bill first and second reading.
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The House then went for a committee of whole meeting, after which the bill went for a third reading.
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The House resolved that the bill has now been passed into law and would be sent to the governor for assent.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it is ready for the supplementary election into Kogi West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency seats both in Kogi State.
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Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner Professor James Apam who made this known in Lokoja and disclosed that the supplementary election would hold in 75 polling units in the two affected areas.
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Giving the breakdown at a stakeholders meeting, APAM said the elections will be held in 53 polling units in Kogi West, and 22 polling units in Ajaokuta Federal Constituency.
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APAM; however said close to 200 INEC officers (staff and ad-hoc) will be in charge of the elections; stressing that university professors will still be used as collation officers both at the wards and local government area collations centres.
The enrolment for the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System did not start in universities on Monday as officials from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation had yet to arrive at institutions.
The exerciseis expected to commence fully today as officials arrived in the universities.
But the University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has set up a monitoring committee to ensure that none of its members register for the IPPIS.
The congress, which was presided by the Chairman, Professor Deji Omole, resolved to abide by the directive of the national leadership of the union not to register for the IPPIS, a move other branches of ASUU in several universities seem to have adopted.
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