{"id":49897,"date":"2024-09-26T09:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49897"},"modified":"2024-09-26T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:07:51","slug":"sokoto-allocates-n1-1-billion-for-boats-and-life-jackets-in-flood-affected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/26\/sokoto-allocates-n1-1-billion-for-boats-and-life-jackets-in-flood-affected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sokoto Allocates N1.1 Billion for Boats and Life Jackets in Flood-Affected Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sokoto State Government has approved a budget of N1.1 billion to purchase motorized boats and life jackets aimed at boosting safety in 22 flood-prone Local Government Areas (LGAs). The announcement was made by Ibrahim Dade-Adare, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, following a State Executive Council meeting led by Governor Ahmed Aliyu.<\/p>\n<p>Dade-Adare noted that the equipment would be distributed to the LGAs most impacted by recent floods, with Dange-Shuni being the only LGA unaffected. He added that the initiative follows recommendations from a committee set up to address flooding issues in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the state government has allocated N565.2 million to provide rice to the poor and vulnerable and N149.8 million for the completion of a terminal block at Alu Garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sokoto State Government has approved a budget of N1.1 billion to purchase motorized boats and life jackets aimed at boosting safety in 22 flood-prone Local Government Areas (LGAs). The announcement was made by Ibrahim Dade-Adare, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, following a State Executive Council meeting led by Governor Ahmed Aliyu. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":49900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49918,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49897\/revisions\/49918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}