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  The deputy spokesman for the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, says the 2024 budget will not experience any duplication of projects. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday, he said the 2023 budget estimates will better scrutinised than the usual routine of the past National Assembly. “We are looking at how things can be done differently from how they were done in the past. “We are going to use the instrument of lawmaking to address these issues, and while we promise meticulous scrutiny of the budget document, one is to ensure that there will be no duplication of projects as far as the 2024 budget is concerned,” Agbese said. In 2022, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) revealed that Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) inflated the 2021 budget by N300bn through the duplication of projects. The ICPC also reported that MDAs similarly padded the 2022 budget with duplicated projects, totaling N100 bil

  OYO State government, in collaboration with the Malaria Consortium, provided 307,167 children, aged three to 59 months, with medicines for malaria prevention between June and October in six local government areas. This intervention, which is the seasonal malaria prevention, targets children living in its sahel belt at the peak periods of disease transmission. The seasonal malaria transmission peaks during the rainy season in Saki East, Saki West, Olorunsogo, Irepo, Surulere and Ogbomoso North local government areas. Speaking at the Ministry of Health seasonal malaria chemoprophylaxis end of round 2023 state dissemination meeting in Ibadan, Malaria Consortium Oyo State Programme Manager, Mrs Taiwo Olarinde, said the children had been treated with approximately 1.545 million doses of the two antimalarial medicines (sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine and amodiaquine) across five cycles. Mrs Olarinde declared that children between the ages of three and 59 months who are not ill, not on any other