MOROCCO PLACES PROVINCES ON HIGHEST ALERT AS WILDFIRE SPREADS. (PHOTO).
Morocco places provinces on highest alert as wildfire spreads Morocco has placed nine provinces at the highest wildfire alert level as blazes continued to intensify over the past week, with satellite data showing that more than 4,100 hectares (10,131 acres) have burned since the start of the year. Data from the European Commission-backed Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) showed that about 855 hectares (2,112 acres) burned over the past week, marking an increase from the previous week, Anadolu Agency reported. The system also detected 1,006 thermal anomalies across Morocco between Jan. 1 and Aug. 2, including 59 over the past week. Thermal anomalies are satellite-detected hotspots and do not necessarily represent separate wildfires, as the same fire may be detected more than once. On Friday, Morocco’s National Agency for Water and Forests issued red-level wildfire warnings for nine provinces in the country’s north and east, indicating an extreme risk of forest fires. Offici...
These hot gist was revealed by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state today sunday and his saying that the acting Chairperson Mrs Amina Zakari of the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} is an in-law to president Muhammadu Buhari and that as a result,she poses a grave danger to the country's democracy.The governor of Ekiti state further declared that nepotism was unknown to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria {as amended}.The governor who called on all lovers of democracy in the country to rise in defence of the impartiality of INEC,which he described as the only factor that can sustain democracy.He said ''The most honourable thing for President Buhari to do is to rescind the unlawful appointment of Mrs Zarari as INEC acting chairperson''.In a statement issued by his Special assistant on Public Communications and New Media,Lere Olayinka,Governor Fayose added ''Since Mrs Zarari's tenure as INEC National Electoral Commissioner has expired,she cannot continue to preside legally on INEC affairs,except if duly appointed as substantive chairman of the commission as provided in Section 154 {1} and {3} of the 1999 constitution.Fayose maintained that Section 153 of the 1999 constitution which established INEC and other Federal Executive Bodies did not make any provision for the appointment of Acting Chairman.Declaring the appointment as illegal,Governor Fayose said,Section 154 {3} of the 1999 constitution states ''Provided that the president shall consult the Council of state in exercising his powers to appoint a person as the chairman of INEC and there is no record of such consultation before the appointment of Mrs Zakari as INEC Acting Chairperson''.
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