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Adamawa
Dr Mohammed Barau, the Rector of Federal Polytech
nic, Mubi in Adamawa, has been commended for his compliance with federal character principles in the recruitment of staff.
A community leader in Mubi, Alhaji Babangida Jibrilla, who gave the commendation in Mubi yesterday also lauded the rector for the rapid transformation recorded in areas of infrastructure and academic activities in the school.
Jibrilla said besides the compliance with federal character requirements in employment, the rector had in the last two years introduced various courses in the polytechnic that raised the school students population from 2,000 to 19,000.
“More than 20 courses run by the polytechnic were accredited within the last two years while series of physical development in terms of lecture theatres and office blocks were executed to make learning conducive.
Bauchi
No fewer than 100 youths have benefited from a skill
and vocational training programme initiated by the Bauchi State Furniture Company since 2009, as part of efforts to eradicate poverty in the state.
Alhaji Bakoji Badara, the Managing Director of the company, gave the information in an interview with The Tide’s source on Monday in Bauchi.
Badara said the youths were trained in carpentry, upholstery and metal works, under the skill acquisition scheme designed to enhance employment generation and encourage the growth of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME).
He said the trainees were paid between N8,000 and N25,000, as monthly allowances, depending on the nature of their work.
FCT
The National Council on Education (NCE) has prom
ised to map out innovative strategies on policy options and best practices for the development of education through Public Private Partnership.
Prof. Oladapo Afolabi, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, said this at the opening ceremony of the technical session of the 56th Meeting of the Council in Abuja on Monday.
He assured stakeholders that at the meeting “we shall consider memoranda for council’s approval with a view to mapping out innovative strategies on policy options and best practices”.
The permanent secretary expressed the commitment of the ministry for total restoration of the country’s education system to its former glory.
Gombe
The Gombe State Government has pledged more sup
port to the National Youth Service scheme.
Governor Mohammed Goje stated this on Monday while inspecting the NYSC permanent orientation camp in Malamsidi Kwami in Gombe State.
He commended the contributions of corp members to education, health and other sectors in the state.
Goje, who described the scheme as the best platform for national unity and integration, said government would ensure that the scheme continued.
The first phase of the permanent orientation camp project includes, hostels, offices and a parade ground, which is to cost N600 million and is expected to be completed by the end of March this year.
Kaduna
The Kaduna State Government plans to establish small
hydro power projects to complement the proposed 30 megawatts generation station being built at Gurara Dam, an official said.
The Commissioner for Rural Development, Alhaji Abubakar Musa Abubakar, made the information known in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna on Monday.
He said 11 spots had been identified for the projects but added that only three had been found to be viable, while others were still being studied.
Abubakar said the government and the Energy Commission of Nigeria were working on renewable energy sources.
Kebbi
The Kebbi State Government has uncovered 6,000
“ghost workers” and saved about N200 million since the introduction of e-payment in October 2009.
The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Bello Tugga, told newsmen on Monday in Birnin Kebbi that government had achieved 95 per cent success in the bio-metrix system of e-payment of salary to its workers.
He said a committee, with members from all segments of the civil service, had been set up to verify any anomalies in the payment of workers salary.
Tugga said government had no intention of punishing anybody for the discovery of the ghost workers, stressing that the measure was purely aimed at sanitising its accounting system.
Kwara
Kwara Deputy Governor, Joel Ogundeji, yesterday in
Ilorin called on the private sector to assist the government in financing education as part of its social responsibility.
Ogundeji made the call when he inaugurated a building donated to ECWA Girls Secondary School, Omu-Aran, by the Deputy Governor of Anambra, Dame Virgy Etiaba, an old student.
He said that government alone could not fund education in the country.
The deputy governor called on other stakeholders and corporate organisations to contribute their quota in ensuring quality education.
“All of us are duty bound to contribute to the physical and academic development of our alma mater,” he said.
Lagos
An Ikeja High Court on Monday admitted in evidence
video tapes containing recordings of the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) proceedings on the alleged attempted murder of Chief Alex Ibru.
Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer to late Gen. Sani Abacha, and three others are standing trial for the 1996 alleged attempted murder of Ibru in Lagos.
The others are: former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, James Danbaba; a former Military Administrator of Zamfara, Jubril Yakubu and a Chief Superintendent of Police, Rabo Lawal.
The tapes, tendered in evidence, contained the proceedings of interrogation by the SIP of several suspects including Al-Mustapha and other accused in 1999.
Niger
Alhaji Hassan Nuhu, the Director-General, Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) in Niger, has announced the award of N1.8 billion contracts that would impact positively on the lives of the citizenry.
Nuhu announced the contract awards in Minna recently, during the presentation of the contract documents to some contractors handling the various projects.
He said the contracts included the construction of 12 comprehensive health care centres, each capable of catering for 20 admitted patients, at the cost of N600 million.
The DG said four health centres would be built in each of the three senatorial districts in the state.
According to him, the centres would be equipped and provided with medical consumables and drugs to increase the access of pregnant women and children to medical services.
Plateau
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau has said that the state
would no longer allow unauthorised buildings in the greater Jos master plan.
Receiving the report of the plan in Jos on Friday, Jang said the government intended to pursue its actualisation very soon.
“Let me warn those who are fund of erecting buildings just anywhere that they will be bulldozed without any apology.
‘’We have told the task force on illegal structures to remove all illegal structures in the city.
“We are not joking about the matter. People will want to carry it into religion, they will term it tribal and all kinds of things but I am determined to do it, no matter what happens,” he said.
Sokoto
Sokoto State is to build a 30-megawatts Independent Power Project (IPP) at the cost of N3.8 billion.
Mr Ford Graham, Managing Director of the U.S.-based Vulcan Capital Energy Management, which won the contract for the project, disclosed this recently at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the state government in Sokoto.
Graham said that the state government had already paid 30 per cent of the total contract sum to his firm for the execution of the project, which was awarded in November 2008.
He said that his firm had commenced work on the project following the arrival in December 2009 of some of the equipment it ordered.
Graham blamed the delay in commencing work on the project to the delay in the acquisition of the site and in opening letters of credit.
Rivers state Deputy Governor Professor Ngozi Nma Odu has commended “The Port Harcourt City One Love,”a Port Harcourt based humanitarian orgnisation For it’s commitment towards alleviating the sufferings of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
Professor Ngozi Nma Odu said this while speaking at this year’s edition of “operation feed the needy” a yearly outreach program of “The Port Harcourt City One Love ” in Port Harcourt.
The Deputy Governor said by feeding more than sixty thousands hungry people within the past six years, the Port Harcourt City One Love Movement has distinguished itself as a club that cares for the less privilege in the society.
She commended the , organization for listing eleven thousand persons to be fed in the current exercise.
Meanwhile The Port Harcourt City One Love has planned a permanent solution to the problem of feeding the poor in the state.
The leader of the group Mr Idaere Gogo Ogan who said this in an interview with newsmen during the distribution of food items to the poor and vulnerables in Port Harcourt said the organization is planning a permanent food kitchen where poor and vulnerable persons can work in anytime and get fed.
Idaere Gogo Ogan said more than sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons across Port Harcourt City and environs have been fed since the inception of “The operation feed the needy” program six years ago,adding that so far sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons have beneffited.
He described the group as a platform to promote friendship, brotherhood, community development empathy and feeding the less privilege and hungry people
“That’s what we are doing today here,so we started the exercise six years ago”.he said.
Ogan said the effort was a private sector driven initiative but added “it also involves people in Government because the platform does not recognize any division,we bring everybody together in unity , friendship and brotherhood”he said.
He said the effort will go along way in alleviating hunger especially following the prevailing hunger in the country.
According to him “you know the country is very tough, people are hungry people are starving, there is a whole lot of economic hardship,so for us, this is just our own way of reaching out, our own social contribution to what is very difficult”he said.
Over eleven thousand persons were fed in the just concluded exercise.
Areas of coverage include, Isaac Boro park, Port Harcourt prison/Macoba, Borokiri/Enugu waterside Bundu areas Waterlines and others.
Some of the beneficiaries including an 80 years old widow commended the movement for the annual programm and urged other organizations to emulate them
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