L-R: Secretary to Nasarawa State Government, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Director, Consumer Affairs Bureau, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mrs Maryam Bayi and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, Kaduna State University, Dr Ahmad Babajo, at the 71st NCC Consumer Outreach Programme in Kaduna, yesterday.

The Rivers State Government has given a 14-day ultimatum to owners of wrecked ships and boats littered within its waterways to remove them or face the wrath of government.
This was contained in a statement by the chairman, Rivers State Ministry of Environment’s Taskforce on Removal of scrap metals and wreckages on roads and waterways, Chief Solomon Chukwu, and made available to The Tide in Port Harcourt on Monday.
According to the statement, the Taskforce in Rivers State Ministry of Environment was constrained in carrying out its mandate, and therefore called on owners of disused or abandoned wreckages of ships and boats including vehicles, trucks, trailers, construction equipment and scrapped metals littered on the waterways and roads to remove them as anyone towed away by the government would be at the expenses of the owners.
It stated that even those in public or private premises within the jurisdiction of the agency were also affected by the order, stressing that owners of scrap metals already towed to the government approved dumps are still called upon to retrieve them if they are found still useful to remove them within the 14 days, as anything short of that would be scrapped by the taskforce.
“All affected persons including companies operating in the state are hereby notified,” the statement further stated.

Collins Barasimeye