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Fashola Tasks COREN Board On Professionalism
Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has inaugurated a nine- member Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), with a charge to maintain professionalism.
Fashola, while inaugurating the COREN members in Abuja, Tuesday, stressed the need for the members to imbibe professionalism as well as ensuring that the ethics guiding the engineering profession were upheld.
While reiterating the commitment of the Federal Government to the development of infrastructure in the country, Fashiola said it would also demand Professionalism on the part of the engineers to achieve the stride.
Fashiola said “Our government has committed to infrastructure and you all know infrastructure brings development to the country, it boosts our economy, creates employment and enables the nation to compete for continental and global space.”
The minister said members of the profession had been and would continue to play a significant role in this regard and stressed the need for COREN to ensure that professionalism was at its peak.
He charged them to uphold the moral and ethical standards of the profession, adding that true professionals always did the right thing no matter the situation and would not compromise standards in the face of pressure.
Responding, one of the council members and immediate past President of the Nigerian Society Of Engineers (NSE), MrBabagana Mohammed, said the new council members were coming with a lot of experience and dedication to protect the ethics and standards of the profession.
“We are going to emphasise on the do’s and don’ts because so many things are happening. Some people do not understand the regulations, so we need to make people understand and obey the regulations.
“That will form the focus of the ongoing conference of COREN,” Mohammed said
Also speaking, another member, Prof. ZekeniYelebe, praised the infrastructural drive of the Buhari administration and pledged that they would ensure that standards were upheld in the profession.
”We can see that this government is serious in terms of infrastructural development and as a council, we will make sure that engineering activities especially infrastructural development is done with all engineering ethics.
“The council will also look at the curriculum of institutions offering Engineering courses to see if there is need for changes or improvements to be made.
“Accreditation issues will also be appraised to ensure that the products of the Engineering Institutions can compete with their counterparts in any part of the world,” Helene said.
The newly inaugurated council members include DrMuhammed Jibrin, representing North West; DrIdiatArogundade, representing the North Central; and Prof. Baba Waziri, representing the North East.
There’s also, Prof. Zekeni Yelebe, representing the South South, Prof. Gabriel Shonaike, representing the South West. andMrBabajideOjedele representing the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing.
Others are Mr Ademola Olurunfemi also representing the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing; as well as MrTasiuWudil and MrBabagana Mohammed both representing the Nigeria Society of Engineers.
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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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