Adamawa

Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has called

on PDP members in the state to support the Presidential Committee set up to reconcile factions of the party.

Nyako made the call while addressing party supporters at a solidarity rally in Yola, saying there was hope that things would be better for the party following recent positive changes.

He commended PDP stakeholders within and outside the state for their concern over the crisis and congratulated members of the new executive committee of the party, led by Alhaji Umaru Kugama.

The governor promised to support the party leadership.

Borno

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima says his

government has taken measures to eradicate polio from the state by September this year.

He said this during the inauguration of the 2013 Special Round of Polio Immunisation in Maiduguri.

Shettima said that the existence of the wild polio virus in Nigeria was a serious embarrassment.

“The year 2013 is a year for serious action against polio virus in Nigeria.

“It is an embarrassment that Nigeria is grouped among the only three countries still harbouring the virus in the world,” he said.

FCT

The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) has

banned commercial vehicles from operating in the Wuse Market area to discourage street traders and hawkers from operating along the road side.

The Head Information and Outreach Programme, Mr Joe Ukairo,who spoke to newsmen in Abuja, said that the development would help to sanitise the market.

“Wuse Market is like a no-go area because of street traders and hawkers.

Commrcial vehicles drop passengers anywhere, anyhow they like and pick passengers in the middle of the road which ought not to be.

Gombe

The wife of Gombe State Governor, Hajiya Adama

Dankwambo, has urged orphans, vulnerable and the physically challenged children to be hopeful in life in spite of their conditions.

In a message to a party organised for the children, Dankwambo also enjoined them to be committed to whatever they did to excel.

Represented by Mrs Sintiki Rubainu, the wife of the Deputy Governor, Dankwambo said that the party was organised for the children to have a sense of belonging.

She called on the children to study hard in schools and achieve their goals, adding that their condition should not discourage them.

Kano

Motorists plying Kano-Gworzo-Dayi road have

commended Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the ongoing rehabilitation of the road.

Some of the motorists, who spoke to newsmen in Kano, commended the agency for the ongoing rehabilitation being carried out on the dilapidated portions of the road.

They said that the rehabilitation had reduced the rate of accidents being recorded on the highway.

“Before now the road was a death trap as hardly a day passed without people being killed due to accidents,’’ a motorists, Ibrahim Slow said.

Kwara

Head of Department, Business Law, Univeristy of Ilorin,

Prof. Mohammed Akanbi, said in Ilorin that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) was not doing enough to fight corruption in Nigeria.

Akanbi told newsmen that the association was a major stakeholder in the fight against corruption and must champion the cause diligently.

“The Nigerian Bar Association is being ceremonial in the fight against corruption in Nigeria.

“The NBA is not proactive and that is not good enough,’’ he said.

Lagos

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency

(LASEMA) has opened a relief camp for victims of the recent fire incident in Ebute Meta area of Lagos, an official said.

The General Manager of LASEMA, Dr Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, told newsmen that 1,005 persons had entered the camp in compliance with the directive of Gov Babatunde Fashola.

Fashola had on Thursday given the directive after visiting Oko Oba in Ebute Meta, where fire gutted some sawmills and residential buildings.

Oke-Osanyintolu said that shortly after the governor declared the camp open officials of LASEMA began to move in people displaced by the fire.

Nasarawa

The Chairman, Nasarawa House of Assembly Committee

on Education, Hon. Raphael Saka,  has urged the government to revive the role of education inspectors, to save the sector from “imminent collapse’’.

Saka who gave the advice in an interview last Friday in Abuja said the education sector had continued to experience setbacks due to lack of monitoring and implementation of many polices made by the government.

He urged government to employ and train more inspectors as well as provide tools, including vehicles, for them to work.

Saka said although government was trying its best in terms of budget allocation to the sector, no visible results were recorded to transform education.

Ogun

Ogun Command of National Security and Civil Defense

Corps (NSCDC) on Saturday said that NNPC Pipeline located at Arepo village of Ogun was set on fire by suspected vandals.

A statement issued by the command spokesman, Mr Kareem Olanrawaju, said the fire was first noticed late on Friday by the command’s surveillance team.

“We received an earlier call by the same surveillance team of suspicious movement around the water ways.

“Our combat team was on their way at about 22.15 hours when the outbreak occurred.

Osun

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State said the state

government would spend N16 billion to rehabilitate 218 kilometre roads in parts of the state.

The governor who announced this last Friday in Osogbo, while presenting 30 per cent mobilisation fees to contractors handling the projects, said the rehabilitation included some ongoing projects which were at different stages of completion.

Aregbesola said the contractors were selected on merit from the list of those that scaled through pre-qualification test earlier carried out by the government.

Earlier, Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Kolapo Alimi, said efforts must be made to ensure a good job by the contractors.

Oyo

Oyo State Government has promised to ensure rapid

infrastructure development and empowerment of displaced traders in the state who had been “obedient”.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi made the pledge at the Oyo South Senatorial District meeting of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

Ajimobi said the standard of living of the people would only improve with better infrastructure, adding the state government was committed to that through its programmes

He said the state would soon be a model in infrastructure development, adding that protection of lives and property was government’s utmost concern.

. He called for unity within the ACN, adding it was the only way the ruling party in the state would remain in government and provide better governance

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr Adeyemi Adepoju, and Deputy Majority Leader, Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Kehinde Subair, assured the people of better representation at both houses.

Plateau

The Plateau Government said it earmarked N6 billion

for the renovation and construction of new facilities in 15 secondary schools in the state.

The state Commissioner for Education, Mr. Nanle Dashe said, recently in Jos that five schools were picked from each of the three senatorial districts for the project.

Dashe said three schools would be upgraded to science schools to serve each of the districts. He said the schools included GSS Kuru (North), GGSS Shendam (South) and former GSS Mangun (Central).

Dashe said government’s goal was to equip the schools with the desired facilities, adding that furnishing would begin immediately after the renovation and reconstruction of the schools.

He called on wealthy individuals, Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) and corporate firms to support the effort at lifting the standard of education.

Taraba

The Taraba Ministry for Poverty Alleviation and

Cooperatives has said that 300 youths will be trained in various skills before the end of 2013.

The commissioner, Alhaji Isa Musa, disclosed this in Jalingo at the ministry’s 2013 budget defence at the state House of Assembly.

Musa said that the measure was aimed at checking unemployment.

He explained that a team from the ministry would go round all the 16 local government areas of the state to conduct the training.