Adamawa<\/p>\n
The Adamawa State Agency for Mass Education enrolled 14,643
\nadult students in its 2011 mass education programme, Mr Solomon Adzigare, the
\nExecutive Director of the agency, said.<\/p>\n
Adzigare told our correspondents in Yola on Tuesday that out
\nof that number, 6,659 were females while 7,984 were males aged between 30 years
\nand 70 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2011, the agency admitted a total of 14,643 adults for
\nmass education programme. And about 8,765 graduated and issued with
\ncertificates,\u201d Adzigare said.<\/p>\n
According to the director, the agency is presently offering
\nabout seven courses under the national mass education guidelines and
\nsupervision, explaning that the courses offered by the agency include basic
\nliteracy class for those that did not have access to primary education from
\ntheir childhood.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Bauchi<\/p>\n
Bauchi State Government has banned all mining activities in
\nthe state, the Commissioner for Environment, Alhaji Mahiru Maiwada, has said.<\/p>\n
Maiwada disclosed this in an interview with our
\ncorrespondent\u00a0 in Bauchi on Tuesday,
\nsaying\u00a0 that the ban would remain in
\nforce until the law regulating the exploration of mineral resources was amended
\nby both the Federal and State House of Assemblies.<\/p>\n
He said that the state was not comfortable with the
\narrangement whereby prospective miners would obtain permission from the Federal
\nGovernment to operate in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that mining
\nis on the exclusive list of the Federal Government, but we\u2019ve domesticated it
\nhere. We have our own local laws which will soon be passed by the State House
\nof Assembly to regulate the activities of all these illegal miners in the
\nBauchi.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Benue<\/p>\n
Rehabilitation camps set up by the Benue State Government to
\naccommodate displaced flood victims in Makurdi need more food supplies to cope
\nwith the feeding of victims, camp workers say.<\/p>\n
Some camp workers told The Tide in Makurdi on Tuesday that
\nthe populations in the camps surpassed food supplies to the victims.<\/p>\n
At the Wurukum camp, the Assistant Camp Commandant, Mr Justin
\nDepuun, complained of difficulties in meeting the feeding needs of the people,
\nespecially the children.<\/p>\n
Depuun said for a camp with a population of 4,290 people
\nthat comprised 501 families, it was difficult to adequately meet their feeding
\nrequirements and appealed to corporate organisations, political and religious
\norganisations as well as individuals to donate food items, especially for the
\nuse of the children.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
FCT<\/p>\n
A black Honda saloon car with registration number CY 691 LND
\non Tuesday fell off a bridge near Wuse Market, Abuja, killing the driver.<\/p>\n
The driver, a police corporal, died on the spot.<\/p>\n
The Tide correspondent, who visited the scene, reports that
\nthe car knocked off the concrete embankment on the bridge before crashing into
\nthe ravine below.<\/p>\n
The impact tore the car into pieces with the engine
\nseparated from the body.<\/p>\n
Mr Kassim Yusuf, the Divisional Traffic Officer at Wuse
\nPolice Station, confirmed the death of the driver who, he said, was a police
\ncorporal at the FCT command.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Gombe<\/p>\n
The transportation of Muslim pilgrims from Gombe State to
\nSaudi Arabia will commence on October\u00a0 2,
\nthe state Amirul Hajj, Alhaji Usman Baba-Liman, has said.<\/p>\n
The Amirul Hajj told newsmen after inspecting facilities at
\nthe Gombe Airport that arrangements had been made to ensure that this year\u2019s
\nexercise was the most successful in the history of the state.<\/p>\n
Baba-Liman commended Hajj officers in the local governments
\nfor their efforts in properly organising the pilgrims and urged them to remain
\nfocussed throughout the duration of the exercise.<\/p>\n
He called on the state Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board to
\naddress the problems the pilgrims often encounter while at the Hajj Camp,
\nadding that\u00a0 the board had succeeded in
\ngetting visa for the pilgrims with the exception those sponsored by the
\ngovernment.<\/p>\n
Baba-Liman advised the pilgrims to attend induction courses
\nto get acquainted with the modalities for the Hajj and the laws of\u00a0 Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Kano<\/p>\n
A\u00a0 Kano-based
\nelectrical engineering consultant, Malam Ibrahim Sani has advised the federal
\nand state governments to provide special recycling plants for electronic scrap
\nmaterials to protect the environment.<\/p>\n
Sani, who spoke to The Tide in Kano on Tuesday, described
\nelectronic waste as \u201cdangerous and harmful to human beings\u201d, saying \u00a0that recycling plants could sort out the waste
\ninto useable and non-useable components.<\/p>\n
Sani suggested that as an alternative to the expensive
\nrecycling plants, landfills may be excavated at special locations to dispose of
\nthe wastes. He, however, warned that when buried, certain poisonous chemical
\ncomponents of the electronic wastes could be passed to underground water,
\ncausing soil pollution and health problems.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Kebbi<\/p>\n
The Kebbi State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has said it had
\ntransported 2,000 out of 5,670 pilgrims registered for this year\u2019s Hajj in the
\npast three days.<\/p>\n
Alhaji Usman Suru, the Executive Secretary of the agency,
\ntold our correspondent\u00a0 in Birnin Kebbi
\nthat pilgrims from Aliero, Augie, Bagudo and Koko\/Besse local government areas
\nhad departed.<\/p>\n
He said the agency had prepared adequately for the
\naccommodation, welfare, medical and transportation needs of the pilgrims in
\nSaudi Arabia. \u201cFor the 2012 Hajj, Kabo and Max Airlines will transport the
\npilgrims to the holy land and back with their luggage on time.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Kogi<\/p>\n
The Federal Government has
\ndirected Julius Berger and two other construction companies to free the
\nsubmerged Lokoja-Abuja Road from flooding within three days.<\/p>\n
The Minister of
\nWorks, Mr Mike Onolememen, gave the directive in Lokoja when he paid a courtesy
\ncall on Governor Idris Wada.<\/p>\n
Onolememen described the flood as a disaster that deeply
\ntouched President Goodluck Jonathan because it affected key national structures
\nand threatened the link between the northern and southern parts of the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
He said he also brought the managing directors of the three
\nconstruction companies; Julius Berger, RCC and Dantata and Sawoe and their
\nteams to assess the impact and address the situation.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Lagos<\/p>\n
Public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State could
\nnot resume for the new academic session on Monday because of a teachers\u2019
\nstrike.<\/p>\n
The state chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on
\nThursday declared an indefinite strike starting from Monday following the
\nfailure of government to pay them the 27.5 per cent Teachers Peculiar
\nAllowance.<\/p>\n
Some of the schools visited by our correspondent include
\nZumratul Isamiyya Senior High School, Yaba, Surulere Girls\u2019 junior and senior
\nschools, Jibowu, Biney Memorial Primary School as well as Anglican Primary
\nSchool, Jibowu.<\/p>\n
Others are Holy Trinity and Anglican primary schools,
\nIkorodu, Iponri Estate Junior and Senior School, Iponri, Ola-Olu Primary
\nSchool, Shomolu, and Shyllon Primary School, Ilupeju. Oriwu Model College and
\nIgbogbo High School both in Ikorodu and Ransome Kuti Memorial Junior and Senior
\nGrammar schools, Jibowu.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Niger<\/p>\n
The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in
\nNiger State, Mr David Usman, has said that the corps would soon personalise
\nvehicle number plates to help track offenders.<\/p>\n
Usman made the plan known when he paid a courtesy visit to
\nthe Niger State Assembly, saying:\u00a0 \u201cthat
\nis why the number plates have to be changed. Right now, the number plates are
\nregistered with the vehicles.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He said when operational, the owner of the vehicle would own
\nthe number plate not the vehicle.<\/p>\n
The commander said: \u201cif you decide to sell your vehicle at
\nany time, you detach your number plate from the vehicle and keep it. When you
\nhave a new vehicle, you register it with the number.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ogun<\/p>\n
The Thai Farm International Limited, Ososa in Ogun, has
\nurged cassava farmers to pool their resources in order to benefit from the
\nopportunities offered by the Federal Government\u2019s Agricultural Transformation
\nAgenda.<\/p>\n
The Tide\u00a0 reports that
\nthe company is one of Nigeria\u2019s leading producers of high quality cassava
\nflour.<\/p>\n
The Managing Director of the company, Mr Louw Burger, gave
\nthe advice in Abeokuta while presenting a paper at the international symposium
\non root crops.<\/p>\n
In his paper titled: \u2018Building a Strong Partnership for
\nCassava Development\u2019, Burger noted that an average Nigerian farmer faced
\ndaunting challenges in cassava production.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Oyo<\/p>\n
Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Oyo State, Mr
\nOluseun Abimbola, on Tuesday advised security operatives to focus more on
\nintelligence gathering in their operations.<\/p>\n
Abimbola gave the advice in an interview with The Tide in
\nIbadan.<\/p>\n
He described intelligence gathering as the most critical
\nfactor in any security operation, pointing out that security was beyond
\ndeploying armed personnel at check points, but more of intelligence gathering.<\/p>\n
He said that the security challenges was not peculiar to
\nNigeria and advised that the country\u2019s security agencies to learn from the
\nexperiences of other countries that went through similar challenges.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Plateau<\/p>\n
Worried by the incessant theft of cattle largely blamed for
\nviolence in Plateau north and parts of Bauchi, the military Special Task Force
\n(STF) in Plateau has banned grazing at night.<\/p>\n
In a communique after a peace meeting with stakeholders from
\nnine local government areas held on Monday in Barkin-Ladi, Plateau State, the
\nSTF also banned any movement of cows at night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be no movement of cattle in the night even on
\nthe highways within these states,\u2019\u2019 the communiqu\u00e9 declared.<\/p>\n
The STF and stakeholders from seven Plateau crisis-prone
\nlocal government areas \u2013 Jos East, Riyom, Barkin-Ladi, Kanke, Pankshin, Bokkos
\nand Kanam, and two others \u2013 Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi State, agreed to
\narrest anyone with cows at night.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Zamfara<\/p>\n
The Zamfara State Pilgrims Welfare Agency has transported
\n2,140 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia one week after the commencement of the
\nexercise.<\/p>\n
The Spokesman of the agency, Malam Yakubu Mafara, gave the
\nfigure in an interview with The Tide in Gusau on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Mafara said that the more than 3,000 pilgrims from the state
\nwould be transported to Saudi Arabia through the Sutan Abubakar International
\nAirport, Sokoto, adding\u00a0 said that the
\nintending pilgrims, who had arrived in Saudi Arabia included those from
\nMaradun, Mafara, Gusau, Kauran Namoda, Shinkafi , Zurmi, Tsafe and parts of Bukkuyyum
\nlocal governments.<\/p>\n
He said that all pilgrims from the state had arrived in
\nSaudi Arabia and in Medinah except some female pilgrims, who had been detained
\nby the Saudi immigration officials.<\/p>\n
Mafara noted\u00a0 that
\nhigh level talks between Nigerian and Saudi Arabian authorities were on to
\nresolve the issues surrounding the controversial detention of the 400 Nigerian
\nfemale pilgrims.<\/p>\n
He said that reports from Zamfara pilgrims\u2019 officials
\nindicated that pilgrims from the state were in good health and had adequate
\nwelfare facilities to enable them commence the Hajj rites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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