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Gov Amaechi's Health for all: the brand new ultra modern Okija Primary Health Centre built by the Rivers State Government is one of the many modern health centres the Amaechi Administration is building all over the State.

Gov Amaechi's Health for all: the brand new ultra modern Okochiri Primary Health Centre built by the Rivers State Government is one of the many modern health centres the Amaechi Administration is building all over the State.

Some of the buses for the new Port Harcourt city mass transit scheme introduced by Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi in partnership with Skye Bank.

view of the almost completed Niger Hospital being built by the Rivers State Government.

Gov Amaechi's Health for all: the brand new ultra modern Elekahia Primary Health Centre built by the Rivers State Government is one of the many modern health centres the Amaechi Administration is building all over the State.

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Port-Harcourt Rainbow Town Gets Delivery Dates


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Lagos-based Messrs. CityScape International Plc, developers to "Rainbow Town" residential scheme at the Trans-Amadi Industrial Layout in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have unveiled delivery dates for the estates, which is featuring a range of house types.

While 60 four-bedroom terrace units and 13 five-bedroom detached duplexes will be ready in some weeks' time in March this year, others are pretty long in coming.

Modupe Akwumakwuhie, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, stated that the blocks of flats would be completed within a year between December 2010 and December 2011.

While saying that the scheme's pricing would be reviewed quarterly and prospective home buyers are required to make commitments at the prevailing price, she listed the payment options to include outright payment, milestone payment and mortgage payment. The milestone option entails a 20 percent deposit and five milestone payments, which are 20 percent payment each at the substructure and blockwork/slab stages, 30 percent payment at the roofing stage and five percent each at the fitting/fixture as well as the final handover stages.

A five per cent discount attracts a full payment option, according to Akwumakwuhie.

She pointed out that the mortgage option entails an initial deposit of 20 percent of the value of the desired unit and followed - within a month of making this deposit - by arranging a mortgage line of 80 percent of the cost of the house. The deal attracts a brokerage fee of 1.5 percent of the value of the property.

The serviced estate will feature departmental stores, educational facilities (daycare, crèches and pre-schools), recreational facilities (parks and playgrounds) and utility/security services (police and fire station). The ensuite units come fully wired and finished with ceramic, parquet and vitrified finishes.

The estate also features two blocks of flats - the 15-floor Point Block and the 12-floor City Block.

While the four-bedroom terrace duplex and the five-bedroom detached duplex respectively sell for N45 million and N70 million, two-bedroom flats on the first to third floors at the Point Block go for N49.4 million and three-bedroom flats on the same floors go for N53.6 million.

Other units at Point Block are going for: N51.8 million - two-bedroom flat, N56.2 million - three-bedroom flat (fourth to sixth floors); N54.5 million - two-bedroom flat, N59 million - three-bedroom flat (seventh to ninth floors); N76.5 million - two-bedroom flat (tenth to twelfth floors); and, N79 million - two-bedroom executive maisonnette (coral design), N81 million - two-bedroom executive maisonnette (pearl design), N73.5 million - one-bedroom executive maisonnette (coral design), N76.5 million - one-bedroom executive maisonnette (pearl design) (thirteenth floor).

City Block units are selling for: N45.8 million - three-bedroom flats (second to third floors); N47.7 million - three-bedroom flats (fourth to sixth floors); N49.85 million - three-bedroom flats (seventh to ninth floors); and, N70.5 million - two-bedroom executive maisonnettee (tenth floor).

Gov flags-off Bike Riders’ Loan/Ins Scheme (EDOMEMCIS)
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[b]₦3b missing from Kano pensions fund
BY EDWIN OLOFU


May 25, 2011 12:48AM
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The sum of ₦3,099,383,704.73 deducted from Kano State government workers’ salary for the usual contributory pensions scheme is nowhere to be found in the state government’s accounts, the transition committee constituted by the governor-elect, Musa Kwankwaso, discovered Monday.

In a statement issued by Jaafar Jaafar, the spokesperson of the Office of the Kano State Governor-elect, said the amount which should have been remitted to the Pension Trust Fund, was not remitted despite the fact that it was deducted from public servants’ salaries.

The transition committee noted that there was no remission of the workers’ pensions to the pension funds from September 2010 to date.

He revealed that the missing amount does not reflect in the cash balance of the state account.

“Obviously, there is deduction from their salaries but there is no corresponding remission to the pension fund,” he said.


Ghost pensioners

Mr Jaafar revealed further that the transition committee also discovered that 1,495 pensioners “failed to turn up” shortly after verification and the subsequent defeat of the ruling All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) at the April 26 gubernatorial election.

“This is a clear indication that some unscrupulous government officials created the ghost pensioners in the state,” he said.

The spokesman noted that the discovery was made from the official documents obtained from the Pension Trust Fund and the office of the State Accountant General, Danjuma Garko.

“Shekarau’s government has been beating chest for paying attention to workers’ welfare despite the fact that they are secretly fleecing them. This is a clear negation to their claims,” he said. Earlier, the same transition committee in its findings alleged that the outgoing ANPP administration incurred hotel bills of nearly N4 billion in the past eight years.

Of this amount, the committee said N3 billion had already been paid to three hotels which operate in the state, while the government still owed them N805 million.

Political vendetta

Meanwhile, the Senior Special Adviser on Media to governor Shekarau, Sule Yau Sule has refuted all the findings of the transition committee, saying it was an attempt to rubbish all the achievements of Mr Shekarau’s government in the last eight years.

“Everybody knows the intension of the incoming government; they are on a vengeance mission. The person who is issuing these statements has been practising journalism in the state; if all these allegations are true why is it that he has not reported it all this while he was practising? This is simply contradictory; we are not surprised; we expect even more from them.

“You are talking about almost N3 billion they are alleging is missing. This a huge sum of money and the EFCC is there they have not said anything. It is just a political vendetta but I can assure you that at the end of the day, the people of Kano will know the truth no matter how long.”




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[b]NEWSPLUS
Endless agony
Widow battles strange sickness for 15 years
•Gov Aregbesola should not let me die, she pleads
From AKEEB ALARAPE, Osogbo
Thursday, May 26, 2011


• Ganiyat
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For Mrs. Ganiyat Olanrewaju, the last 15 years have been days, months and years of intense pain, anguish and suffering. Ganiyat, a 40-year-old mother of five, has been contending with a mysterious tumour at the lower left hand side of her mouth for the 15 years.
How did her travails start? According to her, she noticed a mild pain in one of her teeth 15 years ago. And like every woman in her agrarian community, she took to some traditional medication. She paid less attention to the pain as she was assured that it would disappear after she applied the medication.

But she was proved wrong. As days rolled into weeks and weeks into months, the pain also grew, extending to her lower jaw. Before she could fathom what was happening to her despite several orthodox and traditional medications, a swelling had appeared at the outer layer of her mouth.“I woke up one day to see the swelling,” she said. “I never saw it on anybody before. I saw this kind of swelling for the first time on my chin.” As she spoke, you could virtually touch the unbearable pain on her face.

With the swelling, the situation became worrisome to her husband and other members of the family. They went from one place to the other looking for a way out. But their financial situation became a big hindrance to their search for quick medical attention and total relief. The husband, a native of Gbongan in Ayedaade Local Government area of Osun State, had three wives. Ganiyat is the third and youngest. Raising funds became extremely difficult to the husband, leaving Ganiyat to accept her fate and continue suffering in silence.

A tragedy of unimaginable proportions befell the family in December last year when Ganiyat’s husband passed away. The burden of raising and supporting her five children and her deteriorating health became a cross that she must carry single-handedly. The non-existence of a standard medical facility in her agrarian Gbongan community became her undoing. Hear her: “The swelling started 15 years ago. I noticed a swelling on the gum of one of my teeth. I then applied some local, traditional drugs on the teeth, hoping the pain would disappear. I had never seen such a thing in my life. After about three years, the pain refused to go and I was advised to go to a hospital in Ibadan.”

At Ibadan, she was asked to go for laboratory tests. In the documents in her possession, she had visited a private hospital, The Grace Hospital, Ibadan. In the hospital invoice, dated November 30, 2002, she was asked to provide N55, 000 for an initial six-week treatment. Unable to raise the money, she went for another test at Twotees Laboratory, also in Ibadan on December 2, 2002, where her heart was certified ‘normal in size’. But efforts to source for enough funds to treat the tumour proved abortive, forcing her to carry on with her burden.

Years after and unable to bear the excruciating pains, she proceeded to Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Ile-Ife, hoping to get a respite. But she was turned down at the hospital and referred to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) for proper diagnosis and attention. She met the shock of her life when, after all examinations had been conducted, she was told that she needed the sum of N400, 000 as the ‘proposed fee for excision of jaw tumour’.

It was at this point that she realized she was in for serious trouble, she told our reporter. Lamenting her ordeals, Ganiyat disclosed that she at the moment spends N1, 500 on drugs daily despite her precarious condition. A petty trader, she said the tumour has weakened her body and incapacitated her. Right now, she can’t do any work, neither can she embark on any business to sustain herself and her children.

“I cannot even bend down again. The pain has extended to my chest and the heart. I am in serious pain and I am calling on well-meaning Nigerians, especially our humane governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to come to my aid. I am in pains,” she pleaded.
Asked about her children, she said: “I have five children. The last-born is 11 years old. He is still in the primary school. But none of them is living with me because their upkeep has been a serious problem. They are scattered among family members.”

Her first born, Kolawole Olanrewaju, 21, who just concluded his secondary school examinations, corroborated the fact that neither he nor any of his siblings is staying with their mother. He said they all live with family members in order to lift the burden of their upkeep off the frails shoulders of the sick woman. The young man, who was with her during the encounter with the reporter, pleaded with the Osun State government to assist his mother get off the pains by footing her medical bills.[/b]


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[b]Rivers State government has inaugurated a seven-member Electricity Power Distribution Committee to work out modalities for self-sustenance in electricity supply in the state following the recent permission by Federal Government for states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity.

The committee, headed by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Managing Director, Mr. Mutiu Summonu, has other members as Mr. Augustine Wokocha, commissioner for Power; Mr. Toyin Olagunju, Mr. Emmanuel Georgewill and Mr. Rotimi Onanuga, while Mr. Minabelem Michael-West, permanent secretary, Ministry of Power is to serve as secretary.

The committee’s term of reference include reviewing the power supply situation in the state with a view to developing a sustainable framework for improving power supply and develop a master plan for delivering power to critical infrastructure and industries in the state.

They are equally expected to access the investment requirements for stabilizing power supply, carry out an audit of on-going distribution and transmission projects in the state that will impact on the power supply stability.

The committee is also to advice on sustainable framework for managing distribution infrastructure to maximize benefits to consumers and review the interface between the generation, transmission and distribution network within the state, as well as strategy to improve payment discipline within the state.

Inaugurating the committee, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, thanked members for accepting to serve, particularly the SPDC managing director, whose presence is an indication of the seriousness the state government attaches to the work of the committee, noting that by September the state would be generating about 460 megawatts of power, which when distributed would ensure stable supply.

“We are appealing to you to attach the same importance you attach to your job as managing director of Shell. It will be to your credit and that of SPDC, if we are able to achieve this goal before the end of next year,” Amaechi stated.

The governor, who disclosed that the state got the Federal Government to reverse its policy on power distribution, said the regulating framework is one problem the state is beginning to overcome, while the experts in the committee would address the issue of management in trying to organize the execution.

“My strategy to achieve result is to set aside anybody who poses problem, even if it involves extra funds just to achieve our objectives, and when the objective is achieved, we can begin to meet with those people to ask how much they owe us, and what the government owe them, and reconcile the differences,” he said.[/b]

[b]Robbers raid Nkwerre Police hqtrs, loot armoury
On May 25, 2011 · In News ,
By Chidi Nkwopara

OWERRI – Two Police Inspectors and some others on duty sustained serious injuries when armed hoodlums stormed the Nkwerre Divisional Police Headquarters and literally emptied the armoury.

Vanguard investigations revealed that the rampaging hoodlums, numbering over 10, came into the charge room and identified themselves as officers from Force Headquarters, Abuja, on normal routine checks.

One of the policemen in the division told Vanguard on grounds of anonymity, that the hoodlums talked the policemen on duty into calling the armourer to bring the keys to the armoury.

He said: “As soon as the armourer arrived the scene, the hoodlums forced him at gunpoint to quietly go and open the armoury.

“All the policemen on duty were taken by surprise, especially as other members of the gang had carefully taken over the premises.”

He said all the new AK 47 rifles, bullet proof vests and ammunition were removed by the armed gangsters.

According to him, “the gangsters removed all the new AK 47 rifles, bullet proof vests and the available ammunition. They virtually emptied the divisional armoury before escaping into the dark night with their loot.”

When contacted on his mobile line, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Linus Nwaiwu, a deputy superintendent of police, DSP, confirmed the incident.

He said: “I do not have details of the incident but our police station was attacked by hoodlums.”[/b]

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Chika Nwafor is the gay Nigerian dude who flaunted his relationship with a German lawyer a few years back. He has since married his partner, Mark Schwartz. Chika and Mark who net via the internet came back to Nigeria recently to meet Chika's family.

He tells Stella Dimoko-Korkus ''Yes I brought him home as nwa afor, I wanted him to eat bitter leaf soup and some native things and also walk along the bush side and go to the stream with me. Well my family love and accept me so why should they not accept the hapiness of my life. Please I need to go back and rest in my matrimonial home now, thank you Stella.''.

Chika and his husband plan to adopt a German baby soon.


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Chika Nwafor is the gay Nigerian dude who flaunted his relationship with a German lawyer a few years back. He has since married his partner, Mark Schwartz. Chika and Mark who net via the internet came back to Nigeria recently to meet Chika's family.

He tells Stella Dimoko-Korkus ''Yes I brought him home as nwa afor, I wanted him to eat bitter leaf soup and some native things and also walk along the bush side and go to the stream with me. Well my family love and accept me so why should they not accept the hapiness of my life. Please I need to go back and rest in my matrimonial home now, thank you Stella.''.

Chika and his husband plan to adopt a German baby soon.


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Jigawa gov weeps

Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, wept publicly at a special reception organised to mark his victory for a second term on Sunday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.



The occasion, which was organised in Dutse, the state capital, by the Directorate of Religious, Chieftancy and Sharia Implementation, drew Islamic clerics from all over the country.



The highlight of the ceremony was the presentation and preaching by various Islamic scholars who charged Lamido to do good things for the people.



A prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Rabiu Daura, tasked Lamido to visit the prisons and see the condition of some inmates who were jailed because of minor offences which could be pardoned.



Daura cited a case where a prisoner was jailed because of a debt of N200 after he was taken to court by his creditor.



He called on the governor to grant amnesty to such people anytime he visited the prison.



The cleric reminded Lamido that leadership was just like oath-taking and that everybody knew what happened during the election.



He appealed to Lamido to embrace everybody irrespective of political differences because “you are already a leader.”



Also speaking, the state PDP Chairman, Alhaji Duniya-ba-hutu, said the ceremony was aimed at celebrating the victory of Lamido.

Persianas, Enugu govt in N5.2b Polo Park project
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About The Project
The Rivers Monorail will be using the Intamin P30 Monorail Train, an electric driven train especially designed and most suitable for commuter services in cities.

It is the most recent model of its kind and characterized by modern design, spacious cabins and is equipped with large size door openings for easy access for passengers with luggage.

The visual impact of the train, the track beam (which it rides on) and the supporting columns will be minimal and an appropriate color will be chosen to help integrate the system into the environment.

The Rivers Monorail Beam System
The Monorail Beam is elevated, supported by columns which in turn are supported by a foundation. The foundation will be properly sized to take all loads applied from the column to the foundation.

The foundation and the beam structure shall be designed to a minimum life time of 50 years. The foundation shall be designed and built to withstand the local climate conditions at Port Harcourt including flood, thunderstorm, heavy rain, etc.

Proposed Stations
Several trains will be in operation on the network between Aggrey Rd. and the loop North/East of the Garrison station.

- UPTH Junction (Aggrey Road)
- Sharks Stadium Park
- Supabod
- Isaac Boro Park
- Garrison Junction
- Nkpogu/ Elekahia Junction (Trans Amadi)
- Mother-Cat Junction (Rainbow)
- Ordinance Junction (NEWS)
- Elekahia Estate (Dust bin)
- Air force Base Junction (Aba Road)
- Rumuola Junction
- GRA Junction
- Water Lines Junction
- 1st or 2nd Artillery Junction
- Rumukwurushi Junction
- Oil Mill Junction
- Eleme Junction
- Oyigbo

Proposed Major Terminals
- Sharks Stadium Park (Station Road)
- Liberation Stadium (Elekahia)
- Garden Park (Air force Base Junction)

System Statistics
- Maximum achievable transport capacity 1,300 pph/direction
- Average interval of train is approximately 12/24 mins
- Maximum Speed 70km/hr
- Track Length 19.1 km
- Total passengers per train (standard Capacity) 158
- Total passengers per train (peak capacity) 210
- Operating Brakes are electrical regenerative brakes
- Holding breaks are mechanical brakes
- Emergency brake are mechanical brakes (fail safe design)
- Overall Route Track Length – 19.1Km
- Overall No. of Columns – 1473
- Stations – 14
- Train Sets – 5
- Coaches per Train – 6
- Passengers per Train – 210
- Passengers per hr per direction – 1300

Disclaimer: Plans outlined are projections and are subject to ongoing adjustment to achieve the best and safest quality to serve the city of Port Harcourt.
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