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The Managing Director of Nigerian Turkish international colleges, Orhan Kertim, has said that Nigeria should disregard the request by Turkey’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Hakan Cakil, to close down the schools.

This is contained in a statement he gave to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Friday.

He said the call contained misleading information and would not have dignified it with a response.

According to Kertim, the schools have been operating in Nigeria since 1998 and as law-abiding schools they owe Nigerians a duty to expose the ulterior motives of the ambassador.

“The NTIC is not a Turkish government- run institution, but a privately funded institution by a group of Turkish investors.

“As a responsible organization operating in Nigeria since 1998, we are conversant with the laws of the land’’, he added
Kertim, however, said the call by Cakil “is not only baseless, but also unfounded and of poor taste.’’

The government of Turkey through Cakil had on Thursday alerted the Nigerian government on the existence of the schools “owned by suspected terrorists.’’

The ambassador called on Nigeria to shut down the schools just as the Turkish government did in Turkey.

Kertim, therefore, urged the public to ignore and disregard the statement by the Turkish ambassador.

“ Our schools are fully functional and will continue to be’’, he stressed.

Indonesia on Friday executed one local and three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad, an official said.

They were put to death shortly after midnight, Noor Rachmad, deputy attorney general for general crimes, told reporters.

He did not say why 10 other drug convicts, who had been expected to face the firing squad, were not executed, although the island where the convicts were being put to death was hit by a major storm as the executions took place.

“The executions were for now conducted on four convicts on death row,” he said.

“This is not a fun job. For us, this is really a sad job because it involves people’s lives.

“This was done not in order to take lives but to stop evil intentions, and the evil act of drug trafficking.”
Source: Vanguard News.

Members of staff of Public Complaints Commission Protesting short payment of their salaries at ministry of finance hqtrs Abuja.

MyMouth:
Fine babe, but unfortunately, no brain!

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Military operation is not like a surgical operation..., they must be casualties.!!! Don't even try anything that will warrant soldiers in your neighborhood.

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