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Governor Okorocha of Imo State, has said that the federal roads in the east have become death traps. Okorocha stated this, at the Government House, Owerri, when members of the National Assembly, committee on works led by it chairman Hon.

Tobi Okechukwu visited him, weekend. According to Okorocha, “My government has got no other option than to fix some of such roads in consideration of the plights of the road users.” He continued, “In Imo we do not know again which one is federal road or state owned road.

We do every road like the Akokwa/Orlu road which we have fixed and dualized. Owerri/Port-Harcourt is so bad. There must be a cooperation between Federal Government and Stakeholders on these roads.” The Governor also used the opportunity to commend the Speaker of the House of Representative, Rt. Hon.Yakubu Dogara, for settling the crisis between the National Assembly and the presidency.

He said, “I want to commend the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara for the patriotic role he played towards reconciling the National Assembly with the Presidency” adding that ” the National Assembly has so far done well.” Responding, the National Assembly Chairman House Committee on Works, Hon.

Tobi Okechukwu said, “We are in the state as part of our constitutional responsibilities of checking federal roads going on in the states. We have gone round and had seen the challenges, and would ensure that money appropriated for these roads is used accordingly.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/roads-imo-death-trap-okorocha/

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Not my field, wish understanding more. What's d different with winners chapel in ota

Winners chapel in ota does not make use of metal for the beams but a kind of syntentic alloy that is light and can stay without pillars for support!!

Do you understand?

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Over 100 died at Uyo church: Witnesses

The number of people who died in Saturday’s collapsed Reigners Bible Church building in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital, has risen to 29.

The state Police Commissioner, CP Murtala Mani, confirmed this on Monday in Uyo while speaking with correspondents. But Reuters is disputing the figures, anchoring doubts on witness accounts. According to the news agency, no fewer than 100 people were killed by collapsed church, belonging to Reigners Bible Church International, according to a resident and photojournalist who visited a morgue. It was earlier reported that 27 died as at Sunday, while 37 persons, who suffered from various degrees of injury were receiving treatment in designated hospitals.

The latest figure now shows that 35 persons injured are currently receiving treatment. The police commissioner said,“ the remaining 35 persons are responding to treatment.” He however declined to confirm whether any member of the Akwa Ibom Executive Council (EXCO) was involved. “I don’t know of any EXCO member involved,” Mani said. He said that he was not aware of the arrest of the contractor and the engineers that handled the church building project. In a statewide broadcast on Sunday condoling the victims’ families, the state governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, had ordered the arrest the contractor that handled the church building. Emmanuel had also ordered investigation into the causes of the building collapse during a worship session, where the governor himself, who was in attendance, escaped unhurt.

The governor was the special guest of honour at the bishopric consecration service of the church founder, Apostle Akan Weeks.
The church sited along Uyo village road near Government House is alleged to have been hastily completed to allow for the hosting of bishopric enthronement of the founder. (NAN) But Reuters is disputing the figures, anchoring doubts on witness accounts.

According to the news agency, no fewer than 100 people were killed by collapsed church, belonging to Reigners Bible Church International, according to a resident and photojournalist who visited a morgue. “At Uyo teaching hospital where I am now I could see over a hundred corpses, many are heaped on top of each other on the floor,” said photojournalist

“Eye witnesses also said yesterday corpses were packed in four each bag.” Gary Ubong, a resident, said the church’s roof had collapsed on worshippers while a pastor was being consecrated as bishop in the presence of government officials. “I saw more than 100 dead bodies brought out on loaders,” said Ubong, who said he had rushed to the scene after the accident. “I also went to two hospitals and saw heaps of dead bodies difficult to count.” State police spokeswoman Cordelia Nwawe said 27 were killed and 30 injured when the church collapsed during a service on Saturday.

Etete Peters, Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo teaching hospital, said 21 bodies were delivered to his clinic and two of the injured admitted for treatment had died. “Victims are in private hospitals and mortuaries scattered all over Uyo metropolis.

We can’t really tell how many people have died so far,” he said. “We do not have space as people are still being brought in.” The State police commissioner Murtala Mani debunking speculations that as many as 60 or 120 worshipers died in the incident.

The state emergency agency NEMA said in a statement that six people had been killed and 115 injured. Another Uyo resident, Akpan Eminem, said he had been told by hospital staff that 79 people had died in the accident.

State governor Udom Emmanuel, who escaped unhurt from the church service, ordered the arrest of the building contractor, NAN reported. Buildings collapses are frequent in Nigeria and often blamed by officials on lack of construction permits and the use of cheap materials amid widespread corruption.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/death-toll-collapsed-church-building-uyo-rises-29/

Johnnyessence:
you are still pained baa. You have not see anything yet. he will commission another gigantic project. Then your wailing life will increase. Abeg leave ile ife alone ok.

Hahaha 10th world state who care about dat hell hole?

Largas:
3rd world abi na 4th world? Ife is still living in 17th century. *shrugs*

THE WORST PLACE TO BE

6TH world sef

Dey there dey open radio when ife na 3rd world state

Atiku2019:

Guy you are funny oo seems you have an Atiku meme for every news

Lagos—THE Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, at the weekend suspended the medical certificates of five Cabin crews over drug-related offences.

The crew, whose names were yet to be disclosed were said to have tested positive to marijuana during Drug Screening Test, MDST, conducted on participants of the Cabin Crew Training Basic Course – 30 (CCTB – 30 ) at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) Zaria, Kaduna State According to Mr Sam Adurogboye, General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, the Substance, marijuana, is deemed under Part 1.2.1.8. of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations (Nig. NCARs) 2015 to be a psychoactive substance which made the defaulters disoriented and thereby violated Part 2.11.2.7 (b) (2) (a) (ii) of the Nig. NCARs 2015. Adurogboye said “The five crew members (names withheld) tested positive to marijuana (Tetra Hydro Cannabinol – THC.) “Upon receipt of the test result from NCAT Zaria where they went for training before they get involved in flight duties, NCAA issued a letter of investigation (LOI) to the involved crew members and they responded.

” He added that: “The Authority accordingly considered their responses which were in writing after it had been duly established that they all tested positive to Tetra Hydro Cannabinol (THC – Marijuana). “Consequent upon the findings, the defaulted crew members no longer meet the requirements for the issuance of a Cabin Crew licence. In the light of the above and in accordance with the provision of Part 2.11.1.8 (f) (i) of the Nig. NCARs 2015, the Authority resolves as follows: “Suspended their medical certificate for a period of 180 days from the date of receipt of NCAA letter to them. And Put on hold the processing of their initial cabin crew licence.

“They were requested to repeat the examination but will not be issued the cabin crew licence even if they pass the examination until they are successfully rehabilitated and re-issued the medical certificate. “NCAA has therefore mandated the suspended Cabin Crew members to undergo rehabilitation for psychoactive substance abuse under the strict supervision of a consultant psychiatrist at designated medical centres forthwith”.

“At the end of the rehabilitation exercise, a report is expected to be forwarded in strict confidence by the medical centre to the Authority for consideration of re -issuance of their medical certificate in accordance with the provisions of Part 2.2.9.2 (a) of the Nig. NCARs 2015. “The Authority expects strict compliance by the suspended crew members without which their medical certificates would not be issued.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/ncaa-suspends-5-cabin-crews-testing-positive-marijuana/

ABUJA-THE Defence Headquarters, has dismissed rumours making the rounds that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin and the Chief of Naval State, Vice Admiral Ibok Ete-Ibas have been removed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

It asked people to discountenance the rumours, even as it advised people to try to get their information from the appropriate top echelon of the Armed Forces before releasing such information. Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, Director of Information, Defence Headquarters, dismissed the rumour in a telephone interview with Vanguard some minutes ago.

The Defence Headquarters’ spokesman, who expressed disappointment that the conventional media carried the false report like the social media, wondered where the false story emanated from. “It is unfortunate that the false information was not only on the social media but also the conventional media. It is very wrong. We don’t know where these people are getting their information from.

“The information is wrong and false. We are issuing statement very soon. ” Like I said, we don’t know where these people are getting their information from. Issues of this importance should be cleared from the highest echelon.

“You don’t just create news. To the best of our knowledge, nothing like that happened. They are just circulating the false information for circulating sake.

“We will soon issue press release to that effect, that people should discountenance this kind of rumour. It is not true and it is not true, “he emphasised.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/defence-headquarters-debunks-alleged-sack-cds-olonisakin-naval-chief/

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AGITATIONS for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps scheme appear to have been intensified with the recent deaths of some corpers in the course of participating in the scheme, which included a 26-year-old Ifedolapo Oladepo, a First Class Transport Management graduate of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, who died at the NYSC camp in Kano State.
The victim was said to have been unattended to when she was showing symptoms of illness, because NYSC officials had thought she was merely pretending to be sick in order to avoid taking part in the mandatory physical exercise known as drills. It was learnt that when her situation deteriorated after receiving an injection given to her, she did not improve. At the end, the intervention of the officials at the camp’s clinic became rather too late before the girl passed on even though the Director-General of NYSC, Brig-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, had announced that Ifedolapo had died of a disease called renal sepsis, commonly caused by urinary tract infection. Casualty was also recorded for another First Class graduate in Zamfara State camp. Ukeme Monday, who graduated from the Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, who also fell ill and died. Over the years, many corps members have been killed in the course of serving their fatherland. This is a worrisome trend that should be addressed now than ever before. We recall that the NYSC programme was introduced by the General Yakubu Gowon administration in 1973, to promote national integration of the nation’s over 300 ethnic groups. Then, every graduate received the call-up letter and placement without any difficulty. Nowadays, about 400,000 graduates are produced annually by our tertiary institutions, which is not the case in 1973 when the scheme started. Then the country had only six universities and churned-out an average of about 7,000 graduates, yearly. Today, over 1.8 million applicants struggle for admission placements and the figure is most likely to increase with the establishment of more tertiary institutions across the country. No doubt, the NYSC scheme has contributed to promoting national unity, increased mobility of labour, assisted public schools, hospitals and private bodies to have a steady pool of cheap skilled labour.
Apart from that, they are also engaged during elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC. For the young graduates, NYSC have been a very good transition from higher institutions to real working life and this has helped them to overcome the uncertainties that youths often entertain in terms of what happens to them outside their home base; where they are not familiar with. Hence, it remains a well-thought out national programme that needs to be saved and nurtured. The challenges facing the scheme are many. In a bid to cope with the programme despite the odds, universities and relevant authorities are now made to resort into using different unbecoming criteria for selecting prospective youth corps members, thus subjecting the programme to serious manipulations. What happens is that as the number of graduates rises, the existing structures are not improved upon to accommodate the increase and expansion. A good example of this manifestation is the decision of NYSC to mobilise only 35 per cent of eligible graduates for the current batch of the orientation exercise due to lack of funds.
This is going to be the second time in two years that NYSC would be financially weak and incapable of mobilising over 300,000 graduates. The way the scheme is being run appears to be an embarrassment and hence, the persistent call for its scrapping. Federal authorities should go back to the drawing board to design new strategies that would see the scheme through in the current times. Apart from the existing provisions for exempted persons, corps members’ participation in the scheme should, henceforth, be made optional.
Candidates should now be allowed to freely choose their participation and that would mean making the scheme voluntary and by enabling the eligible candidates to decide. Also, those who opt for exemption should be issued the relevant certificates. In otherwords, it should no longer be imposed on all the graduates. When this is done, a reasonable amount of candidates would have been pruned-down for effectiveness. Again, the Federal Government should fund the scheme better and adequately, considering the fact that the youths who now participate are the future leaders of the country. We should all agree that nothing can be too much to invest in the future of any nation.
As a way forward, their allowances should be increased and paid promptly. What they receive presently cannot be said to be realistic in view of the high prices of goods and commodities in the country. Also, the continued adoption of drilling and other military training skills should be discontinued. It is no longer relevant because Nigeria is not on the verge of a war. It has been realised that the physical stress that the corps members are subjected to is certainly too energy-sapping and strenuous. One really needs to experience these corps members go through in the course of embarking on military drills. Some of the trainers are not only harsh, impatient and hostile; they seem to forget easily that the corps members are not recruits who are eager to join the armed forces. They are simply fresh brains who are just trying to learn something new that they are not familiar with.
There is the importance of putting the necessary infrastructure in place to accommodate the needs of the members. Specifically, there should be a significant improvement in medical facilities in all NYSC orientation camps across the country as well as the deployment of experienced medical personnel to the medical centres. It has been found that experienced medical personnel are not in existence in many orientation camps such that inexperienced medical doctors undergoing national service themselves are deployed to provide medical services for their fellow corpers.
Finally, the security and medical services deployed to the corpers should be improved significantly. This becomes imperative, most especially, during election when corps members are usually targets of violence. If these measures are put in place, the safety of our youth corpers would be better guaranteed, the frequent sad tales coming from our NYSC camps would be greatly minimised and the continued relevance of the scheme would be logically justified.
Therefore, the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari at this critical moment is timely by ordering of an independent investigation into the deaths and a similar call by the Senate and other concerned Nigerians on the Federal Government to overhaul the scheme. It is only hoped that findings from the outcomes of the fact-finding exercises would not be dumped like the previous ones submitted to the government without acting. Whatever anyone may say, the inevitable fact and reality remain that NYSC must be restructured!

Adewale Kupoluyi writes from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB)

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/restructure-nysc-now/

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orobs93:
That order was made few days after he was crowned

And So??

Go and enforce it na since u can run ur mouth!!

orobs93:
They are still collecting money and cda is still in existence like till tomoro

Oba just gave the Order!!