progoh: Some unidentified persons have allegedly stolen the recently reinstalled airfield lighting systems at the domestic runway 18/36L, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The disappearance of the approach lighting systems raised security concerns in the busy airport.
A source who chose to remain anonymous had told Punch that those who stole the lighting systems took advantage of the closure of the runway for over three months - alleging that some FAAN workers connived with outsiders to steal the lighting equipments.
"The criminal took advantage of the closure to commit the crime. I cannot give the actual worth of the theft, but almost all the lighting was removed. The permanent secretary came around to see for himself the huge damage done. A lot of FAAN officials have been suspended,” the source said.
The incident has brought about the suspension of some heads of relevant departments at FAAN on the directives of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation, Dr Emmanuel Meribole.
According to a report by Punch, the source said, regular incursion and stealing of safety components at the airports are carried out by a syndicate, consisting of some workers of the agencies, who have access to the restricted areas and accomplices from outside.
Justiceori2019: Breaking: Benue man kills a lion in a fierce battle, hospitalized
In a rare show of bravery, a Kwande man, Iorver Udele in Benue State has reportedly killed a lion with bare hands..
According to reports, Mr Iorver was working on his cassava farm at mount Ngokur where he was reportedly attacked by a roaring lion.
In a self defense bid, Iorver launched a counter attack, in what can be best described as a fierce battle, lasted for about ten minutes before Iorver defeated the wild beast.
Achieving the feat was not easy as though he accomplished his mission but he was rushed to General hospital Adikpo!
According Doctors Mr Iorver is said to be in stable condition now and will be granting interview to newsmen in the next few days.
Kuginzi: The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the Federal Government, for the immediate arrest of ex-Niger Delta agitator, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo.
The group threatened that should the Federal Government refuse to arrest Asari-Dokubu as it demanded, it would mobilise its members to embark on a nationwide protest across all 36 states of the federation.
HURIWA made the threat in a statement on Thursday by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko.
The group said, “Asari-Dokubo must be arrested by the Department of State Services or any other relevant security agency over his suspected link to the violent phenomenon of ‘unknown gunmen’ in the South-East.
"The Nigerian Government must arrest Asari Dokubo now or the Federal Government is indirectly tasking Igbo youths, lovers of Igbo and all groups that support the well-being of the Igbo people to begin peaceful protests simultaneously.
“HURIWA is giving President Bola Ahmed Tinubu 72 working hours to order the arrest and investigation of Asari Dokubo over his suspected link to the violent phenomenon of unknown gunmen in the South-East or HURIWA will call our her members for a protest in Abuja next week over it.
“Illegality must not be allowed to continue whilst the security agencies pretend not to know or wilfully not take action. Asari-Dokubo must be arrested. Nigeria is not a Banana Republic.”
During a robbery in Zimbabwe, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: "Don't move. The money belongs to the State. Your life belongs to you." Everyone in the bank lay down quietly. This is called the "Mind Changing Concept” Changing the conventional way of thinking.
When a lady lay on the table provocatively, the robber shouted at her: "Please be civilized! This is a robbery and not a rape!" This is called "Being Professional” Focus only on what you are trained to do!
When the bank robbers returned home, the younger robber (MBA-trained) told the older robber (who has only completed Year 6 in primary school): "Big brother, let's count how much we got." The older robber rebutted and said: "You are very stupid. There is so much money it will take us a long time to count. Tonight, the TV news will tell us how much we robbed from the bank!" This is called "Experience.” Nowadays, experience is more important than paper qualifications!
After the robbers had left, the bank manager told the bank supervisor to call the police quickly. But the supervisor said to him: "Wait! Let us take out $10 million from the bank for ourselves and add it to the $70 million that we have previously embezzled from the bank”. This is called "Swim with the tide.” Converting an unfavourable situation to your advantage! The supervisor says: "It will be good if there is a robbery every month." This is called "Killing Boredom.” Personal Happiness is more important than your job.
The next day, the TV news reported that $100 million was taken from the bank. The robbers counted and counted and counted, but they could only count $20 million. The robbers were very angry and complained: "We risked our lives and only took $20 million. The bank manager took $80 million with a snap of his fingers. It looks like it is better to be educated than to be a thief!" This is called "Knowledge is worth as much as gold!" The bank manager was smiling and happy because his losses in the share market are now covered by this robbery. This is called "Seizing the opportunity.” Daring to take risks! So who are the real robbers here?
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when i read this years back,them say na China, soon e go be nigeria
fadilaMaikiriki: I'm about to devour this right now. I hope there are no side effects of taking this too much. Anyway, I don't take it too much. But I always get it whenever I go to get fruits. I get it either one or two.
Attached below is the picture;
no be fruit na vegetable and u no buy groundnut join am?
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has pleaded with the British government to have mercy on the jailed former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
Ohanaeze made the appeal on Tuesday when it received the British Higher Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery, at the National Secretariat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu.
The apex Igbo body stated that it accepted the pronouncement of the trial court that approved over 10 years in jail for the ex-lawmaker in the matter of organ harvesting against him, his wife and a medical doctor.
Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, who spoke on behalf of the Ohanaeze, said that Ndigbo would be happy should Ekweremadu’s jail term be reduced.
He said: “There is a very important issue that we have to bring to your attention. You’re aware of the case of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who was convicted and is in jail in your country.
“He’s from this state and we all know the circumstance he got entangled in that unfortunate incident because he wanted to save his daughter
“He is already serving a jail term. It’s unfortunate, but it has happened. I testified for him during the trial, and in fact, the judge mentioned my name two times while delivering his judgement.
“But we’re using the opportunity of your visit to ask for leniency for him so that he doesn’t spend the number of years in jail. We have accepted the judgment, but are saying if there’s anything that could be done to reduce the jail term.
“He’s from this area and if we don’t bring this thing up as Ohanaeze or from us here, concerning this important son of Igboland, it wouldn’t be nice of us. We are quite overwhelmed”.
In his speech, President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, appealed for the setting up of a British Visa office in the South-East region.
He stated that the zone accounts for over 60 per cent of Nigerians travelling to the United Kingdom, stressing that it was unfair that they were subjected to travelling to Abuja and Lagos to procure their visas.
Iwuanyanwu, who recalled the long relationship between Nigeria and British government, also appealed for bilateral collaboration to grow and develop the economy of the South-East region.
He identified insecurity that has now culminated to Monday’s sit-at-home as part of the challenge threatening the economy of the region, explaining that the new leadership of Ndigbo was working hard to overcome it.
Iwuanyanwu said that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo would soon set up a business council of prominent businessmen and assured that it would like to collaborate with the office of the commission for mutual economic benefits.
He said that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has placed a premium on education and agriculture to engage her teeming youths and reduce social malaise in the region.
Earlier, Montgomery, who said he was on a tour of the South-East, added that the visit would afford him the opportunity to interact on areas of mutual collaboration with the British government.
He said that the British government would continue to advocate for peace in the country, stressing that it was delighted with the efforts by the Igbo in the development of Nigeria.
MrBrownJay1: sadly, yeye people would be quick to say juju, while it could be... - cardiac arrest - heart attack - stroke - deep vein thrombosis - Pulmonary embolism - ventricular fibrillation etc etc
raphretle: The death has been announced of Robert Hanssen an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history. Hanssen sold thousands of classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park,near his home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Vienna, Virginia, after leaving a package of classified materials at a dead drop site. He was charged with selling U.S. intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over twenty-two years.To avoid the death penalty, Hanssen pleaded guilty to fourteen counts of espionage and one of conspiracy to commit espionage.He was sentenced to fifteen life terms without the possibility of parole, and was incarcerated at ADX Florence until his death in 2023.
RIP i know his story,i have the time magazine that covered it.
saweide: Pls something is really bothering my mind and I pray I will find good advice here.
I reside in Port-Harcourt about 1 and half years ago Iost my cousin. He died of heart attack. After his death, his wife has been getting closer to me, always calling me and visiting me and am still single. I have had failed relationships in the past. I have been so unlucky with the kind of ladies I met. They are always violent and disrespectful which I dislike so much.
But during my cousins lifetime, she was so good, cool and caring to my cousin and they never had any misunderstanding and they married for just 6 years here in Port Harcourt before he died and they never had a child due to infertility on the side of the cousin. But now everyone like friends and family knows me and scared if I should make advances to her if they won't be saying things against me or should I just forget and look for another lady to marry.
Pls i need ur serious advise. She has fallen in love with me already.
make wetin kill ur late uncle no kill u o! Check very well.
Father4all: It's too dangerous oo. Many landlord's won't accept it in their houses
it is not dangerous,it more eco friendly.all u need to do is to remove ur carburetor and put the gas and fuel one. A 12.5kg cylinder on a 2.5KVA generator would guarantee you 40-50 hours of electricity, depending on the load on the generator.
Dimaya: In a video that has gone viral, a lady narrates how her boyfriend broke things off after relocating to the United States and married a woman from over there. She says her ex-boyfriend now trapped in a loveless marriage and she doesn't know what to do?
Please watch and let her know: is there anything she could have done to keep the guy from breaking things off?
dre11: (Banks Can Now Issue NIN Cards To Nigerians – Minister
"It is going to be a form of multipurpose card where it will serve as your national identity card on one hand and also your bank card on the other hand."
automatically he is asking us to pay for our NIN cards.banks cannot and will never do i for free.chie!!!! Even to the last day u still dey suffer us? There is God o!
farem: FG approves banks to issue ATM cards that double as National Identity Card
May 24, 2023
The Federal Government says Nigerians can now request their commercial banks to issue them with a debit card which doubles as their National Identity Card at no extra cost.
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, said the approval was obtained at the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
The meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
ad He explained that the approval followed a memo from the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, allowing banks to print a multipurpose debit cards that double as National identity cards.
He said: ”It is going to be a form of multipurpose card where it will serve as your national identity card on one hand and also your bank card on the other hand, either Mastercard, Visa or any other kind of card.”
According to Mr Pantami, although the NIMC Act 2007 only mandates Nigerians to have a National Identity Number and not necessarily a printout card, demands for cards have swelled nonetheless.
“As in the NIMC Act 2007, section 27, what is mandatory for our citizens and legal residents is the acquiring of the National Identity Number, not the card. However, the card is optional.
“But many citizens, particularly those living in rural communities, always go to NIMC offices complaining that they need the card at hand, even though it’s optional.
“To make it easier, NIMC last year, we introduced a smart ID card you can download from NIMC app. It is just a smart card. You don’t need to have it physically, but that is becoming difficult for our people living in rural communities.”
To ease the difficulty, Mr Pantami said NIMC had partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria ”so that citizens who are interested in having a card at hand can easily go to the relevant banks.”
According to him, the bank is permitted to print the card along with either Mastercard or Visa card.
”It is going to be a form of multipurpose card that will serve as your national identity card on one hand and also your bank card on the other. And based on the agreement, it is without any additional costs on our citizens.
“So when you apply for a card at your bank, you can indicate that ‘I want this card to be multiple purpose where it will serve as my bank card and also my national identity card’.
”Both of them are going to be printed on the same card and it is going to serve the same purposes without any additional costs,” he said.
The minister disclosed that NIMC and the CBN signed a nondisclosure agreement to protect the privacy and confidentiality of card applicants.
“NIMC and the central bank signed a nondisclosure agreement where your privacy and your confidentiality must be respected in the course of providing the card for you.
“When you apply for the card, the bank will apply online to NIMC through their database.
”When they verify and confirm that your record in the database is in alignment with your record in NIMC database, it will be permitted and the card is going to be printed for you immediately,” the minister added.
The minister also said that FEC also approved a memo proposing the deployment of an automated system to integrate NINs with individual SIM cards.
The system, he noted, would consolidate the implementation of the NIN-SIM linkage.
He said “As we all know that previous administrations made efforts to verify NIN and SIM starting from 2011 without success.
”In February 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the implementation of the policy and the revised version of the policy was also launched and unveiled by Mr. President on May 6, 2021.
“As it stands today, the NIN and SIM policy registration is being implemented. In order to consolidate the implementation.
“The Nigerian Communications Commission came up with a proposal that will enhance the implementation of the policy and bring many more benefits to it.”
Mr Pantami said the automated system would sanitise the database and ease the process of SIM replacement for Nigerians or legal residents.
yeye government, money way them carry do Id card,waiting happen to am? That id supposed to be linked to bank accounts.them no do am,now they want make we carry our money do am.bank go do am for free?
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