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OEPHIUS:
..Sets to recruit 1000 youths

The Enugu State government yesterday took a major step towards protecting and exploiting the Iron smelting site discovered at Otobo Ugwudinoke, Lejja, Nsukka Local Government Area of the state.

Briefing newsmen after a presentation made to the State Executive Council by an Associate Professor in Department of Archaeology, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Dr. Pamela Eze-Uzomaka, the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Hon. Rita Mbah disclosed that the Lejja Iron smelting site is “one of the oldest in the world, which dates back to about 2000 BC”.

Hon. Mbah stated the Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi administration is passionate, committed and delighted at the revelation made by Dr. Eze-Uzomaka, who she said has been carrying out research on the site.

The Culture and Tourism Commissioner announced that the council has in a quick response to the presentation, set up a 3-man committee that would visit the site and devise the best means of protecting it “as a world heritage centre”.

She added that the state government intends to construct the road leading the site to be able to exploit its natural contents as “a tourism site and money spinning venture”, stressing that a lot of other benefits are accruable from it.

Also speaking, the Associate Professor told newsmen that she was at the EXCO meeting with her team to brief the state government on the outcome of their findings, saying that they “were able to get over 40 nationals from about 18 countries of the world to come and help us excavate Lejja site”.

Dr. Eze-Uzomaka disclosed that one of their findings was “radio carbon dates”, which according to her places the Lejja as one of the oldest Iron smelting sites in the world.

“This discovery means that Enugu State has one of the oldest iron smelting sites in the world and this site is being visited by so many countries of the world. I have travelled to some parts of the world, giving lectures about these sites and yet our people do not know about what they have.

“So we have come here to tell the Government of Enugu State that we have something here in Enugu State worth protecting, because people are coming from all over the world to visit this site.

While appreciating the commitment of Gov. Ugwuanyi’s administration towards the project, she also called for the collaboration of the state government with the National Commission for Museum and Monument and the Tourism board for the protection of the area as a world recognized tourism site.

Similarly, the Commissioner for Environment, Amb. Fidel Ayogu, also told newsmen that the council approved the rehabilitation of the popular Murtala Muhammed Park - a triangular piece of land at New Market, Enugu - to beautify, preserve and make it a standard recreational venture that will be a centre of attraction for those entering into the city of Enugu through Milliken Hill or New Market road.

The Commissioner for Information, Mr. Ogbuagu Anikwe, stated that the council was updated by the Coordinator of Enugu Clean Team Project in respect of the ongoing engagement exercise of 1000 youths to clean up the state, disclosing that before long “Enugu will become if not the cleanest state in Nigeria”.

Mr. Anikwe added that the council approved funds for the upgrade of the Enugu State Emergency Call Centre for greater service to the people especially in time of emergency.

He equally told newsmen that the council approved funds for the renovation of the dilapidated building where the Enugu State Archives was relocated for effective service delivery.


http://thepunditng.com/enugu-state-protect-exploit-2000-year-old-iron-smelting-site/

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Mynd44
Dominique

dre11:
http://punchng.com/buharis-nominee-remanded-in-prison-for-alleged-n182m-fraud/amp/

ChangetheChange:
Elder statesman and prominent politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has disclosed that massive rigging took place in the North in the 2015 general elections.
Yakassai revealed the electoral fraud to journalists when he led the newly formed Northern Leaders Stakeholders Assembly to former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, at his Uphill Mansion in Minna, the Niger State capital yesterday.

He cited instances of manipulation in the elections. According to him, while the electronic voting was religiously observed in the southern part of the country, it was not so observed in the north.

He remarked: “When the electronic voting was introduced, I was in support of it, but I observed what happened in the 2015 general election and I changed my mind.

“This is because it was religiously observed in the southern part of the country, but it was not so religiously observed in the northern parts of the country. It was from that moment that I began to have some reservations about the electronic voting pattern.

“There are many ways of rigging election. What happened in 2015 where the majority of southerners resident in the north were scared away from their places of residence, where they had registered, to their place of origin and therefore could not have the opportunity to vote, was rigging.


Again some of the southerners who did not run away were afraid to come out and vote on the day of election. So scaring people from coming out to vote for the candidates of their choice is also a form of rigging.”

The 2015 election led to the emergence of Major- General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), a northerner, as president while the then incumbent, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, lost.

Earlier at the meeting with Babangida, he lamented that most leaders of northern extraction had for long taken the support of northerners for granted, stressing that henceforth, it would not be business as usual.

Yakassai said they were at Babangida’s house to inform the former leader of the objectives of the organisation dedicated to the unity and progress of the north.

Babangida praised the efforts of the group and assured them of his support as long as they worked for the unity of Nigeria.

Also at the meeting were Senator Joseph Waku, Alhaji Ghali Na Abba, Dr. Mohammed Data, Alhaji Abba Hana, Hajiya Inna Corona, Hajiya Zainab Main, Gimbia Rani, Alhaji Bala Mohammed and Dr. Umaru Babangida Aliyu, among others.


https://t.guardian.ng/politics/how-2015-poll-was-rigged-in-north-by-tanko-yakassai/

Noloss:
COPIED ......
Opportunity comes but once,

I Will Add An Additional N20,000.

This trending #BuhariChallenge started like a Joke on Twitter few days ago and it is turning to Something else. A young Nigerian went on Twitter and say anybody who can mention any Visible project initiated under President Buhari's administration and commissioned by President Buhari himself, Since May 2015 till date will be given 10,000. Before you know it, Nigerians are coming out to say I will add 10k to the money making 20K. Another person will say I will add 20k to the money making 40K. As of this morning, the Money has reached N350,000. For the past 3 to 4 days, No single Nigerian was able to mention a single projects initiated and commissioned by this adminstration. People Google Search but they couldn't find any related information. Many Buharist on Twitter has developed brain damage over this issue. All they could do is to defend and Hero worship Baba in their usual manner.
Has this not confirmed the failure of this administration?
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I throw the question to all. Mention a visible project initiated & completed by President Buhari's govt since May 29, 2015 and win for yourself 350,000 gift in this hard times.
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Thank you!

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Pls Don't Repeat The Following

President Buhari (3yrs) vs President Jonathan (5).

Goodluck Jonathan:
*9 Universities,
*127 Almajiri schools,
*27 Special Girl schools
*2,971 Health Centres.
*22 Federal airports renovated
*Lagos-Kano rail
*Lagos-Port harcourt rail
*Kano-Maiduguri rail
*New terminal for 5 international airport Lagos, Abuja, Port harcourt, Kano & Enugu
*7,000 Lecturers sponsored for Post Studied home & Abroad
*8,110 Post-graduates Scholarship
#Road Construction
1. Onitsha-Enugu Road
2. Lokoja-Benin Road
3. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
4. Mokwa-Bida Road.
5. Akure-Ilesha Road.
6. East-West Road.
7. Sokoto-Tambuwal -Jega Road.
8. Enugu-Abakaliki -Cross River Road.
9. Ogoja-Ikom Road.
10. Vandekiya-Obudu Road
Bridge.
11. Apapa-Oshodi Expressway.
12. Benin-Ore-Sagamu Highway.
#GEJ Universities
1) Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. -North Central.
2) Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. - North Central.
3) Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State. -North East.
4) Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. -North East.
5) Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State. -North West.
6) Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. -North West.
7) Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. -South South.
Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State. -South East.
9) Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Muhammadu Buhari:

I'm fighting corruption,
I'm fighting corruption,
I'm fighting corruption,
I'm fighting corruption,
I'm fighting corruption,

Taku555:
Life is like the game of football, it's unpredictable and predictable sometimes. Buffon has won almost every cup in his domestic league only in Europe. I wrote an article about him this time last year.

He has been the culprit in every team he ever played in. Last night he was given a straight red card and a penalty was awarded to Madrid and possibly could be his last chance of playing in Europe.

They were leading by 3 0, on aggregate it was neck to neck. However, they (Juventus) needed just a goal to separate the tie but unfortunately, they were eliminated after a much better effort.

I really sympathise with the Italian and wish he could have had the Champions League medal in his cabin. Buffon 40, was only waiting and believe he could win the Cup and hang up his boots but his dreams has finally come to an end .

In life, we may do our best but if that which we have been striving for is not ours, it will surely elude our fingers. Not everyone that is destined for greatness and not every greatness that comes easy. Always do your best as you could and leave God to do HIS Final work.

#Buffon! Buffon! It's time you hung your boots.

ganye1:
On the so-called media trial I agree with him because the looters are conniving with the judiciary to avoid conviction. At least let them feel the discomfort of media trial.

BruncleZuma:
How did several commissioned officers end up doing patrols?

limeta:
Words or deed

WinningSun:
oh so a case of human rights breach being committed within an institution that is located in a lawful country is bull shot. ok

I hear you.

WinningSun:
maybe you should read the case on Rosa park V the state of Alabama.

have you heaerd of anything called civil disobedience.

or you're just another educated mugu

maasoap:
I thought you were going to respond to this quoted part? Guessed you had nothing to say about it.

Shroud:
how so? Didn't you read that part where students' hair are shaved for not bringing Bible to church ?

Why would a school, a university--the pinnacle of learning-- practice religious dictatorship?

polis007:
NUC has no jurisdiction to mediate in internal matters such as this they can only come in matters relating to accreditation and standards. Having said that, I don't support CU actions but I am aware that every parents read and signed off on the school rules and regulations before sending the wards to enroll in any academic program. Covenant University didn't force anybody to come, so if you choose to go there you must abide by their rules and regulations, there is no sentiments.

Shroud:
I believe parents pay tuition fees for their children to learn proven scientific facts and not the personal opinion and beliefs of a narcissistic, idiotic pig called oyedepo.

I still stand that churches should be taxed. These holy fraudsters are just charismatic robbers who have mastered the art of manipulation and deceit in grand scale.

Charly68:
Am sure every student signed undertaking to abide by the rules of the institution, so I don't see how enforcing the rules of a school would be tagged abuse ...The school was founded on Christian ideals and principles any student that can't abide should either leave or be made to conform..

kingzfarms:
HigherEd, I have followed your post(s) on NL for a while now, they are always well investigated and correctly reported but today you got it all wrong and your post is misleading.

First I would like to point out that the hair Case was absolutely not related to not having bibles in church. the Bible ish happened on easter Monday at Faith Tabernacle with bishop Oyedepo preaching during the Easter youth camp program, while the hair ish happened on Tuesday at CU chapel.

Now it is clearly written in the current student handbook that male students should have a low hair cut and be clean shaven at all times, this has been flouted by male students at an alarming rate and it was only a matter of time before something like this is done

The only case I think you have here is that the clippers were not sterilized, and yes I agree CU can do better and should be made to answer for such carelessness but for the hair cut, the students brought it upon themselves. it is the rule it is what the school wants so they should comply.

As for Nuc that is an effort in futility Nuc has no say in how a private university sets out her rules and regulations maybe you should go through the mandate and function of Nuc again. a private institution having met the basic requirements and given license to operate HAS every right to set its own "Standards" internally, as far as CU is meeting up with the basic requirements of Nuc they are free to do as the management and board of regents deem fit.

Again get the local or international red cross society to question the carelessness of covenant but don't make this case about the rules of CU, they set the rules and are making sure students comply, all the students met the rules on ground, always get your facts 100% correct as you have been doing before now, don't mislead or misinform the public like the many random blogs here on Nairaland. Information/Knowledge is power.

kingreign:
I owe you a beer

HigherEd:
Covenant University's Track Record Of Abuse And The Irresponsibility Of National Universities Commission

Covenant University today has become the epitome of religious oppression, mockery and is proof of how terrible the Nigerian educational space can get if not well regulated.

Today we witnessed possibly hundreds of the so called "Kings and Queens of Hebron" having their hair scrapped to humiliate and shame them for not bringing bibles to Church. Worse still, is that the instrument used in scrapping the hair of possibly hundreds of students was not safe as they use it on students after students without visibly sterilizing it.

It saddens me that an institution with so much potential to become one of Africa's best universities has decided to go this path of oppression and senselessness and the National Universities Commission is complicit in allowing this evil happen unchecked, by failing to protect the rights of Nigerian students or creating regulations preventing them from oppressing students.

The irresponsibility of NUC not only shows in their lack of desire to protect students of private universities but even students of public universities who have also been subjected to ridiculous treatments in their universities

As a nation we've failed our people in the public education system and we are equally failing our people in the private educational system. We've failed to check the educational activities of our religious organizations not minding the oppression and sometimes, indoctrination that happens silently in those organizations. We've made higher education an all comers affair without putting in regulations binding church or islamic universities from doing just as they like. I hope we would not wake up someday to realise an entire segment of the population of the country indoctrinated thanks to our nonchalance.

It is time for NUC to do better by creating a comprehensive guideline for Private universities which would prevent students from being forced to go to chapel or mosques, attend prayers or unofficial meetings and equally scrutinize the handbooks of all universities making sure it doesn't violate the constitutional rights of students.

For purpose of emphasis and clarity there is no section of Covenant University's handbook of 2013-2017 where it is written that students hair can be scrapped with an unsterilized equipment because students refused to bring bibles to church.

This is also a wakeup call to students of Covenant university to challenge Covenant over their non constitutional behavior in a federal high court over the public health risks they were subjected to by Covenant University. By HigherEd




Lalasticlala pls help move to fp

Mophasa:
@DOMP

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to leave Nigeria for London on Monday, April 9th, to commence his annual vacation, a source within the presidency has confirmed.

The source told DOMP in the early hours of Tuesday, that the President plans to make the journey early enough to enable him rest adequately before participating in the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, also known as CHOGM 2018.

The meeting would take place at the Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace, and Windsor Castle.

It is slated for April 16th-20th, 2018.

Nigeria is one of countries that made up the Commonwealth, comprising a diverse community of 53 nations that work together to promote prosperity, democracy and peace.

President Buhari had in 2017, spent about 154 days in London where he undergone medical treatment for an undisclosed ailment.

He had also spent two months in the UK receiving treatment.

Buhari who left the country on May 7th, after receiving the last batch of Chibok girls released by terrorist sect, Boko Haram, returned to the country on August 19th, 2017.

For a better part of last year, his health condition generated lots of controversies, prompting diverse reaction even among the political class

Source:
http://diaryofmypresident.com/index.php/2018/04/03/breakingpresident-buhari-to-travel-to-uk-on-april-9th-for-annual-leave/

Sheuns:


To an extent I think we deserve the kind of leaders we are getting. That person obviously do not vote and doesn't feel concerned about the state of the nation.

Don't forget those countries hosting the UCL final and FIFA world cup do not have as much problems as we have here.

nextstep:
This space station (and it's current successor Tiangong-2) have been given an operational life of 4-6 years after which they were planned to be decommissioned. Granted the original plan was for Tiangong-1 to be commanded for a controlled descent, however it ceased functioning in March 2016. There are lessons to be learned for sure, but nobody learned to walk without crawling and falling.

China is currently building its more permanent space lab, based on lessons learned here.

It's funny we're having this discussion - very similar to the doubts that Japan could make durable goods in the 1960s. What saddens me is people's apparent joy (not necessarily you, but in general), about this "failure", when China is only the third country to independently launch humans into space. We're here typing on phones made in China, increasingly made with Chinese machines, using telecommunications towers made by China (using Chinese firmware), blasting Chinese things for being fake. While all this is happening, 30 years from now after China's ascendancy, we'll probably be laughing at Vietnam's "fake" products without ever making things of our own.

Japan has developed; as has Taiwan; South Korea; China... and we're still struggling to provide drinking water, roads, and constant electricity - problems mostly solved since 1890.

bosco2017:
idiot where were u when the python dance killed innocent igbos with the collaboration of our elders and governors and as a license to kill more innocent people they joined to tag ipob a terrorist organisation while fulani militia are.left to kill freely . If you are an igbo guy , we dont want people like u in our land.

ipob had never killed any body and had been peaceful .

Baawaa:
PDP is finished

Nutase:
Dasukis crime was committed in 1985 not 2015

evanso6226:
China’s first space station, called Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace,” will soon break up over Earth into a fiery rain of space junk.

The Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit spaceflight research company, has released its newest prediction about the derelict spacecraft’s doom: Tiangong-1 may reenter Earth’s atmosphere on April 1 at 3:15 a.m. EDT, give or take 20 hours. This means the dead spacecraft should come crashing down in about 100 hours, though possibly as soon as Saturday morning or late Sunday night.

When it does, extreme heat and pressure caused by plowing through the air at more than 15,000 mph will destroy the roughly 9.4-ton vessel.

Not everything may vanish, though.

There’s a good chance that gear and hardware left on board could survive intact all the way to the ground, according to Bill Ailor, an aerospace engineer who specializes in atmospheric reentry. That durability is thanks to Tiangong-1’s onion-like layers of protective material.

“The thing about a space station is that it’s typically got things on the inside,” Ailor, who works for The Aerospace Corp., previously told Business Insider. “So basically, the heating will just strip these various layers off.

“If you’ve got enough layers, a lot of the energy is gone before a particular object falls out, it doesn’t get hot, and it lands on the ground.”

For example, he said, after NASA’s Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer. (The artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.)

Predicting Tiangong-1’s crash to Earth

Launched in September 2011, Tiangong-1 is a two-room space station for two taikonauts, or Chinese astronauts.

It’s 34 feet long and has a volume of 15 cubic meters, or about 1/60th of the volume of the International Space Station, which is about as long as a football field.

Though China superseded Tiangong-1 in 2016 with Tiangong-2, space experts hailed the first space station as a major achievement for the nation, since it helped pioneer a permanent Chinese presence in orbit.

“It conducted six successive rendezvous and dockings with spacecraft Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9, and Shenzhou-10 and completed all assigned missions, making important contributions to China’s manned space exploration activities,” said a memo that China submitted in May 2017 to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

In the memo, China said it lost contact with the spacecraft on March 16, 2016, after it “fully fulfilled its historic mission.”

By May 2017, Tiangong-1 was coasting about 218 miles above Earth and dropping by about 525 feet a day, the memo said. Its altitude has since plummeted to an altitude of about 115 miles, according to the Aerospace Corporation’s latest data.

For any vehicle like this, the thing that brings them down is atmospheric drag,” Ailor said. “Why there’s a lot of uncertainty in the predictions is that it depends on what the sun’s doing, to a large measure.”

The sun can unleash solar storms and solar flares — bursts of X-rays and ultraviolet light — that heat Earth’s outer atmosphere, causing the air to expand and rise. That forces low-flying objects like Tiangong-1 to plow through denser gases.

“This puts just a little bit of a higher force on these objects that causes them to come down,” Ailor said.

An analysis of the combined effects of solar activity and Tiangong-1’s orbital speed, direction, and altitude, as well as other factors, helps the Aerospace Corporation provide its latest by-the-minute deorbit estimates.

Where China’s space station might crash

Tiangong-1 is likely to crash over the ocean, as water covers about 71% of Earth’s surface. But there’s a decent chance some pieces may strike land as it breaks up over a long and thin oval footprint.

“The whole footprint length for something like this could be 1,000 miles or so,” Ailor said, with heavier pieces at the front and lighter debris toward the back.

If anyone is lucky enough to witness Tiangong-1’s atmospheric breakup from an airplane, it may look similar to the destruction of the European Space Agency’s 14-ton Automated Transfer Vehicle.

The ATV was an expendable spacecraft that used to resupply the ISS. Once astronauts and cosmonauts unloaded its supplies, it was filled with garbage and sent careening back to Earth.

When asked for comment on Tiangong-1’s threat to ongoing NASA missions, the space agency told Business Insider it “actually doesn’t track any debris.”

But Ailor said pieces of China’s space station are “really unlikely” to hit anyone or anything on Earth.

According to The Aerospace Corp.’s website, the probability “is about 1 million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot.”

“It’s not impossible, but since the beginning of the space age … a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we’re aware of who’s been touched by a piece of space debris,” he said.

Should a hunk of titanium, a computer, or another piece smash through a roof or windshield, however, international space law covers compensation for victims.

“It’s China’s responsibility if someone gets hurt or property gets damaged by this,” NASA’s representative said.

Source: http://www.clintgist.com/chinas-bus-size-space-station-is-about-80-hours-away-from-crashing-to-earth/

igbodefender:
Igbos have not produced a President since advent of the fourth republic, so how can they be gluttons for power?

paymentvoucher:
See how Northern Universities Full BOTTOM TABLE. However, I hope they won't relegate...