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Okoroawusa:
Which kind talk be this? Abeg close this thread

beacaue it dosent favour your old man
You rushed in with joy to insult now your are calling for its closure

Anigreat:



Like you wanted to vote him before. All these agbadorians think that every one is as fóolish as them

Take your one inconsequential vote to Yekini, PO doesn't need it.

I am obidient

I am only mocking the agbado urchins who find fault in everything obi says
You can see how they rushed in to insult and laugh but where disappointed

Peter Obi Falsely Claims Pi 3.14159,Pi Is Actually 3.141592653589793

He lies too much so I am not voting him

Rudeboy adviced Nigerians to get their PVC and vote wisely,guess the people that weee butt-hurt

Gbadegesin Adeyanju reports on the practice of open defecation in Masifa community, Oyo State, and how it pollutes the community’s river, air and impacts the residents adversely

Tucked 144 kilometres from the city centre of Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, is Masifa. Somewhat agrarian and largely calm, the community boasts of some of the most peace-loving people in southwest Nigeria. But something unhealthy goes on here: defecation of human excreta in open fields, waterways, and open trenches.

While the problem is also rife in other communities in the same Ogbomosho North Local Government Area, it is a huge problem Nigeria grapples with. As of 2021, only 71 of the 774 local government areas in the country were free of open defecation, says UNICEF.

About 46 million Nigerians – more than the combined population of Ghana, Cyprus, Malta, Maldives and Belgium – practice open defecation. This means that, in every four Nigerians, one person practices open defecation. Though the rate reduced from 25.5 per cent of the population in 2000 to 18.7 per cent in 2020, according to World Bank data, Nigeria’s progress has been quite slow.


India, which was the global leader in open defecation, has successfully reduced its rate so much that Nigeria has become the new leader based on the percentage of the population practising open defecation, not the number of people involved.

Houses without toilets – one toilet for one street


While poverty and inadequate access to water are contributors to open defecation, the inability to include toilets in building plans of houses is a major contributor. For instance, less than half of households in Nigeria have their own toilets. In Masifa, it is no different.

The practice is age-long, and the current residents of the community do not see reasons for change, said Gbemileke Ajamu, a shop owner in the community.


Houses are built without plans for toilets. It is so bad that many houses in a street could share one toilet. For instance, this reporter found that in the Bolanta area of the community, most houses in a whole street share one toilet.

This means that there’d be a lot of people trying to use the same toilet at the same time and those who can’t wait would be forced to defecate openly, especially in bushes or at the riverside.

Taofeek Oyebode, who spoke on behalf of the Baale of the community, said people build houses in the community without toilets and they see nothing wrong with it.

Oyebode explained that open defecation is rife in Masifa because some residents find it more convenient. This, he hinged on the fact that most houses are old and did not have plans for toilets as open defecation was the norm when they were built.

“Most houses (without toilets) in Masifa are family houses (built 40-100 years ago),” he said. “Houses with toilets are renovated houses.”

Gboyega Olorunfemi, the principal consultant at Enviromax Global Resources, an environmental consultancy firm, believes that the lack of sanitation facilities is a major problem.

He said, “It’s easy and abysmally convenient to defecate openly because there’s a lack of sanitation infrastructure and awareness about its consequences.”

He added that “lack of education about the consequences of their action,” is partly responsible for why people still find open defecation convenient.

“There is a need for more advocacy and a rethink of society’s value system. Open defecation must be discussed as a social, public health and economic challenge for people to understand the much-needed behavioural change. Not only that, the nexus and interconnectivity and the need for a clean environment for proper sanitation and hygiene behaviour must be known to the people,” Olorunfemi added.

And there are implications: many people, especially women and children are exposed to snake bites and attacks from dangerous animals, water bodies get polluted and the stench from indiscriminately defecated faeces pollutes the air.

“Faecal stench during the rainy season is unbearable,” Ajamu said.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), open defecation is a leading cause of under-five mortality. It kills 525, 000 children under the age of five every year.


Dr Muktar Gadanya, a consultant and associate professor of Community Medicine at Bayero University, Kano, has said diarrhoea is not the only disease related to open defecation. Another disease, Dr Gadanya said, is typhoid, which kills between 128,000 and 161,000 people every year globally.

Olorunfemi agrees: “Open defecation causes water, soil and air pollution. Through human faeces, toxins and bacteria are introduced to the environment in an uncontrolled amount. Children and young girls are the most vulnerable through exposure to sexual molestation.”

In Masifa, defecating in the community’s Adunin river is a quick option for the residents. It got so rife that the community’s leadership erected a signpost close to the river asking people not to defecate or dump any other kind of waste there again. But it did not work.

“The smell during the evening from the river is worse and unbearable,” Sulia, whose stall is close to the river, said.

Community toilet without water

Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Water Resources a few years back came up with a scheme to curb the menace. It launched “Making Nigeria Open Defecation Free by 2025: A National Roadmap”.

With the initiative, it set the target to work with communities, civil society, development agencies, the private sector and government at sub-national levels.

At the community level, there have been interventions, too, like the one in Masifa.

Oyebode said a public toilet has been built for people to stop defecating openly.

“The community toilet built by the youths has been in existence for up to 10 years. Water runs well, and people are employed to take good care of the toilet, yet some people make use of the river in the community to defecate,” he said.

However, when this reporter visited the toilet Oyebode referred to, it was found that it had not been used for about three months.

A woman in her 40s who operates a stall nearby explained that the source of water supply to the toilet has gone bad.

We are trying our best by creating awareness – Govt

On the way forward, Olorunfemi said “government and people must act more responsibly. World Toilet Day should be celebrated in places like Lagos bridge, and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, where open defecation is very rampant.

“While the government may have put in place a stiff penalty to arrest and prosecute anyone violating the environmental laws, there are no agents of the government to enforce the laws.”

So, more health officers should be recruited to checkmate the menace at the local government level, said Olorunfemi.

“The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has got its job cut out for them to amplify advocacy through media houses, associations, and family groups to drive the needed behaviour to control and stop,” he emphasised.


On specific steps being taken in communities like Masifa in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area, the council’s Deputy Director of the Department of Environment Health Services, Mr Adesoji Adebisi, said that government is putting in its very best.

“One of the ways to stop open defecation is by the construction of adequate latrine accommodation in public places like markets and a motor garage.

However, “if toilets are built without good sanitation and hygiene, nothing has been done,” he said.

“We are trying our best by creating awareness, enforcing the law on people we catch and being reported to our office.”

The report was sponsored by I-79 Media Consults under the “Rewriting the Narratives of Environmental Crimes in Nigeria” project which is supported by the Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC)

Anambra Does it Again As Saint Johns Secondary Alor wins Science Competition
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St. John’s Science and Technical College Alor has emerged the champions on the just concluded 2021-Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Catch Them Young Competition on Artificial Intelligence, organized by Society of Petroleum Engineers



This win is coming at the back of the bronze medal won by the same school at the African Science and Technology Competition which was held in Tunisia.

This School has shown that it can be a proper ambassador of the state anytime it is involved in a competition outside the state, a worthy congratulations to them.

Rozross:
� this trenches project done by a LG chairman is part of what the ekwuke presidential candidate wants to campaign with? I laugh so hard at his gullible followers

Easy on the sugar

Your tears are too sweet

And they went on to win bronze in Tunisia

By Chinecherem Efobi
A couple of weeks ago, students of St John’s College Alor in Anambra state notched up the bronze prize in an international competition in Tunisia. It is yet another evidence of what extentAnambra school children can go when given the good platform by the government and private sector. SCHOOL RUN celebrates those living icons, the Catholic Church that owns and runs the school, the school management, as well as the government of Anambra state both past and present for this collective success. ABS RADIOTV did a wonderful commentary on this achievement. School Run acknowledges ABS as it runs the commentary verbatim. Enjoy!
“History repeated itself last week when news filtered in again that four boys from the prestigious Saint John’s Science and Technical College, Alor in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State have won the Bronze Medal at the International Festival of Engineering, Science and Technology.
The 9-day festival, which took place in Monastir, Tunisia from twenty first to twenty-ninth March this year, was organized for students, aged between fourteen and twenty-four from over thirty-one countries and featured a scientific competition in different areas, aimed at developing the innovative skills of young scientists and encouraging them to apply their imagination and creativity in solving problems in their environment.
To clinch the Bronze Medal, Ugwuishi Meshack Ogonna, Chuka-Umeora Onyedika Anthony, Nwachukwu Chukwualuka Daniel and Machi Chukwuagozie Dominic squared up to a stiff challenge from technologically advanced countries like Canada, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, China, Sweden, Ukraine, Malaysia, Brazil, Bosnia, Indonesia, Tunisia, South Africa etcetera.
According to the School Manager of Saint John’s Science and Technical College, Alor, Reverend Father Dr Francis Unaegbu, who led them to the competition and the Principal of the School, Samuel Otuba, the Bronze Boys of Anambra achieved their remarkable feat with a device they called the Adaptable Alternative Power Supply for Sub-Saharan Africa. The device is an electric inverter with a solar panel that enables it to absorb energy from the sun, warehouse the energy in inverter and subsequently distribute it in households and offices as the case may be.
Notably, the exploits of the Bronze Boys came barely seven months after Anambra State put Nigeria on top of the technology map of the world following a global contest in which students of Regina Pacis Model Secondary School, Onitsha represented Nigeria and Africa in the competition, held at Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA and won the coveted Gold Medal. The stellar girls equally defeated other contestants from supposedly more technologically-advanced countries, notably host nation, USA, China, Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan. The golden girls are: Adaeze Onuigbo, Nwabuaku Osai, Promise Nnalue, Jessica Osita, Vivian Okoye and Miracle Igboka.
Anambra has, in recent times, been excelling in various competitions. Loretto Special Science School, Adazi, for instance, last year, won the first prize in the Senior Secondary School category of an intensive assessment of schools throughout Nigeria, while Queen of the Rosary Secondary School, Onitsha took the first position in the Junior Secondary School category.
Ave Sancta Maria School, also in Onitsha, made the best result among primary schools, and Clement Okodo from Abatete in Idemili North Local Government Area was judged the best primary school teacher in Nigeria. In another heroic vein, Miss Tochukwu Anyigbo from Ihiala, who is studying in Lagos, participated in last year’s International Artificial Intelligence Competition in Mexico, courtesy of Governor Willie Obiano, and took the second position.A teacher in another school in the state won the previous year the award of the Best Teacher in a nationwide competition sponsored by Nigerian Breweries.
Saint John’s Science and Technology College Alor is a public mission school which has benefitted immensely from the intense focus of the Anambra State Government under Governor Willie Obiano on education, himself was the winner of the John F. Kennedy Memorial essay Competition, organized by the American Embassy in 1974 when he was a student of the Christ the King College, (CKC), Onitsha.
Remarkably, Anambra is the only state in Nigeria where teachers generally earn higher than civil servants. Science, English and Igbo teachers receive an additional 10% of their salaries because these subjects are considered key.
Those who teach in hard-to-reach places are paid an additional 20%. In other words, a science or English or Igbo teacher in a hard-to-reach place earns not just his or her monthly salary like the civil servants but an extra 40%.
Governor Obiano pays great attention to both basic and higher education. Thus, the excellent results that the state has been recording in the educational sector are as a result of the huge investments made by the Obiano administration in education. Again, the government’s partnership with the church is working very well. It has imbued in the students that global competitiveness and a strong belief in themselves are very important.
Umu akwukwo Anambra believe that nothing is impossible. They are taught the shared values of the state; that they must be the best in all they do. It is indeed an uplifting epoch in educational accomplishment in Anambra State under Governor Willie Obiano, Akpokuedike Global.
To God be the glory”

https://fidesnigeria.org/bronze-medalists-of-st-johns-college-alor-in-tunisia-another-kudos-to-anambra-school-children/

The famous St. John Secondary School, Alor, which trained many prominent citizens of Anambra State, including Sen. Chris Ngige yesterday received further intervention, a cheque of N25 Million Naira, bringing the total given to them to N45million Naira, from Gov. Peter Obi for the continued rehabilitation of the school.

The Governor also presented another cheque of N30 Million Naira for the construction of the Maternity complex at Umudioka, which the State is building from the money she partly received from Bill and Melinda Gate foundation for being the best State in the South-East on immunization coverage.



Receiving the cheques, the Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke thanked the Governor for recognizing the problems of Anambra, especially the lack of the building of human person through the destruction of the education system, and his efforts to rebuild it through series of interventions in schools in Anambra State. He said that schools in the State, including Alor boys, were all in shambles before the Governor started the process of rebuilding them and that posterity would not forget him as he had etched his name in Diamond.

At the foundation laying ceremony at Umudioka, the Cleric recalled how there was non-existent healthcare system in the State, with no accredited hospital and Health institution all of which Gov. Peter Obi had addressed. "Today, from zero, Anambra State now has 12 accredited health institutions, 2 accredited hospitals with many of them ready for accreditation through the intervention of Gov. Peter Obi", the Cleric said.

On another development, the Governor visited and inspected on going projects at Umudioka Girls' Secondary School. He expressed satisfaction with on- going work. In addition to the computers, vehicle, money for the provision of sick bay and equipping of library, generator, Internet facility, among others they had received, the Governor assured them that they would receive another vehicles as the old one is over 4 years and as other schools had received.

The Governor also visited Dunukofia Local Government Headquarters at Ukpo, where he flagged off the distribution of hospital equipment for primary healthcare centres and schools in the Local Government.

Describing the Governor as education and youth-friendly, as well as future-oriented, the Cleric concluded that he was the best thing to have happened to Anambra State. Recalling all he has done in the State, the Cleric described him as "a miracle."

Caption for the pic

Gov. Peter Obi (middle), with Dr. Uju Okeke, (1st left), Mrs Vivian Nwandu (2nd right), the Principal of St. John Secondary School, Alor, Gabriel Nwosu (1st right), during the presentation, yesterday, to Archbishop Valerian Okeke ( 2nd left) of the cheque of N25million Naira for on going work in the School

Naija people get bad mouth oo

Razz woman

Tinubu must have picked this one from oshodi or mushin park
She looks that she goes to meeting at 12 midnight

I have met few west Africans,Cameroonians in Nigeria
But am curious,do we have east and South Africans in Nigeria
Have you met any ?

Shettima actually looks better

ElSudani:
I am just amazed at the level the zombidients are willing to sink.

Your business
Your tin god is a liar and shouldn’t be trusted with power

ElSudani:
Jesus Christ! And many of you claim to be Christians! I always knew the uproar over Muslim/Muslim ticket was a ruse. These people claiming to be fighting for Christians are all hypocrites.

you guys started the fact checking on Peter Obi,and every little thing he says you guys fact check it and call him a deceiver and a liar
Why are you crying that your candidate is being checked?

The presidential Aspirant of the APC claimed that Nigeria’s numerous languages were as a result of speaking in tongue in the Bible
Mr ASHIWAJU clearly confuses the confusion of tongues at the tower of babe with the speaking of tongue by the children of GOD

It still dosent make Muslim/Muslim ticket right

Even Buhari didn’t try it,it’s now one sick man

Nothing good ever comes out from APC
Nonsense party that want to foist a sick man on us

Mufakirnaqdiun:
Here we go.

yeah
We don’t want both Peter obi and tinubu
They both are liars

Mufakirnaqdiun:
Why can't peter obi end ipob Killings?
Or Atiku end Fulani rampage?

Remove Atiku from you lieing APCheat mouth
Your tinubu was the one that sent himself on an errand nobody sent him,why did he start what he can’t finish?

I thought he said Fg gave him permission to solve the ASUU crisis some time ago
His urchins were already jubilanting and calling him President
What happened,is it for eye service?

Don’t expect any truth from APC
Their party is built on lies

Moh247:



Tinubu when he was in Chicago drove taxi in Chicago before , to get educated he was a DJ at a time and also a security guard

He has never for once denied drivers and transporters

He gave them all right and diginity listened to them and gave NURTW free hand to control themselves




.

yet he can’t even mourn his soldier

Ariku until his death was a ardent follower and lover of tinubu
Is Ariku’s life not worth mourning by BAT?

Dsalvo:
Lol. We are all dying. From the day we are born. Just a matter of when and how long we have.

Even within 2 years Nigeria would have changed, for the better and irreversibly under BAT.

He is the choice of those who know the major problems of Nigeria and have also identified the candidate brave and willing enough to tackle those problems.

he is old and deserves rest not presidency

Same way Buhari changed Nigeria right?

Old dying man


Waziri

zionstaar75:
something punch carried? Google is your friend. Your asking for video is mischief. U know the truth

where did he say,may his children and wife die if he leaves?
I don’t like or support obi but the propaganda is getting much

Moh247:
Do you need data to search YouTube or am I your Google search

I know he made a declaration that he would never leave leave apga,I don’t see where una dey see that he swore that his children and wife die should he leave


Small small with the propaganda please

Moh247:

Any video to support this claim of yours?

They are always angry,I think they are also hungry

Thedon22:
We don't want your advice. We want our land back. Period ! Go and enjoy all the goodies Obi did in Anambra and live Lagos for us. Thank you.

our land
Your papa na lagosian or get land anywhere?
I will show you my land,come carry am
Na your fellow Yoruba boys go beat after I buy them weed 500 naira