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With a prevalence rate of 20% of any population being dyslexic, an expert, Dr Adrienne Tikolo, has expressed concern that up to 90- 95% of Nigerian teachers do not know about dyslexia – a neurological condition that makes it difficult for children to learn to read and spell.

As a result, she said many dyslexic children, whose condition makes them struggle to read, comprehend and follow instructions, underachieve in school and are labelled lazy, stubborn or dullards by teachers who do not know about the condition or how to manage them.

In an interview, Tikolo, who runs Dyslexia Nigeria, a firm that deals with assessment and management of dyslexia, said: “I would say about 95% of teachers are unaware of what Dyslexia is and the signs of dyslexia. If you ask them to give you one sign of Dyslexia, they say ‘I don’t know if it is a mental problem.’”

Tikolo said Dyslexic children can be creative as the condition has nothing to do with intelligence. If they are supported, she said they can become successful professionals like renowned physicist, Albert Einstein; and top rate actors like Will Smith, Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston, all of whom are Dyslexic. On the other hand, if not supported, Tikolo said they may suffer mental health issues, drop out of school or get involved in crime.

She said: “The first danger is that the person cannot achieve his goal and you have different mental health issues that come with that – like depression, anxiety, frustration. There are lots of students that have dropped out of school that had Dyslexia. If you look abroad, where they have done research, in the U.S., 60% or more of those in prison are Dyslexic. I know a number of students that have fallen out of university because they have gone that far but cannot go further, and then they fall into drugs.”

Since its establishment two years ago, Tikolo said Dyslexia Nigeria has made efforts to increase awareness of the condition in Nigeria. She said the awareness level was so low – rating it a minus five on the scale of 1-10, when she started. She said with support, this class of learners can learn to overcome their challenges. However, she lamented that schools were unwilling to train teachers even when training cost is subsidized.

Underscoring the importance of early detection in Dyslexia management, Tikolo said screening should take place before the child turns six to get the most of interventions. To address the problem of low awareness and late detection, Mrs Tikolo said government should include detection of special needs as part of teacher training curriculum and make it compulsory for schools to conduct regular screening for all pupils.

“One of the things the government can say for a teacher to be promoted, for instance, you need 8 hours of training in Dyslexia intervention, awareness, and teaching programmes. You need X number of CPD hours in a term in a year, that is one. The government can insist that schools must do the universal screening for students, find out those that are struggling with dyslexia and that policy would work,” she said.

In commemoration of the Dyslexia awareness month, Tikolo said Dyslexia Nigeria was creating awareness about the condition. The organisation would follow up with a summit tagged “Unmasking Dyslexia” scheduled for November 21, this year at Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja.

SOURCE: https://thenationonlineng.net/90-of-teachers-do-not-know-about-dyslexia/

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Respite may have come the way of those whose vehicles were impounded over underpayment of duty as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) yesterday, said it has opened a platform for vehicle importers, owners and organised vehicle dealers to pay customs duty on smuggled, undervalued vehicles in the country.

The Customs Area Controller, Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Compt. Muhammed Aliyu, who stated this while briefing media men stated that about 150 car marts were sealed in Victoria Island, Ikoyi and Lekki, in Lagos, adding that the unit also seized over 5000 bags of foreign rice smuggled into the country. He assured Nigerians that vehicles voluntarily brought forward by their owners for payment of duty won’t be seized.

According to him, the decision to open the platform was to allow Nigerians who own smuggled or undervalued vehicles to regularise their customs duty.

“For the category of vehicles that were detained, we have a platform now where the owners have the opportunity to pay their customs duty. At the same time, we have given a window for someone who has his or her personal car and hasn’t paid duty to come forward as the federal government has given an opportunity to pay the duty.

“But the issue is that the owner has to come forward with the vehicle because it is more advantageous. Also, the vehicles whose duty is to be paid, may have been bought in 2015 or 2016 and has been put to use but without customs duty, we have agreed and allowed owners to come and make necessary duty payment,” he stated.

Aliyu urged owners of undervalued vehicles to make use of the window before it closes as anyone arrested after expiration of the window period would not be spared. Speaking on the car marts sealed, the CAC said some of the affected car marts have been opened after due diligence was observed.

“I can say that from Victoria Island and Lekki, we sealed not less than 150 car marts but we have held meetings with them and they asked how to pay but we advised them if they can reach agreement with us, we will take inventory of the vehicles, open a small side where they sell their vehicles and they pay up within two weeks and that is how we simplified the job.”

“The reason for shutting down the car marts is to authenticate the marts that pay duty while those that didn’t pay were asked to come and pay the actual duty to the federal government. Also, when we take inventory of the vehicles, the owner will show the documents they paid duty on and we go to our system to confirm if it is genuine. If the benchmark is correct we allow it to go but for those that don’t meet our benchmark, we ask them to pay the shortfall and pick their vehicles.

SOURCE: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/smuggled-vehicles-customs-opens-window-for-payment-of-duty.html

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwo-Olu has described the signing of agreements that will deliver the first deep sea port in Lekki in 30 months as another milestone for the state in infrastructural development and commerce. Sanwo-Olu spoke on Wednesday at the signing of four agreements with China Development Bank (CDB), including $629 million financing facility, to accelerate the completion of the Lekki Deep Seaport project, which started in 2011.

The loan was secured from the Chinese bank after China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), which owns a majority share in the project, signed a 45-year concessionary agreement with Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited (LPLTZ) to complete the Phase.

He said the signing of the agreements ended uncertainty that had trailed the delivery of the project. He noted that the completion of the project would invigorate the Lagos economy and push it up in the index of largest economy in the world.

“This is a new beginning for us in Lagos. We have achieved another milestone in our efforts to transform the State and accomplish the 21st century economy ambition. As a Government, we are fully in support of the project. We will do all we can to ensure the terms of the agreements signed today are delivered within 30 months as agreed and we expect the outcome would catalyse Lagos’ fifth largest economy and take it up more in the index of largest economies in years to come.”

SOURCE: https://thenationonlineng.net/lagos-deep-sea-port-ready-in-30-months/

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Lakeshia Rideau Sees Ex-Boyfriend with New Girlfriend, Runs Her Over with Car and Flees the Scene.

Opelousas Police are searching for the driver who fled the scene of a hit and run crash before dawn Saturday at the Crestview Apartments. According to Police Chief Martin McClendon, it happened around 1 a.m. when the victim and her male companion were returning home from an evening out.

McClendon said a short while later the victim was struck by a vehicle allegedly being driven by the man’s ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Lakeshia Rideau of Opelousas, who then drove away. The victim was transported to a local hospital by private vehicle where it was determined that she has fractures of both the tibia and fibula and has a large scar on her right leg caused by a vehicle tire.

McClendon said he checked on the victim earlier today and that she will recover, but may never walk the same again.

Lakeshia Rideau is now wanted on charges of attempted second degree murder. McClendon said she is believed to be driving a brown/tan Nissan Altima. Anyone with information on here whereabouts is asked to contact Opelousas Police at 337-948-2500.

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Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology said the Federal Government would support indigenous pencil companies to produce locally, to prevent the country from the importation of the product. It is estimated that over N750 billion is spent on importing pencils into Nigeria annually.

Onu said this when he was reacting to the presentation of Mr Muideen Ibrahim, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, BAMIB Resources and Investment Company Ltd, who paid him a courtesy visit on Monday in Abuja. He assured his guest that the ministry would assist him to actualise his dream, especially by introducing him to other relevant ministries and agencies.

The minister said he was concerned in his first tenure in office when he got a report that no indigenous company was producing pencil in the country. “I felt a country like Nigeria should be able to produce pencils to meet its local need and even export so I directed the Project Development Agency to conduct research on pencil. I am happy that PRODA is working hard to deliver, we produce now pencils locally. I’m also happy that your company has decided to invest in pencil production.

“I will encourage you to continue to do research that will give you better ways to compete anywhere in the world. We will make the findings of research we do here available for you. See if you can see any information that will make you improve on your production,’’ he said.

Ibrahim, in his presentation on Pencil Project, said he was inspired by the assurance that the minister gave in his first tenure by saying “we will make pencils in Nigeria by 2018.’’ The managing director said he was delighted that the company rolled out its pencils on August 1, 2018 as the first indigenous pencil manufacturing company in Lagos state and second in the country.

He said that the product could compete in the global market because of its unique characteristics, adding that the company had decided to come and present it to the minister. “Look at it; it does not break like the ones that are imported and it is heavier as well, it can also be customised for organisations and people. The production is environmentally friendly because we use old newspapers to produce it, so we are calling on people to give us their old newspapers, we will turn them into wealth,“ he said.

Ibrahim urged the minister to implore Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Government to make available at least, N500 billion in Special Intervention Fund to pencil manufacturers.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/fg-pledges-support-as-local-manufacturing-of-pencils-begins/

The Edo State police command on Tuesday arrested two Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC officers for the alleged murder of one Mr Odion Omafo Samuel, 36 along Agbor Road, Benin. The two officers now in police cell were identified as Francis Igboh and Samson Alolade while efforts were on to apprehend two others Joseph Onolade and Sunday Ogi.

The deceased, Samuel, 36 had reportedly hired an Audi 80 car and was travelling in it with its driver when the embattled FRSC personnel flagged it down at Owuahe Hill, Agbor Road in Edo on Monday, October 14, 2019.

The spokesman of Edo State Police Command, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor confirmed the incident. He said, “Our operatives in the homicide section of the State Criminal and Intelligence Investigation Department, police headquarters, Benin City are investigating the case. It is a case of murder.”

The PUNCH gathered that the Head of Abudu outpost of the FRSC Mr. Ogbemi Olu was invited and quizzed by investigators at the police command headquarters, Benin City. His invitation was a follow up to the statements given by his embattled officers.

The Public Relations Officer for Edo Sector Command, Federal Road Safety Corps, Edoma Bajack declined to comment on the incident saying, “I cannot give you any information on that” and she cut the line.

The Edo State sector commander of FRSC, Anthony Oko also refused to speak when our correspondent called. “I cannot comment on what I do not know. The police in Abudu are handling it,” he said.

The deceased was said to have aided his driver to put up a strong resistance against alleged extortion attempts by the FRSC officers. We learnt that the altercation between the officers and the passenger paved the way for the driver to flee the scene, leaving him at the mercy of the FRSC officers.

The enraged officers allegedly descended on Samuel, who was chased into a nearby bush and beaten to death. Report said the deceased body was then abandoned as the traffic officers reportedly ran into the FRSC vehicle and sped off.

The PUNCH also gathered that the driver later drove to the deceased residence where he had picked him in a nearby village to inform his relatives of the incident but was accused of kidnapping and swiftly handed over to the police in Abudu.

Police investigation, however, led to the arrest of two of the FRSC officers who eventually took investigators to the bush where the decomposing body of the deceased was removed on Thursday, October 17, 2019.

It was gathered that the suspects in their statements accused the deceased passenger of snatching their booking tickets.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/frsc-officers-in-police-custody-over-alleged-murder/

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POLICE CONFIRM KIDNAP OF SULEJA AREA COMMANDER, MUSA RAMBO

The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Musa Rambo, the Police Area Commander in Suleja. Confirming the incident, spokesman of the command, DSP Yakubu Sabo, said the ACP was abducted on Saturday, October 19th at about 3.30pm. Sabo said the police officer’s car with registration number KRD 753 BT and his ID card were found abandoned along the road by a team of Operation Safe Heaven.

He added that the vehicle was abandoned near Kanock Bridge, a border area between Kaduna and Nasarawa States. He also said contact had been established with the kidnappers who requested for ransom, but did not state how much is being demanded by the abductors.

Sabo, however, said efforts are in top gear to rescue the ACP and arrest the culprits. “The State Commissioner of Police, Ali Janga assures the public of the command’s resolve to secure the release of the victim. He enjoins the people of the state to continue to support the Police with relevant information that could help the command to overcome the recent security problems.”

SOURCE: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2019/10/police-confirm-kidnap-of-suleja-area-commander-musa-rambo.html

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Minority Leader of the Imo State House of Assembly, Ekene Nnodumele, has raised alarm over the menace of flooding in his constituency – Orsu Local Government Area of the state. Nnodumele, a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, who moved a motion of urgent public importance during the plenary, told his colleagues that no fewer than 45 houses had been submerged by floods in Obibi, Awo Idemili community in Orsu LGA.

He urged his colleagues to support the motion which urged the governor, Emeka Ihedioha, to mandate the relevant state government agencies to move to the community. The minority leader said if nothing was done urgently, the flooding would affect other neighbouring communities. Nnodumele said the government’s intervention would bring reprieve to many who had been rendered homeless by the floods.

He said, “I raised the motion on the floor of the House of Assembly urging the state government under Governor Emeka Ihedioha to direct relevant agencies to urgently move to Obibi, Awo Idemili in Orsu LGA in a bid to rescue lives and property due to the disaster that has devastated the community. This intervention would bring succour to the displaced persons affected by the floods.”

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/floodsve-destroyed-over-45-houses-in-my-area-imo-lawmaker/

A lot of people are talking about Huawei - and not just because they make top-end phones. The Chinese company is in pretty hot water in various places, because certain people believe they are using their tech to spy on people - something the company totally denies.

There's a court case against Huawei taking place in the US right now. And other countries all over the world are losing faith in this tech giant due to security fears.

But not the UK - because the government has given Huawei the green light to supply equipment for the UK 5G data network. The company will help build some "non-core" parts, such as antennas, but they've been blocked from producing "core" parts, which could allow access to sensitive information.

Here's a quick explanation of what's been going on.

WHAT IS HUAWEI?
First of all, it's pronounced "wah-way" (according to the company itself) and Huawei sells more mobile phones across the world than Apple. Samsung sell the most, with Huawei clocking in as the second most popular.

In the UK, there was a huge jump in sales of Huawei handsets in 2018 when they released their P20 Pro. According to many reviewers Huawei's P20 Pro, which was released in 2018, is a real contender to the other big hitters - a Samsung or an iPhone.

But as well as the phones we've got in our pockets, Huawei also provide technology to other companies to make their own handsets and wi-fi networks. Basically, Huawei is everywhere.

WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT HUAWEI?
There are some worries about what Huawei has been doing with the millions of mobile phones it's sold and all that tech kit. Some countries fear Huawei is being used by the Chinese government to spy on people.

The man who founded Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, was an engineer in the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the early 1980s - a fact which has worried businesses and governments already distrustful of China's political leaders. The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the armed force of the Communist Party of China, which has ruled the People's Republic of China since 1949.

Huawei says it has no links to the government and insists it is an independent company. But there have been warnings in the US since 2012 that Huawei pose a security threat. In the UK, a report in 2018 said it had "only limited assurance" that Huawei's broadband and mobile equipment wasn't a threat to national security - which isn't exactly a glowing endorsement.

OK, WHO ELSE IS INVOLVED?
It's not just the US and UK who are starting to get a bit concerned. In 2018, both Australia and New Zealand excluded Huawei from involvement in it's future 5G network - again because they think the company might be trying to spy on them.

In January 2019, Vodafone "paused" the use of Huawei equipment in Europe (specifically Spain) because they had the same worries.

WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?
There is a court case taking place in America, in which Huawei is accused of bank fraud, obstruction of justice and theft of technology from rival T-Mobile - so nothing to do with spying on people. Some of these allegations relate to deals reportedly done by Huawei with Iran - and Donald Trump has said that companies who trade with Iran cannot also trade with America.

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of Ren Zhengfei, has been arrested in Canada for her involvement in evading President Trump's sanctions against Iran.

Huawei deny all the charges.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IF YOU'REUSING A HUAWEI SET?
Most of the worries about Huawei relate to their involvement in other companies' networks, not digging through the personal details of people who've snapped up a P20.

And it's important to remember there are no spying charges against the company, even in the case that's happening in the US right now - and no-one has been found guilty of anything.

SOURCE (abridged): https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47041341

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A salesman at an upholstery material shop on Ladipo Street, Mushin, Lagos State, Chukwuweike Marcel, has been arrested for allegedly diverting N20.4m belonging to a company he worked for. The firm, Tony Ganger Investment Co Limited, was said to have engaged Marcel sometime in 2015 and posted him to its Mushin branch.

City Round learnt the money was the amount of materials the 35-year-old claimed to have sold on credit between 2015 and December 2018 when he reportedly fled from the branch. It was gathered that the company wrote a petition to the police and a manhunt was launched for him. He was eventually tracked down at his village in Imo State sometime in August 2019.

The petition read in part, “Having worked with us for about 4 years, we audited his shop at each year and discovered he is indebted to us in the sum of N22m. When we interacted with him, he told us that customers owed him the said amount. He agreed to hand over the keys to the shop and the company’s apartment where he lives and show us how to find the customers owing the said amount. Suddenly, we discovered he had locked up the branch and the apartment and was nowhere to be found. It was discovered recently that he criminally opened accounts in First Bank in his name.”

The Managing Director of the company, Chief Ozor Anthony, told the police that as of September 2015, it was discovered that Marcel did not remit N12.4m which he (Marcel) said was a debt. Anthony said the company retained Marcel in its employ after he promised to recover the debt within a short period.

He said, “We have been requesting him to render the account but he would give excuses each six months we approached him. He eventually made himself available on September 24, 2015. It was discovered by the auditor that he had misappropriated N12,407,172.50 which he claimed to be in the hands of his debtors. He did not provide evidence.

“He promised to recover the debt in the shortest possible time if given opportunity to continue the business. On April 12, 2016, we audited the account and the debt had increased to N20,465,779. The company issued him a letter to stop selling credit and recover the debt. He went to our warehouse and took more goods to increase the amount to N22m. We called him to return the money but he absconded. Goods worth N1,400,000 have been recovered from him.”

But Marcel said he only owed the company N8.6m. He explained that he used the money to fund his brothers’ marriage and assist his friend who travelled out of the country. He said, “The total debt is N8,607,600. I used my younger brother’s bank account to collect money (from customers). I used the money to assist one of my friends that travelled to Italy in 2015. I spent part of it during Christmas and assisted two of my brothers who were getting married.”

Marcel was consequently brought before an Ogba Magistrates’ Court by a police prosecutor, Inspector Koti Aodohemba, on four counts bordering on stealing. The offence, according to the police, is punishable under sections 280, 286 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The charge read in part, “That you, Chukwuweike Marcel and others now at large, between September 24, 2015 and December 31, 2018, at 10, Ladipo Street, Mushin, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: stealing, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015

“That you, Chukwuweike Marcel, and others now at large, on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did steal upholstery fabrics and PVC leather valued at N20,600,000, property of Tony Ganger Investment Co Limited,”

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty before the presiding magistrate, Mrs. M.O Tanimola and was granted bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties each in like sum.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/police-arrest-lagos-salesman-over-missing-n20-6m/

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The Area Commander, Suleja Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Mr. Isa Rambo, has been kidnapped by gunmen around Kaduna, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. A senior police officer told our correspondent that Rambo, who is an Assistant Commissioner of Police, was kidnapped on his way to Jos on Saturday evening.

The senior officer said, “He was kidnapped around Kaduna and was on his way to Jos along with his driver when they were attacked and whisked away. The kidnappers have made contact with us and are demanding a ransom of N50m.”

The victim is the second senior police officer to be abducted in the last three months. In August, a Divisional Police Officer in Delta State identified as Okoro was abducted and released after a ransom of N3m was paid but the police denied the incident. The Abuja-Kaduna expressway has witnessed unprecedented kidnappings in recent times causing many to opt for trains rather than road transport.

When contacted, the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said he was not aware.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/kidnappers-abduct-acp-demand-n50m-ransom/

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The restive community of Magboro has been thrown into mourning as a lifeless body of a middle-aged gas retailer, identified as Kingsley Ejike was seen along the flood plain in the community. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the torrential rain that started on Friday till the late hours of Saturday has submerged some houses and cut some roads within the community on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Ejike, a gas retailer, who owns Kingsfield Gas at Magboro, was swept away by the flood resulting from Saturday’s downpour. The groom-to-be got drowned in a flood around the Sparklight Estate area of the expressway in Ogun.
The bloated body of the deceased was discovered by the search party of Ilaje fishermen around High-Impact Sparklight Road on Sunday.

A witness claimed that Ejike could have fallen victim on his way to supply cooking gas to some of his customers around the estate on the evening of Saturday. “There was a search party for the missing Ejike after we found his Motorbike on the flood plain without him,’’ the witness said.

A community leader and Ejikes customer, Mr Tunde Oyebola, described the deceased as a dogged man, who often supplied gas to some residents on credit. “I have known him for the past six years now. He does his business diligently and everybody loves him in my area. He is a nice and dogged man, who does his business in honesty. Sometimes, he supplies gas to us on credit to pay later,” the community leader said.

Oyebola said that the deceased loved his family and was the only one footing the bill of his aged mother who is down with stroke. A resident, Bolaji Dada, however, attributed the cause of the flooded plains to the diversion of waterways by Julius Berger, the contractor handling the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. He said the waterways were diverted to the community without making provision for another drainage to ensure a free-flow of flood during rain.

“The contractor should have provided waterways for the diversion, especially the Hi-Impact road. We will need the attention of the government to prevent further flooding of the community,’’ he said.

NAN reports that some communities within Magboro such as Oke-Afa, Oke Ayo, Gaun and adjourning communities are flooded as motorists and commuters are unable to pass through the flooded roads.

NAN reports that the Lagos Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) had, during a roadshow in August, assured of its readiness to tackle challenges of flood in the state.Dr Oluwafemi Oke-Osayintolu, Director-General of the agency, had then spoken on the need to sensitise citizens on how best to prepare and mitigate flood.

He spoke against the backdrop of the prediction made by NIMET on the vulnerability of flooding in the latter part of this year.

SOURCE: https://www.pulse.ng/news/metro/magboro-residents-mourn-as-flood-claims-life-destroy-properties/9lqkvrz