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  • Plateau Health College ready to re-open

    Plateau Health College ready to re-open

    From Kolade Adeyemi, Jos

     

    Plateau State College of Health Technology, Provost, Dr. Fwanngie Isah, Pankshin, has assured anxious students that the college would soon re-open for academic activities.

    The provost made this known on Monday in a chat with reporters in Pankshin.

    Many of the students had been grumbling about the continuous closure of the college even after the government had announced October 30 as resumption date for all schools in the state after Coronavirus lockdown.

    Isah said preparations were in top gear by the Plateau State Government and the college management to see that the institution reopened and resumed normal academic activities after an eight-month closure.

    “If not for the EndSARs protest that engulfed the nation, the college would have reopened since October 30 as earlier ordered by Governor Simon Lalong.

    “We have fumigated the entire college and put all the necessary materials such as wash hands machines, Soaps and water as well as sanitisers with more being ordered to ensure safety against the virus.

    “The students should prepare to come along with their medically-accepted face masks on resumption and to strictly observe the COVID-19 protocols.

    “As soon as the government gives us the go ahead to reopen, we will not delay but reopen to bridge the gap of what we have lost in the last eight months,” he said.

  • Institute sensitises stakeholders about western, Quranic education

    Institute sensitises stakeholders about western, Quranic education

    From Fanen Ihyongo, Kano

     

    The National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) is seeking inclusion of western education in the curriculum of the Tsangaya (Almajiri) Quranic system of learning.

    This was made known in Kano during a five-day workshop by NBAIS, in collaboration with the Institute of Information and Strategy Management (IISM), held at Tourism Centre.

    Participants were heads of Tsangaya schools drawn from the northwestern states of the country.

    The workshop is to be followed by similar ones in the northeast (Bauchi), and the south (Kwara).

    NBAIS Director Examination Administration, Musa Rilwan, disclosed that the workshop intends to enlighten participants about the Federal Government’s educational plan forTsangaya and what roles the participants are to play.

    “The reason for the workshop is based on the need of the society to update the Tsangaya system of education, which actually predates the western education.

    “There is need to integrate Western in the Quranic education for the betterment of our community,” he said.

    Enumerating some challenges facing NBIAS in this move, Rilwan spoke of rejection of the NBAIS certificate.

    He said: “Some tertiary institutions have not been able to understand that the certificate from NBIAS is the same as SSCE and NECO.

    “Certainly this is a big challenge, but we are tackling it. Although many tertiary institutions recognise the NBIAS candidates and their certificates for admission, but certainly not for all courses.

    “Some of them have reservations on certain courses; but some of them completely reject.

    “But the directive of the National Council on Education on that matter is that all tertiary institutions and similar institutions in the country must accept the NBIAS School Certificate for the purposes of admission in Nigeria.

    “So any institution that decides to reject such a certificate is wrong, because it is a National Council on Education’s decision that the certificate must be recognised for admission purposes.

    “We are therefore, making efforts through institutional advocacy to make them understand the status of the NBIAS and its certificate. It has the same status of that of SSCE, NECO and similar examinations.”

    He also said being a new parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Education, there was the challenge of funding.

     

  • COVID-19, Chymall succour and great expectations from 2021 (2)

    COVID-19, Chymall succour and great expectations from 2021 (2)

    Femi Kusa

     

     

    About this time every year, I always try to preview the coming one. I have been doing that. But I am afraid the sky line is still foggy although some outlines are surfacing. COVID-19 definitely help the thinkers in check.  Ideas for the New Year may begin to emerge in March, however, when leading lights on Asian Traditional and Alternative Medicine from eight nations submit their thoughts and experiences to a conference in Tokyo, Japan, on April 19 and 20. Just before the eight-nation Asian conference, the French will conduct theirs in Paris from March 24-25 on Traditional and Natural Medicines in Africa, Asia, Mexico, Korea and India.

    Whatever new insights come from any of the departments of traditional and alternative medicine I doubt if they would surpass those from Quantum Functional Energy Medicine. For centuries, or, perhaps, for as long as man has lived and recognised, there is a force superior to him in the universe, it has been known that everything which exists is a piece of storage of energy. Thus, even in a piece of metal, the component crystals are no more than bits of energy vibrating at different frequencies and pulsing now and then to create a rhythm.The biological systems to which the human body belongs is not different. Every component of an organ vibrates at different frequencies and, collectively, produce a bioelectrical field which, is unique to that organ. This bioelectric field is affected for good or for heal by other electric fields in the universe.  Organs are in states of dis-ease when component units vibrate below par or above their bars. In Functional Energy Medicine, which Quantum Physics has learnt substancial knowledge, it is said that dis-functional tissue vibrations can be normalised through dietary supply or external impact of Quantum Energy. In normal circumstances, biofields are believed to derive etheric sustainance by plugging into electric power centers in the universe which correspond with their nature.

    In the 1990’s, I used eye magnet to improve my vision. As the Assistant Editor, Deputy Editor, Editor and Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper at different times, I had to read tiny printed proofs of Editorial materials which covered about 40 newspaper pages everyday. There was no doubt that this posed a challenge to vision. One magnet was placed on each eye for about 15 minutes at bedtime. Sometimes, they fell off when I fell asleep. Through advances in technology, the eye magnet was made into a pair of eyeglasses which are reported to control Intra Ocular Pressure (IOP). It became popular with the report in the medical journal Opthamology that doctors at the University College London (UCL) and Oxford University successfully implanted magnets in the eyes of a man who suffered from Nystagmus. In this condition, the eyes uncontrollably flicker or dance left, right, up and down or around. The patients lost his job prior to the surgery but got it back after, and he could read, write and watch television with minimal discomfort for the four years he was followed up post surgery. The eye magnet would later be surpassed in popularity by the Quantum EnergyEye Glasses. This is the point of connection with the first part of this article published last Thursday.

    The first part was an exploration into whether Chymall e-commerce business was phantom business, which we call MMM business in Nigeria, or if it was real business. I was privileged to know about it in the course of searching online for a pair of eye glasses which could help my vision against glare and ultraviolet rays from sunlight while I grappled with Glaucoma, first diagnosed in 1995. My discovery was startling, and I published it in this column and posted it in www.olufemikusa.com under the title Protect Your Vision With Energy(POWER) Eye Glasses That was at a time (and even now) that Nigerian banks were butchering deposits anyhow. It was interesting to me that if I pulled a little over N100,000 from my bank account to purchase a pair of Quantum  Energy  Eye  Glasses I could be considered an investor in the business and paid N15,000 every month as profit while my bank gave me nothing in return but continually deducted my savings. If I bought the Eye Glasses elsewhere and not from Chymall.net, that was the end of the business, no monthly profit after purchase.

    Like the first part of this article, this second part is a reply to the WhatsApp message to me by Mrs Nike Adejuwon, a retired Director at the Lagos State Ministry of Education. She is a member of a WhatsApp chat group for retired directors from that ministry. She and I grew up together but lost contact in the 1990’s. She was excited to read a post on their chat group by Mr Kunle Onifade, her former boss, a member of their chat group, my high school classmate (1964-68), and a chymall e-business investor who linked me up with that group when he posted on it an article on chyymall written by me. Many members of the group rose in uproar against Mr Onifade, claiming he was introducing phantom business to them. Mrs Adejuwon had known me to not be a frivolous person and advised a calming of nerves. To reassure the respected retired Directors that Mr Onifade was not leading them down hill, I published the first part of this article, situating it in the historical competition by nations to govern the world economy and how, by last year, China displaced Europe and the United States to become the world’s economy leader. Incidentaly, business enterprises such as Chymall.net help to harm China with the winning joker after more than 200 years of struggle for economic freedom from Europe.

    My second reply to Mrs Adejuwon’s WhatsApp message reads……

    Re: Chymall e-business (2)

    Dear Nike, I  feel the urge to address one more point… That this business is not an MMM. Venture. In the last note to you, I said it was not, but I did not amplify how I came to that conclusion. I wish to make one or two points in that regard.

    I came across the company while I was shopping online for anti-UV eye glasses. I had been diagnosed with Glaucoma at 45 in 1995, that is about 25 years ago. I opted out of surgery. Pharmaceutical eye drops were overcrashing my blood pressure, and I fainted once or twice from low blood pressure. My regular blood pressure in the past 25 years has been 110/70. My opthalmologist shifted me to an eye drop made from a local nut. But I still had oxidative stress and cell damage to contend with. So, apart from nutritional supplements which neutralize free radicals and their activities even in the eyes, I needed a good pair of eye glasses which block the blue spectrum of sunlight from entering the eyes.

    ‘’At that time, the company I related with was SAIRUI e-commerce. It soon  recapitalised and became  Chymall e-commerce. The company was doing business in the Quatum Energy products Markets with activities in the health and general products sector. In www.olufemikusa.com, you would find an article titled: Empower Your Vision With Power (Energy) Eye Glasses. It was also published as my Thursday column in The Nation newspaper. The article shared with my readers what I had discovered… Quantum Energy Products which may improve their health from different perspectives, and the various business opportunities it held for them. It was situated in the dormen of Energy Medicine and the Business  of Energy Medicine.

    Quantum energy comes from special metals or healing stones which offered the possibilities of radiation therapy or medicine. In the 1920s, humanity was advised that energy medicine would be the medicine of the future. If we are sick, it means the sick organ cannot produce enough energy to get along with the healthy ones. If an organ suffers energy deficit, we can “jump start” its sick energy with a quantum energy device, as we do with Run down motor vehicle batteries. In the 1980’s , I wrote an article about Energy Surgery Medicine Attempts in Bahamas. In the surgery, the surgeon handles a surgical knife but he does not invade his patients body with it. With his thoughts (energy), he projects the astral prototype of the knife and astral prototype of the ailing organ, which he can see with his astral eyes. All surgery is at the astral level. Interestingly, the patient who is not cut up on the operating table experiences impact on the physical counterparts of the operated astral organ soon after. In a short while, healing takes place in the physical organs. We should understand this possibility if we remember that the body in which we find ourselves when we dream is not the physical body sleeping in bed but the astral archetype. We do know that what we experience in dreams materialise later. I have heard of people who found themselves fighting with other people and woke up to experience pains and aches all over, especially in those part of the body where they received dream injuries.

    Phychic surgery, attempted in the Bahamas, would appear to be one whose time has not come,and, so,  it soon fizzled out. It is possible there first has to be an intermediate experience with radiation medicine before we can arrive at the point of full scale energy medicine. It is possible we are now in the precinct of energy medicine.  Dr. Norman Sheally, a surgeon, and Carolyn Miss, a journalist and spiritualist leave us in no doubt about this in their book, The Creation of Health, which I have revealed a number of times, including in December 1999. In that book, the co-authors wondered if, in year 2000s onwards science and medicine  would recognise that man is “spirit”, the highest gradation of energy, living inside a clay or physical body. They also wondered if  our generation would experience full scale energy medicine.

    The energy eye glasses do not only filter blue energy from the sun and prevent it from racing and damaging the eye, they also energise all structures in the eye involved in the visual process. They include tiny blood vessels which may have become partially or substantially blocked, thereby reducing nutrition in the eye and allowing poisonous waste products to accumulate within it. The unclogging through quantum energy restores normalcy. All parts of the eye glasses, including the frame, are made from quantum energy materials.

    The Quantum Energy Eye Glasses is the product of four technologies functioning synergically. The first is Standing Wave technology. The literature suggests that, in 48 hours, this technology improves and repairs microcirculation in the eye, clears toxins in it and empowers micro-molecule water to freely move in and out of cells.

    The second technology prevent the blue spectrum of light in sunlight from entering the eye. The blue wave “cook” the crystaline lens into solid matter called cataracts which prevents passage of light and causes blindness. Additionally, the blue light causes molecular damage of other structures in the eye. Nature prevent such damage through the diet with the inclusion in foods of such remedies as Lutein, Zeazanthin and Astazanathin, for example. There are also Zinc, Selenium, Vitamins A, C and E, Bilbery, Wolf-berry, buckthorn berry, Gogi-berry, Glutathione, Super Oxide Dismutase(SOD) Betacarotene etc. This technology protects the eye against photophobia, i.e eye which experience burning sensation in sunlight or cannot stand computer screen light, such as the eyes of albinos.

    In the third technology, medical stone  Tourmaline and Volcanic Magma are ground to nano matter to compose the rims of the glasses. The Nano Medical Tourmaline releases through the rims about 1700-2200 heavy negative ions, which on impact create the effect of eye exercises throughout the day. Long before now, Doctor William Bates, a New York opthalmologist, said in his best-seller Better Eye sight Without Glasses that stiffened eye muscles from lack of exercise caused rigidity and some diseases in the eye, and that this required no surgery but excercises to correct.

    The fourth technology is in concentration of Infra red rays which dialate or expand blood vessels  to promote blood circulation.

    Later, I became exposed to another product, Quantum Energy Water Spray Bottle. My opthalmologist advised me to always rinse my eyes of dirt etc by opening them into clean, quality, room temperature water every morning. I knew about water spray for the eyes and eye lids to energise the eyes. So, one day, I sprayed the energy water into my eyes. The effect surprised me. I felt movements of muscles in the eyes as I did whenever I applied Pharmaceutical eye drops or the herbal eye drops. The water removes smelly odour from spoiled food. It helps wounds to heal faster. It Combats migraine and other headaches. Last week, a Nigerian woman resident in the southern Africa region visited me at home for the herbs she often ordered for her colon cancer, for which she rejected chemotherapy. She came to Nigeria through an indirect flight that first took her to Kenya, Dubai and then Lagos. She must have developed DVT(Deep Vein Thrombosis) in the process. One of her ankles was swollen and painful, When I sprayed the water on it, the swelling went down and the pain subsided in about five minutes.

    The bottle was so small she must have assumed it cost next to nothing. She was shocked it cost N53,200 to register for it as an investor in chymall e-business. Even then, she wished to take it away, but I objected with fervent please, explaining how useful it may have become to me. She promised to return for her own. One day during the covid 19 lockdown, my eye pressure ran up to 36 in one eye and 44 in the other, against between 12 and 17 or 20 allowed by many opthalmologists. I  returned home and made my herbal eye drop solution. On the third day the pressure had crashed to almost normal in both eyes. I did not know how my opthalmologist stabilised it. So, I freshened it up twice a day with energy water. In the heat of the corona virus pandemic, I wrote an article titled: Coronavirus: Look-Alike symptoms join The Lexicon. It was posted  on www.olufemikusa.com. It was all about my personal experience for three weeks, and that of my housekeeper for four  weeks after my recovery. A major saving grace for us was Solarised or Solar EnergyWater. I explained in that article how everyone can make it at home to always recharge the body’s energy levels with solarised water. One of our experiences with it was that we were so filled with energy we could stay awake, working all through the night, going to bed for only two or three hours before we began the routines of another day.

    Chymall sells other forms of energy devices. And energy boxer is on the way for men, and its equivalents for women is not too far away. When you place the metal bottom of an energy bulb on the quantum energy device in the energy boxer, the bulb lights up. The boxer is said to energise the energy of the second Chakra(the pelvis region). In Eastern medicine, the seven Chakras are point of contact between the spirit and the physical body through which the spirit “breathes” into the clay or mould body to give it life. If a chakra is down, it means its energy is down and all the organs it transmits energy to will be down.  You may visit the Internet to learn more about THE SEVEN CHAKRAS. Christians would remember that when a woman who had been bleeding for many years touched the garments of JESUS, he remarked that power(energy) went out of Him. The woman became healed. such ailment such as prostate challenges, erectile dysfunction and infertility, among others, are reported by chymall to be the target of its Quantum Energy Boxer. In women, irregular menstruation, ovarian cysts and uterine fibroid are among the challenges slated for treatment by chymall quantum energy undies. There are also chymall Quantum energy petrol shelf life extenders.

    In electricity generators or in automobile fuel tanks, it extends the shelf life of petrol. There are power rings which may serve as wedding rings, such as the one I wear. There are Quantum energy bracelets, necklaces, massagers, shoes, clothes, water treatment devices and many more  products including door and window blinds.

    The article on eye glasses quite naturally spoke of the business side of chymall as a networking and e-commerce venture. What evidence do I need to add that this is real business and not an MMM scam? Many people have the right to approach any business proposal nowadays with advised caution. I, too, was hit in NOSPECTRO.  I  burned my fingers in stock market investments. But I have learned to not generalise, to always watch out for the “works” and the “fruits”. Afterwards it is by their “works” that we can tell the scam from the real.

     

    www.olufemikusa.com

  • Old persons suffering from dementia are not witches — Coalition

    Old persons suffering from dementia are not witches — Coalition

    Agency Reporter

    The labelling of old persons suffering from dementia as witches or wizards or setting them ablaze is a total violation of the right to life, Sen. Eze Ajoku, said in Abuja on Thursday.

    “Rights equality is paramount to guaranteeing senior citizens’ social and medical security,’’ Ajoku, President, Coalition of Societies for the Rights of Older Persons in Nigeria, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

    He spoke in an interview to commemorate this year’s Human Rights Day.

    Human Rights Day is observed yearly on Dec. 10, the day in 1948 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

    Ajoku said that only a society with entrenched equal human rights could harness the desired economic and political stability needed for development.

    He said: “God created us all equal with equal rights whether old or young, rich or poor, female or male, therefore, we must respect the rights of all because injury to one is an injury to all.’’

    Ajoku, who bemoaned all forms of social inequality or discrimination against vulnerable people, especially old persons, said discriminatory acts as ageism were violations of rights perpetrated daily by many against old persons.

    READ ALSO: World Alzheimer’s Day: Foundation seeks early diagnosis of dementia

    He appealed to governments at all levels and the UN to rise to the occasion by upholding the rights of all and protecting the vulnerable, especially old persons.

    According to him, old persons’ rights to association, existence, speech, movement in most cases are violated.

    “Most times, you will see where young persons restrict old persons from moving freely or expressing opinions.

    “Denial of pensions, denial of proper health care for old adults, denial of social and economic protection to the vulnerable in the society, especially old persons are rights denials that the various governments must address.

    “Discriminatory treatments meted out in rural areas of Nigeria against widows and old persons without families should stop,’’ he charged.

    Ajoku decried the polarisation of the society occasioned by reckless infringement on perceived weaker persons’ rights, especially the disabled and old persons.

    He called for love and care for a united, progressive society where justice would prevail over injustice.

     

    (NAN)

  • Lagos East: Again, court fines PDP’s Gbadamosi

    Lagos East: Again, court fines PDP’s Gbadamosi
    By Robert Egbe

    A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday fined the defeated Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in last Saturday’s Lagos East Senatorial District Bye-Election, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi.
    Justice Chuka Obiozor slammed a N20,000 fine sequel to the withdrawal of a motion filed by Gbadamosi’s counsel, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), in a suit seeking to disqualify the winner of the election, Mr Tokunbo Abiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
    The judge upheld the submission of Abiru’s counsel Mr Kemi Pinheiro SAN on the status of the motion and ordered that N10, 000 be paid in favour of the APC and another N10, 000 in favour of Mr Abiru.
    At the last hearing of the suit, the court fined the PDP candidate N40,000 – comprising a cost of N20, 000 each in favour of Abiru and the APC against Gbadamosi – after striking out the plaintiff’s motion and adjourned hearing of all interlocutory applications, including APC’s objection to the suit, till yesterday.
    Abiru’s eligibility for the poll is being challenged by the PDP and Gbadamosi, who are first and second plaintiffs respectively.
    But in their objections, Abiru and APC are, among others, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the suit on the ground that it is statute-barred, not having been filed within the 14 days stipulated by Section 285(9) of the Constitution
    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abiru and the APC are the first to third defendants respectively in the suit marked, FHC/L/CS/1361/2020.
    Yesterday’s proceedings, commenced with Pinheiro identifying two pending applications. The first was the 2nd defendant’s application dated 11th November 2020 seeking leave to file a reply on points of law to the Plaintiff’s written address of 3rd November, 2020 which was unopposed. Same was moved and granted as prayed.
    The second application dated 30th November 2020 seeking leave to file further affidavit and reply on points of law in response to the Plaintiff’s processes opposing 2nd defendant’s application to strike out the further and better affidavit dated 9th November, 2020. Pinheiro moved in terms the motion as it was unopposed. Same was granted as prayed.
    Adegboruwa identified the concurrent originating summons and an application seeking amendment of the originating summons.
    Having seen Pinheiro’s opposition to the motion to amend, the court questioned the appropriateness of Adegboruwa’s application to amend as it was of the opinion that the Plaintiff was out of time to amend.
    Pinheiro re-affirmed that the amendment had to be within time permitted for filing of the originating processes under Section 285 of the Constitution.
    In view of this, Adegboruwa agreed to move the substantive originating summons and applied to withdraw the application for amendment.
    Pinheiro informed the court that he had reacted to the motion to amend, adding that expenses had been incurred to respond to the application for amendment and sought cost.
    He prayed the court to dismiss the motion to amend rather than strike it out. He invited the court’s attention to the fact that on the 16th of November 2020, plaintiffs withdrew a similar application which was struck out.
    The Silk notified the court that the previous application was identical to the instant application sought to be withdrawn and that it was less than 48 hours of striking out the first application, that the second was filed.
    According to him, the entire proceedings of 16th November, was in relation to the appropriate order of court regarding that first application for amendment.
    He further submitted that the Plaintiff had also filed another process dated 9th November, 2020 titled further and better affidavit.
    He prayed the court for cost of N500, 000 against the Plaintiffs.
    While Adegboruwa urged the court to only consider the withdrawal of the motion to amend, Pinheiro contended, among others that the law is that once a process is determined to be an abuse, no discretion is in the court to strike out but rather, to dismiss the process.
    In his ruling, the judge noted that, among others, that the plaintiff’s motion seeks to do a thing not permitted by the rules of the proceedings before it and dismissed the motion for amendment. He awarded cost of N10, 000 each in favour of the 2nd and 3rd defendants.
    Upon the dismissal of the motion to amend, the Plaintiffs withdrew their amended originating summons which was struck out
    Mr Abiodun Owonikoko SAN represented the 3rd Defendant.
    The matter was stood down till 2pm, following which it resumed.
    At about 6.40pm due to time spent, the court informed parties that it had to adjourn having after taken arguments for about 7 hours.
    Consequently, the matter was adjourned to 15th January, 2021 for continuation of hearing for the 2nd and 3rd Defendants to adopt and argue their counter affidavits and written addresses in opposition to the originating summons.

  • Gunmen in military uniform kidnap two teachers in Delta school

    Gunmen in military uniform kidnap two teachers in Delta school

    Elo Edremoda

    There was pandemonium in Ohorhe community, Uvwie council area of Delta state, Tuesday, as two teachers were reportedly kidnapped by armed men dressed in military uniform from Ohorhe Secondary School.

    The suspected kidnappers were reported to have gained entrance into the school’s premises in a gold-coloured Highlander SUV.

    It was gathered that they hovered in the school compound for over 15 minutes, before storming into one of the staff rooms and abducted the teachers.

    The school management, on seeing the military uniform, had assumed that the gunmen were military personnel.

    According to reports, the hoodlums were a gang of four. But only three stepped out to carryout the plan, wielding sophisticated guns.

    Recounting the ordeal, a source in the community said the gunmen threatened to shoot at the community youths who tried to confront them on getting wind of the incident.

    READ ALSO: Angry mob set three armed robbers ablaze in Delta

    A source in the school said, “the gunmen were dressed in military uniform. They were four in the Jeep including the driver. They were there for about 15 minutes.

    “They threatened to kill us if any of us shout. Teachers and students were afraid of being killed. They were armed with good guns”.

    The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, confirmed the incident to The Nation, stating that “two teachers were abducted”.

  • FG to reduce petrol price by N5 from Monday

    FG to reduce petrol price by N5 from Monday

    Agency Reporter

    The Federal Government has agreed to slash the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol, by N5 from Monday next week.

    Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the end of a closed door meeting with the organised labour on Tuesday in Abuja.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was necessitated by the increase of PMS from N160 per litre to N170 and the increase of electricity tariff.

    Ngige said that new price of petrol template would come into effect from Monday next week.

    “Our discussion was fruitful and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which is the major importer and marketers of petroleum product and customers have agreed that there will be a slide down of the pump price of PMS.

    “The price cut will get us about N5 per litre and that the price cut will take effect from next Monday, a week from today,” he said.

    He noted that the price reduction was not meant to suspend deregulation as it did not affect the price of crude oil.

    He, however, said that the NNPC as the main importer has agreed that it would cut cost like freight cost and demurrage.

    The minister noted that the new price slash was a product of a joint committee of NNPC and labour representatives who look into ways of cutting costs.

    Ngige also said that government and labour have agreed to wait until the next meeting on Jan. 25, 2021 on the aspect of electricity tariffs.

    He added that this is to enable the special committee dealing with complaints to conclude their deliberations.

    Mr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said the meeting was fruitful.

    Wabba said that the Federal Government has agreed to a reduction in the price of petrol.

    (NAN)

  • Reps summons Ebonyi UBEB Chairman

    Reps summons Ebonyi UBEB Chairman

    Ogochukwu Anioke, Abakaliki

    House of Representatives Adhoc committee on public account Monday accused the Ebonyi State Chairman of Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC), Chief Hyacinth Ikpor of refusing to appear before the committee to account for all the funds released to the board by the federal government for the execution of projects in the state.

    Member of the public account committee, Miriam Onuoha after frowning at Ikpor’s behaviour moved a motion that he should appear before the committee and present financial documents of the projects executed by the federal government through TETFUND in his office.

    She said,” having exhausted all efforts to see the Chairman UBEB Ebonyi state who have absconded on knowing full well of our visit, I move a motion that the Chairman has failed to appear before the South East committee on public account to give us state of affairs and accountability of how the federal government appropriation through UBEC was released to SUBEB, I so move.

    The committee led by, Chinedu Ogah, representing Ezza South/ Ikwo federal constituency had embarked on an oversight function to probe funds released by the federal government for primary and tertiary institutions in the state.

    But when the team got to the state UBEC office, Abakaliki to check its projects and funds released they observed that the Chairman of the board Hyacinth Ikpor was nowhere to be found despite a notice issued to his office for the visit by the committee.

    Angered by the development, the committee quickly sat, moved a motion ordereding Ikpor to appear before it to explain his action in one week.

    The committee ordered that further release of funds by the board be stopped until all the funds released by the federal government to it is accounted for.

    Ogah described as unacceptable the refusal of the UBEC chairman to appear before the committee and give an account of UBEC funds in the board and how it was utilized.

    The lawmaker lamented that after the state government has paid the counterpart fund, his lieutenants could not implement the project.

    The committee had earlier visited the state University, EBSU where it interrogated the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Chigozie Ogbu, and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund desk officer of the school for discrepancies in figures of the funds released to the University by the federal government, how it was used and quality of the projects the funds were meant for.

    The committee also visited the federal government social investment office at Century City, Abakaliki to oversee the activities of Npower and school feeding team.

    House of Representatives Adhoc committee on a public account Monday summoned Ebonyi State Chairman of Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC), Chief Hyacinth Ikpor for refusing to appear before the committee to account for all the funds released to the board by the federal government for the execution of projects in the board.

    Member of the public account committee Hon Miriam Onuoha after frowning at Ikpor’s character moved a motion that Ikpor should appear before the committee and present financial documents of the projects executed by the federal government through TETFUND in his office.

    She said,” having exhausted all efforts to see the Chairman UBEB Ebonyi state who have absconded on knowing full well of our visit, I move a motion that the Chairman has failed to appear before the South East committee on public account to give us state of affairs and accountability of how the federal government appropriation through UBEC was released to SUBEB, I so move.

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    The committee led by Hon. Chinedu Ogah member representing Ezza South/ Ikwo federal constituency had embarked on an oversight function to probe funds released by the federal government for primary and tertiary institutions in the state.

    But when the team got to the state UBEC office, Abakaliki to check its projects and funds released they observed that the Chairman of the board hyacinth Ikpo was nowhere to be found despite a notice issued to his office for the visit by the committee.

    Angered by the development, the committee quickly sat, move a motion, and ordered chief Ikpor to appear before it to explain his action in one week.

    The committee ordered that further release of funds by the board be stopped until all the funds released by the federal government to it is accounted for.

    Hon. Ogah described as unacceptable the refusal of the UBEC chairman to appear before the committee and give an account of UBEC funds in the board and how it was utilized.

    The lawmaker decried that after the state government has paid the counterpart fund, his lieutenant could not implement the project.

    The committee had earlier visited the state University, EBSU where it interrogated the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Chigozie Ogbu, and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund desk officer of the school for discrepancies in figures of the funds released to the University by the federal government, how it was used and quality of the projects the funds were meant for.

    The committee also visited the federal government social investment office at Century City, Abakaliki to oversee the activities of Npower and the school feeding team.

  • Mahoe drops new EP

    Mahoe drops new EP

    Our Reporter

    Fans of Okeibuno Philip Onyeka, popularly known as Mahoe, have recently been blessed with his new EP.

    Mahoe, who officially started music in 2015, confirms: “The EP was released on December 4 across all digital platforms.”

    He discloses further: “The EP has over seven songs including “Jo,” “Nonsense,” “Mzanzi (Gbagam)” and “Lotto.” Skales and Harrysong respectively are featured in “Chosen One” and “My Baby.”

    The artiste, urging his fans to watch out for the “Lotto” track, claims, “It is my favourite because it brings out something new in me and reinforced my belief that I could do better.”

    While Mahoe––a graduate of Enugu State University (ESUT) where he bagged a bachelor in Political Science––is known for other interests such as writing and soccer, he has for some time now stamped his name on the music scene.
    Yet, music, he claims, is not a stroll in the park, citing his early challenges, especially the difficulty in getting money for production and promotion.
    “It wasn’t easy for me, schooling and making music at the same time. I was able to scale through with the help of my families and friends who believed in me,” he muses.

    On how he has been honing his craft, the native of Ogwashi Uku, Delta State, reveals: “I do a lot of rehearsals, voice training; I read a lot of music articles and I listen to all genre of songs by both male and female artistes.”

    On how he gets inspiration for his songs, he concedes: “I’m a very emotional and passionate person; sometimes I get inspired by the way I feel at that moment, and most times, I am inspired by what goes on in the life of others.”

    Mahoe did not rule out collaborating with other stars. He readily admits that he is eyeing the likes of Wizkid, Drake, Davido, Seyi Shay, Chris Brown, and Burna Boy for future collaborations.

    Where many entertainers regard 2020 as a lost year, for Mahoe, the year has its positive sides. “I have no losses; rather it had been advantageous for me because I was able to focus more on my craft and work more on my EP,” he affirms.

    He also comments on the recent ENDSARS upheaval. Noting that youths were overwhelming the majority of the protesters, Mahoe avows that the protest was a catharsis of “the bottled anger of many of the country’s youths over unfair profiling and harassment by SARS.”

    He further offers his viewpoint on what he thinks went wrong with the protest which has since become a tussle between the government and the protesters. “It started with no defined or central leadership; and (it was only) in the beginning that the protesters’ demands were straightforward, that the federal government should abolish SARS, provide justice to victims of police brutality, and reform the police.”

    To forestall a future reoccurrence, he advocates a greater involvement of youths in politics: “To make a difference in the longer term, it is essential that young people are engaged in formal political processes, and have a say in formulating today’s and tomorrow’s politics.”

    A balanced political system, according to him, must be truly representative of all members of society. “When young people are disenfranchised or disengaged from political processes, a significant portion of the population has little or no voice or influence in decisions that affect group members’ lives. A key consequence is the undermining of political systems’ representativeness,” Mahoe reflects.

  • Dalacreamz foundation to lift Ondo kids with chairs, exercise books

    Dalacreamz foundation to lift Ondo kids with chairs, exercise books

    Agency Reporter

    School children in the three senatorial districts of Ondo state will have access to 6,000 chairs and exercise books courtesy of a non-profit organisation, The Dalacreamz foundation has announced.

    It stated this during a public lecture and inaugural anniversary, which attracted notable personalities, including member of House of Representatives for Idanre/Ifedore constituency Tajudeen Adefisoye, represented by Mr Rasaq Adefisoye; member Ondo Assembly Ilaje constituency 1 represented by Mr Ayoola Oluwafemi; Rev. & Pastor Mrs. Fasipe as well as guest speaker Abayomi Odunayo Seriki among others

    President of the foundation Oluyemi Fasipe noted: “ Without a doubt, there are palpable gaps within the human society that could only be filled by public-spirited individuals.

    “In a society like ours, where grinding poverty, lack, and wants are stark realities; therefore, tears, hunger, and anguish can only get reduced through the activities of non-profit making foundations like ours.

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    “This organisation is genuinely committed to reducing the depressing effects of poverty targeted at children in Ondo State and Nigerian society at large.”

    Fasipe added: “The reality of lack and want in our immediate environment has necessitated the birth of this foundation.

    “Dalacreamz Foundation was borne out of the passion for children and to positively impact Nigerian society.

    “The critical economic situation of our country has made it imperative for some committed public-spirited individuals to come together under the banner of Dalacreamz foundation for the primary purpose of giving support to the economically disadvantaged children in our society.”

    On plans for 2021, Fasipe said “Dalacreamz foundation primary interest is to continually give support to vulnerable persons especially children in the society.”

    The occasion, which also featured the inauguration ceremony of the foundation new patron Hon Tajudeen Adefisoye and executives, was witnessed by a number of dignitaries with pomp and pageantry.

    Seriki emphasised on the importance of non-governmental organisations in assisting the government to provide for the well-being of its citizens.