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  • 11 Adamawa NYSC members win presidential honors

    Eleven former members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) have received Presidential Honours Award for distinguishing themselves during their service year in Adamawa State.

    The state Coordinator of the NYSC, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, said the awardees were among corps members who served the state in 2015/2016/2017.

    Mohammed said the ex-corps members distinguished themselves in their Community Development Services (CDS) in the areas of construction, organizing extra lessons, donating books and drugs, among others, to their local communities.

    He said the achievement of the corps members came despite the reputation of Adamawa as an insurgency-troubled state, a reputation which he described as being over stressed.

    “When corps members are deployed to the state, they develop worries and begin to think of redeployment but when they get firsthand information on the true security situation, they change their mind against locating to another state,” he said.

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    He urged serving corps members and potential ones to be diligent and seek always to impact on the communities they serve, saying, “It is not difficult to win any award, as one of the criteria is performance at places of primary assignment.”

    The 11 Adamawa ex-corps members were among the 168 to whom President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday presented awards at the combined 2015/2016/2017 President’s NYSC Honours Award held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.

    Buhari, who was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, also announced automatic employment to the awardees and scholarship up to doctorate level in Nigerian universities.

     

     

  • Nigerians urged to support Buhari

    Nigerians have been advised to vote massively for President Muhammadu Buhari as he is the best candidate to take the country to greater heights.

    This was the submission of the Buhari/Osinbajo Mandate Group (BOMG), Lagos State Chapter, at the Lagos State Service Club, Ikeja, on Thursday.

    According to the coordinator, BOMG Lagos State, Honorable Engr. Yomi Oyedeko, it is important to re-elect Buhari into power, as “continuity begets productivity”

    “As a team, we are convinced about our candidates. We wish to express that we have resolved to mobilize all registered voters in Lagos State and Nigeria to support the laudable aspiration of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.”

    “The administration since its assumption on 29th May 2015 has implemented many social economic and welfare programmes to the advantage and benefits of downtrodden, one of which is social welfare and school feeding programmes. More importantly is the impact that the ten thousand naira trader money loans has created in the lives of the beneficiaries.

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    The chairman of the South East forum of the All Progressive Congress, Chief Anslem Njoku said that it is important for the south east to massively support Buhari, so that it will be realistic for the south east to attain power in 2023.

    “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and President Buhari is the straight point Ndigbo needs to get to the office of the president. Politics is truly about interest.If Buhari gets power in 2019, it becomes easy for Ndigbo to negotiate their way to power at the end of his tenure. Any other way apart from this makes the journey longer.”

    Njoku further called on all interest groups in the South East to give the present administration the opportunity to complete projects it has commenced in Igboland.

    The leader, Arewa Group, Sherif Abubakar Mohammed said that the Arewa group is strongly behind the President, as it is crystal clear to all Nigerians that the current administration is transparent in its governance.

    “All Nigerians have seen what the current administration has done. It is a transparent administration and we are grateful to them. I am very sure that the Arewa group is strongly behind the President.

    All we need do now is support, encourage, and pray for our leaders as they continue governance after 2019.

  • Salesboy to spend Christmas, New Year in prison for stealing motorcycle

    Salesboy to spend Christmas, New Year in prison for stealing motorcycle

    A 20-year-old, Amuzat Ahmed, is to spend Christmas and the New Year in prison for stealing a motorcycle valued at N230, 000 and a Samsung Galaxy phone, an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court ruled in Lagos on Monday.

    The Magistrate, Mrs O. Sule-Amzat, who sentenced Ahmed of Imota in Ikorodu area of Lagos State to one year imprisonment, pronounced him guilty as charged.

    The convict had pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing brought against him.

    Sule-Amzat held that the convict should serve out the one year without an option of fine.

    “The prosecution was able to establish that the convict, a salesboy, deceived and lured the caretaker of the said motorcycle to a hotel on the pretext of entertaining him,” she said.

    Earlier, the Prosecutor, Sgt. Lucky Ihiehie, told court that the accused committed the offence on Sept. 26 at Ajose Street, Mende in Maryland area of Lagos.

    Ihiehie said the complainants, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, reported the case at Anthony Police Post.

    “The complainant left his Bajaj motorcycle with registration no. AGL 232 QH valued at N230, 000 and a Samsung Galaxy 03 phone valued at N36, 000 in the care of Husseini Saliu on Sept. 29.

    “The accused lured Saliu to a hotel at Mile 12 to entertain him, stole the motorcycle and the phone and ran away.”

    Ihiehie said the accused was later apprehended at Maryland Bus Stop on Oct. 26.

    The offence contravened Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

    The section stipulates three years in prison for offenders.

    NAN

  • Court remands land agent for alleged racketing

    Court remands land agent for alleged racketing

    A Sokoto Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered the remand of 48-year-old  estate agent, Lawali Maigara, for alleged land fraud.

    The defendant was accused of defrauding one Mubarak Bello of Fakon Iddi area of Sokoto of N400,000 on land transaction.

    The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and cheating, offences contrary to Sections, 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.

    The Prosecutor, Sgt. Abubakar Mohammed, had told the court that the defendant sold a plot of land to the victim at N380, 000, alongside N20, 000 agency fee.

    Mohammed said that when the victim started developing his land, the accused went and sold the same land to another person, leading to the destruction of the victim’s building.

    This prosecutor said the incident occurred sometimes in 2014.

    The accused, however, denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    The Chief Magistrate, Abubakar Adamu, ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody until police investigation is completed.

    Adamu adjourned the case until Nov. 8, for further mention.

    NAN

  • JEDC sacks 150 workers

    JEDC sacks 150 workers

    The Jos Electricity Distribution Company ( JEDC ), has sacked 150 workers, in what its management said was part of a re-organisation aimed at optimum performance.

    Among those sacked across its four states of Plateau, Gombe, Bauchi and Benue were marketers, linesmen, network engineers, cable joiners and electrical fitters.

    Their sack letters, signed by Abubakar Mohammed, Head, Human Resources and Support Services, simply told the workers that their services were no loner required.

    The letters said that they would be paid one month’s salary in lieu of notice, and warned them against impersonating as workers of the company.

    Some of the workers, however, accused the JEDC management refusing to settle their entitlements before sacking them, and also alleged that they were paid half salary in September.

    They also rejected management’s claims that those sacked were old and unproductive, arguing that most of them were young persons engaged “few years ago”.

    Alhaji Gidado Modibbo, JEDC Managing Director, who reacted to the allegations, made this known on Tuesday in Jos that the “weeding exercise” was aimed at ridding the company of “dead woods”.

    “We assess workers based on performance. Those sacked fell short of minimum expectations. Some were too old for the jobs they were handling.

    “We even had Faults Men that were more than 60 years and blind. We had to ask them to go because they could not climb electric poles and were not adding any value to us,” he said.

    He also rejected claims that the workers of the JEDC were paid half salaries in September, and explained that they received 70 per cent of their wages because management had set a target and resolved to base salaries on it.

    Dr. Friday Elijah, JEDC Director of Communications, who also reacted, said that the main parametre used for the sack was performance.

    “The performance of the workers have been generally very poor and management had always told them to sit up.

    “Last month, for instance, we distributed N4 billion worth of energy, but realised only N950 million. It means that many workers are not productive, hence our resolve to ask them to go.”

    He said that some workers were sacked for extorting monies from consumers, while others collected money from customers but did not remit same to the company.

    Elijah said that some workers were told old and could no longer add any value to the company, while others, who were inherited from the former owners, had served for close to 40 years.

    The official, however said that the company had engaged more workers than it had sacked since it took over JEDC in November 2013, “in spite of new technology that has minimised the need for manual activities”.

    NAN

  • ‎Two men docked for allegedly belonging to gang of robbers

    ‎Two men docked for allegedly belonging to gang of robbers

    One Abubakar Mohammed and Abas Audu, were on Tuesday arraigned in a Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, for allegedly belonging to a gang of robbers.‎

    ‎Mohammed and Audu were docked on a count charge of belonging to gang of robbers.‎
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    The prosecutor, Malik Taiwo, told the court that the defendants were arrested on June 9, after an information alert issued on April 10.

    He said that the information emanated from the office of Inspector-General of Police, Special Tactical Squad Force, Abuja.‎

    The prosecutor said that during police interrogation, the defendants admitted to belonging to a three-man squad that specialised in robbing and terrorising people within and outside Abuja.‎

    He said the offence contravened Section 306 of the Penal Code.‎

    The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty.

    The judge Alhaji Umar Kagarko, granted them bail in the sum of N200, 000 each, with one surety each in like sum.

    He adjourned the case until Aug. 7 for hearing.

  • Kano youths make brisk business from power shortage

    Some youths in Kano are taking advantage of the current power shortage to make brisk business by using generators to recharge lamps, fans and telephone batteries for fees.

    A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who went round Kano metropolis on Wednesday, reports that young boys were seen erecting temporary shades in various corners to conduct the business.

    NAN also reports that the shortage of electricity supply has crippled many businesses, thus straining the state economy.

    Some traders are also taking advantage of the poor supply of electricity to diversify into selling gadgets that use alternative energy like rechargeable lamps and rechargeable fans among others.

    One of the traders at Yankura market, Abubakar Mohammed, told NAN that he diversified into selling rechargeable fans and lamps due to the current low supply of electricity in the area.

    According to him, the shortage has made many people to turn to using rechargeable gadgets.

    Mohammed told NAN that he sold more than seven rechargeable fans and lamps daily.

    “The prices of rechargeable fans range between N12,000 and N15,500 while rechargeable lamps are in different sizes with prices from N1,000 to N2,500,’’ he said.

    He said that the products were selling fast to the extent that the stock gets depleted quickly.

    “We have placed orders for more rechargeable gadgets from China and we expect them to arrive soonest,” he said.

     

  • Onitsha Park: Police chiefs face contempt charge

    Onitsha Park: Police chiefs face contempt charge

    The Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has fixed May 27 to hear a contempt charge against the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, Police Commissioner Usman Gwary and Ogbaru Local Government by an Onitsha businessman Chief Michael Emerah and Mic Merah International Agency Ltd.

    The court granted an order following a motion ex-parte filed on of April 8 by the counsel to the plaintiff, Chief Nnamdi Ibegbu, praying for an order of substituted service on the inspector general, police commissioner and Ogbaru Local Government, stating that the court baillifs were finding it difficult to serve the earlier order granted them directly on the respondents.

    The court earlier this month served a notice of committal (Form 48) on the inspector-general, the assistant inspector-general, Zonal 9, Umuahia, police commissioner and the chairman of Ogbaru for failing to comply with the court directive.

    The notice was sequel to the order directing the respondents to allow the applicants, Chief Michael Emerah and his company, Micmerah International Agency Limited to occupy a land at Upper Iweka Flyover in Onitsha, which was leased to him by the Federal Ministry of Works since May, 2001 to operate as a motor park.

    Emerah had carried out his motor park business in the land since then but in 2012, the former Governor Peter Obi administration demolished the park, known as Micmerah Modern Park at 127 Upper Iweka Triangle, near the Onitsha Flyover, Enugu/Onitsha Expressway.

    Emerah challenged his forceful removal and obtained an order directing the respondents to allow him continue doing his business in Micmerah Modern Park, adding that the respondents should as stop further invasion of the premises.

    After the court order in 2012, the first and third respondents reinstated Emerah in the park but in March the first and third respondents removed him from the park, claiming their action was on the directive of Governor Willie Obiano.

     

  • NDE unveils entrepreneurship scheme

    NDE unveils entrepreneurship scheme

    The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has introduced a new programme – the Advanced Entrepreneurship Development Programme (A-EDP) – designed to prepare its trained beneficiaries to access enhanced micro credit.

    A-EDP, which was unveiled by the Director-General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, is to ensure that beneficiaries do not only get paid to get trained, but also receive capital for the skills and trades they have learnt.

    He lauded the Federal Government’s policy of inclusive growth, part of which, he explained, is aimed at creating employment and other economic opportunities for the poor and vulnerable people in the society.

    NDE is a collaborative partner in the implementation of the  skills for job (S4J) initiative  under the World Bank assisted Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO), adding that its operation is designed to grant poor families access to increased opportunities for youth employment and other social services. He stressed that sustained livelihood of the poor can effectively be achieved through skill acquisition.

    He said NDE has in the last one and half years, recorded a total of 145,183 beneficiaries within the platform of the vocational, agricultural, entrepreneurial and transient jobs training segment.