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  • Buhari mourns Usman Abubakar

    President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his deep condolences to the Abubakar family over the death of Engineer Usman Abubakar, Chairman of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC).

    President Buhari, who was represented at the burial of his close associate on Friday at the National Mosque in Abuja by his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and a number of presidency officials, said he would personally miss the wise counsel of Engineer Usman.

    Buhari, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, also described the deceased as a well-educated and dignified gentleman.

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    “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, the government and people of Katsina State following the irreparable loss of this selfless and patriotic Nigerian,” he said.

    The President prayed to Allah to grant him Jannatul Firdaus.

  • NCS intercepts 714 jerry cans of vegetable oil, drugs in Sokoto

    NCS intercepts 714 jerry cans of vegetable oil, drugs in Sokoto

    The Federal Operation Unit Zone ‘B’ of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has intercepted 714 jerry cans of smuggled vegetable oil in Sokoto, the unit spokesman,  Mr Usman Abubakar said on Tuesday.

    Abubakar told the  Reporter in Sokoto that, bags of sugar, bales of second hand clothes and drugs were also intercepted by the unit patrol team on Illela-Sokoto road this month.

    Abubakar said the Comptroller in charge of the unit, Mr Usman Dakingari, had inspected the items, adding that similar inspection of seized goods was conducted in Kano and Katsina States.

    He said the seized items were worth N9.2 million of duty paid value.

    News reports that the unit covers Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger, Kogi and Kwara States as well as the Federal Capital Territory.

    He explained that the seized goods were concealed in various locally produced items.

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    Abubakar added that NCS has competent intelligent officers, investigating specialized activities across the country.

    He said the zone has deployed different tactics to tackle smuggling and reassured the public of its readiness to enforce government regulations.

    The official appealed to people residing in border communities to assist the service with useful information to prevent smuggling of goods into the country.

    The spokesman pointed out that smugglers use various structures, including residential buildings, to store smuggled items in piecemeal before uploading into trucks.

    He said smuggling was crippling the nation’s economy and industrial growth, as well as endangering the populace and creating unemployment.

    NAN

  • How mathematics can solve life-threatening ailments, by don

    How mathematics can solve life-threatening ailments, by don

    A professor of Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology Minna (FUTMINNA), Usman Abubakar, has demonstrated how mathematical modelling can be used to diagnose some killer ailments.

    Abubakar revealed that he had used a mathematical model to study the prognosis of leprosy disease and its deadly effects on human health. He said his study focused on stages when leprosy patients were under treatment and recovery. He said his research also extended to the stage of patients’ death.

    The professor of Mathematics spoke last Wednesday, while delivering the school’s 57th inaugural lecture titled: Predictive stochastic modelling of leprosy disease, human health condition and desertification in Nigeria: The untapped open secret ingredients. The event was held at the Caverton Lecture Hall in Gidan Kwano campus.

    He defined mathematical modelling as the method of creating an arithmetical model of a problem, and using it to analyse and solve the problem.

    He said: “A mathematical model is a mathematical description of some real-life situation. It can be applied in predicting weather conditions, diagnosing specific ailments and study drug efficiency in humans, among other areas.”

    Prof Abubakar maintained that it would be possible for a researcher to predict the likelihood of having leprosy patients with grade one and two disabilities. He said his research was carried out on blood inventory at the Minna General Hospital, which enabled him to observe human health conditions daily.

    He disclosed that he was able to estimate the amount of land mass lost in the country’s savannah region annually due to desertification by effective application of mathematical modeling.

    Prof Abubakar said he there is a wide gap between mathematical model builders and the intended model users, because of the inability of the latter to understand fundamentals of mathematics. He called on government and non-governmental organisations to extensively utilise the quantitative information emanating from mathematical models to solve real life problems.

     

  • How mathematics can solve life-threatening ailments, by don

    How mathematics can solve life-threatening ailments, by don

    A professor of Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology Minna (FUTMINNA), Usman Abubakar, has demonstrated how mathematical modelling can be used to diagnose of some killer ailments.

    Abubakar revealed that he had used a mathematical model to study the prognosis of leprosy disease and its deadly effects on human health. He said his study focused on stages when leprosy patients were under treatment and recovery. He said his research also extended the stage of patients’ death.

    The professor of Mathematics spoke last Wednesday, while delivering the school’s 57th inaugural lecture titled: Predictive stochastic modelling of leprosy disease, human health condition and desertification in Nigeria: The untapped open secret ingredients. The event was held at the Caverton Lecture Hall in Gidan Kwano campus.

    He defined mathematical modelling as the method of creating an arithmetical model of a problem, and using it to analyse and solve the problem.

    He said: “A mathematical model is a mathematical description of some real-life situation. It can be applied in predicting weather conditions, diagnosing specific ailments and study drug efficiency in humans, among other areas.”

    Prof Abubakar maintained that it would be possible for a researcher to predict the likelihood of having leprosy patients with grade one and two disabilities. He said his research was carried out on blood inventory at the Minna General Hospital, which enabled him to observe human health conditions daily.

    He disclosed that he was able to estimate the amount of land mass lost in the country’s savannah region annually due to desertification by effective application of mathematical modeling.

    Prof Abubakar said he there is a wide gap between mathematical model builders and the intended model users, because of the inability of the latter to understand fundamentals of mathematics. He called on government and non-governmental organisations to extensively utilise the quantitative information emanating from mathematical models to solve real life problems.

  • Welder bags 18 months imprisonment for stealing bag of garri

    Welder bags 18 months imprisonment for stealing bag of garri

    A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court at Aso Pada, Nasarawa State, on Monday sentenced a 23-year-old welder, Usman Abubakar, to 18 months imprisonment for stealing a bag of garri.

    Abubakar, who resides at Shopping Centre Mararaba, was sentenced on a count charge of theft.

    The judge, Mr Albert Maga, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the crime and begged for leniency.

    The convict said that hunger led him to crime.

    “It was hunger that led me to do it, I have stayed without food for days and I needed money to buy food.

    “Have mercy on me and I promise never to do it again,’’ he pleaded.

    The judge, however, gave the convict N5,000 option of fine.

    Earlier, the prosecutor, Agabi Auta, told the court that one Anjenu John of Aku village, Mararaba, reported the matter at the ‘A’ Divisional Police Headquarters Mararaba on Aug. 25.

    Auta said: “The defendant went into the complainant’s shop located along Darika Jummat Mosque, Mararaba and stole a bag of garri valued at N15, 000.

    The prosecutor added that the defendant was in the process of taking away the bag of garri when he was apprehended by the complainant and handed over to the police.

    He said that during investigation, the defendant confessed to stealing the item with a view to selling it and get money to buy other food items.

    Auta said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 287 of the Penal Code.

  • Court jails man six months over N7,000 theft

    Court jails man six months over N7,000 theft

    A Grade 1 Area Court Karmo, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced one Usman Abubakar to six months imprisonment for joint act and extortion.

    Abubakar, a resident of Kado fish market, Abuja was arraigned on a two-count charge.

    The Presiding judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, did not  give  the convict any option of fine.

    Sadiq said he must serve the punishment as deterrent to other would-be offenders and warned him to desist from committing crimes.

    “Be dedicated to your business,” Sadiq told the convict.

    Before the judgement​ was delivered, Abubakar, had pleaded guilty to the charge and prayed the court to temper justice with mercy, claiming that the devil pushed him to the crime.

    He promised to be more dedicated to his fish business.

    Earlier, the prosecutor, Florence Auhioboh, told the court that one Ibrahim Buba, of 4th Avenue Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja, reported the matter at the Gwarimpa Police Station, on July 28.

    Auhioboh said on that same date in Gwarimpa,  the convict and one other person , who is now at large, attacked and threatened​ to kill him with a long sharp knife.

    They collected N7, 000 cash and one Techno phone valued N20, 000.

    During police investigation, he confessed that his friend who is now at large, is  in possession of the stolen  money.

    The prosecutor said that the offence is punishable under sections 79 and 292 of the Penal Code.