Agwai made this known while briefing newsmen after an inspection tour of the project.
He expressed satisfaction with the engineering design of the project and commended the Transport Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory for the effort.
Saturday, August 16, 2014
SURE-P supports Abuja light rail project with N10bn
UNIOSUN shut as students protest death of colleague
The management of the Osun State University has closed down the Ikire Campus of the university indefinitely.
Our correspondent gathered that the management in a memo issued by the Registrar of the university announced the indefinite closure of the institution following an all night violent protest allegedly embarked upon by students of the school following the death of their colleague in an accident.
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Boko Haram link: APC to sue DSS, Ogar
NMA vows to continue strike
The Nigerian Medical Association has threatened never to suspend the ongoing strike unless the Federal Government reverses the sacking of 16, 000 resident doctors.
The Lagos State Chairman of the association , Dr. Tope Ojo, who spoke at a media briefing in Lagos on Saturday, vowed that the NMA would only resume negotiations with the Federal Government when it reverses the sacking of the doctors. Based on the doctors, the action is definitely an act of victimisation which proves that government is going to frustrate doctors in the country.
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34 massacred in Central Africa
“At least 34 people from several villages were killed between August 13 and 15 in the M’bres region by armed men identified by inhabitants as ex-Seleka,” an officer in the African peacekeeping force, MISCA, told the AFP news agency on the same day.
The officer said the fleeing residents spoke of the attackers “firing on their victims at point-blank range and chasing them into the bush and some of the victims died by hanging, others were beaten or tortured to death”.
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While presenting the rescued babies to their mothers at the Imo state Police command headquarters, the head of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Imo police command, Mrs Elizabeth Okosun, said the police was able to rescue one of the babies after a tip-off by a commercial tricycle rider who suspected the shady behavior of the suspects when they boarded his tricycle about to travel with the baby to another state.
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EFCC Arrest Former Bank Manager for ₦81million fraud
A former branch manager of one of the new generation banks, (Ecobank Plc), Victor Amushie has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for a credit fraud in the sum of N81, 024, 749.28( Eighty One Million, Twenty-Four Thousand, Seven Hundred and Forty Nine Naira, Twenty Eight kobo only).
The suspect allegedly packaged loan facilities for himself, using several names and accounts of some customers of his bank, with whom he shared the proceeds.The loans went bad and the bank had to hold Amushie, who was on the verge of running out of the country before being apprehended by operatives of the EFCC.
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Family of 5 found dead in Abeokuta
A Family of 5, a father, mother and their three children were found dead in their house yesterday Friday August 15th at Temidire Community, in Sabo, Abeokuta North LGA of Ogun State. The dead people have already been identified as Aliu Adeboye, his younger wife identified as Iya Aliya and 3 of Adeboye's 6 children.
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PhotoNews: Touching Photos from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic
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| A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus |
August 15th Iraq SITREP: The king is dead, long live the king
12th Aug: The United States sends another 130 "Advisors" to Iraqi Kurdistan
13th Aug: The US is reporting that its reconnaissance missions are confirming that the plight of the Yazidis is not as severe as was expected14th Aug: The US Secretary of Defence clarifies that US troops will not take part in military operations in Iraq.Continue..
Friday, August 15, 2014
Ebola Control: NYSC Suspends Orientation In 6 States
Control of Ebola epidemic will take 6 months - President of Doctors Without borders
"The main thing I come back to is that it is deteriorating faster, moving faster than we can respond to. To put it in context with my time with DWB, I really feel that it is like wartime, in terms of fear and nobody knowing what is going on. We need a response in terms of international organizations and states, and it needs to happen now if we want to contain this epidemic. Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my gut feeling. We need people with a hands-on operational mindset to combat the outbreak." she said
Photos: Fashola commissions newly refurbished Tejuosho market
The refurbished market, which used to have 1,484 lockup, has been increased to 2,640. Facilities in the new market complex includes banking spaces, 8 lifts to enable goods, services and people move up, two escalators for up and down movement of people, two ramps designed to assist physically handicapped people to get into and out of the building and a crèche where nursing mothers can attend to and keep their children while they are trading.
There is also a dedicated Fire Service Station within the complex with fire fighting systems built in the market to forestall any incident of fire disaster as well as a dedicated 800-vehicle capacity car-park unit. See more photos after the break.
There is also a dedicated Fire Service Station within the complex with fire fighting systems built in the market to forestall any incident of fire disaster as well as a dedicated 800-vehicle capacity car-park unit. See more photos after the break.
U.S. Claims Ebola experimental drug 'Nanosilver' is a pesticide, warns
Yesterday we heard that the experimental drug called'Nanosilver'produced by a Nigerian in diaspora for the treatment of Ebola is here the country. (read here).
Nevertheless now, regardless of the experimental drug getting approval for use by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that Nanosilver is just a pesticideFrom Reuters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola.
The FDA's warning comes on the heels of comments by Nigeria's top health official, Onyebuchi Chukwu, who reportedly said earlier Thursday that eight Ebola patients in Lagos, the country's capital, will receive an experimental treatment called nano-silver.
“Don’t misuse your body for any reason”- Susan Peters
When asked by the Sun about possible advice for ladies who do all manner of things to achieve cheap social status,Susan Peters who says she was born with a silver spoon replied…
First, I will say that we (women) are like flowers that blossom for sometimes, but after a while go down. If you misuse your body when you are growing up, it will definitely tell on you when you are ageing….
I advise young women not to misuse their body for monetary reasons. Secondly, I will advise them to go to school and try to complete their education. They should be well focused on a particular vocation and develop on it.
Couple stabbed to death in Edo
Lagos residents enjoying 18-hour electricity -BPE
The Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr. Benjamin Dikki, has claimed that electricity consumers in Lagos State now get 18-hour uninterrupted power supply.
His claim was however countered by residents in the state who spoke with our correspondent on Friday.
Dikki, who made the remarks when members of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture paid a courtesy visit to the bureau in Abuja, stated that power privatisation in Nigeria had started yielding positive results.
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Presidency responds to statement which alleges GEJ unmasked area of Chibok women
Press release which alleges that president Jonathan has revealed location of Chibok girls is political dirty trick... All media organisations and persons on my mailing list should kindly disregard the press release purportedly issued by me earlier today titled: President Jonathan reveals location of Chibok girls and exposes Boko Haram masterminds.
Gov. Fashola blasts GEJ & VP Sambo, says Nigeria is worse off under their leadership
"Even recently, we all used to think that our National development was inhibited by the fact that we never had a university graduate as leader of any national government in an executive capacity. This perhaps alludes only faintly to some of what I have discussed about the elite consensus but it is not quite the same. Thankfully, the myth for graduate leadership, desirable as it is has now been exploded. We now have two graduates, a Zoologist and an Architect at the helm of our National affairs and I think that the majority of Nigerians would tell you today that their lives are worse off today than they were 4 years ago. Clearly in my view there must be more to leadership than a University degree and educational qualification.Continue..
OAU re-opens Aug 24
The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State have announced the re-opening of the institution after its closure in June due to students’ protest.
A release by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abiodun Olanrewaju, on Friday, stated that it will be officially re-opened on Sunday, August 24.
It will be recalled that OAU was closed on Wednesday, June 18, over protests by its students against the increase in their school fees.
Olanrewaju said, “Following the closure of the University on Wednesday, 18th June, 2014, the Senate of the University again reconvened on Friday, 15th August, 2014, to announce the re-opening of the University.
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