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Showing posts with label authority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label authority. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Senate Hears How Nigeria's Aviation Minister Used Federal Airport Authority
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority DG, Dr Harold Demuren, sacked
The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Dr. Harold Demuren, has been sacked. A statement was released today Monday March 11th saying the decision was approved by President Goodluck Jonathan after “a careful consideration” of Demuren’s “unsatisfactory response to the numerous concerns of stakeholders in the aviation sector.” His successor will be announced soon.
Monday, February 25, 2013
The Position of Authority in Nigeria Youth Unemployment
It is the duty and responsibility of the government and different policy makers to provide such an environment and conditions which are conducive for the youth entrepreneurial activities. Different policy initiatives encourage and motivate young people to come up with new ideas and start their own youth enterprises. This will first reduce the incidence of unemployment to a great extent and as such would have dealt a massive blow to the problem of youth restiveness.
To do this effectively, the policymakers need to realize that alone public spending is not going to contribute towards the welfare of the youth. It is the policies of the states that must be created in a way that will help to stimulate the younger people as well as their parents and communities to invest in themselves. The main essence of implementing youth friendly policies is they are not as costly as direct investments but require a lot of political trade-off to actually implement the policies so that they benefit each and every young person living in the country.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Falana faults demolition of Abuja houses
Mr. Femi Falana| credits:
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has faulted the position of the Federal Capital Development Authority on the demolition of 500 housing units in Minanuel Estate, Goza, Lugbe phase 11, Abuja.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
N’Assembly tells FCDA to stay planned demolition of 37 estates
The joint committee made the appeal at an interactive session with officials of the FCDA, Abuja Municipal Area Council and the developers.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP-Kogi), said that the committee would meet with the owners of the estates to determine how they obtained documents for the lands they had built on, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
FAAN warns travellers on Abuja airport taxis
Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has warned travellers and visitors to be cautious when boarding airport taxis in Abuja in view of the new wave of security threat posed by some illegal taxi drivers.
FAAN’s Regional General Manager at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Mr. Chris Bature, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said, however, that security measures put in place by FAAN and other security agencies at the airport had reduced the activities of fraudsters and touts at the airport.
Bature said that FAAN’s security operatives had discovered that fraudsters had devised a new system known as “one-chance,” where a taxi driver would carry passengers from the airport and rob them on the way.
The FAAN official advised travellers to make use of registered taxi drivers or official car-hire taxis with evidence of registration or FAAN identification cards upon arrival and when departing the airport.
Bature said that the rate of crimes at the airport had drastically reduced, due to the activities of security agents, following the measures initiated by the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, to make Nigeria’s airports safe and secure for travellers.
“The frequency of suspects arrested at the airport has dropped because we are working tirelessly in conjunction with the Air Force, Police and other security officials to apprehend criminals day and night to secure the airport.
“Presently, the security challenge at the airport is that of ‘one-chance,’ where illegal taxis carry passengers and along the way, they will push out the passengers and do away with their belongings.
“We are advising member of the public to use the official airport taxis if they must use commercial vehicles from the airport to avoid ugly incidents,” Bature said.
A document given to NAN by the FAAN Crime and Investigation Bureau, showed that 180 suspects were arrested between June and October this year for offences ranging from drug peddling, illegal car hire operation, stealing, touting and ticket-racketing.
Four suspects, Kenechukwu Eze, Mohamadu Abdulkadir, Keneth Udo and Emmanuel Igwe, were arrested on Wednesday for illegal car hire operation and were handed over to the police for prosecution.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Commander at the airport, Mr. Lawal Hamisu, also revealed that the number of drug traffickers arrested at the airport had reduced by half in comparison with 2011.
He told NAN that the number decreased, following the installation of modern scanners at the airport between January and June.
Hamisu had said that only five suspected drug peddlers were arrested at the airport as against the average of 10 monthly in 2011 before the installation of the screening equipment.
“We arrested a minimum of 10 drug barons monthly in previous years but since the beginning of this year, it has gone so low that in a month, there may not even be an arrest,” he said.
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