Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Hausa Traders And Soldiers Clash In Mile 12, Lagos

There was pandemonium in the Mile 12 area of Lagos on Monday when some Hausa traders went on the rampage and reportedly engaged soldiers in a clash.

According to eyewitnesses, the confusion started at about 2pm when the traders were chased out of the Ikorodu Road by the soldiers.

Our correspondent gathered that the soldiers, who were in a patrol van, had stopped to rid the road of traders, who were selling their wares and causing gridlock. The Hausa traders were parts of the “offenders”.

It was gathered that the Hausa traders, allegedly resisted the soldiers and engaged them in a fight.

A shop owner in the area, who identified herself simply as Adejoke, said the clash compounded the traffic snarl in the area for about an hour, as many people fled.

She said, “Some Hausa traders started the fight in the afternoon. The soldiers sent everybody away from the road, but they refused to leave. No vehicle or bus could drive pass as the Hausa traders threatened pedestrians and commercial drivers with cutlasses.”

Our correspondent gathered that the rampaging traders also prevented passengers from boarding vehicles of the Bus Rapid Transit scheme.

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, said he would get back to our correspondent.

He, however, had yet to get back as of press time.

Source: PunchNg

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APC To Unveil Buhari’s Policy Roadmap

A two-day conference where the policy direction of the incoming government of the General Muhamadu Buhari will be unveiled, will hold in Abuja on Wednesday and Thursday, the All Progress Congress (APC) has said.

The conference themed “Implementing Change: From Vision to Reality”, is a brainchild of the Policy, Research and Strategy Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, and will mark the end of the directorate’s work ahead of the swearing in of the president-elect.

According to a statement by the Deputy Head of the Directorate and former Minister of Youth and Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the President-Elect Mohammadu Buhari is expected to declare while the Vice President-elect, Prof Yemi Osibajo, would chair it. Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair would be the Keynote Speaker at the dialogue. Several other technocrats drawn from various fields are also expected to deliver papers in the realization of the policy roadmap.

Topics for discussion include: Improving the National Economy for Shared Prosperity; Repositioning Agriculture for Job Creation and Economic Prosperity; Developing Infrastructure for National Development; Achieving Sustainable Reforms on Oil/Gas Sector; Reducing Inequality and Achieving Sustainable Human Development; Achieving Holistic and Sustainable Reforms in the Education Sector; Developing and Education System Relevant to Nigeria’s Developmental Aspiration; Achieving Qualitative and Affordable Healthcare.

Others include: Achieving Diversity and Inclusion in Public Life; Exploring Sports, Tourism and Creative Industry for Job Creation; Governance and Improved Efficiency in Public Service; Tackling Corruption in Public Sector and Foreign Policy and Agenda for Change.

Some of the Speakers and Discussants expected at the dialogue include Ms Ifueko Omogui-Okauru, former Chairperson of the FIRS; Dr Rilwan Babalola, former Minister of Power; Dr Tajudeen Umar, former Country Chair, Nigeria –Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Authority; Prof Niyi Ayoola Daniels, President International Institute for Petroleum Energy Law and Policy; Mr Tunde Ahonsi, Resident Representative UNFPA, Ghana; Major-General Ishola Williamsn (rtd).

Others speakers include: Prof Pai Obanya, Chairman WAEC; Dr Ayo Teriba, CEO Economic Associates; Prof. Bolaji Aluko, Vice Chancellor Federal University, Otuoke; Prof Mohammed Tabia of the Department of Islamic Law, Bayero University, Kano; General Abdulrahman Dambazzau , former Chief of Army Staff; Prof Ibrahim Gambari, former Nigerian Permanent Representative, United Nations; Mr Fola Arthur- Worrey, former Solicitor-general, Lagos State; Ms Bolanle Onagoruwa, former Director-general BPE; Mr wale Fapounda, of Legal Resources Consortium; and Prof Etannibi Alemika, Chairman CLEEN Foundation.

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Omg: See Woman Who Wants To Break Record For World’s Smallest Waist

Meet a 20-year-old woman obsessed with a waist shrinking, who wears a corset for up to six hours a day four times a week and hopes to break the world record for the smallest waist, Essex, England, UK.

Romanie Smith has already managed to reduce he 63,5cm waist to 45,7cm by wearing steel corsets and doing waist-training exercises but for the stubborn woman the sky is the limit. Despite deformed internal organs and pain in her ribs the only thing she wants is to have the perfect hourglass figure and a 38cm waistline.

Speaking about her obsession, Romanie says, she is aware of all damages corsets do to her health but is not going to stop, “Wearing a corset 24 hours a day all the time does tend to damage your ribs, it can bring them in, it can snap ribs, cause bruising and damage the bottom of your lungs. They are the problems that you can find if you are corseting to extremes and doing it too much – it is not advised that you do it like that.

I guess because you don’t see many people wearing corsets anymore so people are kind of shocked when you are wearing one. Some people say that my looks is disgusting and unnatural. Someone even said I must be starving myself. They say that I look anorexic but I am a small person I am not big so it doesn’t make any difference. I just am small – and I eat like a horse. This is my body and I don’t care what anybody else has to say.”

While spitpoisons are criticizing Romanie’s mania and appearance, the woman’s family and friends are always here for her, they support her idea of becoming a real pin-up girl like Marilyn Monroe. Now she performs as a fetish model and hopes her efforts are not in vain as she beleives her new waist will rocket her career in a new direction.

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Pay Our 3 Years Arrears Before Leaving Office – Pensioners Cry Out To Fashola

The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Lagos State Chapter, Najeemdeen Ibrahim, has pleaded with the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, to make sure that his administration pays the three-year arrears of 142 per cent pension increment approved by the Federal Government in 2000.

Speaking to newsmen on the struggle for the actualisation of their demand, the Union Chairman disclosed that when the 142 per cent increment was announced by the Olusegun Obasanjo regime in 2000, Lagos State did not implement it prompting the pensioners to head for court.

The judge decided the case in their favour ordering the state government not only to implement the increment, but to also pay all the arrears to the pensioners.

“Out of the six-year arrears, the state government paid only three years, leaving a balance of three years,” Mr. Ibrahim said. “That was for the 142 per cent. The state has not even implemented the six per cent and 15 per cent. So we are calling on the Babatunde Raji Fashola administration to ensure the payment of these arrears and implementation of the six per cent and 15 per cent increment before leaving office.”

Premium Times reported that the union had written several letters to the state government on the payment of the three years’ arrears but the government has not been responding.

Furthermore, the union members embarked on protests to the state governor’s office. During one of the protests, Mr. Ibrahim said, Mr. Fashola attended to them, assuring that his administration would pay the arrears before his tenure ended.

“Indeed, a circular was released in November (2014) that the government will pay the three years arrears in instalment,” the NUP boss who also doubles as the southwest chairman of the union explained. “They promised to pay the first 18 months, then spread the remaining 18 months over six months of three month arrears each together with the implementation of the six per cent and 15 per cent increment.”

“They only paid the Alausa pensioners leaving out local government, state parastatals and primary school teaching and non-teaching pensioners,” Mr. Ibrahim said.

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President Jonathan Signs N4.425tn 2015 Budget

President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the 2015 Appropriation Bill into law, THE PUNCH has authoritatively learnt.
Investigation by our correspondent on Monday revealed that Jonathan decided to sign the budget into law a couple of days back without fanfare.
There have been concerns among Nigerians on whether Jonathan will sign the budget before May 29 when he will formally hand over to Muhammadu Buhari or he will leave it behind for the incoming administration which is believed may still prepare a supplementary budget.
But a Presidency source told our correspondent that the President signed the budget about two weeks ago immediately after the document passed by the National Assembly was transmitted to him.

The Senate had passed the 2015 budget on April 28, following the passage of the same bill by the House of Representatives on April 23, with an expenditure outlay of N4.493tn, up from the N4.425tn proposed by the Executive.

When contacted, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, also confirmed that Jonathan had signed the budget.
Although he also did not give any reason why the signing was not made public, Abati said the President signed the document “some weeks back.”
The Senate, in passing the budget, slightly reduced the N2.607,601, 000,300 proposed by the Executive to N2.607,132,491,708 as recurrent expenditure and simultaneously scaled down the capital expenditure from N642,848,999,699 estimated in the proposal to N556,995,465,449.
Education takes the lion’s share of the budget with N392.3bn; followed by the military which gets N338.7bn while police commands and formations will receive N303.8bn.
In the same vein, N237bn was voted for the health sector; N153bn for the Ministry of Interior while N25.1bn was budgeted for the Ministry of Works.

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Governor Fayose Given 5-Day Ultimatum To Rescue Kidnapped Lecturers

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ekiti State University chapter, on Monday, gave a five-day ultimatum to the state government to secure the release of their colleagues from the kidnappers’ den.

According to the lecturers, if their colleagues are not rescued within the time-frame, they would embark on an indefinite strike.

They revealed that five teachers were kidnapped at different locations in the state within two weeks.

It was also disclosed that two out of the abducted five persons had been freed to go and look for N210m ransom for the release of the others.

A lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Femi Omisore; Folasade Alade of EKSU and Kikelomo Adegun, wife of the former Chief Medical Director of the EKSU Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti are those in the kidnappers’ den.

The protesting university teachers marched to the Governor’s office where they were received by the Deputy Governor, Kolapo Olusola.

While addressing Oluisola, Chairman of the EKSU chapter of ASUU , Olufayo Olu-Olu said: “This is the same way Boko Haram started in the North.

It started like a child’s play but today, a visit to the North would show the level of callousness and damage the sect has done to the system.

On this premise, the government must act fast and stop this nonsense.”

“These kidnappers erroneously think our members are rich; but they do not know that we have not received salaries in EKSU since March, 2015.

Three of our members are still being held and they are demanding for N70m on each of them. Our fear is that, immediately these people realise that we are not rich, they may decide to waste those that they are still holding.”

“We are therefore pleading with Governor (Ayodele) Fayose to act fast because it seems the police and the DSS have no clue to how the victims can be saved.”

The deputy governor however, informed the protesters that Governor Fayose had gone to Abuja to meet the new Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase over the development.

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Five Years After, Dagrin’s Accident-Ridden Car Abandoned In Lasu Over 20K Debt

Five years after his untimely death, the car crashed by Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun popularly known as Dagrin in the ill-fated accident that led to his death, has been abandoned at the Lagos State University, Ojo Campus.
NET investigations revealed that the car was abandoned due to a misunderstanding between the Lagos State University Students’ Union and show promoters who brought the crashed car to the institution.

A member of the Students’ Union who spoke to NET revealed that the car was brought to the school as a side attraction for screening of the late rapper’s biopic, Ghetto Dreamz produced by Ope Banwo‘s Stingomania Records in 2011.
The movie was produced to celebrate the life and times of the hip-hop artist.
Speaking to NET, a former Social Director of the Students Union, Ahmed Jimoh, who was in office during the period, Ope Banwo abandoned the car because he could not pay the money agreed with the students body. Upon asking how much the money is, Jimoh gave the figure as N20k, an amount he said was earlier agreed upon before the movie was shown on campus.
‘There was a negotiation between the student union through my office that a sum of N20,000 would be paid to the union’S purse before the film could be shown, they initially gave me a cheque which bounced. After then, I tried communicating with Barr. Banwo’s people but they didn’t give me an audience until my tenure elapsed,’ Jimoh told NET.
‘Since then the car has been abandoned inside the school even as I speak with you,’ he added.

he abandoned car, NET discovered, has been overtaken by weeds, and renders a painful sight of what should be an important relic preserved perhaps in a museum or as a monument in memory of the late star.
Dagrin died following a collision with a stationed vehicle in front of Alakara Police Station in Mushin with his new Nissan Maxima, on April 14, 2010.
The then rave of the moment, known variously as Akogun, CEO or Baeack ‘O’ grin, finally gave up the ghost on April 22, 2010.
His brand of music was largely influenced by the streets and hip-hop delivered through his indigenous Yoruba language and has continued to inspire many others after him. Among rappers who have emerged since the death of Dagrin is YBNL boss, Olamide.
Ope Banwo, who said he lost N20m on the biopic for the late rapper, could not be reached to comment on the story but we will bring you updates on the story.

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