The National Youth Service Corps has drawn the attention of security agencies to an ongoing online fraud perpetrated by some unscrupulous persons who have been extorting money from the public with a view to influencing the posting of corps members.
The organisation said the scammers carry out their fraudulent acts with advert placement on social media sites, requesting money for instant posting and relocation of corps members.
The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier-General Ibrahim Shuaib, who raised the alarm, appealed to Nigerians not to give money to anybody, adding that posting and relocation of corps members was free.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have paraded two of its staff members who allegedly extorted money from Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates with the promise to help them secure university admission.
One of the affected staff members, Andy Okoro, a level 12 officer in Delta State JAMB office, said he collected N500,000 from four parents, out of which he paid N180,000 to a colleague, Gambo Ibrahim Abba, to help facilitate their university admission.
Trouble started when one of the parents in Delta State petitioned JAMB on Okoro’s activities, a move that prompted the Board to investigate deeply into the issue.
Okoro told journalists in Abuja that he engaged in the fraudulent act because of economic hardship.
A mild drama, ensued when his accomplice, Gambo, a level 8 officer at JAMB headquarters, said he was probably hypnotised by Okoro to engage in the shady deals.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who expressed surprise that the affected staff defied the Board’s zero tolerance for corruption, vowed to ensure they face the full wrath of the law.
Oloyede called on parents and candidates not to allow anyone collect money from them on the guise of helping them to secure admission to their choice institution, as the system is now fully automated.
The Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has given automatic employment to the five best graduating students of the institution.
The announcement was made during the third convocation ceremony of ADSU which took place 12 years after the last convocation ceremony in 2009.
At the combined convocation ceremony, held at Mubi, the governor said a total of 11,650 graduands comprising of 10,771 undergraduates and 1,079 postgraduate, covering nine sets of graduands from 2009 to 2019, received the awards of their degrees.
Fintiri gifted the institution with a professorial chair for a proposed department of management, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation in addition to the award of N25 million annual grant for cutting edge research to be funded directly from state coffers to the institution over the next four years.
Recall that ADSU, is the only university in the country, that was sacked and completely over run by Boko Haram in 2014.
The governor also expressed happiness that the university was holding its convocation after 12 years, describing the occasion as gratifying not only to graduands but all citizens of the state.
Two students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro Campus who were kidnapped on Sunday night have regained freedom.
The police Public Relations officer in the State, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed that Adeyemo Precious and Oyefule Abiola are currently with the Police, adding that they would be reunited with their families.
The two students were released on Tuesday night, however, it is not clear if any ransom was paid.
It will be recalled that the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, had earlier directed the security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the kidnapping of the two students and also ensure that the victims come out unhurt.
The steppes of Kazakhstan’s Almaty region are not the most inviting place, especially in winter time, but one unusual phenomenon has been attracting a lot of tourists there lately.
Located between the villages of Kegen and Shyrganak in the middle of a snow-covered plateau is a 14-meter-high ice tower that continuously spouts water which turns to ice almost instantly.
The unique structure looks like a miniature volcano, only instead of hot lava, it spouts water.
The sight has become popular both among locals, but also Instagram fans and influencers looking for special backgrounds for their social media posts.
According to a recent Instagram post, the ice volcano is the result of an underground spring that spouts water all year-round.
In the summer, it causes a green vegetation bloom for tens of meters around it, but in winter time, when temperatures drop below zero, the water freezes creating the ice volcano cone.
It continues to spray water all around, creating a natural ice-rink.
Photos and videos of the ice volcano in Almaty recently went viral on social media, attracting large numbers of visitors to the otherwise barren steppes, some of whom drove for several hours just to see the weird natural formation in person.
Interestingly, locals say that this is the first year that the volcano actually gushes water, as in previous years there was only, a smaller, empty ice cone.
In the wake of alleged sharp practices in property ownership and land approvals, the South-west Lagos State Government will adopt digitalised Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) in the first quarter of next year.
This is just as the state government has received over 4,300 petitions on land grabbing.
Consequently, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has warned land and property permit-approving agencies to live above board.
He made it clear that his administration would no longer tolerate officers engaging in sharp practices in issuing approvals.
Speaking at the maiden Lagos Real Estate Market Place Conference and Exhibition with the theme: “Unearthing real opportunities in real estate, making Lagos a 21st century economy”, Sanwo-Olu stated that residents and real estate practitioners were complaining about turnaround time for permit approval.
Represented by a Director in the ministry, Mrs KehindeTaiwo, Onigbanjo said the task force on land grabbing had received over 4300 petitions with over 2000 concluded in the one year and half of its operation.
Executive Director, Generation, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Engr. Kassim Abdullahi, says the company has an power purchase agreement deal to supply 70MW of power to West African nation- Togo from Calabar Power Plant in Odukpani, Cross River State, Nigeria’s south-south.
Engr. Abdullahi, who gave the hint during an inspection tour of the plant, also disclosed that discussions are ongoing to supply another 100MW to Paradise City in Calabar, stressing that the company is working to improve power supply to Nigerians through Eligible Customer framework.
A statement by Head, Communication & Public Relations, Mrs. Olufunke Nwankwo, noted that the plant, which is wholly owned by NDPHC under the NIPP program, has five units (Gas Turbines) with a total designed capacity of about 600 Mega Watts.
Speaking shortly after the inspection, Engr. Abdullahi described the plant as one of the best amongst NDPHC plants with uninterruptible gas availability and a good dispatch network.
He said the company already has a power purchase agreement to supply 70MW of power to West African nation- Togo from the power plant and are in discussion to supply another 100MW to Paradise City in Calabar.
Newly built Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Comprehensive Health Centre, has been commissioned by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at Alaba-Oro, Ifelodun LCDA, Lagos, South-west, Nigeria.
The two-storey fully-equipped healthcare facility is a project of the LCDA, which was designed to provide monthly health services to an estimate of 5,000 people in five local councils.
The council named the impressive edifice after the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Sanwo-Olu described the development as a “positive turnaround” for residents of the council, given that the land on which the PHC is built was formerly a dumpsite.
Besides, the Governor formally opened the revamped secretariat of the Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area, which was completely razed and looted by arsonists in the destruction that trailed the EndSARS protests, last October.
While inaugurating the PHC, Sanwo-Olu said the facility would increase access to quality health services for people at the grassroots and further raise the capacity of the State Government in healthcare intervention being delivered.
The Nigerian government will be partnering with Singapore-based renewable energy firm, B&S Power and Sunnyfred Global, to design and construct a 200 MW Solar photovoltaic system to combat the country’s age-long electricity problems.
Arrangements and agreement have progressed past the preliminary stages and the FG have also secured collaboration with other stakeholders and technical partners to begin construction developments on The Ashama 200MW/HR Solar PV Farm which is the largest Solar Photovoltaic Farm in West Africa.
The farm sits on about 304 hectares of land in Ashama Village, Aniocha South LGA of Delta State, Nigeria’s south-south.
This commendably follows in the footsteps of Togo who are currently constructing the largest Solar Photovoltaic project in West Africa, which is expected to increase their rural electrification rate to 50% by 2022, and 100% by 2030.
Solar power has been gaining popularity as a preferred source of electricity since the turn of the last decade, as its worldwide use has multiplied by more than four times with leading global economies like China, USA, Japan, Germany and India championing this course.
In fact, four of the five countries with the highest level of electricity consumption are the heaviest employers of this source of power.
Makers of Dove, Sunsilk and Vaseline line of products have reached the decision to exclude the word “normal”from their cosmetic products.
Its came to this conclusion after a study found that the word made most people feel excluded and would therefore be excluding it from over 200 products.
Unilever, a company based in London and the owner of a myriad of personal care products said that it would also no longer alter digitally, the size, skin color and body shape of the models in its advertising as part of its Positive Beauty initiative. The company also promised to increase its feature of underepresented people in its advertisements.
The changes came after the company commissioned a 10,000 person study across Brazil, China, Nigeria, US, Saudi Arabia and four other countries.
The results of the study showed that 56% of participants felt that the beauty industry had the capacity to make people feel excluded and 7 out of 10 people agreed the word “normal” had negative effects in advertising.
Sunny Jain, Unilever’s president for beauty and personal care said that “we know that removing ‘normal’ from products and packaging will not fix the problem alone, but it is an important step forward”
He added that the company was committed to challenging harmful norms and stereotypes.
Unilever has said that an aim of theses steps and others was to better “challenge narrow beauty ideals.
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