President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned 748 Housing Units of Federal Housing Authority Estate in Zuba, Abuja.
The entire estate covers a total of 18.5 hectares of land area. In the course of executing the estate project, over 13,000 Nigerians were employed directly and indirectly.
President Muhammadu Buhari at the commissioning presented keys to some new homeowners at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Estate Zuba who subscribed through FHA Rent-to-Own delivery model, urging them to live together in peace and harmony.
Commending the Chairman, Managing Director, Members of the Board and Staff of FHA on the successful completion of the Estate, the President noted that the project was another testament of his administration’s commitment to lift people out of poverty.
In his address, Minister @FMWHNIG, Babatunde Fashola said “we now have 748 completed housing units for Nigerians and their families to shelter,’’ adding that 75 contractors were engaged in the course of the project.
The Managing Director of FHA, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, described the commissioning of the project as a manifestation of the visionary and deliberate housing policy of the President, who in keeping with the promise of providing shelter to Nigerians approved the grant to FHA.
Ashafa disclosed that the Authority has also commenced the development of Bwari Estate, Abuja near the Nigeria Law School, which will deliver 336 units of various houses under the first phase of the project.
The south-west Lagos State Government on April 29, 2023 demolished 13 illegal buildings at I.K. Peter Street, Ajao Estate, cited in close proximity to the Murtala International Airport, Lagos.
Officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), backed by taskforce officials stormed the area with bulldozers to begin demolition of the illegal structures after series of notices served the occupants.
Environment Correspondent, Gimalo-Angel Olowogoke who visited the scene spoke to a former resident of the area, Mr. Peter Mbang.
“In fact, it was on Friday, one of my brothers called me that they are demolishing house in I.K. Peters Street. I said, Okay, I will come over because I was once living here.
While I was working here, I’ve been working… This is almost my 20 years in Ajao Estate. And here I came here 2012.
Since 2012, there’s a house there I came here, I met. They say it’s Ik Peter’s house. Ike Peter’s house, I met here in 2012. That particular 2012, this street was not like this. The whole of this place, it was only the house that was there. Where I am so free. Since after 2012, I started seeing the erect a fence here.
They started construction here. I was working here with some of the builders because I’m into water engineering. I’ve been working here with most of the houses here. I follow and do it. But after they have came that time and they make a gutter that link that…
I think it was the government because it was one of this Yuba company that was constructing the gutter. But later they closed the gutter and put on a fence. Since that 2012, people has been coming here and developed. My wonder is why is it that government have been coming here? Because I could vividly knew that before they give somebody plan in this place, the plan was from the government. Before they give you plan to build, government must find the…
In fact, this fence was not the fence that they built here. This place was a gutter. This place was a gully that water that comes from the airport passes through. It wasn’t a fence. It is when they now put that back wire there, the airport put that back wire there, they now put this fence and they started filling this place. That is what I knew because I’ve been here since 2012.
I don’t think there was approval. All I knew is that most of the land that was sold here was sold by people. It is people that sold the land to these people. I could vividly tell you that some of the people I can tell you about, three people in this line here who has a building. I have never seen them in their house. I’m in their eyes. They have not come in here. But they stay over outside there, bought a land here, and they give people to develop it. And they develop it. You understand me? Like the first man in the first house at the last extreme end, very close to Jalobia Garden. That man has never come to Nigeria. It was a thing. Last year, last year, December, I made the demand. It is only his family when the builder has finished the parking. I’ve never seen demand. It is people who sold the land to them and they started building. You understand me? Who are these people? I don’t know. It is government that knows because government… I will tell you the truth, because they came here and they are some dues that government came here to collect.
They give them notices. I think this notice started about two or three years ago. You understand me? That is what I will know. I know about. It’s about two or three years ago. But normally, we know that this area was designated for airport, the whole of this area. You understand me?
What is paining me so much is, why didn’t government come when this thing was a flood when this thing was. Even when they put on defense, government would have came with this quote, and they put on and they stop this and tell people don’t be there and put a notice. This should be out of bounds for everybody. But why is it that there are a lot of people after collecting money from people’s hard-earned money?
See the pipeline? This pipeline has been here for over… I know of this pipeline.
Nobody’s supposed to stay here because it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous. But if it is not this thing, why is government not coming? This should be earlier than this”
The University of Liberia College of Health Sciences (ULCHS) has received full accreditation from the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery (LBNM) to offer direct entry to BSc in Midwifery.
The decision was announced by LBNM authorities, through a letter addressed to the Vice President for the College of Health Sciences at the University of Liberia, Bernice T. Dahn.
In a statement signed by the LBNM Chairperson, Humphrey Gibbs Loweal and LBNM Registrar/Executive Secretary Cecelia C. Kpangbala-Flomo, ULCHS has met 92% of the total standards and verification criteria, resulting in full accreditation.
A school must meet 80% or above of the achievement standards to achieve full accreditation and recognition status.
LBNM will conduct Quality Assurance (QA) assessments in the first two years of ULCHS’ operation, adding that classroom standards would be included in the assessment.
LBNM requires that all Midwifery students be indexed in the first sixty days of admission using the LBNM indexing portal.
Each student will receive a Clinical Logbook after the successful and timely completion of the indexing process.
The Vice President of the College of Health Sciences, Bernice T. Dahn welcomed the assessment team as they presented the letter to the school, added that ULCHS can start academic activities in Midwifery.
With this accreditation, ULCHS is empowered to provide quality education in midwifery while maintaining the high standards required by LBNM.
Breaking through, a licensed film of Beijing 2022 will be theatrically released in Nigeria on April 28. Consulted by china’s first winter Olympic gold medalist yang yang and her coach xin qingshan, the film is executive produced by xu zheng and directed by wang fangfang. Meng meiqi and xia yu lead the cast, with pei kuishan, sarina, jiao gang, and zhang guoqiang starring. Wang zhebin and liu ruifang serve as producers with a screenplay by wang fangfang and wang zhebin.
As the final chapter of the “china Olympic trilogy”, the film is based on real event, recreating the battle for china’s first gold medal of winter Olympics in 2002, and showing the unremitting efforts and glorious journey of generations of sportspersons to win the milestone gold medal.
The film was based on the true story of Chinese short-track speed skater yang yang. As china’s first winter Olympic gold medalist, yang yang won the gold medal in the women’s 500m short-track speed skating with a time of 44.187 seconds at the 2002 salt lake city winter Olympics. It was a major breakthrough for china to win the first ever winter Olympics gold medal. Throughout her career of 23 years, yang yang has won 59 world championships, making her the Chinese athlete who has won the most world championships.
The Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has given N630,000 as scholarship awards to the best returning National Diploma II and Higher National Diploma II students in the various departments as part of measures to motivate the newly admitted students to excel.
The school’s rector, Temitope Alake, who gave a N10,000 cheque to each of the best students during the matriculation ceremony of 4,000 ND and HND students for the 2022/2023 session said the best student scholarship award is one of the schools’ beliefs in excellence.
Alake advised the newly matriculated students to shun all forms of social vices, adding that the institution would continue to maintain a zero-tolerance for all anti-social behaviours.
He also urged them to take their studies and acquisition of additional skills through entrepreneurship development and vocational studies seriously.
He said entrepreneurship has become the mainframe of financial stability and wealth creation in the world at large. Nigeria as a nation places a high premium on its development.
He added that entrepreneurship will be added in the curriculum of all tertiary institutions in the country to infuse entrepreneurship spirit, mentality and skills in our youths right from school.
According to their union, Thousands of Hollywood television and movie writers will go on strike Tuesday, after talks with studios and streamers over pay and working conditions ended without a deal. the strike means late-night shows are expected to grind to a halt immediately, while television series and movies scheduled for release later this year and beyond could face major delays.
“we have not reached an agreement with the studios and streamers. We will be on strike after the contract expires at midnight,” the writers guild of America (WGA) said in an email to members, obtained by newsmen.
Studios’ responses to its proposals had been “wholly insufficient, given the existential crisis writers are facing,” the writers’ union said.
It came after the alliance of motion picture and television producers (amptp), representing studios including disney and netflix, said negotiations had “concluded without an agreement.”
The strike could have potentially catastrophic effects on the us entertainment industry.
The last time hollywood writers laid down their pens and keyboards, in 2007, the strike lasted for 100 days, costing the los angeles entertainment economy around $2 billion.
This time, the two sides are clashing as writers demand higher pay, minimum guarantees of stable employment and a greater share of profits from the boom in streaming, while studios say they must cut costs due to economic pressures.
Writers say it is becoming impossible to earn a living, as salaries have flat lined or declined after inflation, even as employers reap profits and fatten executives’ pay checks.
More writers than ever are working at the union-mandated minimum wage, while shows hire fewer people to script ever-shorter series.
Tanzanian government through the Ministry of State, President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, PO-RALG, has disbursed 230.85bn to the Local Government Authorities for the construction and repair of primary schools infrastructure.
According to a statement released by the Head of Communication Unit in the ministry, Nteghenjwa Hosseah, the funds were released early in April this year.
Following the delivery of the funds, the Minister for PO-RALG, Angellah Kairuki has directed all the leaders of the Regional Secretariats and LGAs to ensure that criteria, conditions and guidelines for the use of project funds are properly considered in order to have productive projects that meet the criteria and value for money.
She said the project is a continuation of Pay by Results Program.
She directed that information on the receipt of funds for the construction of infrastructure must be presented to the community benefiting from the projects and ensure the participation of all stakeholders from the regional level to the village/street is strengthened.
She also called on all citizens and the community surrounding the projects to participate fully in the implementation of the projects, including the protection of all property and construction equipment, adding that construction of infrastructure must be completed within 90 days from the date of receiving the funds.
She added that along with the new schools that will be built and the construction of classrooms in overcrowded schools, the first phase of funds will be used to rehabilitate eight schools, build 368 nursery classes, 41 classes of children with special needs, two dormitories, 41 teachers’ houses and 2,899 toilets.
More than 12 million children in mainland Tanzania will benefit from the program that aims to make preprimary and primary education better and more accessible across the country
Aki and pawpaw have added a new feather in their hats by becoming the first nolly-wood characters to have their own video game.
Developed by play network studio, in collaboration with blue portal software, the ‘epic run’ game sees the rambunctious duo go on an epic run in an attempt to escape trouble.
The pair appear to be voiced by the nollywood actors behind these comic characters, chinedu ikedieze and osita iheme.
His studio acquired the rights to the aki and pawpaw brand back in 2021 and produced a remake of the aki and pawpaw movie which was released in the same year. The movie opened with ₦30 million before landing a licensing deal with netflix.
Ikedieze and iheme first took on the aki and pawpaw roles in the 2002 aki na ukwa movie.
Over 20 years later, they have become Nollywood household names, hilarious memes, and Nigerian pop culture icons.
The suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu-Yunusa Ari, and other suspects have been arrested and are now in police custody and are currently being interrogated at the Force Headquarters, Louis Edet House, over alleged impropriety in the during the April 15 supplementary governorship poll in the state.
The development was confirmed by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, following an inquiry by our correspondent.
Yunusa-Ari had stirred controversy after declaring the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, as the winner of the Adamawa State governorship election, when collation of results was yet to be completed.
This was followed by an announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission proclaiming Yunusa- Ari’s declaration as null and void, while he was summoned to its headquarters in Abuja, but failed to honour the summon.
The electoral umpire further wrote to the NPF asking it to investigate, and if found culpable, prosecute Yunusa-Ari over alleged electoral infractions.
Following the receipt of the letter the IG subsequently asked an investigative team to work in collaboration with INEC on the matter, as the electoral umpire revealed that it didn’t know the whereabouts of the suspended Adamawa REC.
On April 20, LN247 reports that the President Muhammadu Buhari approved Yunusa-Ari’s suspension pending the conclusion of an investigation by the police.
Confirming the arrest of Yunusa-Ari and other suspects on Tuesday, Adejobi said, “The Nigeria Police Force hereby confirms the arrest of Barrister Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Adamawa State REC, who was alleged to have announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress winner of the gubernatorial elections during the recently concluded supplementary elections following calls for his arrest and investigation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the basis of alleged impropriety in the course of supplementary gubernatorial polls in the State.
“Barrister Yunusa-Ari, who was arrested by the Police Election Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Team in Abuja on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, is currently in police custody and is being grilled to ascertain the motives and motivations behind his alleged improper actions during the supplementary elections in Adamawa State.
“In addition, other officials and individuals culpable in the saga are being interrogated by the team.
“The Inspector-General of Police has given clear assurance that every individual involved/indicted in the matter will be apprehended and investigated in line with the provisions of the law for possible prosecution. The IG has assured of the commitment of the Force to ensure that justice is served in this case and that all guilty parties are brought to justice.”
The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) has received a delegation from the Nigeria Customs Service Command and Staff College for a week-long study tour.
The study mission is under the theme “Harnessing Capacity Building for Improved Modern Customs Operation,” and the delegation comprises senior students and lecturers of the Nigerian Customs Staff College.
Speaking at the welcoming ceremony, the LRA Deputy Commissioner General for Administration (DCGAA), Samuel Bennett Jr welcomed the delegation to Liberia and urged them to use every opportunity in achieving the goals of the study tour.
Bennett said Nigeria has been a very good partner to Liberia and particularly to the LRA over the years and it was prudent for the LRA to share its knowledge.
He said Capacity building is very critical to the developing of any institution, therefore LRA is glad to receive all student on the study tour.
He disclosed that there are plans by the LRA Commissioner General, Thomas Doe Nah to set up a Customs Training Site in the country to provide capacity-building training in Customs.
The head of the delegation of the Nigeria Customs Service Command and Staff College (NCCSC), Abolaji Oluyomi Adebakin said that the aim of the strategic study tour is to fulfill the institution’s course guide and a means to connect the students with other Customs administrations in a bid to improve their experiences and knowledge.
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