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June 18, 2021

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Lagos Residents Cry Out Over Rising Traffic Robberies

Residents of Fagba junction, Daddy Savage, Jonathan Coker, Railway Crossing, Pipeline Road and environs in the Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of the State are in distress over incessant robberies and killings by hoodlums in the areas.

Some of the residents in an interview said that the attacks had become frequent and that many of the miscreants were not just dispossessing residents and passers-by of their belongings, but were also harming and killing them.

One of the heads of residents' associations in the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attacks were becoming a daily occurrence, adding that three persons were stabbed to death at Fagba junction in the past week.

Another resident, who simply identified himself as FEMI, said the miscreants operate mostly in the early hours of the day and from 8pm, adding that motorists now avoid the Agege-Fagba Road to get to their various destinations.

Cases of traffic robbery especially in the night have also been on the increase in various parts of the metropolis.

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June 9, 2021

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Buhari Receives First Made In Nigeria Cell Phone

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received the first made in Nigeria cell phone, known as ITF Mobile.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Industry, trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, presented the phone to the president, before the commencement of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.

According to Adebayo, the phone is one of the 12 cell phones produced, using locally sourced components, by the Electrical/Electronics Technology Department of the Industrial Training Fund’s (ITF) Model Skills Training Centre.

He said: “Twelve indigenous mobile cell phones produced by the Model Skills Training Centre of the Industrial Training Fund; an agency under Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment was launched.

“It gives me great pleasure Mr President, to present you with one of the phones.”

NAN reports the president also presided over the swearing-in of one Commissioner each, for the National Population Commission (NPC) and the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCC) ahead of deliberations at the cabinet meeting.

Those sworn-in were Wakil Bukar as Commissioner of the FCC and Mohammed Dattijo Usman as Commissioner of the NPC.

Bukar replaces the FCC Commissioner from Bauchi State while Usman replaces the NPC Commissioner from Niger.

NAN observed that the representatives from the two states died recently.

Meanwhile, President Buhari is presiding over the meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the conference room of the First Lady’s office.

Among those physically attending the meeting are Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha and Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.

Others include the Ministers of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; Finance, Zainab Ahmed, Justice, Abubakar Malami and Trade and investment; Niyi Adebayo.

The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan and other Ministers are participating in the meeting from their various offices in Abuja online.

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June 8, 2021

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Remodeled Chibok School Where Over 200 Girls Were Kidnapped In 2014 Commissioned

Seven years after over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram from it’s hostel, Government Secondary School, Chibok wore a new look with the commissioning major facilities by the Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen on Monday.

Tallen, was invited by Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, to commission the remodeled school now equipped with classrooms and desks, a computer room, laboratory, among other facilities, and has many books presented to it and a security team put in place.

where she commissioned Government Secondary School, Chibok, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram on

The school, which was vandalized during the Boko Haram attack of April 14, 2014, had full rehabilitation work commencing when Zulum gave approval on November 16, 2020, during an assessment visit.

Since the attack, the school had remained closed while academic activities were taking place at a primary school in Chibok town since 2014.

Zulum offered support to parents of the schoolgirls affected by the 2014 abduction, as he had previously done at different times.

Aside unveiling of the GSS in Chibok, Governor Zulum commissioned 200 low cost houses newly built for the permanent resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently residing in temporary camps.

Zulum also commissioned a newly built government lodge to encourage routine visits to Chibok in order to increase direct access of residents to authorities.

Zulum noted that resettlement efforts were being made possible because of some gains recorded by the federal government in the ongoing peace restoration efforts which, he said, was reaffirmed in President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of an Army Chief from the military’s theatre of operations in Borno State.