Malpractice: Pensioner, wife take exam for kids in Delta

  

A 66-year-old retired federal civil servant, Fredrick Omorieve and his wife, Evelyn Omorieve, have been arrested by the police in Asaba, Delta State, for allegedly sitting examinations for two of their children.

The couple were arrested by officers of the Delta State Police Command, who had been working on a tip-off over the Omorieves’ alleged involvement in examination malpractice.

Our correspondent learnt that the couple were sitting for an examination in one of the “miracle centres” operating in Edo State for their two children, (a male and female) when they were arrested by plain-clothes policemen working on a tipoff.

The examination was the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

After their arrest at the venue of the examination, police detectives reportedly took their statements under cautions and they were released on bail.

The couple were, however, rearrested by the police on Saturday around the Deeper Life Church Street, Anwai Road, Asaba. They were accused of jumping bail and are currently helping the police for further investigations.

Confirming their arrest, the Police Commissioner in the state, Alkali Baba Usman, said their case file was transferred from the Edo State Police Command to Delta after they were alleged to have jumped bail after being arrested for alleged examination malpractice.

Sources said the suspects had been under pressure to assist two of their six children sit the examination last week Thursday at one of the “miracle centres” in Benin-City, where police detectives arrested them.

It was further gathered that the two children had sat for the sub-regional examination more than three times without passing despite series of lessons they attended before they were re-enrolled at the “miracle centre” in Benin.

Source: Punch

I will punish you if you violate human rights: Buhari to Soldiers

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President Muhammadu Buhari has warned members of the Nigerian Armed Forces against human rights abuse and violation in the cause of their duties.

The president sounded the warning yesterday at the combined passing out parade of the 399 officer cadets of the 62 regular course and short service course 43 of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna.

He added that officers and men of the Armed Forces should resist the temptation of harassing and intimidating Nigerians while carrying out their constitutional roles.

According to the president, the current administration would uphold the rule of law and it has therefore become necessary for officers and men of the Armed Forces to desist from conducts that infringe on the rights of citizens. He noted that the fight against terrorism cannot be realised without a credible and effective military.

The president expressed the commitment of his administration to due process, merit and total observance of the rule of law as central pillars of a prosperous and democratic society.

The president enjoined the new cadets to play their roles as junior leaders in tackling the prevailing security challenges in the country.

LP, PPA refuses to hang Buhari’s Portait

 

President Buhari

 Two other political parties, the Labour Party and Progressive Peoples Alliance, have joined the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in refusing to hang the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in their respective secretariats, Punch Newspaper reported.

The two parties hinged their decision on the action of the ruling All Progressives Congress, which before it came to power, allegedly refused to hang the portrait of former President Goodluck Jonathan in its national secretariat.

Both the LP and PPA stressed that their action was a payback for the APC.

This is as chieftains of the PDP expressed divergent views on their party’s action, which was announced by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Tuesday.

“We will never hang his (Buhari) portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and, therefore, we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,” Metuh had told our correspondent on the telephone.

The newspaper’s correspondent who visited the national secretariat of the PPA, situated along Emeka Anyaoku Street, Area 10, Garki Abuja, on Friday, observed that the President’s portrait was conspicuously missing.

The National Chairman of the party, Mr. Peter Ameh, explained that the APC blazed the trail of “subtle civil disobedience” when it was in opposition.

Ameh said, “Your storyline should be whether the APC had the photograph of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. They did not. And that is the story; the APC did not have Jonathan’s portrait in the party’s national secretariat.

“Everything is about precedent. Throughout Jonathan’s tenure, the APC didn’t have his photograph; so, may be other political parties are also learning from the precedent set by the APC. They are following in the footsteps of the party during the last administration.”

A similar situation obtained at the national secretariat of the LP also situated in Garki.

The National Chairman, LP, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, said the party did not have Buhari’s portrait, noting that apart from the fact that the APC never accorded Jonathan such respect, the new administration had failed to make the official portrait of Buhari available to it.

Abdulsalam said, “We don’t have the photograph of President Buhari in our secretariat because the APC never had the photograph of ex-President Jonathan in their offices.

“We are supposed to get it but we don’t. The fact of the matter is that the Federal Ministry of Information should have called us, not only political parties, to say that the President’s photograph is available at the Federal Ministry of Information and that all organisations should apply for it.”

However, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed, dismissed the controversy as “a non-issue.”

Source: Punch

North: Highly Impoverished region- Osinbajo

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has expressed concern over the poverty in the country despite her position as the largest economy in Africa, immense population and status as the sixth largest producer of oil.

Speaking at the Northern Reawakening Forum Summit on Saturday at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Osinbajo observed that in the 19 northern states of Nigeria, the human development indices “are by far poorer than the rest of the country.”

 

VP. Yemi Osinbajo

But he stressed that the challenges are the same across the country, saying “the difference is not of a kind but in degrees,” according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice President, Laolu Akande. However said the Federal Government is committed to tackling issues that affected Nigerians in any part of the country.

He said, “The Northern states occupy about 70 per cent of the land mass of the country, they also have the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the country, the lowest rate of child enrolment in schools, highest number of unemployed young people, highest level of poverty and faces the challenge of inter-ethic and inter-religious conflict including the Boko Haram terrorism.”

The VP said the Northern Nigerian Economic Summit of 2012 was the first forum to draw attention to some of the depressing statistics about the condition of the North.

According to him, the Buhari administration has been very active in interventions in the North-East, due to the immediacy of the crisis in that axis of the nation.

Applauding the theme of the Summit, “Building a Safe, Secure and Economically Inclusive Northern Nigeria”, the VP decried the derailment from the foundations set by the founding fathers which has led to the challenges confronting the country.

Meet the new King and Queen of IMT, Enugu

Mr. and Miss. IMT 2015

It was a moment of glamour as the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu gets a new beauty queen.

The Miss IMT crown has been a highly contested crown in the institution and has always attracted keen competition among contestants each year.

Miss IMT 2015, Onodu Queendalin

However, the institution got for herself a new beauty queen recently. Her name is Onodu Queendalin, a HND 1 student of Banking and Finance in IMT.

The utterly overwhelmed new queen expressed her shock over the victory. According to her, she only contested for the much coveted crown because of her aspiration to be  a model while she further promised to use her new status as Miss IMT 2015 to create a forum where students of the Institution will be trained in modeling and help them achieve their dream as career models.

Mr. IMT 2015, Chigbo Emmanuel

Meanwhile the newly introduced Mr. IMT had an ND 1 accountancy student of the Institution, Chigbo Emmanuel Chinonso emerge as winner.

 

Contestants

The Student Union Government SUG team of IMT led by it’s president Comrade Paul Uche urged them to be good ambassadors of the institution and be of good conduct always.
The event held at Rich Crest hotel Enugu also served as an opportunity for students of the Institution to catch their last minute fun before commencing their semester exam, which officially is starting on Monday.