09102019 - 2020: Buhari presents N10.33trn job creation budget to NASS

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JANDOR: from left—Oba of Shasha Kingdom, Oba Babatunde Ogunronmbi; Founder, Jandor
Foundation, Mr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran; Special Guest of Honour/wife of the former governor of Lagos
State, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, and Osolu of Irewe Kingdom, Oba Abideen Agunbioyinbo, during the
opening of Jandor office complex in Lagos.
Host communities petition Buhari,
request NNPC takeover of OML 11
By Davies
Iheamnachor
PORT HARCOURT—
COMMUNITIES of
the Oil Mining Lease,
OML, 11 in Rivers State
have petitioned President
Muhammadu Buhari,
requesting the Nigerian
National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, to take
over the oil field.
Also, National Coordinator
of Conscience of Ogoni
People, COOP, Chief Gani
Topba, noted that the call
was for the people to have
a fair share of their wealth
to better their lives.
The OML11 covers
By Samuel
Oyadongha
& Emem Idio
YENAGOA—A Federal
High Court sitting in
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,
yesterday, granted some of
the prayers sought by
Senator Heineken
Lokpobiri against All
Progressives Congress,
APC; its flag bearer, Chief
David Lyon, and the
Independent National
Electoral Commission,
BENIN
Electricity
Distribution Company,
BEDC Plc, has earmarked
a total of 200,200 metres
to be rolled out to
customers in Delta State
in the next two years with
a monthly cumulative
average of 10,000 units
under the Metre Asset
Provider, MAP, scheme.
BEDC’s Executive
Director, Commercial, Mr.
Abu Ejoor, disclosed this
communities in Bonny,
Andoni, Opobo/Nkoro,
Etche, Omuma, Eleme,
Gokana, Khana, and Tai
Local Government areas of
Rivers State and Ukwa-
East and Ukwa-West
councils of Abia State.
The hosts also enjoined
Buhari not to renew the
operatorship of Shell
Petroleum Development
Company, SPDC, on the
field.
The Chairman of OML
11 Traditional Rulers
Council, Eze Obioma
Nworgu, who announced
this yesterday, while
speaking at a meeting of
representatives of the host
INEC, over disputed
outcome of the September
4 governorship primaries
in the state.
Trial judge, Justice Jane
Inyang, at the resumed
hearing in the suit by
immediate past Minister of
State for Agriculture and
Rural Development,
Senator Lokpobiri, granted
the prayer for substituted
service, among others.
The court, however,
declined the prayer for an
abridgement of time, which
at the media launch of
MAP in Asaba for Delta
State customers, saying
the scheme was taking off
in Asaba and will
eventually move to all
local government areas in
the state.
According to him, some
of the locations flagged
for take-off of MAP within
Asaba Township include
NTA Road, behind NTA,
behind Government
communities at Owaza in
Ukwa-West Local
Government Area of Abia
State, called on President
Buhari to order for robust
negotiation with the host
communities.
Nworgu, the traditional
ruler of Etiti-Oha Owaza
community, said: “We, the
OML 11 host communities,
urge President
Muhammadu Buhari to
direct NNPC to take over
the facility to allow for a
robust engagement with
the host communities.
“That is the mandate of
the people because the
President, who loves his
people by his own good
required the defence to
enter appearance, file and
serve their respective
defence, to seven days due
to the plaintiff’s prayer that
it was a pre-election matter
that needed accelerated
hearing.
According to the court, the
plaintiff cannot unilaterally
abridge the time for
response of the defense
counsel.
The judge, while noting
that the argument by
plaintiff’s counsel,
BEDC earmarks 200,200 metres for Delta
House, Amaechi Iyio Way,
Anwai Road, Infant Jesus
axis, Borrow Pit
community and Ibuzo
town road.
Ejoor opined that the
MAP scheme will assist in
reducing customers’
complaints on metering,
wrong and estimated
billings, which he hinted
account for over 60
percent of complaints
from customers.
administration, has vowed
to carry people along.
“We are saying this
because of the good works
of President Buhari,
looking at Ogoni cleanup.
And the Vice President
visited Abia State and
promised that Federal
Government will clean up
Asa.
“We are calling on the
Federal Government to call
on NNPC to take over the
facilities, so that the host
communities can
renegotiate.
“No good road in the oilbearing
communities. No
electricity in Owaza and
Asa since 1958.”
Court grants 4 of Lokpobiri’s prayers
against Bayelsa APC, gov candidate, others
Fitzgerald Olorogun, that
the respondents have been
running away from being
served, granted that APC
should be served by
pasting of the processes at
the party secretariat or
service of same on the
Legal Officer or any other
senior official of the party.
She ordered that the flag
bearer of the party, Chief
Lyon, be served by pasting
the processes on the
campaign secretariat on
Isaac Boro Expressway
and serve INEC by
pasting the court papers
on the state secretariat of
the commission on Swali
Road.
Speaking at the end of
proceedings, the plaintiff’s
counsel, Fitzgerald
Olorogun, described the
decisions of the court as a
positive development,
saying “it would have been
difficult to serve these
people with the court
papers. With the court
order, it will no longer be
difficult.”
Urhobo urge Buhari to ignore
protest against Okumagba
By Onozure Dania
W ARRI—THE
Urhobo of Warri in
Warri South Local
Government Area, Delta
State have urged
President Muhammadu
Buhari to ignore protest
over the appointment of
Olorogun Bernard
Okumagba, Managing
Director-designate of
Niger Delta Development
Commission, NDDC, by a
group—APC Common
Cause of Concerned Ijaw,
Isoko and Itsekiri—
published in a national
daily.
The Urhobo of Warri, in
a statement by Professor
Ekporode Ukuvwede, Dr.
Lawrence Ukuvwede and
Chief Akhali Adaighofua
in Warri, described the
claims canvassed in the
said publication as
baseless, unfounded and
that its authors are faceless.
They said Okumagba
hails from Urhobo area of
Warri South and that Warri
Urhobo area comprises
Agbarha Kingdom, Warri
and Okere Urhobo, noting
that the two Urhobo
kingdoms put together are
more in population and
size in Warri South council
with seven out of the 12
By Chioma Obinna
& Olaide Jejelola
P RESIDENT
Muhammadu
Buhari has been urged to
urgently intervene in the
battle for supremacy
between the Association of
Medical Laboratory
Scientists of Nigeria,
AMLSN, and
management of University
Teaching Hospital,
Calabar, Cross River State.
National Publicity
Secretary of AMLSN, Dr.
Casmir Ifeanyichukwu,
who made the call in a chat
with Vanguard, also
appealed to the Minister
of Health, Dr. Osagie
Ehanire, to call to order the
Chief Medical Director,
UCTH, Calabar, and to
evolve processes that will
end the continuous
victimisation of their
members serving in all
federal and state tertiary
hospitals in the country.
He said: “We are
concerned about the grave
consequences of this
untoward situations on our
health sector because at the
receiving end are the
patients.”
He alleged that in a bid
to frustrate the medical
federal wards in the
council.
They also noted that
Warri Urhobo riverine
communities of Oteghele
and Ukpokiti are oil rich
with OMLs 108 and 30
oil-delivering lines.
They also pointed out
that SPDC, NPDC/
Heritage Petroleum and
some oil companies have
their operational offices
in Warri South council till
date.
The statement further
cited the landmark
Supreme Court
judgement in suit Nos.
W/48/68/SC/309 to
disproved the Itsekiri
ownership claim over
Warri South council.
On loyalty to All
Progressives Congress,
APC, they claimed that
the Urhobo of Warri
voted more for APC
than the itsekiri in the
last general election
due to the influence of
Chief Okumagba, just
as the statement
accused the Itsekiri of
betraying their son,
former Governor
Emmanuel Uduaghan,
APC senatorial candidate
in the last general
election in Delta South
senatorial district.
Crisis at UCTH: Lab Scientists
send SOS to Buhari
laboratory science
profession, the
management of UCTH
had entrenched chaos,
quackery, disruptions of
quality medical
laboratory services in the
teaching hospital, hence
putting the lives of
healthcare seeking
members of the public in
jeopardy.
He also alleged that
medical laboratory
students are persecuted,
while their members are
being terrorised and
detained at UCTH.
He said the
management of UCTH
was not only victimising
medical laboratory
scientists at UCTH, but
has now resorted to
molesting them as well.
His words: “Since
September 1, medical
laboratory scientists (staff
and interns) in UCTH, as
well as medical
laboratory science
students of University of
Calabar, who are on
medical laboratory
training at UCTH have
not had peace from the
reign of terror that is
being unleashed on them
by the management of
UCTH, Calabar.”