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10 — Vanguard, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021 :Vanguard News Rehabilitation: Lagos to shut Eko Bridge for 9 weeks By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—THE Federal Government, in collaboration with Lagos State Government, yesterday, said it would commence emergency repairs of the National Stadium bound of Eko Bridge from Costain to Alaka, with partial closure from Friday, June 4 to Friday, August 13, 2021. Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Fredric Oladeinde, who announced this in a statement, stated that the repairs were necessary, to complete the rehabilitation works at the opposite side of the Bridge earlier embarked upon by the Federal Government, hence the need for a notice of routes diversion. Oladeinde said: “Pending the commencement of the rehabilitation works, alternative routes have been made available for the awareness of motorists, to manage traffic during the period of repairs, as highlighted follows: traffic from Apongbon to Alaka, stadium, inner Surulere or Ikorodu Road, will be diverted to Eko Bridge to access Costain Roundabout to Iponri, through Alaka and Funso Williams Avenue. “Similarly, motorists from Eko bridge will have to navigate their desired destinations through Costain Roundabout to Abebe Village( by Nigerian Breweries Plc) through Eric Moore to Bode Thomas to Adeniran Ogunsanya, to access Shitta Roundabout by Stadium under the bridge to Funso Williams Avenue to Dorman-Long Bridge and Fadeyi-Ikorodu Road. "Motorists can gain access to Apongbon through CMS Outer Marina Road to connect Ebute Metta Ikorodu Road to access their destinations. Apongbon through CMS to Outer Marina to Adeniji Adele, Third Mainland Bridge, Adekunle to Herbert Macaulay Way, Jibowu and Ikorodu road will also be available." Construction of 4th Mainland Bridge begins Dec —Sanwo-Olu ....Reels out achievements, future plans By Olasunkanmi Akoni L AGOS—GOVERNOR Bababjide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, yesterday, hinted that the construction of the proposed Fourth Mainland Bridge will kick off in December, 2021. The construction of the bridge is estimated to gulp $2.5 billion, after it was reviewed upward from $2.2 billion. Sanwo-Olu, in his address, tagged: ‘Sanwo-Olu: 731 Days and Beyond, the State of the State Address, and the Glimpse of the Greater Lagos’, as part of activities commemorating the second year anniversary of his administration. Speaking on the proposed construction of the bridge, Sanwo-Olu said: "We believe that the construction of the 37km 4th Mainland Bridge would significantly change the face of transportation and movement in Lagos State. "The ground-breaking for the construction and building of the bridge will take place before the end of this year. Our PPP concessionaires appear committed, as they enter the final stage of the qualification process. All necessary funding has been secured by our partners.” Reeling out the achievements of his administration, the governor said: "Lagos is 0.4 per cent of Nigeria’s total landmass, with a population of 22 million, representing about 10 per cent of the country’s total population. Looking at the interaction between these figures, one will notice an obvious disproportion between population size and habitation space. "This, among other reasons, explains the perennial congestion on Lagos roads and across the state. As a government, we have undertaken several innovative means of ensuring that citizens’ travel experiences are palatable." :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058 AWARD—From Left: Past president, Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria, ICAN, and guest speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Adegbite; past president, ICAN, Princess Adenike Adeniran; Chairman, INEF Board of Trustees, Richard Okafor, and current President, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Mrs. Omosalewa Onilenla, during the Imole Noble Education Foundation Schorlarship Award ceremony, themed 'Keeping a Touch of Kindness Aflame, held at Idera Hall, Radisson Blu Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. Don’t introduce Sharia to S-West, PFN warns Senate ....Says it could stoke religious crisis Buhari sees Nigerians as conquered slaves —YCE By Ola Ajayi IBADAN—THE Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, yesterday, accused the presidency of worsening disunity, tension and fuelling ethnic distrust among Nigerians. The YCE also alleged that instead of strengthening the cord of unity that binds Nigerians together, the Presidency’s actions and utterances are in sharp contrast to what it preaches. While reading a communiqué after its meeting, the National President of the association, ANTI-GRAFT: ICPC infuses national values in curriculum, seeks teachers support A BUJA—THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has said it was pushing hard to get all stakeholders to implement a school curriculum infused with national values to fight corruption at the base. According to the anticorruption agency, the essence of the move is to inculcate integrity in Nigeria’s educational system. ICPC’s spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, who disclosed this during a radio programme, Public Conscience, on radio, produced by the Progressive Impact Organization for Community Justice Demola Bakre (retd) and the Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide, took exception to the recent appointments made by President Buhari. The communiqué read: “The Presidency urges Nigeria to unite, yet it continues to act in ways that aggravate disunity, tension, and, consequently, mutual ethnic distrust by the nepotistic appointments. Buhari's administration is grossly insensitive. “He talks down on state governments, which have the mandate of their people to govern them, and he sees Nigerians as conquered people, slaves in their own land. Development, PRIMORG, Wednesday, in Abuja, said despite integrity already being taught in schools, the commission developed a fully packaged curriculum, now infused into existing school subjects, referred to as carrier subjects. She urged teachers to take the teaching of national values to the next level by training pupils and students under their care through living by example, than by mere words. “If I am talking to teachers right now, what I will tell them is that ICPC is developing the national value curriculum and the national ethics and integrity policy but you the teachers are the ones needed to take it up to the next level. By Ola Ajayi I BADAN—THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, yesterday, warned the Senate not to stoke embers of religious disharmony in the South West through a proposed introduction of Sharia law in the zone. The Christian body warned that the move would surely be counterproductive, just as it urged the Upper House not to fall headlong into the ditch by bringing what it described as 'subterranean moves' in the constitutional review being carried out by the Senate. The PFN, in a statement by its President, Bishop Francis Oke, said: “The problems confronting our nation are too enormous than wanting to create more. Sharia Law is alien to our culture of “He made 19 appointments and all are Muslims. I’m a Muslim, but that’s not Nigerian. We must do things that unite all of us; that will make us look like one. As a young man, I lived in the North. In the early ’50s, I was a registration staff. We didn’t know the difference between Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. “Nigeria is a living lie, experiences and reality of the last six years of the Buhari administration bring to the fore the reality that we still remain a mere geographical expression. “The Buhari administration has remained very insensitive to the challenges confronting the country, the sufferings of the “You are the ones to train these students, train more by example than by your words. So be the role model that the students will copy,’’ she said. Ogugua noted that the national values curriculum, which was for the teaching of values and ethics at all levels of education, starting from primary (basic), secondary (post-basic), and tertiary institutions, were recording marked progress before the development of National Ethics and Integrity Policy by ICPC. She said: “ICPC identified 12 core values, these values are already topics in civic education but are now built into different subjects having been developed into objectives and teaching methodology.” According to her, the values religious existence in the South- West. As such, nobody should, through any subterfuge, bring it in so as not to cause a crisis. “We want to strongly warn the Senate and those behind this plan to unsettle the peace being enjoyed in this country, to desist before it’s too late. Don’t instigate religious crisis in the South West; this could further threaten the fragile peace of the country “The secularity of our existence which is devoid of any religious people. President Buhari in 2016 invited any African willing to come to Nigeria and they will be issued visa at the borders. Clearly, that was an invitation to chaos. President Buhari has continued to speak in Chad, to address heads of state in France, Mali but has refused to address his people at home. He must address Nigerians.” On the comments credited to the Attorney-General of the Federation, the YCE said it was difficult to believe if the author of the comments ever attended a Law school. Justice Bakre said: “I believe we make very retrogressive statements. Without being include honesty, discipline, the right attitude to work, citizens’ rights and duties, national conscience, contentment, regard, courage, family values, religious values, and traditional values. Ogugua, however, noted that the success of the scheme was faced with budgetary challenges upheaval, should not be tampered with under whatever guise. We shall resist this by every legal means at our disposal. “Without the Sharia, we have always lived peacefully with our Muslim brothers. We know that this is the handiwork of those who are hellbent on unsettling our country at all costs. But the good news is that they have failed. As far as we are concerned, the proposal won’t fly and can never fly.” egoistic, I lived in America and England for years. In our elementary law, fencing of animals is a norm and if your animals escape and cause damage, you will be liable. “A whole AGF, it’s unfortunate. Each time he speaks, I just ask, are you sure he went to Law school? If you read the general basics of law, not even a degree, you will not talk the way he is talking. “Anyway, any intelligent and intelligible AGF will weigh his statement. I just think that the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, should do something about the AGF making a reckless statement.” On the integrated mass transit system, he said: "From this day on, we are certainly heading in the direction that our city will become so connected by an integrated mass transit system that a trip to the farthest part of the state would be reduced by half of the curwhich the commission hoped to overcome, adding that the impact of teaching integrity in schools was also greatly affected by poor home training of pupils and students, hence, the reason the commission was training teachers.
Vanguard, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021 — 11 :Vanguard :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnewsNEWS HOTLINES: A G M — Chairman, Lafarge Africa Plc., Mr. A d e b o d e Adefioye (left), and Company Secretary, Mrs. Adewunmi Alode, during the company’s 62nd Annual G e n e r a l Meeting, AGM, in Lagos, Tuesday. Social Media Conversation STATE OF THE NATION: Parts of Nigeria experiencing civil war —-Falana • Says 2023 polls threatened • As Olanipekun advocates true federalism, judicial reform • Constitution Review waste of public funds —Afenifere By Dayo Johnson & Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—HUMAN rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, expressed worry that the 2023 general elections could be jeopardised because some parts of the country are experiencing what he described as a civil war. Also, former president of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, has advocated true federalism and immediate reform in the judicial system, among others. The duo said this at the final sitting of the Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution South-West Zonal Public Hearing, Lagos Center, held in Ikeja. In his presentation, Falana condemned the rate of impunity in the country. This, however, came on a day the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, described the ongoing process of amending the 1999 Constitution as an exercise in futility that cannot achieve any meaningful result. But Falana, in his presentation, said: “Our country is ruled by the rule of the rulers, and not rule of law. People commit all manner of crime and get away with it because there are no sanctions. This must change. The Social Security Bill must also work, so that jobless people can get stipends, pending when they get full employment. “What can we do very quickly to save this country which is on the verge of collapse? If you don’t want people to break away from Nigeria, we must give them confidence and a sense of belonging, don’t declare war. “Therefore, for the constitutional amendment to be fruitful, for us to have genuine outputs from this meeting, peace must reign. We must address Nigeria’s problem frontally. We must also give people the confidence of peace and inclusion if we must kill the cries for secession. Don’t declare war. “In fact, in some parts of the country, the 2023 elections are already threatened. “INEC offices are being burnt, police stations are being burnt. In that kind of atmosphere, we cannot pretend that there is political stability in our country. “Essentially, I am making a case for the poor, the masses of our people who are generally not represented in fora of this nature which are most times for the elites and privileged among our people. “Unless we are prepared to make these provisions justiciable and enforceable, this country will know no peace. “Whatever constitution will come forth after now must make justiciable the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state without which there will be no political stability in Nigeria.” Also speaking, Mr. Olanipekun, represented by his son, Oladapo, said the Electoral Act should be amended to allow governorship election cases to terminate at the Supreme Court. This, he said, is important to stem the from Police barracks, warning that whoever flouted the directive would be ejected from the barracks. The POWA President, who was on a three-day familarisation tour with POWA members in Lagos State and also to assess the Police children school, said such beer parlours should be moved out of the barracks. Addressing POWA members at the POWA hall in Ikeja, Lagos, she said: “During my inspection on Wednesday, I saw a lot of beer parlours in the barracks. I know you tide of conflicting judgments arising from Appeal Courts. Constitution Review waste of public funds —Afenifere Meanwhile, Afenifere’s Secretary- General, Mr. Sola Ebiseni, who addressed newsmen in Akure, said an amendment of the constitution will not cure the anomalies in the country. Ebiseni said: “Afenifere believes in and advocates fundamental restructuring of Nigeria for the reinvention of a constitution as the agreed principles of governing Nigeria and its diverse ethnic nationalities by our founding fathers, which will ultimately replace the imposed 1999 unitary constitution. “Amending the constitution is an exercise in futility and a waste of time and public fund.” Besides, he said: “We cannot claim to be the Federal Republic and be governed by a unitary constitution. We cannot claim to be in a democracy and be governed by a constitution that does not emanate from the people. “Amendment will not cure the anomalies. You cannot put something on anything and expect it to stand. “Every session of the two arms of the National Assembly, since 2007, has embarked on the same jamboree of constitutional amendment spending public funds on public hearings, without any result. “The National Assembly is part of the issue to be determined in the process of restructuring and cannot legitimately be the judge in such exercise." POWA boss moves to ban beer parlours in Police barracks By Evelyn Usman L AGOS—PRESIDENT, Police Officers Wives Association and wife of the Inspector-General of Police, Hajara Baba, yesterday, decried the proliferation of beer parlours in Police barracks, describing it as a bad influence on children and the future of Nigeria. To curb this, she vowed to send a signal to the Force Headquarters for the relocation of beer parlours (wives) encouraged such. You should speak to your husbands to follow the rules and regulations of the barracks. “I grew up in the barracks because my father was a policeman. Then, there was no beer parlour. And with the future of our children in the barracks, we should be careful because these children are more intelligent than us. “We are going to send signals for the relocation of the beer parlours. If you don’t keep to it, you will be ejected from the barracks.” Amen!!! Ask the ‘Andrews'! Just in case...!
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