Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Sunday 8th March 2020

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APC Denies Scheduling Emergency National Executive Committee Meeting

The All Progressives Congress has refuted reports that it will be convening an emergency National Executive Committee meeting to solve its ongoing intra-party leadership crisis.
The party in a statement jointly signed by Babatunde Ogala, National Legal Adviser; Lanre Issa-Onilu, National Publicity Secretary; and Waziri Bulama, National Secretary; also denied the notice issued by Acting National Secretary, Chief Victor T. Giadom, claiming that Giadom does not have the power to convene a NEC meeting.
In the fresh statement, the APC stated that the conditions for which a national executive committee meeting could be convened as provided by Article 25(B)(i) and (ii) of the APC constitution is yet to be met. 

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“The National Executive Committee shall meet every quarter and or at any time decided by the National Chairman or at the request made in writing by at least two-thirds of the members of the National Executive Committee provided that not less than 14 days’ notice is given for the meeting to be summoned.
“Without prejudice to Article 25(B)(i) of this constitution, the National Working Committee may summon an emergency National Executive Committee meeting at any time, provided that at least seven days’ notice of the meeting shall be given to all those entitled to attend.
“The National Working Committee, therefore, disassociates itself from the said illegal and unauthorised notice of meeting of the National Executive Committee.
“Members of the National Executive Committee and the totality of the members of our great party are, therefore, requested to ignore the said notice and/or invitation as a product of mischief that should not be given any probative value.
“The National Working Committee shall continue to protect our constitution and convene its meetings and the National Executive Committee meetings, in accordance with the provisions of the party constitution,” the statement reads.

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One Dead As Bank Collapses In Lagos

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One person has been confirmed dead as a Keystone Bank undergoing renovation collapsed in Lagos.
The bank, located at Palmgrove axis of the state, caved in with the labourer trapped in it on Saturday night.
Confirming the incident, Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Nosa Okunbor, said that the agency was on the ground trying to recover the remains of the dead person.
He said, “An unidentified man was killed in the collapse. Our men are currently at the Keystone Bank.” 
As at the time of this report, officials of LASEMA, police, Lagos State Building Control Agency have cordoned-off the area with operations still ongoing. 

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Osun: Excavating Ruins Of Oranminran Years By Festus Adebayo

 
A major and consequential event took place last week in the quiet state of Osun, which students of politics, power and government should take more than passing interest in. The state governor, Gboyega Oyetola, last Monday assented the recommendations of a panel set up to review some of the policies of his predecessor and boss, Rauf Aregbesola, who is now the Minister of Interior. Oyetola was his Chief of Staff. The state executive council not only approved the recommendations of the committee, made up of very respectable persons in the education sector, it reversed many of the policies, which included Rauf Aregbesola’s single school uniform, his reclassification of the public school system, renaming of all primary and secondary schools and the queer policy of the previous government of re-designating single s** schools as mixed-s**. Many of such schools had been in existence for more than half a century but Aregbesola, in 2013, through a policy whose purport was at best opaque and queer, cancelled their history and gave them new names, new identities. By the time he finished with that state in 2018, Aregbesola had ensured that no one who ever schooled in that state had an alma mater. He had recreated all the schools in his own image. 
Let me declare ab initio that I am an interested party in Osun educational matter although Ondo State is my home. All my schooling was done in the then old Oyo State which included today’s Osun. From St. John’s Primary School, Ikire, to Ajangbala DC Primary School, Iwo, down to Akinorun Grammar School, Ikirun and ending up at Cherubim & Seraphim High School, Ilesa, I lived my dawn learning at the feet of teachers of teachers. But all these schools of mine were victims of Aregbesola’s excitable and apparently less-than-logical policies. The queer and uncanny educational policies gave the impression that the driver behind their wheels probably experimented with the excitable mindsets of destroyers of history and of great empires and castles.
Of a truth, Aregbesola was queer as governor. Many people have given his awkward thinking process diverse negative interpretations. They even said he laughs when others are sober. This mysterious method of thinking percolated virtually every policy his government touched for eight years. Take for instance his re-designation of the school system in Osun State from the nationally sanctioned 6-3-3-4 model applicable in all states of the federation, to a strange 4-5-3-4. If his desire to be against-method, in the mould of the philosophy of science of Paul Feyerabend, cohered with human reasoning, he probably would have been celebrated as an uncanny but revolutionary thinker. The policies however ended up ghastly, gulping billions of Naira of a state that was barely surviving. These policies made the profound submissions of some analysts which gained currency a couple of years ago a life of truth. The analysts had reasoned that, with the challenge of ‘balance’ very apparent in the decisions taken by our leaders in government, we may need to subject them to some level of tests to ascertain their mental compliance with what obtains on the streets.
The Aregbesola 4-5-3-4 model meant that pupils in primary schools ended their elementary class journey in Primary 4. They then proceeded to what is called Middle School – a ghastly mixture of upper primary and junior secondary schools.  Established schools of several decades of existence and with renowned pedigrees, suddenly transformed into what he labelled Middle Schools and were so renamed. My alma matter, C & S High School, along Iyemogun Road in Ilesa, suddenly became a Middle School and could only accommodate students from JSS 1 to 3, plus primary 5 and 6 pupils. What that also meant was that graduates of Osun primary schools didn’t have Primary Six school leaving certificate – because there were no primary schools again. To worsen it, when these young kids left Primary 4, they ended up in these middle schools that are most times in far-flung geographies, outside their jurisdictions.
Perhaps the most recondite to penetrate in the thinking process of the Aregbesola educational model was his decision to ‘restructure’/merge the public schools in Osun. In 2013, he decided to violate ancient educational groves by re-naming and ‘reclassifying’ schools and the implications were very grave. For example, Baptist Girls High School, Osogbo, under this queer policy, immediately turned into a mixed school. WAEC, which embosses names of schools on certificates, was not informed of this and so, an awkward situation arose where a boy carried the certificate of a girls’ school. This is with the implication that, in a Nigeria where fakery is second name, any holder of such certificate is viewed as a forger ab initio. How could such child explain that he was a victim of a challenged governor who, in the process of his excitement, lumped the sexes together under a single s** name?
Other examples of this atypical mental output abound. St Charles Grammar School in Osogbo used to be a boys’ only school. In the weird thinking of the governor, he lumped boys and girls into St. Charles. For Ilesa Grammar School, he decided to demolish iconic structures there and give it a new name. Many ex-students of the school appealed to him for a change of mind. Former governor of Lagos State, Lateef Jakande, was reported to have written to Aregbesola, pleading with him not to walk this tendentious route on his alma mater. Not only did he ignore Jakande, he changed the school’s name to Ilesa High School and destroyed history.
This was also the fate of Osogbo Grammar School. Those days when I was at Akinorun, Oso Gramms had a renown that made us quiver. It was the first secondary school in the whole of the Osun Division which included Ogbomoso in current Oyo State. Aregbesola’s roving spirit couldn’t be tethered by the renown of Oso Gramms and its enviable history. He changed it to Osogbo High School and balkanized the school’s land, building what he called a mega school on same land, fenced the structure he built therein and named it Government High School, Osogbo. This was right on the school’s sports centre’s land, the same thing he did with Ilesa Grammar School.
Perhaps in the single uniform policy of his for all schools in the state could his unusual thinking be properly apprehended. Aregbesola centralized the uniform system and in 2013 when he began it, he promised he would give each pupil a pair of uniforms, free of charge. He did and distributed free uniforms to all of them but the clothes were so inferior that they lasted barely for more than one term. Thereafter, he asked the pupils to buy the uniforms, which they purchased from a sole supplier he brought from Lagos for N1,800 per child. This was a rip-off. Students used to buy uniforms for between N800 and N1000. But their unusual governor foisted a monopoly on the distribution of the clothes and authorized the agent from Lagos, said to be his neighbor, to sell the clothes to every pupil in all the 30 local governments of the state. Aregbesola, who prided himself as Oranminyan but which citizens later inflected to Oranmiran (another calamity) did not think this was an assault on decency and public morality. A garment factory he set up and called Omoluabi Garment Factory held the franchise for sewing and selling the school uniforms.  What that translated into was that the jobs and means of subsistence of local tailors and cloth sellers were, for that period of time, abridged and given to some privileged people from Lagos. Those who attempted to sell the cloths were caught and remanded in Ilesa prisons by his government. It was a real Koseleri (unprecedented) government.
But those of us whose schools suffered mere name-change were lucky. There was a great school called Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo. Aregbesola, against protests and pleadings, demolished that school and planted a dubious shopping mall there. 
For a government which advertised its abiding interest in education, you would think that the superstructure of a good education, which demanded that teachers were well taken care of, would be its testament. Not for Aregbesola. He crowned these abstruse-minded policies with a cruel regime of owing teachers’ salaries, as he did civil servants’ in the state. He invented and patented the skewed governmental system of halving workers’ salary.  When he left government in 2018, he was said to be owing 34 months of half salary and later premised this on a claim that he had agreed with the workers to pay only from whatever was the accruals to his government. Pensioners also groaned under this queer model with many of them dying in the process.
Aregbesola built some model schools which he called Mega Schools. Gargantuan structures they were of a truth, but the mental process behind building model schools, especially in places where they were not needed, became a huge issue of discussion. Built with billions of naira loan taken from Islamic bond called Sukuk, each for a minimum of N1.2bn, Osun is today gasping from the suffocation of repayment of these and other loans used in funding peremptory-minded white elephant projects.
The Osun State University’s case is even pathetic. From when he took over the reins of government in November, 2010 till he left in 2018, Aregbesola barely gave a single kobo to this school, either as subvention or for recurrent expenditure or even capital grant. It survived entirely on self-help. When the LAUTECH crisis resurfaced towards the end of his tenure, he held high the wicked system he used in Uniosun, claiming that the model should also apply and LAUTECH too should learn how to live from hand to mouth.
Thank God, Oyetola has given us back our schools – and he is paying teachers and pensioners without going to CNN to announce it. He deserves the accolades he has received for being pro-people and a real Omoluabi. Now, Alhaji Jakande and several millions of alumni Osun schools can hold a thank-God party to celebrate their victory over arrogant arbitrariness. 
I am however surprised that the Oyetola government said it would retain the Opon Imo system of the Aregbesola years. It is funny that the government won’t discontinue this system that everyone knew was a tablet of sleaze. The question to ask is whether anyone in Osun had ever seen a tablet of Opon Imo since the scam was brought about? If Osun had a House of Assembly, the right path of honour in redeeming this serially pauperized and brutalized state in the hands of Aregbesola is to call for a public enquiry on the whereabouts of the public money which transformed into the heist called Opon Imo (people call it Opon eemo – bizarre tablet). Its other name is an open slap on the face of everybody he gathered to Ilesa when it was launched at the Zainabab Hotel, Ilesa, a programme featured live for three hours by Channels television. I was there. There should be a public probe or a truth commission, at least to ensure that the ruins of the Aregbesola years are properly interred.
To all students of power, this is another cardboard-constructed power base by a man who built a mansion on quicksand which just collapsed and kissed the canvass. Generations to come would however remember that a negatively uncanny governor, whose real composition and excitement cannot be deciphered, was once a tenant at Bola Ige House, Osogbo.
 
Oshiomhole and strutting songbird
Again, for Nigerian politicians and office holders in general who see themselves as Deputy God whenever they climb to the top, Providence spun what, a few months ago, would look like an impossible tale. It was the routing of cantankerous and loquacious Adams Oshiomhole from his office as the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by an Abuja Federal Capital Territory court. Since his election as Chairman of the ruling party, the former Edo State governor had exhibited a large air of verbosity which almost equaled a perception of that office as his eternal footstool. His political adversaries, however, showed him that no one could be as scientifically precise as an adversary haunting one as prey.
The abracadabra of politics could swivel tomorrow and Oshiomhole would be back to his office but today, the gates of that office have been locked against him. An Armoured Personnel Career and some fierce-looking policemen are said to have strewn up an office he majestically walked into like an adulterer strolls into the pub awhile ago. This is why, every person at the top should see the veil of vanity covering those top offices that look like where God comes to hold conferences. They are as perishable as flowers and their plumule.
Effectively now, Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, who Oshiomhole thought he had power of life and death over, to determine his fate and where to inter his political carcass, seems to be on a better political footing now than he was a week ago. A week ago, Almighty Oshiomhole held the knife, the yam and had the strength of a matador to pierce his knife into the heart of the naughty yam.
The lessons from this are like a two-fold loin. One is that power is the vainest of all ascriptions created by God. In fact, power has a propensity to fly away faster than man who the holy writ likened his exit to vapour. Except for the few hirelings who would be strutting round Oshiomhole now like a Songbird, hoping that a miracle could restore him, the moment a final decision is made that he is history in APC, he would be as lonely as a crow in a strange country. The second lesson is that, those plotting Oshiomhole’s downfall would also not pick a note of warning from Providence; the warning that their own turn to be shown the gate of that office is nigh.

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KERUBU 2020: An AGM Like No Other By Remi Oyeyemi

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Yes, this is going to be different. This is going to be distinct. This is going to be unique. It is going to be special. It would be startling. Uncommon and unprecedented. It is going to be the standard to beat for the ones coming after. The event slated for the grounds of the Great School would berth on March 28, 2020.
KERUBU 2020 promises to be a fantastically exciting Annual General Meeting of the Alumni Association of the Cherubim and Seraphim High School, Ilésà. It promises to be a reunion that is destined for the History books of the great Alma Mater. It would be special in all ramifications.
Cherubim and Seraphim High School, Ilésà, an extremely very young school at 50 years of age, this year, has every reason to be proud of its existence so far. Despite the blemish of ignoble era brought about by Raufu Adesoji Aregbesola’s years of locust, years of devastation, years of destruction, that stunted the development on all facets of Osun State, the “State of the Living Spring,” in all ramifications, KERUBU is still standing, and standing tall.
Our dear KERUBU, my darling KERUBU, ensconced in the wings of a richly endowed 48 Acre land, in my time, about 45 years ago, brimmed with fruits of all kinds. From Àgbálùmò, Òrombó, Móngòrò, Ìyeyè, Kashú to Tanjarínnì and Gúáfà. There were also some kolanut trees mingled with cocoa trees. The environment, luxuriant and exuberant in its greenness, was always lavish and luscious in its abundance. It gleamed and glistened across seasons. Its beauty, seductively sequestered, like a body of a woman of easy virtue, longing to be taken, glowed tantalizingly.
Naturally, the beautiful environment baited and beguiled the curiosity of students. It elicited their exploration. It stirred their imagination. It was a magnet for adventurous ones, especially, those that came in from cities and big towns. It unwittingly, provided rendezvous for willing students who sought escape from the rigours of the school obligations. It was simply tempting, alluring and pulsating. It was enchanting, fascinating and mischievously glamorous.
My humble self, raised in a beautiful village, and fairly familiar with farm environments was not left out of the self – indulgent Kerubic adventures. Not with my addiction to Ìyeyè and Àgbálùmò. And Àgbálùmò, with its uncanny ability to glue your mouth together after you have had so many, a usually compulsory aftermath that deprives your mouth its inalienable right of freedom of movement, if it could write, would have my name in its book of records.
Those inebriating years with my wonderful maternal grandparents, exposed me to the beauty and marvels of nature. The grandeur of nature, I was made to understand and relish. Those years were when I was made to appreciate what nature really was and still is, its rules, its expectations, its usefulness and how it exacts consequences on the foolish and the careless. They were invaluable years. And unarguably, the best years of my life.
The Iyàrà, laying prostrate at the edge of our KERUBU, deep, dark, and dreary in its ominous quietude, was not enticing in any manner. Damp, drab and dismal in its countenance, the dungeon was dingy, doleful and depressive in its dissension. This dungeon, Iyàrà, which according to the attestations of History, was dug by the renowned Ijesa Generalissimo, Ògèdèmgbè Agbógungbórò, to protect Ilesa City from unexpected invasion bordered KERUBU from the Wesley Guild Hospital end. To this extent, it was difficult for any student to play any prank approaching the school via Ìyèmògún road.
The Bolorunduro end, which linked the school to the Boys’ and Girls’ Hostels then, also availed some Day Students the opportunity to feed their curiosity, engage in wrongly timed adventures and try out some pranks, especially when they came late to the school. Students took advantage of the vastness of the beautifully alluring and richly pulsating environment to take “uncharted” routes to the school. 
On that end, flows River KERUBU, so named by the students. Not more than five to six feet wide, it was so undeep that one could see its floor through the translucently clean water, as it snakes away in hurried majesty, making whistling sounds intermixing with  the chipping of birds, creating a delirium. The boarding students have to cross it twice daily to and from the school. 
Those of us, who also frequented Aburi, apart from those who attended the school from Bolorunduro axis, were familiar with River KERUBU. Aburi itself, became part of KERUBU’s  folktales. Famous for its affordable food for the students, a song was even composed to appreciate the value of its service to the students. The song goes thus:
Ébá Áburì tóbii
(Aburi’s Èbà is big)
 Ó tóbi yéye o
(It is very, very big)
Ébá Áburì tóbii; 
(Àbúrì’s Èbà is big)
Ónítóro yoo ‘yàn; 
(Three pence worth is enough)
Ónísísì poo jù
(Six pence worth is excessive)
Ébá Áburì tóbii
(Àbúrì’s Èbà is big)
O tobì yéyee.
(It is very, very big).
From the Ìyèmògún end, the Southern end of the School, there was not a lot of challenges in terms of the students taking uncharted paths to school because, unlike now, there were no houses at that angle then. That end formed part of the attraction for the adventurous and curious students from the other cities to Ilésà, the Hometown of Elédùmarè.
That end, vast in its richness of nature, thick in its texture, luscious in its look, daring in its demeanor, projected a combination of fear and fondness. Fear arising from its being an abode of dangerous reptiles, some of which occasionally invaded the school grounds but which the clean and neat environment would not shroud their visitation.
Fondness, because of its hypnotic and magnetic attraction for the curious, inquisitive, intrusive and meddlesome among the students. The fragrance of freshness, the benign billowing breeze, the rhyme of the clattering leaves and the rhythm of the trees with naturally choreographed dalliances of their branches were too alluring and pulsating to be permanently ignored.
Our KERUBU was and still is emblematic of cherubic, ooh, my apology, KERUBIC environment. A heaven on mother Earth. A paradise in the physical world. A Garden of Eden of which Adam and Eve would have been helplessly, very envious of. My KERUBU, our KERUBU, was situated in the midst of nature, untainted, unabridged and unsullied nature. Chaste. Clean. Angelic.
Come March 28, this year, we shall gather together to relive these old memories. We shall all indulge in the revelry of nostalgia. We shall all meet with faces that we have not seen in long, long years. We shall fete our shining lights that have made our school to stand tall in the comity of Schools. We shall plan for further developments, no longer encumbered by wrong headed public education policies. 
It would be an opportunity to show our gratitude to Governor Gbóyèga Oyetola for returning our school to us, for bringing back sanity. If you have not marked your Calendar for the scheduled date, you better do it now. No one would be able to afford to miss out.
Come, let us get together as KERUBIANS to celebrate our KERUBU.
 

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NIMC Director In Court For Raping Two-year-old Girl

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The police have arraigned Ikenna Unegbu, Director of National Identity Management Commission in Imo for allegedly raping  a two-year-old girl.
According to mother of the victim, Chinonye Obioma, the incident happened on February 5 in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. 
Obioma told the court that the suspect took her child into his office on the pretext of consoling her daughter after she scolded her.
Obioma said she noticed the unusual way her daughter was walking after she urinated.
The mother said when she removed her pant, she noticed bruises and remains of sperm on her swollen private parts.
“My daughter went into the office twice with biscuits and groundnuts, only to come out from the director’s office the third time crying,” Obioma said.
“When I asked her what happened, she mentioned that Uncle Police (the suspect) removed her pant, and put his stick (penis) inside her bumbum. I went home in tears, seeing reddish, swollen vagina, remains of sperms, tissue paper gummed on her private parts.
“I called the Oga Ikenna (suspect) to enquire what he did with my daughter, and he harshly denied knowledge of the incident.”

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Indonesia Returnee Arrested For Murder Of Cleric In Imo

 
The police have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of Reverend father Cyriacus Onunkwo  in Omuma under Oru-East Local Government Area of Imo State.
The police in a statement on Saturday said the Special Anti-Robbery Squad arrested one Charles Nnanna, who had been at large over the murder of the victim.
Reverend Okonkwo was kidnapped in September 2017 while planning the burial of his father.
He was killed by gunmen and his body found a day later at Omuma.
The police said the suspect was the last of the four-man gang that committed the alleged crime.
According to the statement by the command, investigation revealed that the suspect fled to Indonesia immediately after the crime and based on credible intelligence, he was arrested during his traditional wedding ceremony a few days ago in Imo State
The command said that Nnanna has confessed to the crime as well as his role in the operation and will be prosecuted accordingly.

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Justice For Sale: Babalawo, Notorious Police Officer Extorting, Dehumanising Poor Nigerians

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More details have emerged as to the real person and character of Supro Jim widely known as Babalawo within the police circle in Lagos, where his notoriety is almost second to none.
Babalawo is currently a senior police officer at the Anti-Cultism Unit in Gbagada, Lagos, where a lot of Nigerians are often times unjustly incarcerated. 

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A recent investigation by SaharaReporters revealed the ‘beast’ living inside this particular policeman. Apart from collecting over N70,000 from one Nurudeen Usman, a victim of street raid, Babalawo also kept the young man in a detention cell for nine days until his family members were able to pay for the bribe he demanded.
Babalawo was caught on camera by SaharaReporters. 

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In fact, new information gathered on this particular policeman by our correspondent reveals that he was even more brutal while he served under the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos. 
Olufemi Bisuga, a lawyer who has had dealings with the notorious police officer, said that Babalawo was not only feared by civilians – even colleagues at SARS Ikeja avoided his wrath as much as possible while he served there. He was a bone crusher. 
“He arrested a client of mine then when he was with the Special Anti-Robbery Squad over purely contractual issue. 

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“He was all about the money to settle him. I am surprised he has not changed,” he said. 
During SaharaReporters investigation, Babalawo initially insisted he would collect N200,000 before he granted bail to Usman. 
Apart from Usman, he also took huge sums from relatives of others whose cases were under his direct supervision.
Sadly, the Lagos State Police command has kept mum despite the severity of allegations and evidences against Babalawo. 

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Spokesperson for the command, Bala Elkana, told our correspondent on Thursday that he “will get back” after the investigation was published and shared with him.
 

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Corps Member Drowns 11 Days To Passing Out In Bayelsa

Oluwafemi Mark, a 28-year-old corps member posted to Nembe-Bassambiri under Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, was on Friday confirmed dead from drowning during a beach party with some colleagues and indigenes few days to the passing out parade held in the state.
SaharaReporters gathered that the incident took place at Miami Beach in Nembe-Basanbiri area of the state. 
Spokesperson for the Bayelsa Police Command, Asinim Butswat, who confirmed the incident, stated that it occurred on February 22, exactly 11 days to the passing out parade.
But the Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, who personally attended the passing out parade of the 2019 Batch A corps members at Peace Park in Yenagoa, the state capital, commiserated with the NYSC and family of the victim. 
He stressed the need for stakeholders to intensify efforts at ensuring safety of corps members in the state. 

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Redeploy Our Husbands, Wives Of Policemen In North-East Tell Buhari

 
Wives of policemen fighting  Boko Haram in the North-East have asked  the Nigerian Government to redeploy their husbands from the violent region.
The women said their husbands have been abandoned in the region without adequate support. 
They made their grievance known while protesting in Jos, Plateau State.
One of the protesters, who gave her name as Mrs Gabriel,  said, “Our hearts are troubled. Every day, we are being turned into widows due to the fight against Boko Haram in the North-East, because our husbands who are deployed in the region are daily being killed by the terrorists without anything being done.
“The situation is unbearable to us.”
Another protester,  Mrs Ilya, said, “Why are our husbands not  being redeployed according to the terms of their engagement? Some of them have overstayed in their places of assignment, yet they just abandon them to their fate,   making them easy preys to the terrorists who have sophisticated weapons.
“Many of them have been killed with the information kept secret from their families  while those who managed to be alive are not allowed to visit their families for many years.
“The Federal Government should have pity on us and save our husbands from avoidable deaths.
“That is why we are calling on the  government to redeploy them before we all become widows.”

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Eleven NYSC Members To Repeat Service Year In Ondo

Eleven members of the National Youth Service Corps are to repeat their service year in Ondo State.
Also, five members of the corps had their service year extended for various offences. 
Grace Akpabio, Coordinator of NYSC in Ondo State, who disclosed this at the passing out parade of the latest batch, said the erring corps members were sanctioned for breaching the scheme’s rules and regulations.
Mrs Akpabio revealed that 1, 777 corps members completed the scheme in the state, with three of them receiving state awards for their outstanding performances during the service year. 
She said, “I want to admonish you to be extraordinarily kind, selfless, devoted, and be hardworking and also creative from what you have learnt from your service year. 
”I want to also remind you that during the orientation course, you were adequately informed that NYSC will reward excellent and outstanding performance. 
“However, five corps members would have their service extended for various offences while 11 members, who absconded from service, would have to repeat the service subject to the approval of Directorate Headquarters, Abuja.”
The state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, in his address to the corps members, asked them to be more creative and entrepreneurial in the pursuit of their goals.
The governor, who was represented by Commissioner for Youth and Sport Development, Mr Dotun Owanikin, appreciated them for their various contributions to the development of the state. 
He said, “We have some of you who distinguished themselves during this one year service by embarking on laudable projects
“The state government will ensure that those legacy are sustained and built upon so as to motivate other corps members still serving in the state.” 

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