Lagos Govt to provide Wi-Fi services for residents (in parks only)

The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos state Ministry of Information Communication Technology, ICT, Mrs Nike Animashaun, has revealed plans by the state government to provide Wi-Fi services to residents of the state. Speaking at the state ministerial briefing in Alausa recently, Mrs Animashaun said the first phase of the Wi-Fi connectivity would be installed in parks within the state. She listed the first parks to benefit from the WiFi installment as Oshodi, Alausa and Ajegunle parks.

“The Wi-Fi services will be in some of the parks in the state and when it is deployed, residents of Lagos State would be able to access Wi-Fi in some of the parks,” she said

But who goes to these parks? Mrs Animashaun said that the state government came up with the idea to stimulate and encourage the interest of children in science and technology. She however did not state if the Wi-Fi connection will be free of charge.

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21 killed by Boko Haram in Yobe today

21 persons are feared dead after suspected Boko Haram members ambushed them in Bultaram village in Gujba Local government area of Yobe state on Monday April 27th. Baba Nuhu, an official of the local government where the men were killed, said the victims, all male, had gone to their deserted village to see if they could collect some food when they were ambushed and shot dead by the sect members. According to AFP, the victims and their families had taken refuge in Damaturu the Yobe state capital after the sect members attacked their village some months back

"The men, 21 of them, were stopped at Bultaram (village) by gunmen we believe are Boko Haram who shot them dead," said Baba Nuhu

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Boko Haram is a fraud - Buhari

 

A statement from Gen Buhari signed by his media aide, Shehu Garba.

"The fraud called Boko Haram can be defeated by denying it a recruitment base," General Buhari told visiting leaders of Nassarawa State who came to congratulate him on his emergence as President-elect. No religion allows for the killing of children in school dormitory, in markets and places of worship. They have nothing to do with religion. They are terrorists and we are going to deal with them as they deal with terrorists anywhere," he announced.

Buhari said he is greatly pained by the destruction of schools in the North-eastern part of the country, an action he said could deny thousands of youngsters access to education and a better future unless something was done urgently to avert this tragedy.

"The worst thing anybody can do is to deny children access to education. That will be destructive to their lives and we are not going to allow that to happen," the President-elect assured.
He announce that his government will help the states to get more money to improve infrastructure by ensuring that all federally collectible revenues are paid directly into the federation account and each tier of government given its due share.

"As at now, the government does not even know how many revenue accounts it has. We will give all the tiers what is due to them but will hold them to be accountable as we would the federal government."

Buhari while describing Nassarawa state as his own "political laboratory", meaning the only CPC-controlled state of the 36 others adjudged the experiment as having been a success.
"From one state, I now have 22 political laboratories."
He commended Governor Al-Makura for surviving his many impeachment plots, saying "without Nassarawa, there would not have been an APC."

Signed:
Garba Shehu
Directorate of Media & Publicity
APC Presidential Campaign

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Dear Nigerians this (could) be your ministers under Buhari

I know the guys at BreakingTimes and sometimes, they know some things we don’t know. According to a special report they released today, some of these men could be our ministers under Buhari. BT presented a list of some of the likely incoming Ministers and their corresponding portfolios based on info they gathered from sources close to Buhari. See below…

1.Petroleum Minister – Prof Tam David (He was Minister of Petroleum and Energy under Buhari from 1984-1985)
2. Finance Minister – Dr. Idika Kalu (he’s a two-time Minister of Finance)
3. Education Minister – Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi (former Minister of Youth Development and later Minister of Sports under Jonathan)
4. Justice Minister – Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN (Attorney General of Ondo State from 1997–1999. Chairman of the Legal Aid Council from 2005–2006 and Tinubu loyalist)
5. Culture and Tourism Minister – Dele Momodu (Ovation International Publisher and former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party, NCP)
6. Information Minister – Sam Nda Isaiah (publisher of Leadership Newspaper, contested for APC presidential ticket)
7. Works Minister – Babatunde Fashola (former Lagos state governor)
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GEJ already refering to Buhari as president + more pics from their meeting today

Speaking with State House correspondents after his closed door meeting with President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari this afternoon, President Jonathan referred to Gen Buhari as the President

“We will take a date when the president will come and I will show him round the State House but today is not for that. Today is to continue with our conversation. We don’t need to worry the President,” he said.

More photos from their meeting after the cut…

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Obiano, coalition begs Buhari to Consider Ndigbo for appointments

Anambra State Governor, Willy Obiano, has urged the President-elect, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd), to appoint Igbo into prominent positions while forming his cabinet.

He said the forthcoming Buhari’s administration would require the support of all Nigerians irrespective of their party affiliations to success.

Obiano spoke after a closed-door meeting with the President-elect at his private residence in Abuja on Friday.

The governor said he was in Abuja not only to congratulate the President-elect and reassure him of the support of the South-East, but also to plead with him to consider Anambra indigenes for appointments.

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Obiano said, “I am also here to reassure him that Anambra and the South-East would support him. I also pleaded with him on some pressing problems that are of importance to the South-East like the second Niger bridge and some of the federal roads.

“We also pleaded in the area of appointment for the people of Anambra and of course, for people from the South-East be it ministerial, ambassadorial and what have you.”

The governor, however, dismissed insinuation that his visit was part of consultations to pave way for him to defect to the All Progressives party.

Similarly, a coalition of Igbo groups demanded that the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives should be zoned to the South-East in the next political dispensation.

The groups are Igbo Youth Vanguard, Abia Democratic Initiative, Imo Professionals for Democracy, United Igbo Traders Association and South East Students Unions.

In a statement signed by their leader, Mr. Chikezie Emezuo and Coordinator of the Imo Professional for Democracy, the groups explained that it was against the principle of federal character and national justice for the North to keep the Presidency, the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives positions.

Stressing that any move to marginalise Ndigbo will not be accepted, the groups decried a purported zoning formula where the South-East could be schemed out of the leadership of the national legislature.

They expressed regret that the Igbo were being reminded that they were defeated and be treated as second class citizens at a time the negative effect of the civil war was wearing out.

They said it would be wrong for the Igbo to be denied top positions in the National Assembly because majority of them voted for the Peoples Democratic Party in the last general elections.

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