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Prophetess gifts N50,000 each to 60 indigent Christian, Muslim students for SSCE registration
Prophetess Rose Kelvin of Shekhinah Glory Ministry Worldwide, Abuja, has given N50,000 each to 60 indigent Christian and Muslim students to register for 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).
The beneficiaries were drawn from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Kelvin told the News Agency of Nogeria (NAN) shortly after the presentation on Wednesday in Abuja, that education was the passport for the future.“As the SSCE 2022 edition approaches, many students across the country are in trepidation, not for how to be successful in their exams, but the fear of not being able to sit for the exams with their classmates due to their parents or guardian’s inability to pay their WAEC fees.
“I had called on a number of Secondary School principals and proprietors to look within their institutions and pick out students who apparently do not have hope of sitting for the upcoming SSCE examinations.
“With the diligent scrutiny of Ogwula media crew, Muslim and Christian indigent students, were selected in hundreds from different schools around remote areas of FCT to benefit from my charity.
“I was overwhelmed and broke into tears uncontrollably while listening to some of the students ordeal, after I handed the sum ofN50,000 to each of them to secure a place in their future endeavours by registering for WAEC.
“Indeed, the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet,” Kelvin said. Meanwhile, some of the beneficiaries in an interview appreciated Kelvin for the gesture. Master Kingsley Usman, a student of Government Secondary School (GSS), Idu Koro, said he could not pay his first and Second term school fees due to lack of funds.
He said was busy at a building site carrying blocks when he was called that he was nominated for Kelvin’s gesture. Another beneficiary, Ms Winifred Agema, from Benue and daughter of a fallen Hero of the Nigeria Army schooling at Army Day Secondary School, Mogadishu Cantonment, thanked Kelvin “for restoring my destiny.”
She said her mother, a widow and Banana seller at Mararaba, was taking care of her and her six siblings, adding that all hope was lost but her school principal was allowing her to come to school. Falilat Idris, a student of Army Day Secondary School, Mogadishu, lost her mum who was the family’s bread winner. Her dad, a poor farmer who took ill at the demise of his wife and currently bedridden cannot provide for his family anymore.
She was left with the mission impossible option of hawking bread to gather her WAEC fees before Kelvin’s intervention. Many of the beneficiaries thanked her for giving them hope to write the 2022 SSCE. (NAN)
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Board Sanctions 118 Immigration, Civil Defence Officers
The Board of NSCDC, Fire Service, Correctional, and Immigration Service, has approved the sanction of 118 personnel for various offences.
The Board Chairman, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made this known at the end of their meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
Tunji-Ojo, who is also the Minister of Interior, told newsmen through the board Secretary, Alhaji Ahmed Ja’afaru, that the erring officers were punished after facing disciplinary panels for various offences.
“These offences range from misconduct, negligence of duty and outright absence from duty posts.
“In the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOs), there were 48 cases of offences, in the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), there were 21 cases.
“Also, in the Federal Fire Service (FFS) there were 12 cases while in the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), there were 37 cases,“the minister said.
Tunji-Ojo added that the board has reviewed and approved new guidelines for appointments, promotions, discipline and general purpose in the services.
He said that the board also considered and approved the timeline for the conduct of the 2024 promotion exercise in the four services.
“The board considered and approved the review timeline for the conduct of the 2023/2024 fire service recruitment.
“As for the ongoing recruitment in the fire service, we hope to publish the names of the successful applicants latest by June 15. That is where we are for now.
“We also want to use this medium to warn the general public to ignore whatever they have been seeing or hearing in the social media space as they did not emanate from the board.
“This is because, we have come to realise that the social media world had been awashed with fake news telling applicants to come for screening exercise or pay certain amount of money.
“Let me put it emphatically that the board is not asking anyone to pay money for recruitment.“
He urged applicants to be patient, saying successful candidates will be notified to come for further screening through their emails and mobile lines. (NAN)
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NSCDC Inaugurates Female Strike Force to Secure FCT Schools
The FCT Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr Olusola Odumosu, has inaugurated the corps Female Strike Force to protect schools in the territory.
A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Samuel Idoko, on Thursday in Abuja, said the inauguration followed the completion of a three day training for the personnel.
Odumosu said that the primary responsibility of the strike force was to ensure the safety of all schools in the territory.
He said that the training had equipped them with the needed skills and capabilities to carry out their duties.
According to him, the training is a follow up to the recent meeting of all FSF Unit Commanders with the Commandant General, Ahmed Audi.
Audi had charged them to be up and doing in view of the reported cases of kidnapping in some parts of the country.
“The training is imperative to ensure compliance with the CG’s directive on the mandate of securing schools for the safety of students and staff.
“Cases of abduction in schools must come to an end, that is the primary purpose of this training.
“We need to restore the confidence of the people in our ability to secure schools in the FCT,” the commandant said.
He therefore called on schools in the FCT to register with the National Safe School Response Coordination Centre, so that they could be added to the ecosystem.
Odumosu explained that the registration was free and meant to ensure better coordination and make responses to emergencies more quicker and efficient.
Odumosu assured that the training and retraining of the personnel would be held regularly to ensure prompt response to any security threat.
“We must make schools safe haven once again for children,” he added.
He charged the female strike force to conduct routine patrol and surveillance of schools to prevent threats and attacks.
He also enjoined the strike force to hold periodic security awareness and enlightenment talks for student and teachers.
Odumosu also directed the operatives to abide by the corps’ Standard Operational Procedure in discharging their duties and avoid over zealousness in the use of force or fire arms.(NAN)
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Tinubu Appoints Bello as new Chairman of CCB
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr Abdullahi Usman Bello as the new Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), pending confirmation by the Nigerian Senate.
This is contained in a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Thursday in Abuja.
Ngelale said that Bello was a consummate professional with more than 25 years of work experience in consulting, banking, law enforcement, financial services and academia.
He said that the President anticipated the new Chairman would lead the Bureau with utmost integrity toward the realization of its mandate of maintaining high standards of public morality in the conduct of government business.
Ngelale said Tinubu expected the new appointee to ensure that the actions and behaviour of public officers conform to the highest standards of morality and accountability.(NAN)