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(flowerbud news)  Kebbi Police Command has arrested a 42-year-old man, Ibrahim Umar of Nufawa village, Basaura district of Jega Local Government, for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl at Katako area of Bara village in the state.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Garba Danjuma told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday that the suspect dragged the minor to a millet farm and forcefully had intercourse with her.

Danjuma said after the suspect was done with her, he gave her one packet of candy, valued at N25.

He said the parents of the girl reported the incident to authorities, and after due police investigation, the suspect admitted to the act.

”The suspect was arrested and confessed to the alleged crime. He will be charged to court to face the law,” the police chief said.

Danjuma appealed to members of the public to see the duty of fighting crime as a collective responsibility.

”We should continue to partner to maintain our status as the safest state in Nigeria,” he added.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspect, pleading for mercy, said it was his fist involvement in rape.

“This is the work of the devil; please, forgive me as such a thing will not repeat itself again,” the suspect pleaded. (NAN)

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger has sworn in 1,243 Batch ‘B’ stream II 2019 corps members in the state.

Mrs Fumilayo Ajayi, NYSC Coordinator in Niger, said that a total of 1,243 corps members have been registered for the orientation course.

She said 464 of the corps members were females and 779 were males.

Ajayi said the corps members had so far exhibited exemplary behavior and adapted to the regimented orientation course designed to stimulate their minds.

She urged the corps members to pay attention to the skills acquisition programmes, adding that the programmes were designed to impact knowledge and encourage them to be self-sufficient.

Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger, advised the corps members to demonstrate high sense of responsibility and pay attention to entrepreneurship programmes to become conversant with the skills.

“Be serious in learning these skills because there is no automatic job waiting for you after your service year,” he said.

Bello, who was represented by Alhaji Shuaibu Adamu, Acting Head of Service, said that government was committed to upgrading facilities in the camp to make corps members comfortable.

Bello assured the corps members to go about their lawful activities without fear, saying that adequate security measures had been put in place for their safety.

“I want to assure you that you can sleep with your eyes closed as our security agencies have been up and doing and at 24 hours alert, therefore you are save in our state.”

Also, Alhaji Ahmed Matane, Chairman, NYSC Board in Niger, urged the corps members to engage themselves in acts that would promote unity and bring about economic growth and improve rural lives.

Matane, who was represented by Alhaji Musa Rogo, Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, enjoined them to live up to expectation and contribute their quota to the patriotic task of nation building.

NAN

Traders in Ogbette Main Market, Enugu have expressed disaffection with the multiple taxation and levies in the market.

The traders also feared a possible outbreak of epidemic in the market due to the overflow of waste from a sewage in the nneigbouring premises of the Nigerian Correctional Service (former Nigerian Prisons Service)

They spoke at a sensitisation programme organised by a non-governmental organisation, called Strengthening Citizens Resistance against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C) project.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the taxes and levies were introduced by the market leadership as well as state and local governments.

One of the traders, Mr Patrick Ezema, said that they were emburdened with different types of levies and taxes that were affecting their businesses.

Ezema listed some of the levies to include sanitation levy, annual levy, EEDC levy, packing late levy and special security levy.

He said that they were more worried with the introduction of three other levies, including wheel barrow permit, hawkers’ permit and eating permit.

He said that the eating permit was being paid by caterers in the market, adding that stall levies were rising in geometric progression annually.

He said, “Some of these levies are unacceptable to us because their impact was not being felt in the market.”

Ezema wondered why wheelbarrow pushers and sachet water hawkers, who were struggling to survive, would be made to pay levies in the market.

On the overflow of waste into the market, he said, “many of us have fallen sick as a result of the human waste that flows into the market from the neighbouring building.”

Ezema called for urgent measures to check the situation to avert a possible outbreak of epidemic in the market.

Also, Mr James Ukomadu, another trader, appealed to the state and local government to build a clinic in the market to handle minor health issues and emergencies in the market.

Ukomadu also charged the market leadership to build necessary infrastructure in the market to justify the huge levies paid by traders.

Mrs Chinyere Ukatu appealed to the government to sink a borehole in the market, saying that the lack of potable water was affecting them.

In a speech, the Executive Director of DEDSRI, Ms Ogechukwu Enwelum, said that the aim of the sensitisation was to get first hand information on the issue of multiple taxation in the market.

Enwelum said that the organisation discovered from their investigation that the traders were grappling with multiple taxation.

She said that the situation was inconsistent with the reputation of Enugu as a state with a conducive environment for business.

“We call for advocacy to enable us understand the situation. We want businesses to grow in the state,” Enwelum said.

She also said that the group needed to know if there was an accountability forum in the market.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the issue of multiple taxation had been a recurrent phenomenon in the state.

Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had at different fora expressed willingness to harmonise the levies.

NAN reports that SCRAP-C project, which is funded by the UKaid, is designed to build the capacity of the citizenry in the fight against corruption in Nigeria.

It was a brainchild of ActionAid Nigeria and being implemented in the state in partnership with Divine Era

Development and Social Rights Initiative.
The programme is currently being implemented in six pilot states of the federation. (NAN)

By Muhammad Nasir Bashir

Dutse, Aug. 22, 2018 (NAN) The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says 4,000 permanent National Identity Cards are yet to be collected by their owners in Jigawa.

The state’s coordinator of the commission Mr Aminu Jakada, made this known during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Thursday.

Jakada, who described the development as “discouraging”, urged owners, particularly in Hadejia, Kirikasamma and Gumel Local Government Area (LGAs) to visit the commission’s offices in their respective areas to claim their cards.

“As at now, we have 4,000 uncollected permanent national identity cards particularly in Hadejia, Kirikasamma and Gumel LGAs.

“So we are calling on people in these LGAs who had enrolled to go to our offices in their areas and collect their cards,” Jakada said.

He explained that the gesture was to enable the owners obtain the cards and begin to use their National Identity Number (NIN) to forestall embarrassment in future dealings.

The coordinator pointed that the NIN is a valid and verifiable means of identification use to link all records about an individual in the commission’s database.

Jakada also advised applicants to visit any NIMC office in the state nearest to them to enroll and obtain their NIN.

According to him, upon registration, every applicant would be issued two slips; a transaction slip and a second slip after two hours which is the NIN slip.

According to him, NIMC has over 40 registration centres across the state.

“This simply means that there is an enrolment centre close by that every individual can get registered.

“Therefore, residents are hereby advised to enroll and obtain their NIN before the mandatory use of the NIN is enforced,” he added.

NAN

(FLOWERBUD NEWS) Six men have been arrested for allegedly raping a housewife and two young girls at Warrah, Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The Commissioner of Police, Kebbi State Command, Garba Danjuma, while briefing journalists explained that on May 22, police patrol team attached to Warrah Division arrested one Usman Alhaji Lawal and two others from  Garin Baka village of Ngaski local government for attacking one Safiya Audi, a married woman with cutlasses, robbing her of N92,250 and sexually assaulting her.

He said the suspects would be charged to court after police investigation. The CP also disclosed that his command under ‘Operation Puff Adder’ arrested three suspected cattle rustlers in Arewa and Suru local government areas of the state. He said the suspects stole 29 goats and two cows and were among the gang of cattle rustlers that specialised in stealing animals along the border towns of Nigeria and Niger Republic through Arewa Local Government Area of Kebbi State. CULLED DAILY TRUST.

By Muhammad Nasir Bello
The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has described the appointment of Mr Sunday Dare as Minister for Youth and Sport Development as a chance to enable the youth to participate in the present administration.

Mr Bello Shagari, the NYCN National President, made the assertion in a press statement issued to newsmen in Sokoto on Thursday.

He said that the appointment of Dare came without anticipation but with full satisfaction, “because he is fully equipped and experienced to do the job successfully.

“On behalf of the leadership of the NYCN, I wish to congratulate the new Minister and thank President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing someone who can deliver for the youth.

“Moreover, we expect that the new minister will peacefully resolve the problems surrounding the youth in the country.

“Especially, the NYCN fictionalisation and save it from over aged men and political hijackers who have continued to invest in the disunity of the Nigerian youth for years”.

Shagari further restated that the objective of the Nigerian youth had always been in line with the policies of Buhari.

NAN

(FLOWERBUD NEWS) The Popular Kenyatta market in Enugu was agog yesterday when several Dangote cement consumers were presented with their winning prizes by the company to their amazement.

Of note was a 47-year-old Onovo Paul Emeka, a block maker, who was presented with the brand new saloon car star prize he won days after surviving an Okada crash that broke his leg and had to come to collect the car on crutches.

He was full of appreciation to Dangote Cement for the promo saying if he had win earlier, he probably would not have had the motorcycle accident.

Independent Non-Executive Director of Dangote Cement, Emmanuel Ikazoboh who presented the car said Dangote cement will always make the customers happy by adequately giving them back what is due to them. The Promo, according to him, is another way of giving back to the society.

He said, “If you notice the people that have been winning the cars so far, you will agree withme that these are people who really need the cars. The promo is real. These people are traceable and you are free to contact them at will…All a consumer has to do is to buy any of the Dangote Cement products and open the bag, scratch the card inside and what you see is what you win”

Marketing Director, Dangote Cement, Mrs. Funmi Sanni said Dangote Cement decided to run the biggest promo ever in Nigeria as a way of contributing to the economic wellbeing of the consumers of its products given the prevailing economic situation.

Commenting on the transparency of the Promo, Funmi Sanni said: “We have made it so transparent that you don’t have to go through any raffle or draw associated with many other promotions in the country. You win instantly because what is revealed in the scratch card is what you win”

Mrs. Sanni explained that the consumer promo was in line with the mission of the company which is to touch the lives of the people by providing their basic needs, and pointed out that the consumer promotion is another huge investment to help the customers improve their rate of sales and make more profit while at the same time improve the consumers’ quality of life. “We are doing this for the sake of our consumers who have not really benefitted much from our previous promo.”

The winner of the star prize, Onovo Paul Emeka thanked the management of Dangote and promised to do all within him to convince Nigerians to aggressively buy all the company’s products.

He said: “I am happy. I am very happy. You can all see the way I came here today, I am sure all Nigerian will by this be convinced that Dangote is the best company in Nigeria. The company is credible and it is truly a company that has cares passionately for its customers. Henceforth, all my family members and even friends will only use Dangote products. I will forever appreciate this noble gesture from the company.”

The Dangote Cement ‘Bag of Goodies’ promo, which began nationwide in July and is to run till September ending, has so far yielded numerous winners of prizes in various categories.

Among other unique gifts, a total of 43 brand new cars, cash prizes of N200 million, 24 tricycles, 500 refrigerators, 24 motorcycles, 400 television sets, generators, Goodies packs, are available for winners in a promo, which has generated so much excitement among Nigeria, with over 21 million lucky winners targeted.