NSCDC deploys 70 official to man UTME centres – Commandant

Students writing UTME. File photo

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Niger Command, has deployed 70 personnel to provide security in all the 14 computer-based centres for the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in the state.

The state Commandant of the Corps, Mr Phillip Ayuba, made the announcement on Friday in Minna in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria.

He said that five personnel would provide security in each of the 14 centres spread across the state.

He said that the corps would work with Joint Admission and Matriculation Board  to ensure security at the centres before and during the computer-based test.

Ayuba urged prospective candidates to be law abiding, adding that the NSCDC personnel would be professional in carrying out their mandate to ensure hitch-free examination.

He said that monitoring team had been constituted to monitor the conduct of the exercise in the state.

It is reported that JAMB had registered 1.7 million students across the country to sit for the 2017 UTME computer-based test.

It is the highest figure in 39 years of the board’s existence.

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Senator Larissa Waters performing legislative and motherhood roles at the same time. Photo: @larissawaters.

Opinions vary when it comes to the propriety or otherwise of breastfeeding a baby in public.

However, Australian senator, Larissa Waters, returned to work from a 10-week maternity leave and decided to bring her daughter to the senate chambers, where she breastfed her during a vote.

This singular act makes her the first woman to do so — ever, reports claim.

Last year, the Australian parliament had passed a rule, allowing members to breastfeed during meetings, according to The Courier Mail.

Larissa celebrated the history-making do by tweeting: “So proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the federal Parliament!”

As expected, her action generated national and international interest.

She told the BBC, “Well, I think it’s slightly ridiculous that feeding one’s baby is international news—women have been breastfeeding for as long as time immemorial.

“But in another sense, this is the first time this has happened in our Parliament in 116 years, so it’s definitely world history-making.”

She added that the ground-breaking moment was more than just feeding her baby.

“It is also to send a message to young women that they belong in the Parliament, and that they can be both Parliamentarians and moms,” she deposed.

Larissa later took to social media and shared a photo of her history-making-moment and was overwhelmed by the positive feedback.

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So proud that my daughter Alia is the first baby to be breastfed in the federal Parliament! We need more #women & parents in Parli #auspol

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“Lots of women thanking me for doing it, not just for normalising breastfeeding, which is itself an important issue because there’s still a little bit of stigma in some corners of society.

“But it’s been lovely to hear from the young women and the other moms who’ve said, ‘This is a role model for my daughter or for myself, to know that we can aspire to this sort of occupation.’”

An incestuous father, Folorunsho Oluwaseun, who allegedly turned his 17-year-old daughter into a sex object,  was on Friday granted a reprieve by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

Oluwaseun was released on N300,000 bail with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The 51-year-old electrician, who resides at 40, Popoola St., Offin in Ikorodu,  Lagos State, is facing a charge of rape.

Police Prosecutor Clifford Ogu told the court that the accused committed the offence between Aug. 8, 2016, and April 2017 at his residence.

Ogu said the accused, who has separated from his wife since 2013, was awarded the custody of his three children including the girl.

“The accused started abusing his 17-year-old daughter sexually since August last year.

“The girl wrote in her statement to the police that any time she refuses her father’s sexual advances, he would not give her and her siblings food,’’ he said.

“The girl narrated her ordeal to her mother when she visited them.

“The woman reported the case to the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team at Ikeja and the case was brought to the Police station.”

The offence contravened Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Taiwo Akanni, adjourned the case until June 5 for a mention.

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MY LOCALLY INVENTED AMPHIBIOUS CAR CAN MOVE ON LAND, SEA AND AIR SAYS NIGERIAN INVENTOR. 

INTERVIEW WITH MR. DUROJAIYE KEHINDE OBASANJO

E.P: What is your name sir
ANS: I am Mr. Durojaiye Kehinde Obasanjo, Nigeria renowned inventor, i invented the aero amphibious car locally it can move on air, land and sea out of this i have achieved two of this which is that it can move on land and sea but due to financial constrains the third part that is flying on air has not being accomplished.
E.P: Have you made enquires to government agencies like the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Aviation to take a look at your innovative amphibious car and assist you to produce it.
ANS: Yes, i have made enquires even when i was very small then President Babangida was the first President to visit me in 1990, you can see the picture here we took pictures together when he came and saw the smaller model i displayed then with a lot of promise but that was the end.This very one too you can see it when i put it on the sea in your presence here, you can equally see foreign visitors who came to visit me and inspect it from different countries.
E.P: How did you get the talent for this innovative work
ANS: It is the urge for creation.
         I wanted Nigeria to be among the high technology countries in the world and this prompted me to learn about it, locally we have built it and it works perfectly on land and sea as you can see, i want Nigeria to be the first country to mass produce it, go to the net you will discover that no country has built something like this, America and Germany are trying to build something of this nature, hence we call on our government to come and assist us.
E.P: Have you made enquires to the Minister of Aviation
ANS: For now am yet to meet the Minister of Aviation but Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Transport and Education I have informed them even the governor of Lagos State Akinwummi Ambode sent me a documentation and urge me to continue you see there was a specially designed one for President Buhari that was destroyed by officials of Ikotun Igando Local Government Area.The destroyed one was to move on land, sea and under the water they told

me they have help me to destroy it this is the picture (shows me the photograph of the destroyed car). So we are trying to make sure that the law takes effect in that aspect.
E.P: The materials that you used how did you get them
ANS: There are locally sourced at least 60% is locally sourced.
E.P: In terms of individuals and agencies who may share in this your laudable dream for Nigeria how can they contact you
ANS: Thank you very much Sir through my phone number 08033384619.          

WOMAN ARE THE SALT OF LIFE SAYS PA JAMES OF PAPA AJASCO & COMPANY

INTERVIEW WITH MR.JAMES OLUKAYODE OLASEINDE POPULARLY KNOWN AS PA JAMES IN THE AWARD WINNING TELEVISION PROGRAMME PAPA AJASCO AND COMPANY
 E.P:Where were you born and  schools you attended?

ANS: I was born in Lagos Island although my parents are from Kwara state but lived in Lagos for several years, they are from Patako in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. I started my primary education in Saint Patrick primary school in Jankara Lagos Island but left in primary two to continue my primary education in Kwara State which i finished in 1957 but there was no money to send me to Secondary school.

E.P: What trade or vocation did you learn?

ANS: I started as a houseboy, i later worked in several companies as a factory worker like Matchco in Ilorin before coming back to Lagos in 1975, it was when working with U.T.C hardware that i joined Olarenwaju Ali theatre group in Badiya Lagos before we form our own group which deals only on comedy.

E.P: Why did you join the theatre group while working with U.T.C and later left?

ANS: I left U.T.C due to the fact that i have learnt the dynamic rudiments of theatre and enjoyed the way it was played in those days by the theatre leaders like the Late Ade Afolayan(Ade love) and chief Moses Olaiya Adejumo(Baba sala). When ever i see this people am always carried away and felt comedy was the best for me.

E.P: Can you tell us the number of home videos plays that you have acted in?

ANS: I can't count them.

E.P: Your son Samuel is also into acting but lately not much has been seen of him

ANS: He is at a stage in his life where i can't decide for him, he studied Law at O.A.U although he still acts when invited.

E.P: How do you handle advances from female fans?

ANS: There no profession without women where the women folk are missing then something is wrong with that profession, women are the salt of life they make things sweet.

E.P: How rewarding is the profession?

ANS: I am grateful to GOD(smiles) i wish to tell you that all the good things of life without being in modest GOD has given me through acting children, a good wife, house of my own, car and several plots of land.

E.P: Have you produce your own film?

ANS: Yes i did with my son Samuel several years ago people loved the film but to continue with another one has great financial implication for me except i have a sponsor for the project.

E.P: How was the transition from a purely Yoruba Actor to an English Actor especially to continuously feature in the popular television serial Papa Ajasco by Wale Adenuga Production 

ANS: I am extremely grateful to GOD and wish to thank Mr. Wale Adenuga our producer, when we are about to start the programme i didn't know it's something that will last like this, it is simply amazing. He(Wale Adenuga) just called me and said if you perform well we may continue with the programme because it is expected to be continuous programme and here we are today.