FG, Stakeholders Prepare for Year-end Traffic

Traffic jam on the road

The Federal Ministry of Works, Thursday in Lagos flagged-off activities to ensure safety and free flow road traffic as people move around for end of year festivities.

The Director of Works, South West Zone of the Federal Ministry of Works, Alhaji Kabiru Abulahi, who performed the ceremony at the weight bridge at Ikosi end of Lagos, said it is a national programme called “Operation Safe and Free Flow of Traffic during the festivities” and that it took place simultaneously in all the six directorates across the nation.

Jonathan: Day of Helicopter Crash, Sad One in our History

Yakowa and Azazi

•To lead FG delegation to Yakowa’s funeral today

•Azazi to get tri-service burial 

•Foreign experts to join in probing accident

BY Muhammad Bello in Abuja, Chiemelie Ezeobi in Lagos and John Shiklam in Kaduna

It was a sombre session at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday as President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice-President Namadi Sambo, ministers and other cabinet members took turns to pay tributes to former Kaduna State Governor, the late Mr. Patrick Yakowa, and former National Security Adviser (NSA), the late General Andrew Owoye Azazi.

Yakowa and Azazi along with four others were killed Saturday when a navy helicopter in which they were travelling crashed at the Okoroba creek in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Jonathan, who is expected to lead a delegation of the Federal Government to the burial of the late governor at Fadan Kagoma in Jema'a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, today, described the day of the crash as a sad one in Nigeria’s history.

Miss USA Olivia Culpo is Crowned Miss Universe

Miss USA, Olivia Culpo (L) is crowned Miss Universe during the Miss Universe competition, Wednesday

An American university student is the new Miss Universe, defeating dozens of contestants from six continents to bring the crown back to the U.S. after a drought of more than a decade.

Twenty-year-old Olivia Culpo won the title Wednesday night at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip, replacing outgoing champion Leila Lopes of Angola, reports The Associated Press.

The Boston University sophomore's coronation ends a long losing spell for the U.S. in the competition co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC. An American had not won the Miss Universe title since Brook Lee won in 1997.

Ogun Suspends Principal for Conducting Virginity Test on Students

 

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun

The plague of moral decadence troubling the society is compelling some untoward actions aimed at redeeming the young folks from self-destruction. It is probably in a bid to ensure a high moral standard among her pupils that the Principal of Ajuwon High School, Ajuwon in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunke Aladeojebi, took an unusual unilateral decision that has now earned her an indefinite suspension from the state government.

Aladeojebi, widely regarded as a strict disciplinarian, subjected some female students in her school to a virginity test, drawing the ire of their parents who reported the matter to the police for carrying out such a test without consulting them.

Jonathan Cautions Elite on Unguarded Statements

President Goodluck Jonathan

Political diatribe took center stage Thursday at Fadan Kagoma, hometown of late Sir Patrick Yakowa, erstwhile governor of Kaduna State who died in a plane crash along with the former National Security Adviser (NSA) at Okoroba creeks in Nembe local government area of Bayelsa State.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who spoke last at the funeral mass of Yakowa held at St. Paul's Catholic Church which lasted more than three hours, cautioned the elite class in the country from making unguarded utterances that are detrimental to the progress of the nation.