LAGOS ROAD CONDITION

 Lagos Metropolis still experience flooding and rough road. All these are as a result of badly constructed   roads that hardly survive the period its  been  constructed.

Despite the effort of Lagos State Government Under the administration of Gov. Babatunde Raji Fashola to ensure that all roads are kept in good order, some parts of the state are still in a very critical condition.

Speaking about Ebun street of Ogba- Ijaye lacal government area, which is always messy whenever it rains, is now in a condition where even the residents can't come out of the street without getting stained an dirty.

 

Mr Abdulahi, a house owner in the street said that "the road has caused serious damage to his shop and home".

 The residents however, pleaded for quick government intervention as soon as possible.  

Heavy rains in central Nigeria triggered a flood that washed away houses and killed at least 21 people, government officials said Monday.

Another 35 people are missing, according to the National Emergency Management Agency.

Search-and-rescue operations are under way in the Gangare and Rikkos areas of Jos, a city in central Nigeria, the agency said. The river that cuts through Rikkos overflowed, flooding nearby homes, it added.

It said two shelters were opened at schools to help those displaced by the water.

Rain in central Nigeria is not uncommon for this time of year, but it has been unusually heavy in the past 

week.

One Killed As Pirates Attack Agip Vessel In Bayelsa

Yenagoa  (AFP) – Suspected sea pirates attacked a vessel transporting workers for Italian firm Agip in the Niger Delta, leaving at least one person dead, officials said Friday.

The attack on Thursday that saw gunmen ambush the vessel occurred in an area of Bayelsa state .
A spokesman for a military task force in the region confirmed one Nigerian man was killed. The vessel was said to have been transporting workers to an oil facility.

“The boat conveying some staff of Agip was attacked by suspected sea robbers and one of the staff of the company died when he was attempting to escape into the river and drowned,” said Lieutenant Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu.

A spokeswoman for Italy’s ENI, the parent company of Agip, said the attack occurred Thursday.
“A speed boat contracted by (Agip) was attacked and stolen,” she said, adding that there were three people on board. She said a Nigerian national who worked for the company drowned while the other two were safe.

A 2009 amnesty deal greatly reduced unrest in the Niger Delta region, but sporadic incidents continue to occur, including robberies, piracy and kidnappings.

TERRIBLE LESSON FOR TERRIBLE ATTITUTE

The unidentified father from Sydney, Australia, sold his car last weekend. The $15,000 (approximately $15,652 in U.S. dollars) in proceeds was earmarked for his mortgage payment and other bills, according to Australian media.

Opting not to squirrel away the loot in a mattress or bury it in his backyard, he decided to hide it his oven, which rarely gets used.

Bad move: Turns out, his wife decided to use the oven that day, preheating it for chicken nuggets for their two children and, yes, cooked the cash.

"It was everything I had," he told the news station. "I've got nothing to my name. That money was supposed to go towards my mortgage."

His wife was equally distraught and, reportedly, could not stop crying when telling her husband after she discovered what happened: The cash was baked into a colorful burnt mess.

The man reached out to his lender and the Reserve Bank of Australia for help.

The Reserve Bank advises people to take damaged currency to a bank. According to the Reserve Bank policy, "if several pieces of the same banknote are presented, the Reserve Bank's policy is for each piece to be worth a share of the value in proportion to its size... The combined value paid should be the face value of the original banknote."

story of NUJ/analysis and criticism of Nigerian news wire

Adenuga David
Matric NO. NMC/10/1457

Story of NUJ

Journalism profession has come a long way in Nigeria since the establishment of (Iwe Iroyin fun awon ara egba ati Yoruba) in Abeokuta, 147 years ago by the British missionaries. Un-arguably, it stands out as one of the oldest modern professions to take root and flourish in Nigeria.
However, Nigerian Union of Journalist have come of age as both of the professional bodies and a trade union group, it also serve as a platform for leadership training and anti colonial struggle under the British colonial rule.
Apparently, our founding father saw journalism as a weapon for fighting against oppression and injustice by the colonial system of government. Example of earliest newspapers existing then were Lagos times ( 1880-1883), Lagos observer(1882), Lagos weekly record(1883), chronicle(1908), Nigerian times(1910), African messenger(1921) and west African Pilot in 1937.
The Nigerian Union of Journalist founded on March 15 1955 marks the beginning of a silent revolution by nationalist for the independence of Nigeria. This nationalist includes Nnamdi Azikwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Herbert Macauley, Chief H.O Davies. Since 1995, the Union had 15 presidents with Mr. Mobolaji Johnson Odunewu 1955-1960 has the first president while Mohammed Garba is the current president.
Similarly, NUJ have had five national secretaries with Chief Olu Oyesanya (1955-1959) as the first secretary and Shu’alibu usman leman (2002-till date) as the current national secretary.
The Union has a training wing, The International Institute of Journalist which was establish towards the realization of its vision to train and retrain its members and also to make them adequately contribute to national development. Presently, the registered membership of NUJ is above 25,000









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