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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigerian Academy of Engineering, NAE  and Arco Group have expressed concern that engineering education and profession are not being given the pride of place they deserve in national planning and development and called on the Federal Government to give the profession the desired attention. The Academy led by its President Engr, MrsJoanna Maduka was in Arco’s Head Office to brief Arco on its expanding role in promoting engineering education and profession as well as discuss ways and means of broadening its collaboration with Arco in different spheres of its activities. The visit was also a gesture of appreciation to Arco for its commitment towards sponsoring the Academy’s annual post-doctoral fellowship. In her opening remarks, Mrs Maduka observed that the Economic Growth and Recovery Plan recently put in place by the Federal Government did not have sufficient technical input, a situation she said did not reflect the crucial role of engineers in economic p...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME A 7-year-old boy,  identified as  George Tamunoibuemie, has allegedly been murdered by his father, a police source said in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the  incident occured yesterday. The father, who was   simply described as Inimgba, reportedly struck his child with a  hard object. Nobody could explain why he   did so. A neighbour, who gave her name as (Stella, not real name), said the father abandoned  the child, thus forcing him to fend for himself. The neighbour said she bought a pencil for the child to go to school  on Thursday  only to hear he had been  murdered by the father. “Just this week, I saw this little boy at a shop, people gathered around him. He stole a doughnut and everyone was blaming his father, saying he wasn’t giving  him food and that, that was  why the boy stole. They said   the father and the boy’s   step mum maltrea...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J ….Says only NASS can prescribe rates to be paid on tenements in the FCT By Henry Umoru THE Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, yesterday approved the temporary suspension of Tenement Rates collection in FCT, just as it said that only the National Assembly has the constitutional role to prescribe rates to be paid on tenements in the FCT and not the administration. According to the FCTA, the suspension became imperative against the backdrop that the government wants to sanitize and streamline the  tenement rates collection process as well as ensure compliance with relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The directive to this effect was contained in a circular signed by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye where he drew attention to the constitutional responsibility of the National Assembly to prescribe rates to be paid on tenements in the FCT and disclosed that the FCTA was at the moment, liaising...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J BY SIMON EBEGBULEM THE Edo State Government yesterday disclosed plans to partner with the National Institute for Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA), with a view to strengthening its educational sector. Governor Godwin Obaseki disclosed this when he met with the management of the institute, led by its Director General/ Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Lilian Salami,at Government House Benin City. Acknowledging the importance of the institute in the training of educational practitioners, Obaseki said collaborating with the institute has become necessary due to the reforms embarked upon by his administration in the educational sector. According to him, “we intend to collaborate with NIEPA so you can help us provide the leadership and managerial skills for our educational practitioners. We don’t have the capacity and resources to tackle all the challenges, but we want to prioritise primary education, because I believe that the key problem is at the basic l...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Abdul Hakeem Lawal M arriage in Islam is based on strong foundation and sound rules relating to the selection of spouse, the most important of which is religion, noble birth, awareness of the spouse’s rights. The very beginning of bringing up children in Islam starts from an ideal marriage built on selecting the righteous wife. By doing so, the Muslim family is formed, and the faithful generation and righteous progeny are raised. In line with the above assertion, Imam Al-Bukhari in his collection stressed the importance of selection of wife in volume 7 page 13 Hadith 19. “Abu Hurayrah narrated that: the Prophet said: “The best women are the rides of the camels and the righteous among the women of Quraysh. They are the kindest women to their children in their childhood and the more careful women of the property of their husbands. Commentary on hadith 19 of volume 7 of Imam Al-Bukhari’s Collection Islam has given freedom of choice to those who wish to get ma...