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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim will stay at the club till 2020 according to reports. More details shortly The post Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim to stay to 2020 appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2s4CWGW via Blogger http://ift.tt/2r2BWmy

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The FRSC in Edo said on Monday that it recorded 22 deaths in Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) between April and May. Mr Samuel Odukoya, the FRSC Sector Commander in the state, told newsmen in Benin that 10 deaths were recorded in April and 12 in May. He said that the total casualties involved in the RTCs within the period under review was 187, with 101 recorded in April and 86 in May. The sector commander said that of the figure, 165 persons were injured in the 44 RTCs that occurred across the state within the period. He attributed the drop in RTCs in the state to commercial vehicle owners’ compliance with the directive to install speed limit device. The FRSC boss, however, said that it had come to the notice of the command that some commercial transport companies were readjusting the speed limit device installed in their vehicles. “We will soon clamp down on those transport companies,’’ he said. Odukoya also said that the command was constantly sensitising moto...

http://ift.tt/2pAW38U Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has advised that the sit-at-home order declared by some right groups in South-East for May 30 should be optional.The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra had called on citizens of South-East to stay at home on May 30 to observe their anniversary. Ekweremadu gave the advice on Sunday at an Inter-denominational church service at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Abakaliki, to commemorate 2017 Democracy Day and Gov. David Umahi’s second year in office. He noted that while the agitation and concerns of the groups are genuine, they should not be pursued with force or other forms of armed struggle.“Individuals who operate private businesses and want to stay-at-home on that day should stay, while those who want to operate their businesses should be allowed to do so. “I believe that civil and public workers should be...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Kaduna State Government said it decided to sell 3,300 houses occupied by civil servants because occupants were not paying rent as appropriate. Hassan Usman, Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, said the government got only a N1m as annual rent from records of the previous administration. The commissioner made the clarification in Kaduna on Tuesday at the annual ministerial press briefing organised by the Correspondents Chapel of the the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). The government plan had come under heavy criticism with occupants of the houses and labour unions initially saying they were not given the option to buy the houses. Usman said the record showed that most civil servants paid as low as N690 per annum as rent for the houses. The commissioner said that what the state was spending on maintenance of the houses was not commensurate with what the government was getting. “When we came on board, we inherited 3,300 houses and we only got...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ben Agande Kaduna – A coalition of Muslim groups, Da’Wah Co-Ordination Coordination council of Nigeria has called on the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo to prevail on the Nigerian Army and the National Youth Service Corps to shift the date for the recruitment of the 76th intake into the army and the orientation programmed of the NYSC scheduled for this months because it would be inimical to the interest of Muslims who will be starting their annual fast this month. Addressing a press conference in Kaduna Monday, the national president of the group, Mohammed Lawal Maidoki said carrying out the two exercises during Ramadan period would divert the attention of Muslims “from the required attention of every Muslim in Ramadan of spiritual attention/dedication”. According to him, if the two exercises are allowed to go ahead, ” participants may have to stop fasting or break it or fail to qualify in the camp activities. We cannot understand why only muslim sensitiviti...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has concluded arrangements to terminate about six abandoned projects spread across the region with a view to enhance the development of the region. Newsmen recall that the Minister, Pastor Uguru Usani had made this known while receiving the report on the audit and review of the East-west road and other project of its Ministry in Abuja. Usani said that following the report from the Ministerial Technical Audit Committee on the contracts awarded from 2009 – 2015 in the Niger Delta, that some projects have been proposed for termination. He listed the projects to include construction of OkpuhutaMbano Junction – Orie market –Lomara- Igwebulka (35km) – Abia State; Land reclamation and Erosion control project at OguduAbia Phase I, Abia State. Others are Idoro-Eastern Itam Water Supply Scheme Akwa Ibom; Construction of Mbak Atai-Ikot Ntu-MkpetiOkuiboku road project (13.86km) Akwa Ibom State; Ukparam Water Supply Scheme and Constructi...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were distributing food, she began to run, desperate for any scraps. After more than a month of heavy fighting, and a siege that left the city in Raqa province cut off from supplies, Ahmad and others like her in Tabqa are hungry, exhausted and afraid. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, seized the town of Tabqa and the nearby dam on Wednesday after fierce fighting. The city has been ravaged by the clashes, and trash and dead bodies were visible on the streets 48 hours after the SDF announced Tabqa’s capture. So when one of her neighbours told Ahmad that the SDF was distributing food in Tabqa’s central market, she rushed over as fast as she could. But on her arrival, she found the “distribution” was nothing more than a few SDF fighters sharing their meals with local residents. “We’re so fed up and disgusted with ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Plateau Command, says it will from Monday clampdown on drivers using phones while driving on the highways. The Sector Commander, Corps Commander Pat Emeordi, who stated this on Saturday while briefing newsmen in Jos, said anyone caught would pay a fine of N4, 000. Emeordi said that the FRSC Establishment Act 2007, Section 10 (4), prohibits the use of phones while driving for obvious reasons. “When people drive and make calls or do text messages, it causes distractions and everyone knows that driving requires a 100 per cent concentration. “But the sad thing is that many people, including those who are supposed to know, are defaulting. We are saying that the act should stop. “The situation is so bad that the House of Representatives on the 7th of March had to take a cursory look at the situation and everyone is worried,” she said. According to her, the use of phones while driving has been identified as one of the majo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J   The National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG has handed down a red alert notice to all indigenous Itsekiri VTP5 and VTP6 trainees of Chevron Nigeria Limited to prepare to shutdown the company’s operations in Escravos and other fields if they fail to engage them as staff before the contract runs out in June 2017. While noting that “it is an insult on the Itsekiri Nation to keep our graduates as trainees for four years without employments”, NAIG demanded that “Itsekiri graduates in VTP5/OTP2 and VTP6/OTP3 are staffed without further delay” by Chevron. The Itsekiri graduates’ body in a statement released Friday May 5 by its President Comrade Edema Collins Oritsetimeyin, alleged that the OPITO certificates of the affected trainees are in the custody of Chevron to purportedly keep the trainees tied to the company, a situation the association claimed “it’s not being done in Richmond, Angola or those trainees in ‘National’ Programme”. NAIG declared that...