Federal roads in the East need urgent attention, Ikpeazu tells Senate

Governor Ikpeazu with senator Kabiru Gaya

Abia Gvernor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has described road infrastructure as the oil that lubricates trade and commerce and appealed to the federal government to urgently address the deplorable state of federal roads in the South East and South South geopolitical zones.

The Governor made the appeal at the Government House, Umuahia, when he received in audience the members of the senate committee on Works led by the chairman, Senator Kabiru Gaya.

The Governor also stated that the poor road network in the South South and South East, especially Abia State, makes it difficult for commerce and business to flourish, noting that a journey from Aba to Ikot Ekpene or Aba to Port Harcourt that would ordinarily take 30 minutes now takes between 3 to 5 hours.

He lamented that most federal roads in the state including the Aba-Ikot Ekpene, the Umuahia-Ikot

Ekpene, Umuahia-Ohafia- Arochukwu federal roads pose serious threats to lives and properties of road users as well as endanger the security of communities along the routes.

According to the Governor, "good roads and electricity are essential for the five policy pillars of our administration, of which trade and commerce are key, to succeed".

He advised the engineers handling federal road contracts in the South East to look at the history of the roads to ascertain why they keep failing at some key points.

Earlier, the chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya, said they were in the state to look at some of the deplorable federal roads as part of their oversight functions.

According to him, "we want to ensure that contractors handling federal roads carry out their functions well as the federal government is serious and committed to providing good roads to Nigerians".

Sen Gaya commended the Governor for his efforts at moving the state forward as well as the senators from Abia for their unity of purpose in ensuring that the bad roads in the state are given attention.

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Abuja International Airport shutdown, see why.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, will be closed for six weeks in February and March 2017 for total repairs on the runway.

Mr. Sirika told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the closure will allow Julius Berger carry out total re-construction on the badly damaged airport runway.

He said while the runway would still be put to use under the six months of rehabilitation, the six weeks would allow the mid-section of the runway to be reconstructed.

According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstruction through the emergency procurement procedure for work to commence.

This, according to him, is because of the centrality, economy and the importance of Abuja to the general administration of the country.

He said government could not afford to close down Abuja airport for a long time as palliative repairs had been ongoing on the runway in the last three months.

“From start to finish of the runway, it will take six months. However, we will be using the runway almost throughout the period except for about six weeks when the runway will be closed.

“That is when we are going to do the mid-section of the runway.

“The government has accepted the design done by the contractor. The runway will last for than 10 years on completion early next year,” he said.

Mr. Sirika said Abuja bound passengers from any part of the world will use Kaduna airport as alternative during the six weeks closure to passengers.

He said arrangement had been finalised with Kaduna State, adding that while the federal government will provide buses to convey the passengers to Abuja, the state government will provide security.

According to him, it will cost government substantial amount of money “but we think that palliative approach is wrong because three years down we will come back to do the same repairs.

“Therefore, we decided to go for the bigger option which is to do structural repairs if the runway which will take about six months to complete,” he said.

On the Bilateral Air Agreement with other countries, Mr. Sirika said the government had signed BASA with 18 countries that Nigerians frequently visit and do business with.

The MOUs, he said, would give Nigeria the opportunity to operate air services with 18 countries.

“With this, we have the freedom to fly and land safely in other air space and this will assist in opening our market.’’

Man gets N100,000 bail for snatching bag containing N4,000

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday slammed a N100,000 bail on a motorcyclist, Saheed Olayinka, who snatched a bag containing N4,000 belonging to Mrs Taiwo Olasumbo.

The Magistrate, Mr A.A Adesanya granted the accused bail after he pleaded not guilty to a two-count of conspiracy and stealing.

Adesanya ordered that the accused, a resident of Ipaja area of Lagos should produce two sureties as a condition for the bail.

He adjourned the case till January 16, 2017 for mention.

According to the prosecutor, Insp. George Nwosu the accused and one other person still at large committed the offence on November 4 at Aina Obembe Street, Ipaja, Lagos.

Nwosu said that the accused and one other person conspired to snatch the bag from Olasumbo.

He said, “The accused jumped down from their motorcycle, approached the complainant, commanding her to surrender her bag.

“They threatened to shoot her son if she refused to comply and for fear of being harmed, the complainant gave them her bag.

“The accused jumped back on their motorcycle and rode off.”

Nwosu said the complainant raised alarm which attracted the attention of some sympathisers who chased after the accused.He said the accused fell off the motorcycle which led to his arrest, while his accomplice who had the money escaped.

He said the offences contravened Sections 285 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

Section 285 prescribes three year jail term for offenders.

I am a professional husband snatcher.

Nigeria’s cross-dressing social media sensation, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has subtly owned up to what may be his real sexuality.

Bobrisky, whose sexuality is shrouded in controversy on Wednesday posted a video on SnapChat, in which he lauded his own cooking skills while frying egg.

“Don’t try me i was trained by my mum, we snatch husband when we want to. Name it is it by food, sex, fashion. Don’t try Bobrisky,” he wrote on SnapChat.

The controversial cross-dresser who recently charged £20 for a meet and greet event he organised in London also boasted that he has sex moves that could steal anybody’s man.

On several occasions, Bobrisky has denied vehemently the rumors of being gay. One of his denials had attracted a comment from an openly gay Nigerian, Bisi Alimi. Alimi called out Bobrisky for anti same sex prohibition law 2013, saying his comments have damaging effects on the LGBT community. Bobrisky later apologised.

The owner of Club Uno, Pretty Mike who was rumored to be Bobrisky’s partner also came out publicly last week to deny any such relationship. Pretty Mike cautioned Nigerians to desist from speculating on the cross-dressers sexuality.