09/18/17

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President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in New York to join other world leaders for the one week 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) high-level events starting on Tuesday.

The President was accompanied by Govs. Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara, David Umahi of Ebonyi and Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) of Ondo state.

He was received at the JF Kennedy Airport by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, and the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande.

The president was thereafter, welcomed at about 8:30 p.m. at his lodge by the Ministers of Solid Minerals Kayode Fayemi, Education, Adamu Adamu, and Industry, Trade and Investment counterpart, Okechukwu Enelamah.

The others were the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibril; his Budget and National Planning counterpart Zainab Ahmed, presidential aides as well as members of staff of the Nigerian Missions in the U.S.

Buhari will deliver Nigeria’s National Statement on Tuesday, the first day of the general debate.

He has been listed as the eighth speaker of the 193 Head of States expected to address the General Debate of the General Assembly.

The theme for this year’s debate is ‘Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet’.

Aside other high-level engagements, he will have a lunch meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, along with other world leaders.

Nigeria will also participate in high-level meetings on ‘Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Building Momentum for Change’, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a High Level Event organised by AU under its theme of the Year:‘Roadmap on the Demographic Dividend:From Commitment to Action’, among others.

It is expected that the president and members of his delegation will project Nigeria as a strong moral force and responsible member of the international community.

Nigeria’s commitment to global peace, security and development will also be reaffirmed, with the need for increased international cooperation in the fight corruption.

Other priorities for the Nigerian delegation at 72nd UN General Assembly include strengthening human rights institutions, the rule of law, support for internally displaced persons arising from Boko Haram activities and recent flooding and mitigating the effects of climate change.

The Nigerian delegation is expected to also canvass the support of UN member states for the Buhari administration’s efforts towards combating illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development.
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Abia CP, Anthony Ogbizi

The new Police Commissioner in Abia State, Mr. Anthony Ogbizi, has said the recently arrested members of Indigenous People of Biafra will be prosecuted for murder, arson and other related crimes.

Ogbizi said this during a press briefing and parade of seven suspected members of IPOB at Ariaria Police Station in Aba.

He said following the proscription of IPOB by governors in the South-East and its declaration as a terrorist group by the Nigerian Army, anybody found with Biafran materials would be arrested and prosecuted.

Ogbizi alleged that between September 10 and September 14, the Ariaria Police Station was attacked by suspected members of IPOB, who destroyed everything at the station.

 “Even some policemen were seriously injured. In fact, as I am talking to you, one of the injured police officers is dead. Doctors tried in vain to save his life.

“Now we have lost a soul and you know what it takes to train a police officer. You know the vacuum that creates. It takes a minimum of one year to train a police officer,” he said.

Ogbizi said they also destroyed the property of lawful citizens, stressing that their demonstration was not peaceful.

He also alleged that the group attacked a bank to get money to acquire more weapons.

The police boss said about 30 IPOB members were arrested when they attacked soldiers at Isiala Ngwa and about 29 were arrested in Umuahia.

He said that suspected IPOB members also attacked military officers and the residences of the Commissioner of Police and AIG Zone 9 in Umuahia.

 “As I am talking to you now, information reaching me said they have started gathering at Nnamdi Kanu’s house,” he said.

Ogbizi called on the people to volunteer information on the whereabouts of the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

He denied the rumours circulating in the state that security agents had arrested Kanu’s father.
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Electricity distribution companies under the aegis of Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors have blamed the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the nation’s transmission infrastructure for outages in the country’s electricity supply and consumption chain.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, Spokesman for ANED, Mr. Sunday Oduntan, also said it was wrong for TCN to classify natural drop of electricity demands at nights as rejection of electricity supply by distribution companies.

Oduntan said that the Distribution Stress Test reports of most Discos revealed average Station Capacity Utilisation of less than 50 per cent due to TCN infrastructural limitations.

To buttress his point, Oduntan cited an instance at Ibadan Disco where about 803MW of its 1,538mw capacity were restricted due to TCN’s undersized 132kV line conductors at Ayede/Sagumu/Ijebu-Ode, aged indoor breakers and transformer capacity limitations.

Oduntan also cited the review of the National Control Centre’s report for September 3 which he claimed pointed that transmission frequency constraint constituted the biggest impediment to the flow of energy for the Discos.

He said, “Of note are the Discos’ legitimate concerns of TCN’s need to stop the indiscriminate load dumping to impractical network areas that make distribution inefficient, unviable and impracticable for technical and commercial efficiencies, due to poor infrastructure construction, substandard materials and inefficient reckless approvals of grid extensions for political considerations and interference during the days of NEPA/PHCN.”

Oduntan urged TCN to quickly upgrade its infrastructures in order to reduce the forced outages it causes electricity distributors and consumers alike.

He also explained that the drop in electricity demand by customers at night was natural and should not be construed as load rejection as the Transmission Company of Nigeria had been doing.

The ANED spokesman said, “What has happened is the inaccurate rendering or misinterpretation by the System Operator of Discos’ minimum and maximum load readings. The SO in its recent allegation of load rejection against Discos wrongly projected the load drop/demand, during off-peak hours (night times) as load rejection.

“This is not and cannot be labelled as load rejection by Discos.  Naturally, Discos take and distribute more energy during the day time/business hours than night time when demand is generally low due to lesser demand. The unfair interpretation of off-peak energy data as load rejection is grossly inaccurate and misleading.”

He said the unfair interpretation of off-peak energy data as load rejection was grossly inaccurate and misleading.

Oduntan added that the occasional times Discos had been unable to distribute energy received were directly due to the inadequate TCN infrastructural interface with the Discos.
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The Lagos State Government has completed the construction of the first ever high-powered DNA Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria, the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, has disclosed.

The State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had last year approved the construction of the DNA forensic lab as part of the criminal justice sector reforms designed to solve crime through technology and fulfil an unmet need for DNA profiling, which is a unique forensic technique that is now being used all over the world.

Speaking at a press briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa, Ikeja to announce activities lined up by the State Government to commemorate the 2017 United Nations International Day of Peace, Kazeem said skeletal work had already commenced in the lab known as the Lagos State DNA Forensics Centre and that it would be formerly commissioned in the coming weeks.

Kazeem, who was represented at the briefing by the State’s Solicitor General and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Funlola Odunlami, said the lab, among other initiatives of the State Government, was part of efforts geared toward enhancing peace in the State.

Kazeem said: “The DNA forensic centre just opened this month.

“We are yet to commission it, but it has been opened and it is a DNA crime forensic lab and at the same time, it is going to deal with other DNA matters like paternity issue.

“What we are doing now is skeletal work which we started this month.”

Kazeem recalled that since 2007, the State Government through the Citizens’ Mediation Centre, an agency under the Ministry of Justice, commenced collaborations with the United Nations Information Office to mark the International Day of Peace as an annual event to propagate the ethos of peaceful co-existence among residents in the State, thereby educating and sensitizing the public on the need for peaceful co-existence and respect for human dignity to engender socio-economic growth.

He said: “The Lagos State Government recognizes the fact that the State is the commercial nerve centre of the sub-Saharan Africa where all races converge for various purposes such as business, hospitality, tourism among others, and has put in place mechanisms that will foster development and promote economic activities in the State by instituting agencies that will attend to matters relating to Land Grabbers, Special Task Force, donation of police vehicles for security, introduction of DNA Forensic laboratory to archive blood samples of criminals, among others.

“All these actions are geared toward enhancing peace in Lagos State.”

Speaking on activities to mark the 2017 edition of the day, tagged: “Together For Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity For All,” Kazeem said on September 18, there would be a Walk for Peace/Legal Clinic on Ikorodu Road, precisely from Funsho Williams Avenue through Ojuelegba to Yaba, while on September 19, a second Walk for Peace/Legal Clinic will hold at Jubilee Under-bridge in Ajah through Ibeju Lekki Expressway and back to the bridge.

On the same day, Kazeem said the CMC will hold a Legal Clinic at both venues where free legal services and mediation services will be rendered to residents of the State, while on September 21, the 18th Stakeholders’ Conference and Book Launch will hold at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in Alausa to mark the day.

Every year, September 21 is observed as the International Day of Peace as declared by the General Assembly of United Nations as a day devoted to strengthening ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
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