03/20/19

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The African Students Education Support Initiative (ASESI) and the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) have called for the reservation of 50 per cent of vacancies in the ongoing Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation(NNPC) recruitment for graduates of Petroleum Training Institute(PTI), Effurun, Delta State.
ASESI’s Executive Director, Mr Chinonso Obasi, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said PTI had over the years produced thousands of graduates with high leveled skills in the oil and gas sector.
Obasi said that concerns had been raised that a lot of non-oil agencies found it hard to employ this graduates as they were assumed to be specially trained for the oil and gas sector leaving the graduates of PTI jobless upon graduation.
“In-line with the recent vacancies as advertised by NNPC, ASESI has made a special request that 50 per cent of these vacancies be reserved for the PTI graduates.
“ PTI isn’t under Ministry of Education like other conventional tertiary institutions in Nigeria rather it is under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and so whenever opportunities or vacancies for recruitment are advertised in some of the oil and gas agencies of government, PTI graduates ought to be given high level of consideration for employment.
“Most of the multinational companies in oil and gas sector in Nigeria like Total, ExxonMobil, Chevron etc have gone further to operating their own training institutes which put PTI graduates at the risk of not getting employment upon graduation, ordinarily, the government of Nigeria was not suppose to allow that to operate as they already have a training institute,’’ Obasi said.
Obasi urged all the qualified PTI graduates to take advantage of the recent NNPC recruitment by applying.
He appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the Minister of Petroleum Resources, to reserve 50 per cent of the vacancies in NNPC for the PTI graduates.
Obasi said a special committee –Coalition of Nigerian students’ Union (CNSU) had been set up to meet with the management of PTI to discuss further on this subject matter within the next two weeks.
More so, the Chairman of CNSU, Comrade Eneji Mohammmed, who is also the National President of NAPS, in a statement said that CNSU would meet with the management of the PTI before further actions would be taken.
He regretted that the government was not showing intertest in absorbing PTI graduates despite the intensive trainings they undergo with a view to contributing meaningfully in Nigeria’s oil and gas sectors.
“We are confident that PTI graduates will be given high consideration especially now that the President and commander in-chief of FRN is equally the Minister of Petroleum Resources,’’ he said
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As the world marks the International Day of Happiness, Nigeria is ranked 85 out of 156 countries and second in sub-Saharan Africa.
This is according to the annual Global Happiness Policy Report produced by the Global Happiness Council, which was released on Wednesday.
It was edited by John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, et al.
Nigeria’s ranking is an improvement from its 91 position ranking in 2018.
Finland came first as the happiest country in the world for the second year in a row, followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland and the Netherlands.
The world’s least happy country is South Sudan followed by Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Yemen, Malawi, Syria, Botswana and Haiti.
The report ranks countries on six key variables that support wellbeing: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity.
This is the seventh World Happiness Report; the first was released in April 2012 in support of a UN High level meeting on “Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”.
The report presented the available global data on national happiness and reviewed related evidence from the emerging science of happiness.
It showed that the quality of people’s lives can be coherently, reliably, and validly assessed by a variety of subjective wellbeing measures, collectively referred to then and in subsequent reports as “happiness.”
This year, the focus was on happiness and community: how happiness has been changing over the past dozen years, and how information technology, governance and social norms influence communities.
The report showed that the annual data for Finland have continued their modest, but steady upward trend since 2014.
So that dropping 2015 and adding 2018 boosts the average score, thereby putting Finland significantly ahead of other countries in the top 10.
Denmark and Norway have also increased their average scores.
The United States came in the 19th place, dropping one spot since last year and a total of five spots since 2017.
On the whole, Helliwell said: “What stands out about the happiest and most well connected societies is their resilience and ability to deal with bad things.
“After the 2011 earthquake and now the terrorist attack in Christchurch, with high social capital, where people are connected, people rally and help each other and (in after the earthquake) rebuild immediately,’’ he said.
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Some people going for early morning prayers in a mosque around Halleluyah Estate, a community in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State on Wednesday were attacked by some security guards working in the area.

Sources in the area told our correspondent that the incident happened around 5:30 am.

A resident, simply identified as Taiwo Olawoore, who was also going to mosque at the time the incident happened, in a chat, said they heard several gunshots and people ran in different directions to escape being shot.

While contacted, spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, SP Folasade Odoro, said a suspect was in police custody in connection with the incident.

“We got a distress call from the area and we promptly responded. We made an arrest and the person arrested is being interrogated,” Odoro said.

She further explained that the man arrested was a security guard hired by the community to provide security at night.

Odoro added that the security guard was obviously drunk and reportedly shot into the air, and not at the worshippers going for prayers.

She said that the matter would be thoroughly investigated to prevent reoccurrence.
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A midnight clash among rival cult groups in Kabawa area of Lokoja has resulted in the death of three persons.

According to a source, while one of the cult group was holding its meeting at about 11:00 pm, another cult group was said to have stormed the meeting venue, opening fire at the members.

As at the time of this report, several houses have been set ablaze, with many residents now forced to flee the area.

The Commissioner of Police has, however, deployed a team of armed men following the renewed shooting by the cult groups in the early hours of this morning.

According to the PPRO who confirmed the clash, no casualty was recorded in the clash.

He added that the Divisional Police Officer with his men have brought the situation under control.
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