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12 — Vanguard, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2022
PRESENTATION—
Okwudili Onyia,
Communications
Manager, Savannah
Energy,
Nigeria (left),
presenting an
award to Emem
Mbat, Mathematics
Teacher, Asutan
Ekpe Comprehensive
Secondary
School, Okop
Ndua Erong, in
Ibesikpo LGA,
during the 15th
edition of the
Annual Award for
Teaching Excellence,
in Akwa
Ibom State Public
Secondary
Schools, held in
Uyo.
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Wike greedy, not fighting for South
—Ned Nwoko
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Why Nigeria must partner private
sector for education devt —Osinbajo
By Ozioruva Aliu
BENIN CITY—VICE
President Yemi
Osinbajo has said there is need
for continued partnership
with the private sector to meet
the education needs of
Nigerians.
He also called on the
regulators of the sector to
ensure they sustain needed
standards, so that Nigeria and
the African Continent would
not be disconnected from the
rest of the world.
He spoke at the 20th
Convocation ceremony of
Igbinedion University, Okada,
Edo State, where the school
renamed its teaching hospital
after the president and
founder of Christ Embassy,
Rev. Chris Oyakhilome. It also
By Emma Amaize
ASABA—THE Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP,
candidate in Delta North
senatorial district, Delta State,
Ned Nwoko, weekend, lashed
out again at Governor
Nyesom Wike of Rivers State,
saying the governor is not
fighting for Southern Nigeria
and that his agitations are not
genuine.
Nwoko, in a statement,
yesterday, in Asaba, Delta
State, said: "Wike is not
fighting for the South. He is
greedy. If they chose him as
the vice presidential
candidate, as he desperately
wanted, would he have been
complaining that the PDP
National Chairman, Iyorchia
Ayu, should go? Certainly not."
Governor Wike, through his
Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Chris
Finebone, recently traced
Nwoko's persistent attacks on
him to the opposition of
governors, including Wike, to
the $418 million Paris Club
refund being claimed by
Nwoko and other consultants.
However, Nwoko, accusing
the governor of rascality for
questioning his integrity, said:
"Those who got into offices
through fraudulent politics
must be cautious in exercising
confered honourary
doctorate degrees on him and
Princess Osula Mku-Atu.
Represented by the Minister
of Transportation, Muazu
Sambo, Osinbajo said: “You
will recall that the first
government university in
Nigeria, the University of
Ibadan was founded in 1948
today, there are 43 federal
universities and 48 state
universities in the country.
This shows that it has taken
both the federal and the state
governments 74 years to
establish 91 universities
whereas it has only taken the
private sector 23 years to
establish 79 universities. This
reaffirms the need to deepen
our partnership with the
private sector.”
Speaking on educational
transient authority.
“Wike has been instigating
crisis in PDP since he lost the
presidential primary to Atiku
Abubakar and the party’s vice
presidential candidate,
despite wasting huge sums of
money belonging to Rivers
State trying to bribe some
party officials.
"It is unfortunate that a
standard and quality, he said:
“I am referencing the speech
of former Prime Minister of
the Republic of Guinea. It is
no longer news that the world
is a global village, universities
across Africa must align with
international best practices to
deliver standards and
qualitative education to their
students. Anything short of
this, our continent will be
uncompetitive.”
Earlier, the former Prime
Minister of Republic of
Guinea, Kabine Komara
delivered the convocation
lecture entitled “The Role of
Universities in Promoting
Socio-Economic Integration
in Africa.”
The Chancellor of the
University, the Esama of
Benin, Gabriel Igbinedion,
failed obscure lawyer has
been posturing in recent times
with false airs of an emperor,
insulting those far better than
him in education and
exposure.
"It is unacceptable for Wike
to continue to embarrass PDP
with crude, unruly and
bellicose tendencies,
attempting to play God. Wike
is a bad-tempered troublemonger.
said he renamed the teaching
hospital from Igbinedion
University Teaching Hospital
to Chris Oyakhilome
Igbinedion University
Teaching Hospital, “In
recognition of your sterling
qualities and significant
contribution to the upliftment
of mankind, and your
exceptional devotion to the
healing ministry”
In his convocation address,
Vice Chancellor of the
University, Prof. Lawrence
Ezemonye said no fewer than
16,000 students have
graduated from the university
since inception and this year’s
event produced 691
graduates and post
graduates, 40 PhDs, 82
masters, 12 post-graduate
and 81 unclassified.
"He should stop his
recklessness. Enough of his
unguarded statements,
unbecoming of a governor.
Why is he crying
everywhere because he lost
an election? Who made
him an indispensable
leader? Does he know how
PDP evolved? His
agitations are not genuine
but selfish."
2023: Delta People'll work for Atiku,
Okowa's victories —Diden
By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—AHEAD of the
2023 general elections,
the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Delta South senatorial
candidate, Michael Diden,
has assured that the people of
Delta State would work
assiduously for the victory of
the party's presidential
candidate and former vice
president, Atiku Abubakar,
and his running mate,
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of
Delta State.
Meanwhile, the 'Delta
Political Vanguard', a group
and political machinery of
the PDP in Delta State, upon
whose wings the Okowa
political family is growing,
has inaugurated a chapter in
the Federal Capital Territory,
FCT, Abuja.
The group was formed to
strengthen and expand its
reach and influence beyond
Delta State.
Speaking, yesterday, at the
inauguration of the new
Chapter in Abuja, Diden, who
doubles as the National
chairman of the group,
explained that the core
mandate of the group is to
ensure total support, and
commitment towards the
victory of not just the Atiku/
Okowa mandate, but other
members of the Okowa and
PDP political family.
According to him, the group
was and still created for the
sole purpose of supporting
everything Okowa, just as he
stressed the need for all efforts
and commitment to be
tailored towards achieving
one goal and that is the victory
for Atiku/Okowa and the
entire PDP family come 2023.
He said: "I am appealing
to all members to always
be civil in their
engagement and apply love
and compassion when
trying to woo members
into the fold.
"I also call for peaceful
cohesion and harmony
amongst members, as
strife and mistrust can
easily destroy the newly
formed chapter.”
Present at the event were
the National Executives of
the group with Diden as
National Chairman,
Bashorun Ogieh, among
others.
Reconstitute NDDC Board
now, Uduaghan urges Buhari
By Akpokona
Omafuaire
Wgovernor ARRI—FORMER
of Delta
State, Emmanuel Uduaghan,
has urged President
Muhammadu Buhari to, as a
matter of urgency, set-up or
constitute the board of the
Niger Delta Development
Commission, NDDC.
Uduaghan made the call in
Warri, while hosting Delta
South leaders of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.
According to him: "We
appeal to Mr. President to
please put up the NDDC
board, it's getting too long. Put
it up and, of course, people
from this senatorial district
must be deeply involved at the
top heirarchy of the
commission."
He also tasked the Federal
Government to do something
positive to cushion the effects
of the flood, which ravaged
many communities, as well as
killed many citizens in the
country.
Uduaghan also
congratulated beneficiaries
of the pipeline surveillance
contract in the state, noted
that the people of the
senatorial district should not
be left out in the scheme of
things.
Uduaghan warned that
outsiders should not be seen
doing jobs that were supposed
to be for the people of the area,
who mainly are from Delta South
senatorial district.
According to Uduaghan, "We
must not have a situation
whereby someone from another
senatorial district is the one
coming to do our own. If there's
anything like that, let me know.
"Because I heard that some
part of the senatorial district is
being handled by someone else
but we will not agree,” in
apparent reference to Isoko axis
of the contract, which is muted
to be contracted to non Isoko
indigene.
Flood: Bayelsa begins closure
of IDP camps
By Emem Idio
YState ENAGOA—BAYELSA
government has
commenced the closing down
of internally displaced
persons, IDP, camps set up to
shelter and cater for the
victims of this year’s flood
disaster.
The largest IDP camp,
located at the Ox-Bow Lake
Pavilion, was shut down,
Saturday, while others in the
Igbogene suburb of the state
capital and elsewhere were
closed, yesterday.
At the Ox-Bow Lake Pavilion
IDP centre, an open-air
thanksgiving was held ahead
of the last meal that was
served to the flood victims
before they started returning
to their various homes.
In his brief sermon, the Vice
Chairman of the Christian
Association of Nigeria, CAN,
in the state and President of
the Bayelsa Baptist
Conference, Dr. Abili Abili,
took a sermon from Isaiah
WARRI—NIGER Delta
ex-agitators of Itsekiri
ethnic nationality have
demanded the immediate
reinstatement of over 3,000 of
its members delisted from the
Presidential Amnesty
Programme, PAP, including
Itsekiri ex-agitators captured
in the Third Phase.
The demand by the exagitators
was contained in a
communique, after their
emergency meeting, held in
Warri, Delta State, yesterday.
Commending President
Muhammed Buhari for the
suspension of the winding
down or termination of PAP, the
group called for the payment
of October stipends of the
affected ex-agitators.
The communique was issued
by Coordinator/Leader and
General Secretary/Leader of the
ex-agitators, Abugewa Mene and
Bokhan Otone, respectively,
noted that most of the exagitators
delisted from the
programme, have not been
deployed for their training.
They said: “Itsekiri students,
deployed as impacted
43:1-2 and Genesis 9:10-15,
where he assured the IDPs
that God had promised that
He would not destroy the
earth with flood again.
“As you are going back
home, remember God has
promised that he would not
destroy the world with flood
as it happened in the days of
Noah. Remember God and
turn to Him,” he admonished
them.
The Commandant of the
Ox-Bow Lake Pavilion IDP
Camp, Ebiuwou Koku-
Obiyai, praised the state
governor, Douye Diri, for his
show of empathy, compassion
and capacity in the
management of this year’s
flooding and victims in the
state.
Koku-Obiyai, who is also
the Chief Whip of the Bayelsa
State House of Assembly, said
over 12,000 IDPs were
accommodated in the camp,
stressing that the state
government fed them daily for
the 28 days the camping
lasted without any death
recorded.
N-Delta ex-agitators demand
immediate reinstatement of
3,000 members
communities to Novena
University and others, most of
whom are in their final year,
should be paid their Intraining
allowance
immediately.
“Our patience is getting
overstretched as our students
are discriminated against in
schools, whereas other
students from impacted
communities have been
deployed and paid their Intraining
allowances. We may
have no option other than to
protest and shut down all oil
operations in our land, if this
act of discrimination against
the Itsekiri persist.
“Reintegration is one of the
cardinal objectives of the
programme and so, we call
for the reintegration of those
that have undergone their
training. There should be the
deployment of the exagitators,
especially from the
Itsekiri ethnic nationality in
the database that is yet to be
deployed for training, while
those for formal education
should be deployed
accordingly.