NAFDACEx-DG hands over to Director of Administration

 He said that with limited resources, the agency had recorded tremendous achievements in terms of infrastructural development, capacity building of both staff and other critical stakeholders.

The immediate past Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC), has handed over the affairs of the agency to the Director of Administration and Human Resources, Mrs Yetunde Oni.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Director of Special Duties, Dr Abubakar Jimoh, on Friday in Abuja.
It quoted Orhii as saying he left behind a robust institution that will outlast any successor.

He said that with limited resources, the agency had recorded tremendous achievements in terms of infrastructural development, capacity building of both staff and other critical stakeholders.

"As well the use of cutting edge technologies that has positioned the agency as a global leader in the fight against counterfeit regulated products,’’ it said.

Orhii enjoined the staff to support and cooperate with the incoming Director-General to move the agency to the next level.

The statement also said that Oni praised the passion and relentless efforts of Orhii.

She said that Orhii worked meritoriously in repositioning the agency as a leading light in the fight against counterfeit and regulated products globally. She promised to build on the strategies left behind by Orhii to deliver on the mandate of the agency.

Oni called for the support and cooperation of staff, and challenged them to work tirelessly to sustain the legacies left behind by Orhii to move the agency to greater heights.

Also speaking, former Director of Narcotics and Controlled Substances in the agency, Mr Hashim Yusufu, noted that NAFDAC under Orhii had reduced the prevalence of counterfeit antimalarial medicines from 40 per cent in 2009 to three per cent in 2015.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Orhii assumed office in 2009, until his disengagement on Feb. 15 after serving out seven years.

 

Standard Organisation of Nigeria Former DG says substandard products reduced

Standard Organisation of NigeriaFormer DG says substandard products reduced

 

Odumodu added that the organisation had seized and destroyed more than N10 billion worth of counterfeit products and had enforced compliance to international best practice.

Dr Joseph Odumodu, former Director General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), said substandard products in the country had reduced from 85 per cent to 30 per cent in five years.

Odumodu, who was appointed director-general of SON in 2011, said this in Abuja when he handed over the mantle of leadership of the organisation to a new acting director general.

He said the organisation got international accreditation for Food Technology Laboratories at Lekki in Lagos during his tenure.

Odumodu added that SON’s Food and Technology Laboratories could now help to reduce the rejection of the nation’s products, especially agro-allied commodities at the global export market.

According to him, the organisation has attracted more investments by sanitising the cables sub sector, which hitherto caused high rate inferno in buildings.

He said ``all over the world, we know that Nigeria's cable is the best.''

Odumodu added that the organisation had seized and destroyed more than N10 billion worth of counterfeit products and had enforced compliance to international best practice.

He noted that ``chasing containers, raiding warehouses and companies to look for substandard products expose us to dangers and threats to personal safety and property but we continued to do that in order to maintain standard.''

He, therefore, advised the Federal Government to address the market glut in the steel sector by making Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to patronise locally-produced iron bars which were now of high quality.

He also advised staff of the organisation to be committed toward enforcing standard in goods and services, stressing that ``we have developed a process that will ultimately lead to certification of all government agencies and processes.

"This process will ensure that government processes become sustainable and predictable in terms of cost, timing of service delivery and consumer-focus.''

The former director general, who advised the organisation to focus on working with the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in order to certify their products, also urged the Federal Government to return SON to the ports, saying SON was in a better position to verify imports into the country.

In his speech, Mr Paul Angya, the new acting Director-General, who is the Director of Corporate Services of SON, said Odumodu had given them a roadmap to follow.

Angya said that the staff of the organisation would ensure that they continue with what the former director general started and preserve his achievements.

"We both have public and private orientation because the former director general came from the private sector and we learnt a lot from him,’’ he added.

 

In AbujaFCTA to tackle proliferation of sub-standard private schools

 Bello said that proprietors of such schools were exploiting the unfettered influx of people into the territory, which he described as `unacceptable.’

The FCT administration is poised to tackle the proliferation of sub-standard private schools in the territory by ensuring they maintain acceptable minimum standard, FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has said.

Bello made the statement on Thursday in Abuja at the inauguration of the 2015/2016 Annual School Census at Government Secondary School (GSS), Area 10, Garki.

He said that if such schools were left the way they are, their activities would be counter productive to the territory’s educational system.

He said that proprietors of such schools were exploiting the unfettered influx of people into the territory, which he described as `unacceptable.’

The minister noted that though the proliferation of sub-standard private schools remains a challenge, his administration would address it with seriousness.

"Sub-standard private schools that take advantage of the unfettered influx of people into the territory remain a challenge.

"But the current administration will redress the challenge to ensure the provision of quality education for our children,” he said.

Bello commended the principal, teachers and students of GSS Garki for maintaining high standard of environmental sanitation and urged other public institutions in the territory to emulate the school.

Also speaking, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said that his ministry had concluded arrangement to host the NEMIS software on the Internet for real-time online data entry and processing.

"This is in order to facilitate the collection and collation of education data in Nigeria.

"It will also ensure uniformity in data reporting so that end-users will have timely reports for decision-making and research,’’ he said.

 

Lagos to Host Yobo Testimonial

Lagos to Host Yobo Testimonial

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The Lagos State Government is set to host a befitting testimonial for former Nigeria captain Joseph Yobo where it expects players like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, and a host of other global names to participate.

Yobo had a distinguished career which took him to several countries and clubs. He played in Belgium, France, England and Turkey with varying degrees of success.

Yobo led the Super Eagles to victory at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations before calling time on his international career after Nigeria’s second round elimination by France at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

- See more at: http://silverbirdtv.com/sports/11225-lagos-host-yobo-testimonial#sthash.26q9FD2G.dpuf

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The Lagos State Government is set to host a befitting testimonial for former Nigeria captain Joseph Yobo where it expects players like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, and a host of other global names to participate.
Yobo had a distinguished career which took him to several countries and clubs. He played in Belgium, France, England and Turkey with varying degrees of success.
Yobo led the Super Eagles to victory at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations before calling time on his international career after Nigeria’s second round elimination by France at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
- See more at: http://silverbirdtv.com/sports/11225-lagos-host-yobo-testimonial#sthash.26q9FD2G.dpuf

Jonathan’s ex-ADC Arrested by EFCC

Jonathan’s ex-ADC Arrested by EFCC 

Col. Ojogbane Adegbe,the Aide-de-Camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan Nigerian has been arrested by the operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in connection with the ongoing probe of the $2.1 Billion arms deal.

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The soldier was summoned from United Kingdom where he was attending a course and was arrested in Lagos on Thursday.

Investigation revealed that another seven top military officers were arrested and currently being qized by senior military officers at Mogadishu Cantonment, popularly known as Abacaha Barracks in Abuja.

 After a brief interrogation by the army officers, they were handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at noon on Thursday.

Investigations revealed that the former ADC was undergoing a National Defence College course in one of the military institutions in the United Kingdom.

However, Adegbe had since written a statement at the EFCC, a source said, adding that the former ADC showed up with some lawyers to perfect the statement.

 

Tompolo Declared Wanted by EFCC

Tompolo Declared Wanted by EFCC

  

 Following his refusal to appear before a Federal High Court, Lagos over fraud allegation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared a former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, wanted.

In an advertorial placed in some national newspapers and signed by the Head of Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency said it became necessary to declare Tompolo wanted because two bench warrants had been issued against him by a Federal High Court in Lagos.

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Before the court, Tompolo was charged with a N45.9bn fraud by EFCC but he had refused to show up.

Conspicuously, the advertorial showed Tompolo’s photograph and described him as a 47-year-old, dark-complexioned man from Okerenkoko, Gbaramotu Kingdom in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.

The advert also gave the address of the wanted man as No. 1, Chief Agbanu Street, DDPA Extension, Warri, Delta State and added that he speaks both Izon and English languages.

The public announcement issued by Uwujaren read in part, “The general public is hereby notified that Government Ekpemupolo (a.k.a. Tompolo), whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in relation to the offence of conspiracy and illegal diversion of the sum of N34,000,000,000.00 and N11,900,000,000.00 belonging to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.”

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos had issued a bench warrant against Tompolo on January 14 after he shunned a summons dated January 12, 2016 issued by the judge to appear in connection with the fraud charges filed against him and nine others by EFCC.

Justice Buba had ordered the law enforcement agencies to produce Tompolo before him on February 8 for him to answer the charges, but rather than appear in court on January 8, Tompolo brought an application seeking to quash the bench warrant and arrest order.