ABUJA AIRPORT CLOSURE: FASHOLA INSPECTS WORK ON KADUNA-ABUJA HIGHWAY, CALLS FOR CAREFUL DRIVING TO AVOID ACCIDENTS

· Assures Nigerians that his Ministry is on track to fix the road and make it safe, motorable

Ahead of the planned reconstruction and repair of the Abuja Airport runway which would lead to a diversion of air traffic and passengers from Abuja to Kaduna, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, at the weekend inspected progress of work on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway.

The Minister, who stopped at several points on the road to ascertain the quality of work being done in company with the Minister of State, Hon. Mustapha Baba Shehuri and other senior officials of the Ministry, said the Federal Government through the Ministry was effecting the emergency repair work to ensure that the road was safe and motorable even as he called for careful driving to avoid accidents during the period of closure and on the nation’s roads generally.

FLIGHT DIVERSION: FG TO SPEND 1.1 BILLION ON LOGISTICS...

The Federal Government has earmarked N1.1billion as cost of logistics and security during the six weeks period when flights would be diverted from Abuja to Kaduna Airport, the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika said yesterday.

Briefing senators on the planned closure of Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, Sirika said the amount would be spent on security, transportation and others.


He said of the N1.1bn, the Nigerian Railway Corporation will get N103million, Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC), N237million, Police N358million, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) N29million and Ministry of Transport (Bus services), N84million.

Surviving Buhari's second coming is like Friday the 13th, everyday By Viola Ifeyinwa Okolie

As I drove out of the compound this morning, the steering wheel felt a bit wobbly in my hands. I got down and checked and lo and behold, I had picked up a nail and the tyre was as flat as a pancake.

The spare was emmm, well, I do hope my FRSC and VIO friends are not reading this post today.

So I wasted close to two hours trying to sort out the car problems.

Consequently, someone got to school a bit late and I had to go in and obtain an excuse slip blablabla.

THE MODERN ART OF GOVERNANCE AND OGBENI RAUF AREGBESOLA OF APC IN THE STATE OF OSUN

It is a popular norm, globally acknowledged and practiced by developed nations, that political parties serve as an avenue where values and qualities are discovered which, when discovered, are fully utilized to nurture the interests of the people and achieve a profitable end for the future of the concerned political entity.

The engine through which these values and qualities, if discovered, could be utilized to better the lot of the society is governance while the oil which lubricates the engine of governance is a capable and competent administrator.

Ogbeni Aregbesola, who is honoured by the Business World Magazine, amongst several others, as the “Most Innovative Governor in Nigeria”, has proven himself as an astute administrator with much difference. Armed with his innate spirit of kindness, people’s oriented programmes, and progressive policies, Ogbeni has greatly transformed the old Osun state - where official prodigality, administrative irresponsibility, self enrichment, people’s impoverishment of high level, educational decadence, economic bastardization and ridiculous degree of misgovernance was the order of the day - to the present State of Osun which is being administered by governance of belief rather than incredulity; governance of hope rather than despondency; governance of light rather than darkness; governance of truth rather than mendacity; governance of prudence rather than prodigality; governance of care rather than abandonment; governance of sincerity rather than deceit; governance of decency rather than decadence; governance of egalitarianism rather than god-fatherism; governance of amiability rather than unfriendliness; governance of altruism rather than egoism and; governance of true democracy rather than autocracy.