Baby Born With Sealed Anus In Plateau State

A baby boy with this condition  has been born in
Pankshin LGA, Plateau state.
Sources say he was born on the 30th of April. His
mother reportedly noticed that her baby’s tummy kept
swelling up so she rushed him to the town hospital in
Pankshin. They were referred to Plateau state
Specialist Hospital where doctors discovered that the baby had Imperforate Anus meaning the
baby’s anus was sealed and that he cannot
defecate.
Imperforate anus is a birth defect that happens while
your baby is still growing. This defect means that your
baby has an improperly developed anus. According to
the Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, about 1 out of every
5,000 babies

has an imperforate anus. It occurs more
often in boys than girls. The rectum, bladder, and
vagina of a female baby with an imperforate anus
typically share one large opening. This opening is
called a cloaca.
The president of Plateau state hospital Dr. Philemon
Golwa said the poor boy needs surgery, one his equally
poor parents can’t afford.
This is a very serious condition that requires immediate
treatment. Most babies will need surgery to repair the
defect. The outlook following surgery is very positive.

Teachers Recruitment Portal Crash In Just One Day

The federal government’s social empowerment
program to recruit 500,000 teachers may have run into
a hitch as the website for the exercise crashed on
Sunday, the first day applications were opened.
Heavy traffic due to massive applications by
prospective candidates is easily adjudged to be the
reason for the crash.
The Federal Government had, last week, announced
that the recruitment of the teachers would commence
on Sunday, directing interested Nigerians to apply
through http://portal.npower.gov.ng
Attempts to register on the portal around 6.48pm on
Sunday failed as the website was not available.
A message was displayed: “ An error occurred. Sorry,
the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
Please, try again later. If you are the system
administrator of this resource, then you should check
the error log for details. Faithfully yours, nginx .”
However the portal seems to be fine on Monday
morning.

FG Invest N500 billion On Employment Of Graduates

The Federal Government on Wednesday announced the
commencement of recruitment of 500,000 unemployed
graduates to benefit from the N500 billion social
investment Programme included in the 2016 Budget.
In a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant
on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande,says the
applications will start via online for positions in
the 500,000 direct teacher jobs scheme, through an
internet portal named npower.gov.ng.
It said that the applications were expected to start
coming in on June 12, as the portal would formally be
launched on Saturday, June 11.
Qualified young unemployed Nigerians were therefore
urged to visit the website and apply
It reads: “It would be recalled that President
Muhammadu Buhari in his May 29th Democracy Day
broadcast to the nation formally launched the
unprecedented social investment programmes already
provided for under the 2016 Appropriation by the
administration.
“The 500,000 Teacher Corps, nicknamed N-Power
Teach on the portal, is one of the three direct job
creation and training schemes Nigerians can start
applying for from Sunday, June 12.
“Others are N-Power Knowledge which will train
25,000 Nigerians in the area of technology, and N-
Power Build, which train another 75,000 in the areas of
building services, construction, utilities, hospitality and
catering, automotive vocations, aluminium and gas
services.
“All trainees would be paid for the duration of their
training. The N-Power Teacher Corps initiative which
will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed
graduates is a paid volunteer programme of a 2-year
duration.
“Unemployed Nigerians selected and trained will play
teaching, instructional, and advisory roles in primary,
and secondary schools, agricultural extension systems
across the country, public health and community
education-covering civic and adult education.
“Besides their monthly take home pay estimated at
about N23, 000, the selected 500,000 graduates will
also get computer devices that will contain information
necessary for their specific engagement, as well as
information for their continuous training and
development. They get to keep the devices even after
exiting from the programme.
“According to the plan of the Buhari administration, the
N-Power Teacher Corps programme is an invaluable
opportunity for young Nigerians to make immense
economic and social contributions to the nation while
developing their skills. It will also help to address the
problems of inadequate teachers in public schools.
“Also, persons enlisted under the scheme will gain
work experience and acquire key competencies through
academic and non-academic capacity building
programmes intended to improve their competitiveness
in the workplace. Their devices will come loaded with
knowledge-oriented applications and software that will
enable them acquire the skills and capacity.
“Under the N-Power Knowledge scheme, there are
three aspects: Creative, Technology Software and
Hardware. These three sub-divisions would will train
25,000 young Nigerians in all.
“5000 of them would be trained in Animation, Graphic
Design, Post-Production, Script-Writing. All of those
under the sub-division of N-Power Knowledge-
creative category.
“The N-Power Knowledge scheme also has a
technology category in two aspects: hardware and
software. 10,000 Nigerians would be trained, and
equipped in the area of software development,
including web designers, and another 10,000 in
hardware expertise including to repair, maintain and
assemble mobile phones, tablets, computers and other
devices.
“Also the N-Power Build category was
designed realizing that the presence of a well-trained
and highly skilled youth population in any economy has
direct impact on entrepreneurship/wealth creation,
which in turn leads to a decline in unemployment.
‘N-Power Build is therefore an accelerated training and
certification (Skills to Job/Enterprise) programme that
will engage and train 75,000 young unemployed
Nigerians in order to build a new crop of skilled and
highly competent workforce of technicians, artisans
and service professionals.” it stated
On other schemes, the statement said: “The other
schemes in the Buhari presidency Social Investment
Programmes which would soon be rolled out in the
coming weeks. These include the Conditional Cash
Transfer that pays N5000 monthly to one million
Nigerians, the Micro-Credit Scheme for more than 1.5
million Nigerians, the Home Grown School Feeding
programme that will serve 5.5 million Nigerian pupils
in primary school a free hot meal per day this year and
the Education support grant programme for 100,000
tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering &
Mathematics, STEM and education.”

Implement National Values In schools; House Of Rep.

The House of Representatives has raised concern over the
wrong implementation of the recent revised basic education
curriculum (BEC) recently launched by the National
Education Research Development Council (NERDC) by some
schools.
In view of this, it mandated its committee on Basic
Education and Services to interface with NERC,
stakeholders and relevant schools for proper explanation on
the implementation of the subject, Religion and National
Values (RNV).
This is sequel to a motion on the need to revisit the BEC
curriculum sponsored by Hon. Rita Orji who noted that the
BEC currently comprises 20 subjects which include religion
and national values.

The Lawmaker stated that under the scheme, Islamic
Studies and Christian Religious Studies are meant to be
taught separately depending on a pupil’s religious
inclination but however informed the House that the
curriculum is being implemented wrongly by some schools
as is the case in Ajeromi /Ifelogun Federal Constituency of
Lagos State, where both subjects under RVN have been
merged.
The House expressed concern that the given the sensitive
nature of the matter, imposition of both subjects on either
side, will have grave consequences that could impair the
stability of Nigeria.

Woman Sets Daughter Ablaze And Calls It Honour Killing

A Pakistani mother has been arrested on suspicion of
burning her 16-year-old daughter alive for marrying
without family consent in the latest so-called “honour
killing” to shock the country.
Zeenat Rafiq , 17-year-old Pakistani lady ran away
from her family and got married against the will of her
family to a young man, Hassaid Khan . Zeenat
was tricked into returning home by her mother with the
promise of organising for them a proper wedding
ceremony.
The unsuspecting girl was doused with petrol and set
on fire by her mother, Perveen, in a neighbourhood of
Lahore.
The mother reportedly made no attempt to hide her
crime, shouting to neighbours that she had killed her
daughter for supposedly dishonouring her family.
Zeenat ran away with and married Hassan last week,
angering her Punjabi family who were furious that she
had married an ethnic Pashtun without permission.
In a television interview with Geo News, Khan said,
“After living with me for four days following our
marriage, her family contacted us and promised they
would throw us a proper wedding party after eight
days”.
“Zeenat was unwilling to go back to her home and told
me that she would be killed by her family, but later
agreed when one of her uncles guaranteed her safety”.
“After two days, she called me and said that her family
had gone back on their word and asked me to come to
get her, but I told her to wait for the promised eight
days. Then she was killed.”
Lahore police arrested Zeenat’s mother and said they
were looking for her brother, who had recently flown in
from Dubai.
Perveen’s younger sister Naseem told AFP: “After
killing her daughter,

Perveen went out on the street,
took off her shawl and started beating herself on her
chest, shouting: ‘People! I have killed my daughter for
misbehaving and giving our family a bad name.'”
“My sister declared a long time ago she would not
allow her daughter to marry a Pashtun,” she said.
The case has attracted the interest of Shahbaz Sharif,
the chief minister of Punjab. In February Sharif’s
brother, the prime minister Nawaz Sharif, pledged to
close a loophole under Islamic law that allows many
perpetrators of so-called “honour” killings to go free.
Under current laws family members are allowed to
forgive the killer, forcing prosecutors to drop even the
most watertight case.
It often leads to killers walking free in situations where
entire families agree that a daughter has brought
shame on them.
Source: The Guardian