Breaking News: Robbers Kill Two In Karu

It was horror for some residents of Karu a satelite town
in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, when about
1.am on Tuesday ,armed men numbering about 12
stormed a street where the Chief Palace Guest House is
located killing two people and  injuring many others .
Some of the residents who spoke with Kapital FM said
they heard some dogs barking endlessly on the street
trying to alert the people of the ugly incidence
happening in the area.
According to one of the women who chose to be
anonymous, her husband had wanted coming out to
check but she had to prevent him because shortly
before the robbers came there was power failure and
every where was dark.
One of  those killed happens to be their security man,
his name is Abubakar but he was popularly called
‘Colly’. He was matcheted and stoned to death right in
front of a small shop which he owned just in front of
their house.
The two security men were brutally murdered and their corpses were dragged in to the
bush close to the houses were the robbers
eventually operated.
One of the victims Mr. Audu Onah whose house was
burgled said;
” I heard a knock at my door at about 1.30am and I
asked who was that? The voice said come and open the
door, but before I could move my family to a secured
room, they had used a massive stone to pull out the
burglary of my window, gained entrance into my house
and opened the main door”.
Mr Onah said immediately they came into his house
armed with matchets, knifes and local pistols, they
pounced on him giving him a deep cut on the forehead
and wounded his mouth.
He explained that the armed men robbed all 6 houses in
his compound making away with laptops, phones, ATM
cards, money and other valuables.
As at the time kapital Fm got there, he had stitches on
his head and cotton wool in his mouth which prevented
him from speaking properly.
The victim said he was rushed to ECWA hospital in the
early hours of the morning were he got treated.

According to him, “We contacted the police during the
robbery operation but unfortunately there was no
prompt response from them.”
Some other residents who spoke to our reporters said
due to power failure as at the time of robbery and ugly
incidence, it prevented them from coming out since
they were not armed.

The residents while urging the relevant authority to
ensure the culprits are brought before the law and
prosecuted accordingly, appeal to the Federal
Government to mount street lights to disperse these
bad people during the night.
As at the time of filing this report men of the Nigeria
Police Force were seen removing the corpses.

Source: Kapital Fm

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.