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Olonode Oluwatayo Moses

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January 13, 2020

The Executive Chairman of Alimosho Local Government, Hon Jelili sulaimon and his team have completed the construction of Aregbesola Primary School in Shasha, Lagos.

The school is a storey building with 10 blocks of classrooms, an administrative office, fifteen toilets, computer center and a vocational center.

Hon. Jelili Sulaimon and his team has also upgraded all the facilities in Abati Primary school, Shasha, Akowonjo, Lagos.

New windows and doors, terrazzo flooring, sick bay with toilet facility, upgraded computer lab, roof renovation and remodeling of the school fence are the new infrastructures in Abati school.

According to the project manager of Metclux Nigeria Limited, Engr. Showole “we followed the Subeb standard in renovating Abati primary school. With the remodeling, the learning ambiance will meet up with the 21st century requirements”

The vice chairman Hon. Francis Adebisi during an interview at the his office said that “we are using this school as a model for all primary schools, not only in Alimosho but Lagos State.

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Nsikak Ema Noah

The ogun state governor,dapo Abiodun on Sunday, advocated more support for the families of the slain soldiers.
Abiodun said those military officers who died in active service should be martyrs
The governor said his administration would continue to support the Nigerian region and living heroes and also ensure that it improves the welfare of all retired service personnel.

He aslo said these at the special church service held to mark the 2020 armed forces rememberance dey held at the cathedral church of St peters ake Abeoukuta

   Sandra ikeji breaks record of most bridesmaids to one bride

Sandra Ikeji on Saturday tied the knot with beau, Arinze, and 200 bridesmaids on her bridal train.The wedding held at the Landmark event center in Victoria Island, Lagos.
In late 2019, the bride announced that she was attempting to break a Guinness world record of the “most bridesmaids to one bride’’.
She also claimed to have to have submitted an application to break the record, But the Guinness world record website is yet to update its records as at press time
The current record holder is an American, Tina Ackles, who had 168 bridesmaids at her wedding,The wedding took place at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa in Florida, U.S. on April 18, 2015.

The year 2020 just began and couples are already setting wedding trends. Here are two wedding stories that would define what this year’s wedding ceremonies would be like.

Whether you are a trend setter, a trend scorner, or a die hard trend follower, you are going to love what 2020 has to offer. 

WEDDING 1. Sandra Ikeji’s wedding

When a wedding planner decides to get married, expect nothing less than spectacular or as this 21st generation call it, a “Wawuuu” wedding, which was exactly how Sandra Ikeji’s white wedding turned out to be.

She said she’d do it, and she actually did it!

Sandra Ikeji wanted a record breaking wedding and she got just that as she tied the knot with her boo, Arinze, with 200 bridesmaids on her bridal train.

Sandra and her husband who earlier had a lavish traditional wedding, got married on the 11th of January 2020 at the Landmark Event Centre, Lagos.

The couple was surrounded by 200 stunningly beautiful bridesmaids who comprised of friends, family members and models signed on to her (Sandra Ikeji’s) agency.

Last year, the bride announced that she was attempting to break a Guinness world record of the “most bridesmaids to one bride’’.

The current record holder is an American, Tina Ackles, who had 168 bridesmaids at her wedding. 

WEDDING 2. Michael & Evelyn Onwunali. 

A beautiful couple in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, went viral  by not doing the usual marriage ceremony. The couple who did their wedding ceremony at Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ruuokwurusi, Port Harcourt, had no reception, bridal train, groomsmen, best man and chief bridesmaid.

At the end all were given their food packs and dispersed from the church to their homes. 

What works for you? an extravagant wedding with the longest bridal train or you’d just prefer it quiet and simple.

ORDIA EWERE ESTHER.

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Odinankaru Pepertua Chisara
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The high rate of poverty today in Nigeria due to bad economy has pushed so many innocent children into hawking on the street to enable them succeed in life.
Child street hawking is common sight on streets in Nigeria’s cities. Children sell products such as boiled groundnut, fruit and chips that they carry on trays balanced on their heads.

Street hawking has huge implications for children’s physical and emotional wellbeing. It exposes them to dangers such as sexual abuse, physical exhaustion, vehicle accidents, death and malnourishment and drug and substance abuse.

Children can become street hawkers in so many ways such as those been trafficked from the rural areas to the urban areas, through their parents, who send them to the street to hawk to supplement their family income, and those children who lost their parents either to disease or terrorist activity. They live on the street and hawk for survival.

What is the solution
Despite the emotional trauma and physical dangers these vulnerable children face, little is being done to protect them or to discourage such practices. Poverty alleviation, health education and protective child rights policies would decrease the prevalence of child street hawking.
The parents of children who street hawk should be empowered economically to be able to take care of them. But the government should also create awareness about child trafficking and provide affected children with support.
Constantly denying children their right to be protected and cared for has an impact on their effective development and well-being and is an injustice. A concerted effort should be made to implement the UN convention and the provisions of the Child Rights Act.
More importantly, the government must understand the psychological impact of this trade. It must tailor interventions to meet the needs of these children and to reduce the practice.

ADEOGUN TITILOPE ADEMIDUN

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A bus preacher was almost lynched at popular Upper Iweka Park in Onitsha, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria when some condoms reportedly fell out of his bible as he preached the ‘Word of God’.

The Anambra bus preacher was dragged out of the commercial bus and beaten into a pulp before he was rescued by some policemen.

An eyewitness and passenger at a popular commercial bus service provider going to Lagos and other parts of the country, to have said that the preacher came to minister and pray for the travelers and as well wish them safety on their way to their destinations.

“The angry men in the bus who had been having bad feelings about pastors, who preach in buses along various parks in Onitsha as an undercover for begging got really angry and pounced on him, who all of a sudden started shouting and pleading for forgiveness because he does that as business not really for true word of God ” However, the officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) had to be called to the scene to save the pastor’s life. So far 2 arrests have been made for further investigations.