Ipaja Residents Lament LAWMA’s Negligence In Refuse Collection.

Residents of Federal Low Cost Housing Estate, Ipaja in the Alimosho axis of Lagos has expressed their displeasure on the situation of the Bravo G playing ground on E Street in the estate. The issue has grown into into a cause for worry for the residents as the street is loaded with refuse deposited by unknown individuals in that area.

Speaking on the issue, a resident of the area disclosed that the spot was turned into into a refuse dump as the officers of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) are not regular in the area. He stressed that as a result, residents opt to dump refuse on the road side in anticipation that LAWMA would come to take them.

“LAWMA comes here every 3weeks but recently, the arrangement has changed which is why I think people dump refuse on the road,” he added.

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It was also learnt that dumping refuse by the road side has become a trend in the Ipaja axis due to the anticipation from residents that LAWMA will come pick them up when necessary.

A landlord in the area told InsideMainland that the community members have tried their best to curb the act of dumping refuse by the roadside but yet to get the desired result. He however added that measures a put in place to punish whoever is caught in the act accordingly.

He further appealed to the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) to ensure refuse in the area are picked up on time to avoid the health risk associated with such event.

Aisha Buhari’s Book: Guests Refuse To Disclose Donations

Dignitaries who on Thursday attended the public presentation of a book written by the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, deliberately refused to make their donations public.

 It was not clear whether their decision was based on the present administration’s anti-graft posture.

 The prominent Nigerians converged on the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for the presentation of Mrs. Buhari’s book, “The Essentials of Beauty Therapy: A Complete Guide for Beauty Therapy.”

 The proceeds from the presentation, the organisers said, would be sent to parents of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok in April, 2014 and the parents of the boys abducted in Buni Yadi.

 Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo started the secret donation when he announced that Mrs. Buhari should not expect any big donation from him because he and the President were on half salaries.

 He added that he would not be able to donate big money because “Buhari is very strict on money matters.”

 “The President and I are on half salaries. The President is very strict on money issues. So, don’t expect me to make a large donation,” he said.

 Osinbajo said the presentation of the book highlighted the importance of the girl-child education as he observed that if the wife of the President had not got the opportunity to go to school, she would not have been able to write the book and teach others.

 He said, “Girl-child education is still an issue, girls not having the opportunity to go to school. If the wife of the President didn’t have the opportunity to go to school, she wouldn’t have had the opportunity to reach others.

 “It emphasises the importance of education. Her desire to dedicate the proceeds of the presentation to the victims of insurgency and particularly the families of the Chibok girls is commendable.”

 The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who was the chairman of the occasion, also failed to announce his donation.

 Tinubu, who was represented by his wife, Oluremi, however, commended Mrs. Buhari for her decision to invest the proceeds in charity.

 On the importance of the book, the APC leader said Nigeria and Nigerians needed to begin to pay attention to beauty industry which he said was capable of generating income and employment.

 He also stressed the need to set up beauty and therapy schools where interested persons would be properly trained.

 The book presenter, Senator Daisy Danjuma, also failed to make her donation public.

 She however commended Mrs. Buhari for writing the book.

 The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who spoke on behalf of the 36 state governors, also followed the same line.

Although, he promised that state governors would make the books available to all the local government areas in the country, he did not announce how much they would pay.

Others who spoke but failed to announce their donations were the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education, Dr. Musa’udu Kazaure; the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Prof. Abdusalami Nasidi; and the wife of Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Zainab Bagudu.

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PDP Refuses To Sign Presidential Election Result Sheet

In apparent departure from the statesmanlike disposition of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party, Wednesday morning refused to sign the final result sheet for the March 28 presidential election, won by General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

President Jonathan, the PDP, candidate, had conceded defeat earlier before the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and Chief Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Attahiru Jega, returned Buhari as the President-elect at about 3.44am on Wednesday.

 One of the PDP agents, Godsday Orubebe, who, earlier caused a row when the collation exercise continued on Tuesday, had left the National Collation Centre in Abuja before the announcement of the final result by Jega.
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