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Nigeria’s Minister of Environment, Mr John Odey has said that the Nigerian Government is coming up with a National Policy to curtail Bush burning

Speaking on the same issue at a conference on Bush fire and control, in Abuja yesterday, the Senate President David Mark, said “the basic problem of Bush burning is that Nigeria is not aware of the consequences of their action”

 

The Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Professor Charles Soludo has assured that the instrumentalities of government will be used to ensure that the Nigeria’s banking system withstand the shocks and effects of the global economic crises.

 

No Bank will be allowed to fail, said Soludo yesterday at a conference in Lagos.

 

Any Bank failure is contagious on the other banks in the banking system, and the contagious system on the Banking system will affect the economy

 The Joint Committee on Women Affairs of the National Assembly, Abuja is holding a public hearing on a bill on “A bill for an act to amend the Family Economic Advancement Programme decree”

The public hearing will hold on April 1, 2009 at the Conference Room of the National Assembly, Abuja

There seems to be a rapprochement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and organised labour as the Federal Government yesterday annouced the set up a Committee Labour-Government relations.

The committee is expected to be a clearing house on Labour-Government conflicts

The National Working Committee of Nigeria’s ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, meets on April 2, 2009 in Abuja, a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Rufai Alkali announced.

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The Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation yesterday  continued its investigations of the purchase of a printing machines for the Federal Government Press in Lagos, with witnesses including the former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Chief Dapo Sarumi appearing before the committee to explain his role in the purchase of the equipments.

The crux of the investigations is to determine the state of the printing equipments when they were supplied in 2001, as the printing machines have presently broken down. While some alleged that the machines were supplied as scraps, others believed that they broke down after use.

 

 

 

Testifying yesterday,   Sarumi said the printing equipments were ordered and supplied before his appointment as a Minister, and therefore he knew nothing about the purchases of the printing press.

However, the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Duro Melaye, countered this claim, showing documents that the equipments were ordered and supplied during the tenure of Chief Dapo Sarumi as Minister of Information and National Orientation.

 

 

 

 

Senator Tinubu who governed Lagos state for eight years 1999-2007, recalled that President Olusegun Obasanjo referred to Lagos as a ‘jungle city”, at an Abuja meeting in 1999, but expressed delight that his administration and the current administration led by Babatunde Fashola has succeeded in clearing all the dirt and refuse dumps that dot the metropolis and give in a clean look.

 

 

He spoke through one of his political associates Engr. Raufu Aregbesola   at a ceremony to unveil and insignia with a cap and glasses built in is honour by Yaba Local Government in Lagos.

The Chairman of Mushin Local Government, Lagos state, Mr. Adepitan Babatunde has made a cash donation of One hundred thousand naira to each person that lost loved ones during the recent crash of a four storey building in 42 Ojerinde Street, Idi Araba in Lagos

Over 11 people reportedly lost their lives during the incident, which occurred last week with the locality of the local government

Nigeria’s Minister of Sports has given Lagos state Government a pass mark over its preparations for the Under 17 world cup fiesta

Lagos is one of the states scheduled to host some of the matches  for the uder 17 world cup holding in Nigeria later this year.

Speaking after an Inspection visit to Teslim Balogun stadium and other facilities put in place to host the soccer fiesta, the Minister commended the Lagos state Government for ensuring the facilities are in excellent state and up to the standards required by the FIFA.