Missing pupil found dead in latrine, tenants flee

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Kehinde Toba, a primary one pupil of Fasok Nursery and Primary School in the Ketu area of Lagos State, has slipped and fallen into an open 25-foot latrine.

Kehinde, who lost his father five years ago and had been staying with his uncle on Alapere Street, was walking out of the house on Wednesday around 7pm when he fell into the pit.

His corpse was later discovered at about 5pm the next day, after a bricklayer had sealed up the pit without knowing that he was trapped in it.

Policemen from the Alapere divison were said to have arrested the caretakers of the house, as tenants had fled for fear of being implicated.

When PUNCH Metro visited the house on Friday, it was observed that the two-storeyed building was deserted, just as the latrine remained open.

It was learnt that the victim and his siblings lived in a house at the back of the affected building.

His guardian, Julius Adeniyi, said the two buildings shared the same exit doors.

Adeniyi explained that Kehinde; his twin sister, Taiye; and elder brother, Seun; started living with him after their father died.

He said, “Their mother is a trader, but she stays in the Seme, Badagry area of Lagos State. The three children live with me.

“On Wednesday, Kehinde returned from school and started doing his homework along with his classmates.”

Adeniyi said he went out to see a friend and when he returned around 7pm, Seun told him that his brother was missing.

He said the family began looking around for him and when it was 10pm, they decided to alert the police to the development.

“I informed his mother, who started crying. I was also confused because we could not tell what had become of him. His mother left Seme for our hometown in Ipokia, Ogun State, and after our family members there made some consultations, they were assured that the boy would be found,” he added.

On how the victim was found, a resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the tenants of the affected house had emptied the latrine since January 2016.

She explained that the old concrete slab, however, fell into the pit.

She said, “A bricklayer made a new concrete slab and placed it beside the pit because they had yet to pay him for the job.

“However, on Thursday, the tenants began to look for the bricklayer to cover up the latrine.

“The bricklayer went and covered it up. He decided to take a break before cementing it. He went to a restaurant to eat and from there went to watch a football match at a viewing centre.

“As he returned to cement the slab he had placed over the latrine, he remembered that he left his earphones at the restaurant. It was at the restaurant that he heard the news of the missing boy.

“It was at this point that the bricklayer remembered seeing a pair of shoes inside the latrine he sealed.”

The bricklayer reportedly told those who gave him the job about his discovery in the latrine, but was allegedly asked to get on with his job.

The man, however, opened the slab and was said to have found the victim’s head showing under the old slab that fell into the latrine.

The guardian, Adeniyi, reportedly passed out and was admitted to a private hospital, as the police were again invited to the scene.

Although officials of the Lagos State Fire Service were invited to the scene, our correspondent learnt that residents brought out the corpse with a ladder.

The police were said to have arrested the two caretakers in charge of the house, while the tenants in the house took to their heels.

Kehinde’s elder brother, Seun, 10, while fighting back tears, said he could not believe that his brother was dead.

“I just want them to produce my brother; tell the government to produce him,” he said.

The spokesperson for the state fire service, Amodu Shakiru, confirmed the incident.

He said, “At about 6pm, we received a call to a house on Alapere Street, Ketu. A boy of about eight years was recovered dead from a latrine of about 25-feet deep on the premises of a two-storeyed building. The corpse was handed over to the police from the Alapere division. The State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit and the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency were also there.”

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the incident, adding that the police did not arrest anybody.

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Buhari appoints Blind man as his Special Assistant

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President Buhari has appointed a visually impaired man, Dr. Samuel Inalegwu Ode Ankeli as his Senior Special Assistant on matters concerning disabled people‎. Senior Special Assistant to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, announced this in a statement released today Feb. 22nd.‎
Shehu stated that Ankeli had headed the Directorate of Persons with Disability at the Buhari/Osinbajo APC Presidential Campaign Headquarters, “the first of any such department in a political party in Nigeria”. “Dr Ankeli hails from Benue State. He went to school in Giwa, near Zaria and Kaduna before reading veterinary medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

He worked with the Benue State government before quitting to give time to his activist role in the promotion of the wellbeing of the blind and people with all kinds of disability. He leads a very active religious and sporting life. He is married and has children”the statement read

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NIGERIA: 50,000 Abuja workers sacked in two months – ACCI

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The scarcity of foreign exchange for importation of raw materials by local industries is adversely affecting the sector as over 50,000 workers have lost their jobs in Abuja in the last two months.

The President, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tony Ejinkeonye, confirmed the job losses in an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Abuja.

Similarly, the President, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Frank Jacobs, said that about 10 companies had formally notified the association about their intention to shut down operations before the end of this month.

Ejinkeonye said that except something urgent was done by the Federal Government to address the forex exchange problem, more people could lose their jobs.

“Currently, in Abuja, we have about 50,000 workers that have lost their jobs in the last two months. I must confess this is not a good time for the manufacturing sector,” he said.

He said majority of manufacturers operating in Abuja could no longer access foreign exchange to import raw materials, adding that those who managed to get forex from the black market could not sell their products as consumers could not pay the high prices.

He said, “As manufacturers and industrialists, the scarcity of foreign exchange has affected us in the area of raw materials that need to be imported. We cannot access foreign exchange anymore to import raw materials.

“Also, maintenance of some of these facilities has become a problem because the spare parts have to be imported and the inability to get foreign exchange to import them has impacted negatively on our operations.

“Some of our members who are manufacturers have even gone to the extreme of withdrawing their goods from the market and need to increase their prices to reflect the high foreign exchange rate. Many of us are having the problem of retaining our workers because the production is being hampered by lack of raw materials.”

The ACCI president said the situation had become so bad that even big manufacturing companies such as Unilever Nigeria Plc, Dangote Cement, Air France and Emirate Airlines were having problem getting foreign exchange.

He stressed the need for the Federal Government to come up with a comprehensive approach that would address the problem.

He said, “There is a need for government to do something urgently and stop living in denial. The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Ministry of Finance should come out and say something that would move us out of this forex crisis.

“Things are really bad. As I’m talking to you now, Unilever, Dangote Cement and our other members are crying. A lot of companies have also threatened to lay off workers. If something urgent is not done within the next 30 days by the government to address this, you will see companies like Dangote and Unilever Nigeria sacking some of their workers.”

Ejinkeonye added, “Airlines like Air France and Emirates are really having very serious problems now in taking back their foreign earnings.”

The MAN president said about 10 companies had indicated its plan to close shop before the end of the month.

He said with each of these companies employing an average of 200 people, a total of 2,000 workers would be affected if they decided to shut down their operations.

He said, “A number of our companies have formally written to us that they are going to close shop. Currently, we have about 10 companies that have written us informing us that they are running out of raw materials and that by the end of this month, they may close down.

“We do know that it is going to be more towards the end of the first quarter because many of them that have raw materials that can’t replenish them are likely to shut down.”

Jacobs called on the government to revisit the ban on 41 items from accessing the forex from the official window, especially items considered essential raw materials for manufacturing.

He said, “Many companies that have applied for foreign exchange for even those items that are not on the 41 ban list are finding it difficult to access foreign exchange from the central bank. So, we are calling on the CBN to make foreign exchange available for essential raw materials.”

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NIGERIA: EFCC arrests Abba Moro

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Abba Moro, former minister of interior in the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, TheCable can report. According to a top operative of the anti-graft agency, who spoke to this newspaper on condition of anonymity, Moro was arrested on Monday. “Abba Moro is currently with us,” he said.

“He was arrested in connection with the 2014 immigration recruitment scam. And most likely he will be charged to court.” In March 2014, at least a dozen job seekers died following stampedes at centres where tests for recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) were to be conducted. The Jonathan government received scathing criticisms for the incident, but it failed to discipline the officials behind the unfortunate exercise.

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Buhari appoints Blind man as his Special Assistant

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President Buhari has appointed a visually impaired man, Dr. Samuel Inalegwu Ode Ankeli as his Senior Special Assistant on matters concerning disabled people‎. Senior Special Assistant to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, announced this in a statement released today Feb. 22nd.‎

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Fallen Naira: DPC advises CBN Governor Emefiele to resign

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The Democratic Peoples Congress DPC, has called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to resign following the declining state of the Naira and the Economy. The party’s position is contained in a statement released by the party’s Chairman, Reverend Olusegun Peters on Friday February 19th.

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NIGERIA: ‘I can make dollar come back to N200 in one month’ – Ifeanyi Ubah

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Billionaire business man and Chairman of Capital oil, Ifeanyi Ubah, says if given the chance, he can make the dollar return back to N200 within one month. Ubah said this during an Interview with Channels TV yesterday February 21st
“Look at the position of the Naira today. Some of us have ideas on how we can restore this. Do you know how many Bureau De Change people who food has been taken out of their families because of this?
If you say they are the ones causing it, then where are you today? It needs strategic management. It won’t take me one month, if you give me part of that consultancy, Naira would come back to 200. I can bet my life with it. Naira would come back to N200. If you call me for that consultancy, I would put Naira back to 200”he said

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