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Rivers State Govt to Expand Rumuola Flyover, Construct Flyover at GRA Page 2 www.Africaupdatenewspaper.com I S S N : 2 4 4 9 - 0 4 9 0 : Africa Update Newspaper WEEKLY JUNE 28TH - JULY 5TH, 2020 VOL 9 NO 342 N150 : @Africauph : @Update_africa :[email protected] FAAN to deploy robots to check-in passengers at Airports The Federal Airports Authority profiling, check-ins, Henrietta Yakubu confirmed of Nigeria is set to deploy temperature checks as well as that the test run of the robots robots in its airports all over detection of security threats was done at the Lagos Airport the country. Africa Update including dangerous goods on Saturday. “It's a demo that gathered that the robots and arms. Confirming the is going on in Lagos. It's been would be used for passenger development, General demonstrated. If it works fine, facilitation processes including Manager, Corporate Affairs, it will be adopted,” she said. IPDI calls on Wike, Rivers Police Commissioner to unravel abductors of Ijaw activist Dennis Banigo Page 6 Rivers State Govt to expand APC NWC: Tinubu, Rumuola flyover, construct Oshiomole Now Internally flyover at GRA junction Displaced Politicians Page 2 Page 6 (idps) – Aribisala Time To Rebuild Plot to remove Our Great Party Uche Secondus Page 2 as PDP National Together~ Rivers Chairman thickens APC CTC Page 4 Africa SUNDAY 28TH jUNE - SUNDAY 5TH JULY, 2020 Update ...news the way it is 102 News Rivers State Govt to expand Rumuola flyover, construct was part of approvals given on works, Austin Ben-Chioma said four lanes to ease vehicular flyover at GRA junction Wednesday, at Government council also approved the movement and boost economic Approval for the construction of Junction along the Port Harcourt House, Port Harcourt, during dualisation of Ezimbu Link activities. He further stated that a five hundred and five meters Aba Expressway, in Rivers State the Rivers State Executive Road connecting Stadium Road alternative routes will be created long flyover at the GRA is now in place. This approval Council meeting presided over from GRA junction and the to ensure that motorists do not by the State Governor, Nyesom Tombia Road extension linking suffer untold hardship during the Ezenwo Wike. Ikwerre road. He said Council road constructions. Briefing journalists after the considered the Rumuola flyover Dr. Sokonte Davies: meeting, the Commissioner for and approved its expansion to A Refined, Seasoned Administrator - Don Pedro The emergence of Dr. Sokonte Davies, as the party in Rivers State. Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of I have no doubt, as a refined gentleman and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers seasoned administrator, your wealth of State, has continued to elicit reactions. experience in party administration, laced Speaking on the development, the leader of with your human management skill, would the party in Akuku Toru Local Government be brought to bear, as you pilot the affairs Area, Hon. Christain Don Pedro, said, he is of the APC in Rivers State. very confident that the party will experience Be rest assured of our uncompromising remarkable feats under the leadership of support, as you steer the ship of the party in Davies. A statement released to Africa accordance with the Judgement delivered Update reads: On behalf of the Leadership by Justice George Omereji of the Rivers of the All Progressives Congress (APC), State High Court, Port Harcourt Division. Akuku-Toru LGA, I say congratulations, Dr I wish you and other members of the Sokonte H. Davies, on your purposeful Caretaker Committee of our great party selection as Chairman of the Caretaker success, all through your stay in office. Committee, by the Statutory Members of Bravo once more! the State Executive Committee of our great SON raises red alert over substandard Engine oil Standard Organization of Nigerian markets. Director- through the SON regular market process nor was it registered Four (4) litre containers to Nigeria, SON, has raised a red General, Osita Aboloma Esq. surveillance activity in its 42 with the organisation for unsuspecting Nigerian alert on the discovery of disclosed that the suspected State offices across the country. traceability and quality Consumers. suspected substandard Toyota substandard Toyota brand of The imported product has verification. SON stated that the brand of engine oil in the The suspected substandard engine oil was discovered neither undergone the SON Toyota brand of engine oil is product has no close or remote offshore conformity assessment being sold in One (1) litre and relationship with the Toyota brands of the automobile or the manufacturers. SON advised the Nigerian public to avoid Plot to remove Uche Secondus as patronage of the Toyota brand of engine oil in the meantime, stressing that SON operatives PDP National Chairman thickens are on the trail of other Some Chairmen of the Peoples South-West Zone and we feel development, if not arrested, take immediate action geared at uncertified and unregistered Democratic Party (PDP) in the duty-bound to alert you on the may signal the beginning of forestalling unnecessary crisis in brands of engine oil in the Nigerian markets for necessary South-West have raised alarm need to forestall the festering of terrible developments in our our zone by calling the over an alleged plot by the Oyo regulatory action. SON advised any crisis in the South-West zone. “We are also aware that aforementioned men to order and State Governor Seyi Makinde the general public to patronize zone of the party. “This action factors propelling the educate them on the need to play to replace the party's National only certified made-in-Nigeria becomes necessary in view of simmering crisis included that Chairman, Uche Secondus, by the rules and not create any brands of engine oil with the the new schism rearing its head with Chief Bode George. The of Chief Olabode to become trouble in the zone. “We also MANCAP logo and imported in our zone. It is our immediate party chairmen, Deji Doherty National Chairman at all cost wish to place it on record our brands that have undergone the (Lagos), Clement Faboyede concern to ensure that all hands and also that of Senator Hosea confidence in the zonal caretaker SON off-shore conformity (Ondo), Dr. Sikirulai Olawale are on deck to halt the growth Agboola, the current caretaker committee to discharge its assessment process and are duly Ogundele (Ogun) and Sunday of needless crisis that will chairman of Ekiti State to constitutional responsibilities registered for traceability and Akanfe (Osun), had in a letter negatively affect the health of become national vice-chairman. exquisitely and will always quality verification. The SON assured the Nigerian public that to the national chairman also our party in the South-West “These two men are exploring support them in this regard. “Our all purveyors of substandard and accused Makinde of propelling Zone. “In this respect, we take their closeness to the governor interest is majorly to ensure that life-threatening products would the current Caretaker Chairman due notice of the invitation to a to prosecute inordinate our party is insulated from any be prosecuted in line with the of Ekiti State, Hosea Agboola, purported South-West Zone ambition at the expense of the unnecessary crisis and therefore provisions of the SON Act 14 of to become the national vice meeting which held on Friday, existing amity and urge the governor to take 2015 and the criminal code once chairman of the party. June 19, 2020, unilaterally understanding within the South- immediate actions in this apprehended. SON frowned at The chairmen, in the letter summoned by His Excellency, West Zone, which is currently respect.” the importation of poor quality dated June 19, 2020, reads in Oluseyi Makinde, with no being disrupted for this products into Nigeria to engage part: “We the undersigned are recourse whatsoever to the reason.” “We urge the National in unfair competition with high party chairmen in states of the zonal executive. This Working Committee (NWC) to quality, certified, made-in- Nigeria brands. Africa SUNDAY 28TH JUNE - SUNDAY 5TH JULY, 2020 Update ...news the way it is 3 Politics APC Crises: Bola Tinubu takes a bow governance. This was the sought more destructive weapons sacrosanct. Members must ambition that is not yet even A chieftain of the All born. Progressives Congress and overriding reason for the APC. against one another. subordinate their ambitions to health and well-being of the former governor of Lagos, Bola Order, party discipline and At this extenuating moment with Those most intimately involved party. Never should our party be Tinubu, has reacted to the recent mutual respect went out of the COVID-19 and its economic in founding the party remain defined by one person's interests dissolution of the National window. Members instituted all fallout hounding us, I cannot see faithful to this benign, timely or even the amalgam of all Working Committee, NWC, of manner of court cases, most of as far into the distance as you. I assignment. Sadly, many members' individual interests. A the party, following crises that them destructive, some of them have made no decision regarding members have lost their balance. successful party must be greater rocked the party. The chieftain, frivolous, none of them 2023 for the concerns of this Their personal ambition than the sum of its parts. according to some sources played apparently came to greatly necessary. In the process, a dense hour are momentous enough. a major role in the impasse. outweigh the obvious national fog fell upon our party. In this vein, I appeal to all former During this period, I have not Below is his statement : members of the National imperatives. When this matter first came to a busied myself with politicking Working Committee and all boil a few months ago, I issued a regarding 2023.
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