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Community Mi ror "Over lIle years, people's moral values had been undennined by conu It ng and unruly behavio r,o
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Frequent transfer of cops: IGPto create more schools 8m
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Dndo State, came alive last weekend when parents, top police omoen and government representatives watched the graduatkm 0196 students of the school which excelled not onJy in academics but also in ptU1lde. At the event, Director of Ed ucaUon, Abuja. ACP Ibrahim Kab~ disclosed thai the Inspec· tor General of Police, Moham· med Abubakar has approved the construction of additionaJ police schools In about seven states across the nation, in or· der to give wants 0( policemen admissions. and stop disrup lion of classes occasioned by trequem transfer of policemen who are parents of the students. Accordina 10 ACP IbrahIm Kablr. the new seven police schools would complement the ex.isting 62 primary schools and seven secondary schools built In 29 states of the federation. Kablr said renovation of some structures In the schools will soon commence.just as new One! wW be constructed. He also said a multi-purpose hall, capable of housing hundreds of students and guests will be 000Strucled in the school. He said the Inspector General of Police has equally promised lO address the training and retraining of teachen and other welfare packages to motivate the teachers. saying the lOP believed that no educational system can rise beyond the level and quality of its teachen. Kablr, however; advised the outgoinJ students to 1mblbe the
values they were taUght in the school by world~ and Interact· ing with people Irrespective or rellglon. political or economic aIDlCllons. He urged them lO always ex· hlblt the security consciousoess In them in order to make the country safer for economic development. He said" never be afraid of fallure. Ihe fear or fallure has hindered potential achleven fi'om making PI"Ol-
set of students, the graduates this year were a "set of discipLined world class students on whom we can beat our chest and say bravo. The main reason
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we put them on parade." Helhanked the Commission eror Police In Dndo State, Dan Iadl Mshelbwala, the Assistant InspectOr-General in charge
of Zone II, Drubebe Ekikeme. the positive management team, royal fathels and parents who contrlbutoo to the success or the occasion.
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"Failure is the ability to discover your best talents, skills, abllUles and deploying them to achieve the most effective contributions to the lives of your fellow men and women .. On the possibility of enlist ing some of the student! who displayed mastery of pseudo weapon handing and parade in the force, he said t.hat would depend on the permission of t.heir parents According to him, the poLice now have a full fledged unl venlty where many modern courses in the sciences and humanities are taught for the benefit of the enUre ci1lzen~ The Commandant of the school, Francis Blsong, a Chief Superintendent of PoLice, attested to the quality of education offered in the school, statlnB that scores of the graduates have eJ:celled in nOI only school certificate examination but also in the university matriculation ez· aminations. thereby securing placement in both local and foreign universities. Bisong said whlle the school failed to conduct any gradua· Uon last year because of the unenviable conduct of the last
I"R eomm.nct.nt. CSP Frana. BlMng,"'" Ow..- StuMm, o.nlunu Joaeph, ACf> I~"'~, ..... Nill. Okupe, Bes1 Studeot Girt, .....,.. o.ot.M,.nd DCP Dan BIll.... cutUog the graau.tion cab -' I,. .¥tlf1I
Surety in trouble over failure to produce accused -35-y ear-old surety; who allegedly defaulted. on Monday appeared before a Yaba Magistrate's Court In Lagos on a one-count cha"e. Thomas Aiakalu, who resides at No. 15, Ado Close, Surulere, was charged before Maglstra{e Palrlck Adekomaya, but he pleaded nOI guUI)t The prosecutor; Insp Godwin Anyanwu, told the court that Alakalu stood su",ty for one Emmanuel Ogar, acrused of
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stealing a tanker of kerosene vaJued at N2.5 miUlon. He said that the fhel belonged 10 one Mr Q:;e:ni Isiaka. Anyanwu submitted that the lurety failed to come to court. as weD as produce Ogar in court on May 15 as he promised. lie said: "Ogar; a petroleum products marketer and resident 0( No. 42, Dpeloyeru SL, Ikotun. was arraigned on February 24, 2012 but was eranted bail by the court in the sum of one miUlon
nalra an.1 • liuretJ The court Issued a Narr.Ult for the arrest of the sun 't'% Aiakalu after he faUed to produce the accused for proseL'Ution. The prcseculOr noted thai A1akalu'~ tIfences contraVened Sections !liS, :; 12 and 409 0( the Crlm1na.l (~ Laws of Lagos Stale. The COW1.lraRted the surety ball In the sum or one mUllon naira, wiLl two sureties who must be La~ residents.
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why In L.o...e)5, \\e want to see what we am Ik.. \ ~ al90 want to addn!ss
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Lagos plans to boost rice production MUAITAlA A YINLA
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n Its bid to reduce speodlng on food importation and provide employment for teem· Ing Nigerian youths, the Lagos State Gmoernment has said that it will W:n!age ils hectares d land Io_riroproduc!im in ""slate. The Slate Corumlssimer fi:r Ac-
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Gtdahan LawaI dl!dcr;ed ttus III tb:! VMkend during a programme martdJC the 3)12 Intana-
tionaI Day cI CoopenotM. sold "" state IJM!I'TUllCI1t is incree.sbC cuJ. ttvatlon d rice ft-orn3) hectare ~ land It began with thrne ~ 880 10 "" """"""-
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... aa:eIor.nedagricuJturnI_ In Lap. The wide alnDI!pl i!J i r us be abE 10 ina"eaSle ourruhlva. yields perto_ _ ria! tion. We suuted about ftve )earS with 3) l8:tares d land. thal we ailiivated upon. But m9i weare gettq to:6) hectares, our target as lhat befOre the )UU' ends, we want
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to &et 500 hecIan!s ~ Iarv:l. "In thai CXJnneCtion. we m9i haw a Rice Mill d mJD) metrE 10nS capacitJ With the rice mill. we are hop~ 10 expam our yield per hectare because the yield per blct:are d rim in I...I¥B i!J betv.us'l L5and 221ms ""hlch Is 9lil1 kJw: The wtde Idea is to irI::rnose th1!: p-ob~by"" "'\\\! are di9c::lNiq: wiih
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wtw: Is anuned in l...atPi in Ilnn €I rkle, IDtirc thai: the kIeo. became IlI!DII&U')' 10 n!duce NIgmia's reUam! oooDwr nadm ir iJod "'RxxI. is YI!ry ai!ical ., eanJITllc _ NUrlI ....- en>Iiwe iO 0:!prnI 00 othr counbies ir ilod suppbc because If there Is • maJor ~ in ThaIland I see no reasm \\oilY thai. sln.tId affw. US; but thai is often the C8ge. thai is
the P'Qbe:n d ~ through 11M:t... He eI:J:1a Ioe'l that the newly aoquired 6) (;kG Refrtgcrated Meat van was ILl90 IaWlCbed by the governor I.) replace the old air· cool van, a1dl,. that the Growth Enhancem!nl SUpport Scheme (GEES) which was _ o/f by Dr Akbwumi Adeshina was aimed III n.alung material inputs readily fur Camen in the state and theentirecowllr}: