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Kaduna State Government has warned that any resort to unruly or violent conduct as a result of untold distress as a result of the CBN cash swap policy is illegal and against the public interest which values law and order.

The State Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan stated this in a statement made

Warns Against Breakdown Of Law And Order

available to the media in Kaduna yesterday.

The statement stated that the State Government has received credible intelligence of plans by various groups to deliberately disrupt public peace, by organizing street protests.

Aruwan warned that the security agencies have been placed on high alert and have been directed by the Government to decisively uphold law and order.

The statement further stated that citizens are urged to maintain calm, and to remain peaceful and law-abiding as they prepare to exercise their civic franchise in an atmosphere free of all forms of threat.

“ The Government continues to empathize with citizens who have been placed in untold distress as a result of the CBN cash swap policy. Residents must shun the biddings of mischievous groups hoping to ride on these hardships and incite violence.

“The Government of Kaduna State, and other concerned state governments, are deploying the full instrumentality of the law to attain a proper resolution, and thus bring relief to citizens.

“Government is also studying options for addressing challenges being faced by citizens with regard to transport to their places of work.”

Gwagwalada GDSS Principal tasks FCT Education Secretariat, SEB on multi-purpose hall

By Usman Shuaibu

The principal of Government Day Secondary School (GDSS) in Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Bello Sulaiman Ajekunle, has appealed to the FCT Education Secretariat as well as the leadership of the FCT Secondary Education Board (SEB) to erect a multi-purpose hall in the school for the sake of conducting major examinations and other social activities in the institution.

He said: “The school is also in need of furniture for both staff and students as well as the renovation of some dilapidated blocks of classrooms to meet the increasing surge of students who seek admission into the school but cannot be admitted as a result of the shortage of these facilities”.

According to the Principal, “the school lacks standard laboratories and modern laboratories and modern laboratory equipment and facilities to make the students compete favourably with their counterparts in other schools in the area of sciences”.

Ajekunle, who made the appeal while delivering his speech during the school’s 3rd Cultural Day ceremony held on Wednesday, further said; ‘As old as the school is, we do not have standard ICT Laboratory and gargets to properly equip the students in the area of ICT.

This, according to the principal, “we also lack standard library and library materials as he said: “lack of all these hinder the optimum performance of the teachers as well as the students’ academic achievements”.

The Principal, however, told the gathering that the management of the school had done a lot in the areas of curricular and co-curricular activities, describing “culture as the totality of the way of life of the people in a society in which they are known with.

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Also speaking, the territorial Director at the National Population Commission, Mr. Suleiman Zakari, solicited the co-operation of the media professionals for the proper dissemination of information in the rural dwellers so as to achieve successes during the 2023 head count.

The Director thanked the Journalists for attending the workshop.

On his part, a staff from Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) channel 5 Abuja, Mr. Abdullahi Ajiya, commended the entire management of NPC and its media department for maintaining a good relationship with the journalists and hailed the Federal Commissioner, Hon. Joseph Shazin Kwali for his efforts.

The capacity building workshop which was held at Atlas International Hotel, Gwagwalada, Abuja featured a paper presentation with the Topic: “Enumeration Area Demarcation for the 2023 Population and Housing Census” by Mr. Juba Oluwole Johnson.

Also, a paper entitled Processes and Methodology for the 2023 Population and Housing Census” was presented by Mr. Solagbade Oluwole Peter.