NSCC sets to link older persons to job opportunities

By Albert Akota

The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), has launched its Continuing Engagement Bureau (CEB) Program to enable it link older persons both skills and unskilled to job opportunities

President, MFR; Adamu Sambo, NTA Correspondent and Emmanuel

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House, Abiodun Oladunjoye, said in a statement that an official publication by the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental

Affairs advised the award recipients to come to the office of the Ministry to collect their certificates and medals on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

The Director General, NSCC, Dr. Emem Omokaro who disclosed this during launch of the CEB Program and Stakeholders Sensitization and Capacity Enhancement, said the Program will focus on senior citizens who are retired professionals, experts and practitioners in diverse fields.

She added that the NSCC through the CEB Program is working to maximize the latent potentials of the older persons and also to reinvent themselves by reinventing roles and finding new opportunities.

“The Continuing Engagement Program also has provisions for older farmers and artisans both in the rural and urban centres who would be encouraged to register on the portal as Cooperatives and to be connected with opportunities for productive activities and for markets”, said Omokaro.

“We are looking at the fundamental human rights of older persons. Right to work, maximize their potentials, and right to access the labour market in whichever form they wish to”.

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Kano Reps member-elect moves to settle NECO registration fee for constituents

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

Muhammad Bello Shehu, House of Representatives member-elect of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), representing Fagge federal constituency, Kano state has begun moves to settle the registration fees for candidates of National Examinations Council (NECO) in the constituency.

Peoples Daily reports that the move came as a result of mass failure in qualify examination.

Qualify examination is organized by Kano state government for SS2 students as a requirement to pay for their NECO registration, but only for those that pass the examination.

Speaking on Thursday at the launch of series of meeting with parents of the students that failed in the qualify examination at his constituency, Shehu said the mass failure in the examination is a source of concern that needs to be addressed squarely.

Starting with the parents of the affected students at Aisha Shehu Girls Secondary School at the school’s premises, the memberelect said he decided to meet with the parents in order to chart ways on how to settle the NECO registration fee.

According to him, his intervention is sequel to the importance he attached to education as the main priority to him.

He explained that he had resolved to pay N13,000 for each affected student while their respective parents would pay the balance of N10,000, making it N23,000 for each of the affected students in all the secondary schools in the Fagge constituency.

“We sat with the parents of the affected students in this school, Aisha Shehu Girls Secondary School. We resolved that each father should pay N10,000 then o will pay the remaining N13,000 for all the students.

“In this school, Aisha Shehu and Mamman Vice Adamu, i am going to pay over N6.9 million.

This is what I will be doing to the whole secondary schools in this constituency.

“We are doing this because we believe that these children are our children and they have to study. They have to write NECO to proceed. This is the best thing we should to them in order to achieve their life dreams.

“Therefore, this meeting will continue with parents of the affected students in other secondary schools across Fagge.

“We will also make sure we come up with motions and bills that will support the education of children, not only in Fagge, Kano or North, but in the whole country,” he said.

‘The Centre is exploring the opportunities, one of which is to keep the senior citizens active and facilitate opportunities for them to continue to utilize their skills and passions in whatever way, “She said,

People Daily Newspaper recalled that NSCC in March 2023 held a Service Level Collaboration and Review of the Dummy Portal and other Support Instruments for the Establishment of NSCC Continuing Engagement Bureau (CEB) Program.‘The Centre is exploring the opportunities, one of which is to keep the senior citizens active and facilitate opportunities for them to continue to utilize their skills and passions in whatever way, “She said, People Daily Newspaper recalled thament Bureau (CEB) Program.

By Musa Baba Adamu

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, has called on the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to, upon assumption of office, discontinue the silence of the Federal Government over Senator Hope Uzodinma’s alleged use of state apparatus to oppress Imo people and crush political dissent.

PDP urged Tinubu to respect the decision of the Imo people and neither hatch nor partake in any scheme to allow unpopular and widely-rejected regimes to stay in power a day longer than January 15, 2024.

The opposition party stated this in a statement signed by its State Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozor, made available to journàlists in Owerri, Imo State capital.

PDP further said it is