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No fewer than 331 senior civil servants have been promoted in the federal civil service, Sunday PUNCH gathered. The 331 new directors were among the 697 candidates who sat the oral interview on Monday, November 4, 2024. In May 2024, the Federal Civil Service Commission put out a notice for the year 2024 promotion/evaluation process
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Escalating hardship and its crushing effects leaves many Nigerians with deadly alternatives. PUNCH Healthwise investigations expose how the situation has pushed Lagos teenage schoolgirls from low-income families into prostitution as they struggle to survive, SODIQ OJUROUNGBE reports In the heart of Mushin, one of Lagos’ most chaotic and crowded neighbourhoods, stood a rundown hotel that
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Escalating hardship and its crushing effects leaves many Nigerians with deadly alternatives. PUNCH Healthwise investigations expose how the situation has pushed Lagos teenage schoolgirls from low-income families into prostitution as they struggle to survive, SODIQ OJUROUNGBE reports In the heart of Mushin, one of Lagos’ most chaotic and crowded neighbourhoods, stood a rundown hotel that
The Federal Capital Territory Administration’s (FCTA) Special Ministerial Task Team, has demolished illegal settlements behind National Park and National Military Cemetery, along Airport Road, Abuja. The settlement, named Ruga, was demolished while hundreds of shanties, made from sacks, planks and scrap roofing sheets along the rail corridor were destroyed and set ablaze. FCT Director, Security
FCTA demolishes illegal settlement, shanties along Airport Road
The Federal Capital Territory Administration’s (FCTA) Special Ministerial Task Team, has demolished illegal settlements behind National Park and National Military Cemetery, along Airport Road, Abuja.
The settlement, named Ruga, was demolished while hundreds of shanties, made from sacks, planks and scrap roofing sheets along the rail corridor were destroyed and set ablaze.
FCT Director, Security Service Department, Adamu Gwari, after the operation in Abuja on Tuesday said that the Ruga settlement was characterised by shanties and other illegal structures built on peoples’ plots of land.
Gwari, who was represented by Dr Peter Olumuji, Secretary, FCT Command and Control Centre, pointed out that illegal structures harbour all kinds of criminal elements.
He said that the site was close to the rail corridor, adding that their occupation of the area could pose security threats to residents using the Abuja Metro Line.
“You know we have had incidents of the rail tracks being vandalised. As such, demolishing the illegal structures would improve security on the rail corridor, ” he said.
On measures to ensure the illegal occupants do not return to the site, the director said that Wike had already warned plot owners to develop them or the FCT Administration would revoke the allocations.
“Most of the plot owners have complained overtime, that they could not access the plots because of these shanties and criminal elements residing here.
“Some of them have tried to take over their plots, but were attacked by the illegal occupants.
“Today, the FCTA has cleared the area and so, we advised them to immediately take possession of their plots of land and begin development,” he said.
FCTA demolishes illegal settlement, shanties along Airport Road
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