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CITY CLEANING: FCTA Task Team, dislodges illegal markets Along Abuja Airport Road.

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The Nigeria Federal Capital Administration has continued it’s drive to clean the Nigeria Capital City of Illegal settlements and markets that has become the bane of the fast growing city.

The FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation on Tuesday resumed the war against roadside trading, dislodging two illegal markets located at Federal housing junction and the popular car wash bus stop in Lugbe along the popular Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja.

Over time, these markets are said to be contributing to the perennial traffic gridlock at Lugbe,  especially at peak hours of the day.

Speaking immediately after the exercise, Chairman,  FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation,  Ikharo Attah said the renewed war was a demonstration of commitment to holistic Sanitation along the  Airport Expressway, being one of the most strategic gateways  to the nation’s Capital.

He explained that the gateway into the city, as well as other parts of Abuja won’t be abandoned to recalcitrant traders, artisans and their collaborators who are bent on defacing every available space, just to satisfy their personal needs.

Attah, noted that having warned the traders and other violatros to desist from recovening the illegal markets, and other economic activities in an unapproved places, the committee’s taskforce has been briefed to start arresting offenders for prosecution.

He stated that apart from the health hazard which some of  the markets, directly located under high tension  electricity towers constitutes, the environmental nuisances of the traders’ activities can’t be tolerated there.

He reinstated the FCT Minister’s resolve to continue with the ongoing Sanitation , both within and outside the city centre.

In his words, ” It is very painful that these traders have returned here, after we have dislodged them and cleaned up this place. We shall continue with the exercise,  and henceforth anyone caught violating the FCT urban and regional planning rules in this place would be arrested and prosecuted “, Attah added.

Also speaking, the Secretary FCT Command and Control,  Peter Olumuji said the committee has equally taken into cognisance residents outcry over the constant criminal attacks at the EFCC Jabi office junction.

He noted that the red light zones for criminal elements have been identified around the Cashew plantation located at that junction, stating that security cleaning exercise have been scheduled to dislodge the criminals.

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Hilda Baci surpasses Guinness World Record

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Nigerian chef, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, has surpassed the current Guinness World Record for the longest cooking time.

Hilda Baci, who is on a cooking marathon at Amore Gardens in the Lekki area of Lagos State, on Monday, May 15, hit 87 hours 50 minutes to surpass the record.

The 27-year-old chef had, on Thursday, May 11, set up a four-day ‘cook-a-thon’ at Amore Gardens to break the Guinness World Record for the longest cooking time.

The current record for the world’s longest cooking marathon is held by Lata Tondon who completed the task in 87 hours, 45 minutes, and 00 secs in Rewa, India, in 2019.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, visited and commended Hilda Baci over the attempt to break the Guinness World Record.

Scores of Nigerians have since been commending the chef for the feat, while others, including celebrities defied the rain to physically cheer up the visibly tired chef.

Hilda Baci won the maiden edition of the Jollof Face-off Competition in 2021, pocketing a grand prize of $5000.

The Guinness Book of Records is a reference book that contains human and natural world records.

It was first published in 1955 by the Guinness Brewery in Ireland and has since become one of the world’s most well-known and frequently read reference books.

Individuals or groups must submit proof to the Guinness World Records team and go through a verification process to qualify for a world record listing.

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The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has arrived in Abuja after one month away in France.

Tinubu’s flight touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at 04:30 p.m. on Monday, April 24.

The president-elect arrived from France in the company of his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, at the presidential wing of the Abuja airport to a rousing welcome by scores of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and others who had been anticipating his arrival.

Tinubu left Nigeria for France on Tuesday, March 21.

The President-elect, in a statement issued by his media aide, Tunde Rahman, said he travelled abroad to rest and plan his transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29, 2023.

The former two-term governor of Lagos State added that he was prepared to leave France for Saudi Arabia for Lesser Hajj and the Ramadan Fasting which commenced on Thursday, March 23.

 

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INEC Declares Fintiri Winner Of Adamawa Gov Election

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the People Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the governorship election in Adamawa State.

Fintiri is re-elected for a second term in office.

It would be recall that INEC suspended collation for Saturday’s supplementary governorship election after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Hudu Ari announced Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner.

INEC invalidated the announcement, suspended Ari indefinitely and summoned him to its Abuja headquarters for interrogation.

The PDP candidate scored 430,821 votes to defeat All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru who got 396,788.

 

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