Nigerian Government gives automatic employment to families of Immigration tragedy victims

The president cancelled the recruitment exercise that occurred on Saturday.
Following the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, recruitment disaster that claimed the lives of no less than 20 unemployed graduates on Saturday, the Federal Government has offered automatic employment to three members each of families of the dead victims. The government also granted applicants who got injured, during the exercise, automatic employments.
This was stated by the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, at the end of the weekly meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC. The meeting was presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan and lasted for about an hour.
Mr. Maku also said the government had cancelled the recruitment exercise by the NIS; and also cancelled any similar ongoing one by all government ministries, departments, and agencies, MDAs; except the Nigeria Police and the military.
A special committee chaired by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, Joan Ayo, was set up to conduct a new recruitment exercise to fill existing vacancies in the NIS.
Members of the committee are the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, David Paradang, a Representative of the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police, Representative of the Comptroller of the Nigeria Prison Service, Representative of the Corps Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps and a Representative of the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
It is not clear if the committee will ask job seekers to apply afresh or would use the initial one used for Saturday’s test. Each of the about 600,000 people that registered for the NIS test were made to pay N1,000.
Mr. Maku said the president “instructed all MDAs henceforth never to embark on any exercise of this nature in recruiting people into the public service, because what happened could have been avoided altogether.
“He has directed that henceforth no one outside the army, police, who usually recruit people through physical exercises, no other MDA or department of government is allowed to embark on this type of exercise that we witnessed on Saturday,” Mr. Maku said.
Mr. Maku said the entire proceeding of the FEC was dedicated to the families of the deceased.
“FEC noted with grief and deep regrets the tragedy of those who died in the ill fated Nigeria Immigration exercise. FEC in sending condolences to the families of the deceased; and also in sending special wishes to those who are injured and receiving treatment in various hospitals in different parts of the country expressed total regrets that this tragedy took place at all.
“Council members were full of grief. When the issue was discussed, we expressed our condolences to the President and Vice President and we indeed reassured Nigerians that all of us who have the privilege of servicing this nation at this time are feeling the pains with the families of our young ones who lost their lives.
“We reaffirmed our commitment to ensuring that this kind of tragedy does not repeat itself in this country,” Mr. Maku said.
He said the President will visit the families of the deceased to express his condolence as soon he returns from his trip abroad.
“Our hearts go out to the families of the deceased, this nation is fully behind them, the grief is not their own, the grief is the grief of all Nigerians and the grief is the grief of the government and the people of Nigeria. We regret it and pray for the souls of those who have departed,” Mr. Maku said.
“It is regrettable that this took place at a time that every effort was being made by government to increase spaces available for employment. For example last year we were able to get 1.6 million employed in the various sectors of the economy and the public service. However this incident is so painful to all of us and we will not want to see in this country young job seekers looking for job and losing their lives in the process,” he added.
Mr. Maku said members of the council assured that steps will be taken to address the various lapses in recruitment exercises into the public service to ensure that “all those who are qualified get access into the public service without going through this kind of experience”.
There have been widespread calls by Nigerians for the removal of both the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, and The Comptroller-General of Immigration, David Parradang, from office.
Already, the Nigeria Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has commenced investigations into the NIS recruitment tragedy where stampede in various venues across the country led to the death of the job seekers.
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Fuel subsidy must go, Alison-Madueke says


“The subsidy policy cannot be sustained any longer,” the minister said.

About a week after she told federal lawmakers that the federal government had no plans to remove subsidy on petrol, the Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, said on Tuesday that payment of subsidy on petrol ‘cannot be sustained any longer.’
Mrs. Alison-Madueke stated this at the ongoing Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference in Abuja.
“The continued regulation of the downstream sector has its positive and negative impact on the economy, but the negative effect is more than the positive,” the minister said.
“The subsidy policy cannot be sustained any longer.
“This is because the subsidy payment did not benefit the poor it was targeting, but rather it is benefiting the rich,” she added.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke said there was the need to deregulate the downstream oil sector to attract investors. She said that in considering the deregulation of the downstream sector, government must strike a balance in implementing some of its policies to meet the needs of Nigerians.
“Now that reforms in power sector are underway, the next focus should be reforms in the downstream sub-sector.
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Immigration stampede: Relatives scramble for bodies

Relatives of Mohammed Musa, one of seven jobseekers killed in Saturday's immigration job recruitment stampede, have complained hospital authorities refused them claiming Musa's body for burial three days after his death.

National Hospital has refuted the claims, insisting on extreme caution before releasing bodies.

A brother, one step brother and a friend identified Musa's body at National Hospital's mortuary on Monday, but have yet to be given his body days after he should have been interred according to Muslim burial rites, they said.

They said the hospital blocked their attempts by demanding on different occasions a police report, a release form from Nigeria Immigrations Service and the presence of an Immigrations official before they could claim the body.

As at Tuesday, Sule Ahmed said there was still "no explanation. They have not told us anything. They just kept us here."

NHA head of management information service Tayo Haastrup, said, " We don't want to release the bodies to just anybody especially now that they announced they were going to compensate the families of the dead victims. We want to be very sure. You know how people are."

Six bodies were still at the hospital on Tuesday.

Three survivors hospitalised there, including two pregnant women, were discharged, after five were taken off admission on Monday.

Three other patients are expected released from hospital by weekend.

But one woman among them, Ataidu Uneison, sustained a broken neck and lost use of her legs.

She was barely able to speak when health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu visited them in hospital on Tuesday.

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An accident involving three vehicles, one carry 19 Redeemed church members, occurred on Monday along the Potiskum-Maiduguri highway leaving all the Redeemed church members burnt beyond recognition and 16 others dead.
Confirming the accident, the Federal Road Safety Commission spokesman in Yobe State, Mr Yusuf Sani, said the church members were said to be coming back from a church programme in Lagos when the accident happened.
"All the 19 members of Redeemed Christian Church of God who were traveling in one bus were burnt beyond recognition as the bus caught fire on collision with the other two vehicles which also burst in flames shortly afterwards,” said Yusuf Sani
The two other vehicles involved in the accident were conveying people from a wedding. Mr Yusuf blamed the accident on high speed.

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Kanu Nwankwo undergoes heart surgery again

Nigerian football Star and founder of Kanu Heart Foundation, KHF, Nwankwo Kanu underwent a corrective heart surgery at the Cleveland Hospital, Ohio, USA over the weekend.
According to a statement by the Co-ordinator of the Kanu Heart Foundation, Pastor Onyebuchi Abia, the surgery was carried out during one of his normal yearly routine medical checks at the  hospital following his 1997 heart surgery at the same hospital and it was a success.
Kanu has since left the intensive care unit, ICU, of the hospital and is now recuperating.
Pastor Abia said; he will be back home in a few days’ time. I spoke with him on Sunday afternoon and he confirmed he’s in a stable condition.


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