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A boat fired off in the California coast and claimed at least 8 lives
At the southern coast of California, a commercial dive vessel call “conception” sinks and fire off. A total of 39 people were said to be on board. According to CNN news 5 people were recused and 8 bodies were found while 26 people are still accounted for.
“Fire department crew were fighting the fire when the vessel sank 20 yards off shore in 64 feet of water.” Said US. Coast guard Capt. Monica Rochester.
The Los Angeles Times later reported that 15 bodies have been found so far since the Conception caught fire, citing a US Coast Guard official.
the search and rescue group continues to search for the rest.
Governor Seyi Makinde – G S M in Oyo State
Governor Seyi Makinde – G S M in Oyo State
– Primary and Secondary Education Free. Free exercise books and other materials for all school children
– Pensioners and workers getting paid every 25th of the month and 23rd if pay day falls on weekend
– Launched Oyo State-Farmcrowdy Agribusiness Partnership to commence a 3-year plan with 50,000 farmers in the state.
– 100 units of Kia Rio 1.4 Executive Automatic Transmission vehicles for the various security agencies
– Criminalise Open Grazing
– Begins e-registration of everyone living in Oyo State to determine the number of people living and doing business in the state
– Proscribe NURTW because of violence in the state and to this day, they are yet to be back.
– N500,000 bursary for every Oyo State indigene Studying in Law School
– Publicly declared his assets
– Established Oyo State Financial Crimes Commission to fight graft in government
– Ready to waive his immunity if found to have stolen from government
…and so much more… 🤔
Seyi is a 🌟
His monthly salary is N650,000
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Indonesia’s capital city Jakarta is sinking
Jakarta is sinking scientist say the capital is dropping below sea level at alarming rates.
The president of Indonesia announced the government plans to relocate the capital city on the east of Borneo Island as concerns grow over the sustainability of the congested and rapidly sinking Jakarta.
Putting forward his reasons for moving the capital he said: “First, it has fewer earthquakes, floods and forest fires. Second, it is strategically located as it lies right in the center of the country. Third, it is located near developed cities including Balikpapan and Samarinda. Fourth, it has sufficient infrastructure and fifth, some 180,000 hectares of government land is available.”
Some residence believe that the government should concentrate on fixing the problem with Jakarta than movie the capital.
Relocating the country’s administrative and political heart could spell the death knell for the megacity of Jakarta, which has a population of 10 million, but swells to three times that size when the greater metropolitan area is included.
Local environmental NGO leader Hafidz Prasetyo told Channel News Asia that, “as a conservation area, [Bukit Suharto] should be a home for sun bears, local birds and other kinds of animals as well as teak woods, bengkirai woods and those should be preserved. “The development of hotels and shopping centres will need extensive land clearing. We actually reject the plan.”
The northern part of the city is disappearing into Jakarta Bay. Flooding is endemic in the rainy season because 13 rivers run through the city and are unable to drain uphill into the bay. Sea walls have been constructed to try to prevent inundation but they too are subsiding into the mud. About 40 per cent of Jakarta now lies below sea level.
Gambia College students protest tuition fee increment
Students of Early Child Development (ECD) class at the School of Education at The Gambia College on Thursday, 8 August, 2019 protested in disapproval of a decision school administrator’s made by increasing the tuition fee from D7,000 to D10,000 in an academic year.
This information came to light through the school’s registrar at an orientation with new students. It was a decision made by college’s administrative council.
Kebba Yusuf Suso an ECD Diploma 2 student told The Point that this decision came as a surprise. “We were informed of the school’s decision by the college registrar recently during an orientation session they had with new students,” he said.
“So this has really come as a surprise to us as students who are on their diploma levels with only few years to finish the college. We are not going to adhere until everything is clear to us because what we were told by the same registrar when we were coming to the college was different.”
According to him, they were to pay D21, 000 for three years and not the contrary. “And what they said is that the decision is a directive, directive from where? That is what we wanted to know as students,” he concluded.
Omar Njie, an ECD year 2 student said the decision of the college administration to increase the tuition fee from D7,000 to D10,000 dalasi for every academic year is really frustrating, pointing out that the financial background of most of the students at the college is very weak. He said that provisions for their daily college learning materials is even a problem for most students much more tuition increment.
“We really find it hard as students to even have enough furniture in our classroom and we are paying our tuition fees every year. So we are only paying our monies for nothing? He inquires.
Our efforts to hear from the school’s administrators proved futile as no college senior administrator was present for comments.
Author: Yusupha Jobe
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