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Wednesday, 9 March 2016

FG announces dates for Ocholi's funeral


The Federal government has announced March 17th and 18th as the dates picked by the Ocholi family for the burial rites of former Minister of State for Labor and Employment, James Ocholi, his wife and son, who died in a fatal accident on March 6th. 


The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babacir Lawal, announced the dates at the Federal Executive Council's valedictory session held for Ocholi today March 9th.

The Service of songs would hold on March 17th at the International Conference Centre Abuja by 7 pm after which the body of James Ocholi, his wife, Blessing, and son, Joshua, would depart the National Hospital Abuja on March 17th for his home town, Dekina, in Kogi state where a wake-keeping would take place. Internment would take place on March 18 by 12 noon in Dekina.
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Lekki Gardens releases statement on the collapse of one of their buildings


Read the press statement below...
The Management of Lekki Gardens has confirmed the unfortunate incident, Tuesday March 8th 2016 where a building collapsed at about 4a.m. in the morning, at one of its residential estate projects in Lekki. The building which was under construction was meant to house a number of apartment units.
Rescue work started immediately and so far 18 people have been reported dead and others injured. The exact cause of the incident is not known at this time. All of our incident response procedures have been initiated, our support services have been mobilized and relevant authorities have been advised. As regards the said building, investigations are being carried out to ascertain the cause of the collapse. In line with our usual safety standards, all sites are closed off by 6pm daily and it is mandatory that every worker leaves at that time.

The company is cooperating with the National Emergency Management Agency, Lagos State Government, Fire Service and Lagos State Police to speed up rescue efforts. Investigation is already underway to ascertain the identities of those affected as it is not company policy for site workers to take shelter in uncompleted buildings.

Lekki Gardens is a reputable residential property development company and has successfully completed and delivered over 6,000 units of houses across Lagos, Ogun, Rivers State and the Federal Capital territory, Abuja in the past 4 years and most of them already occupied. The Management and staff of Lekki Gardens sincerely sympathize with the families of those who lost their lives. The company will do all in its power to ensure that those injured are fully supported.

Signed Management, Lekki Gardens
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FRSC rules overspeeding as cause of accident that killed Ocholi


 
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi say investigations carried out by the agency suggest overspeeding as the main cause of the accident that killed former Minister of state for Labor and Employment, James Ocholi, his wife and son on March 6th.
Oyeyemi stated this while presenting the accident’s Road Traffic Crash Investigation Interim Report to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided by President Buhari today March 9th.

He said investigations by the agency also showed that the driver of Ocholi's SUV had no driver's license and that the impact of the accident was more on Ocholi and his family members who were seated at the rear seats because they were not using seat belts
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Vietnamese woman gives birth to twins with different fathers after having sex with two men about the same period


Is this even possible? According to reports, the woman gave birth to twins with different fathers after having sex with two men in the same ovulation period. Her husband's relatives, after noticing that one resembled him while the other didn't, urged him to get the two year olds DNA tested, lo and behold their suspicions turned out to be true.


According to MirrorUK

The mother and her husband recently took their two year old children for DNA tests because of 'striking' differences in their appearances.

The Vietnamese couple were shocked to hear that only one of their twins was biologically related to the father, according to local reports. However, both were the offspring of the mother - with tests ruling out the possibility of a hospital mix-up shortly after their births.

Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of Vietnam, told AFP that the findings were extremely rare
"Our Centre for Genetic Analysis and Technology lab has tested and found a pair of bi-paternal twins, This is rare not only for Vietnam, but for the world."
"Bi-paternal twins can occur if two eggs from the same woman are fertilised by the sperm of two men during the same ovulation period.
The time window that eggs can be fertilised is small, with sperm cells capable of living inside a woman's body for only four to five days. The lifespan of a woman's egg, meanwhile, is just 12 to 48 hours" he said
The exact circumstances surrounding the Vietnamese couple's case remain unclear, however, Tuoi Tre newspaper reports that the husband was encouraged to take his children for DNA tests by his relatives, who noted that one of the twins did not look at all like him.

The two siblings also had 'strikingly different' appearances, according to Dan Tri news site.
The pair were both born on the same day around two years ago. But despite being the same sex, one of them has thick, wavy hair while the other has thin and straight locks.

The unidentified family are now said to be looking for the best way to deal with the shocking test results.
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Nigerian twitter reacts to NNPC workers' protest of unbundling of the oil corporation


Some Nigerians on twitter have reacted to NNPC workers' protest of the recent unbundling of the oil corporation into 7 units. Some feel it is a welcome development as it will help address the alleged corruption in the oil corporation. Continue to see their tweets...

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'Why we are opposed to the unbundling of NNPC' - Oil workers say


NNPC workers who started a national wide strike this morning over the unbundling of the national oil corporation, say they are opposed to the new policy because the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, did not consult with all parties involved in the before announcing the unbundling.

 In an interview with Premium times, the Acting General Secretary of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Lumumba Okugbawa, said PENGASSAN, and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, will not accept the unilateral restructuring
“We do not accept any unilateral and arbitrary restructuring. The minister cannot restructure NNPC without carrying all stakeholders along. The minister cannot run the industry as a private estate. He must carry all Nigerians along. With such a massive decision-making, a lot of things would be affected, particularly its implication on workers interest. We are unaware of what is happening. It is not fair that the workers are hearing about the restructuring in the media just like every other person. He is just creating unnecessary confusion in the polity. If the minister says he wants to restructure NNPC, has he repealed or amended the NNPC Act of 1977? What happens to the PIB (Petroleum Industry Bill), which has NNPC restructuring as one of its key objectives? Has it been jettisoned, or is there a new PIB? These are fundamental questions that the minister has to answer"he said
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