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Isoko South chairman expresses surprise over Ikpide-Irri sch with one teacher
Chairman of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta state, Comrade Friday Ovoke Warri, has described education as paramount to the growth of every society.
He expressed shock during an unscheduled visit to Okugbe primary school, Ikpide-irri, and discovered that the school has just only one teacher, teaching over the 170 pupils.
The council boss who was on an unscheduled visit to Okugbe primary school, Ikpide-irri community at the instance of a social and pressure group, ‘Concerned Indigenes of Ikpide-irri 4-Development (CIID), to access of dilapidated social amenities in the community, reassured the unwavering commitment of his administration aimed at sustaining balanced infrastructural development across the council and, alleviating your worries.
According to Warri, his administration takes seriously health and education sectors adding that “education remains the bedrock of every society as I will not joke with the issue of education. Education is utmost in my heart.”
Warri while stating that his administration will prioritise projects focused on the welfare of the people, particularly in education, and those that enhance the socio-economic well-being of the region in line with the state governor’s MORE agenda policy.
The council chairman in company of his vice, council officials and elated community residents walked over three kilometres round the community to evaluate essential self community and government infrastructure, including the primary school, health centre, market, and water bornhole tank with earning acclaim from local residents.
While addressing a crowd of enthusiastic residents at the community town hall, Warri, declared that ‘”My administration values investments in education, healthcare infrastructure, clean water, and strategic development projects, all designed to improve living standards and make government services more accessible, where women and children can seek medical care and children can pursue education.
“The arrival of Warri will bring respite from our troubles; we acknowledge the existing challenges. As local government, our mission is to improve constituent lives, albeit with restricted resources. We will address feasible tasks and seek Rt. Hon. (Elder) Sheriff Francis Orohwedor Oborevwori state government intervention for matters beyond our capacity, relying on his demonstrated commitment to supporting local governance.”
Warri however assured the people of Ikpide-irri community that within the next one month, teachers shall be posted to the primary to close that long gab between the pupils and qualitative learning.
In his remarks at the community’s Town Hall, chairman of Ikpide Irri community, Mike Ighoboro, expressed delight at hosting a sitting a sitting local government chairman, a rare privilege and occurrence in Ikpide-irri community for quite some time now.
Recalled that the Concerned Indigenes Of Ikpide-Irri 4-Development (CIID), had on Monday, August, 26, 2024 paid a courtesy visit on the chairman of Isoko South council, Oleh and appealed to the chairman to extend dividends of democracy to their community.
In a speech, presented by Comrade Obruozie Tom Odiuzou on behalf of the Concerned Indigenes Of Ikpide-Irri 4-Development (CIID) and flanked by ex-president general of Ikpide-irri Progress Union and leader of the delegation, Chief Joseph Ubeleke, CIID had complaint about lack of teachers in the primary school, health care centre, solar street lights, water, market, and among other amenities, noting that Ikpide-Irri riverine community is one of the largest communities of Irri Clan/Kingdom, Isoko South council of the state that has not gotten its fair share of social amenities from the three tiers of government.
“We are an agrarian community, specializes in the production of farm produce such as garri, starch, plantains, yams and peppers etc to guarantee food security in the state. Our Comrade chairman, sir, we graciously appeal to you to assist our beloved community in the following above pressing areas.
Last year, we lost a pregnant woman during labour but had to be rushed to Kaiama in Bayelsa state where every local goes now for health care. We passionately appeal to you to do everything in your power to make our healthcare centre functional again,” CIID had complained.
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Otti reiterates healthcare priority, to begin reconstruction of 200 PHC20th January 2025
By Francesca Hangeior
The Abia State Governor, Mr Alex Otti, has reiterated that health care is at the top of his administration’s agenda.
Otti stated this on Sunday when he received a delegation from Belgium, the Revive Medical Team, who came for a Medical Mission in Abia State for the second time.
He thanked the medical team for keeping its promise of coming again to the state for a free medical mission and said that the reports he received from last year’s mission were positive.
He said, “I want to let you know that healthcare delivery is topmost on our agenda. We have driven the healthcare delivery system in Abia from where it was when we came in 2023 to the present level. We are not there yet, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
“The reports I got after you left were very positive. As at the time I was inviting you, I had not gotten the feedback but interacting with you and seeing how serious you were, I was led to say come back next year.
“Just about a year ago, you were here and I had requested that you return and get the government fully integrated into the medical mission”.
The governor assured the team that adequate arrangements had been made to make them comfortable as they carried out the medical mission.
He seized the opportunity to announce that he would be flagging off the reconstruction of 200 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) to be delivered in 100 days. He said that by the time he is through with the reconstruction of the first 200 healthcare centres, he would commence another set of 200 and would continue until all the Primary Healthcare Centres in Abia State are rehabilitated and retrofitted.
“By Monday this week, we will be flagging off the retrofitting and rehabilitation of 200 Primary Healthcare Centers. These primary healthcare centres must be delivered in 100 days.
“We took our time to design a prototype of a Primary Healthcare Center in Abia State. So, when you walk into a primary healthcare centre, you will know it is a primary healthcare centre in Abia State.
“By the time we are done with the first set of 200, we will also flag off another 200 until all the 948 primary healthcare centres are fully rehabilitated”, Otti assured.
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Court slams 15 years jail term on Mortuary worker for selling body parts online
By Francesca Hangeior
A mortuary worker has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for hawking body parts including fetuses to a sicko collector covered in face tattoos and piercings.
37 year-old Candace Chapman Scott sold the human remains from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Anatomical Gift Program to Jeremy Lee Pauley, a heavily pierced Pennsylvania man she met on a Facebook group that “openly discussed the sale of body parts,” according to Jonathan D. Ross, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
At her sentencing, Judge Brian S. Miller called her crimes “some of the worst I’ve ever seen” and sentenced Ross, of Little Rock, for transporting stolen human body parts out of the state and conspiracy to commit mail fraud, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
Last April, she pleaded guilty to the charges.
Scott’s disgusting deeds, which included selling a skull, brain, arm, ear, several lungs, hearts, breasts, a belly button, and testicles, along with other parts — occurred between October 2021 and July 15, 2022, prosecutors said.
Pauley, 42, a self-described “oddities collector,” paid her $10,625 for 24 body part boxes, part of a twisted underground national network of body snatching from Harvard Medical School and the Arkansas mortuary.
When investigators searched Scott’s home, they found several body parts and she admitted to bagging them at her job.
The heartless morgue worker even told Pauley that the wrong ashes from a cremated body would be returned “to the parents of the deceased fetuses,” prosecutors said.
“Imagine learning that the cremated remains of your child given to you after their death were not actually those of your child, because instead, the FBI recovered the body of that child in another state. That is the shocking truth that happened in this case for the family of “Baby Lux,” Ross, said in a press release.
“Baby Lux was named ‘Lux Siloam,’ which means ‘light sent,’ and now his light has illuminated an evil and dark underworld of criminals who engage in the trafficking of stolen human bodies and body parts,” he added.
At the sentencing, Doneysha Smith, Lux’s mother, told the judge she was heartbroken after hearing of the heinous crimes.
She’s haunted at night by “my son being sent around the mail like an Amazon package,” the Gazette reported.
Miller, meanwhile, sobbed before her sentencing and apologized.
The FBI called it a “truly incomprehensible and detestable crime.”
“This sentencing does not reverse the immeasurable damage that has been caused to the victimized families, however, the FBI and our partners will continuously work to ensure justice is served for all,” said FBI Little Rock Special Agent in Charge Alicia D. Corder.
For his part, Pauley is on bond awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in Pennsylvania to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property, according to the Gazette.
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Trump says ‘invasion of US borders’ will end before Monday is over
By Francesca Hangeior
On the eve of his swearing-in ceremony, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told supporters that he would implement anti-immigration measures from day one of his second term in office.
“By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt.
“All the illegal border trespassers will, in some form or another, be on their way back home,” the Republican said at a rally in Washington.
As during his election campaign, Trump used broad generalisations and portrayed undocumented migrants living in the U.S. as criminals.
While there has been a rise in crime in some areas of the U.S., experts attribute this to complex socio-political causes.
There is no evidence of a migrants-driven crime wave, nor of migrants committing crimes at higher rates than U.S. nationals.
One of Trump’s key election promises was to carry out mass deportations.
To implement this plan, Trump has nominated several right-wing hardliners to join his government.
According to U.S. media, the first raids are set to begin shortly after his swearing-in on Monday.
These are initially planned in Chicago and may also extend to other cities.
The action is scheduled to last for a week.
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