Index to Nigerian Newspapers

Dominic Omokaro is the president and chairman of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA). He is concerned that students have abandoned school libraries and links the increase in the number of half-baked graduates to lack of interest in reading. To address this, the theme for the library week was 'Revitalizing the School Library System: The Way Forward'. The federal government has not employed librarians to run their school libraries in the last 20 or 30 years, leading to the demise of the school system. Professional librarians are needed to help man these libraries and inculcate readership education on students. The author has met with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education to drive home the issue, and they have promised to look into it. If young people channel their minds into reading, it will reduce crime.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari ensured that two significant federal highways currently under building, Sagamu-Benin and Lagos-Ibadan, will be completed this year by launching five projects in Ogun State yesterday.
Buhari praised the governor of Ogun, Dapo Abiodun, for providing the people with visionary leadership and ground-breaking initiatives despite the difficult conditions brought on by the Coronavirus Disease. (COVID-19). The President hailed Abiodun as a good example of "promises made, promises kept," referring to him as the "Performing Governor of Nigeria's Gateway State."
Buhari noted that the Gateway City Gate, the 42km Sagamu Interchange/Abeokuta Road, the 14km Ijebu-Ode/Epe Expressway and two housing estates for low, medium and high-income earners at Kobape and Oke-Mosan respectively, could not have materialised without the government’s commitment to security of lives and property.