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Why FAAN’s headquarters was relocated back to Lagos
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has justified the directive asking the agency to relocate its headquarters to Lagos.
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, had issued a directive for the relocation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria’s headquarters from Abuja to Lagos.
In an internal memo dated January 15 2024, FAAN’s Managing Director, Olubunmi Kuku, directed the agency’s Director of Human Resources and Administration to come up with the implications of the relocation order.
In the memo, titled, “Relocation of FAAN Headquarters From Abuja to Lagos”, Kuku requested the implication of moving the operations of FAAN headquarters to Lagos.
The memo read, “The Honourable Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development has directed that the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria should be relocated from Abuja to Lagos.
“Consequent upon the above, you are requested to provide the implication of the relocation to the management.”
Meanwhile, it was learnt that FAAN as of December 2015 had a total staff strength of 5,308. The number is split among technical, 1153, representing 21.72 per cent; non-technical, 4154 (78.26 per cent); and executive staff, 1 (0.02 per cent).
In a separate statement issued on Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at FAAN, Obiageli Orah reiterated that relocating the headquarters was considered to be in the best interest of the authority.
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The statement reads in part, “Those affected by the decision to move the headquarters to Abuja have since returned to Lagos as there is no office space for them in Abuja. It was ill-advised in the first place to move the headquarters to Abuja when there was no single FAAN building in Abuja to accommodate all of them at once.
“Having returned to Lagos, the Authority would be liable to pay them DTA (Duty Tour Allowance) because technically they are working out of the station as their official posting is to Abuja. The Minister has decided to stop this waste of public resources and rip-off on the public purse.
“The other option open to the authority was to abandon the old FAAN building in Lagos to rot away and to use its scarce resources to rent an office space in Abuja for millions of naira of public money when in fact more than sixty per cent of its activities are in Lagos given the huge passenger volume of the Lagos airports. The stakeholders and the Minister decided against that and to save the country this waste.”
According to Orah, the minister has unveiled plans to engage concessionaires in constructing suitable offices for FAAN in both Lagos and Abuja.
Orah noted that until this development materialises, FAAN will maintain its management of the existing building in Lagos, which is capable of accommodating all directors and senior officials.
Orah clarified that operational offices in Abuja remain fully functional, with no reduction in operations, adding that the decision was purely technical and does not impact the ongoing operational structure in both cities.
Why FAAN’s headquarters was relocated back to Lagos
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I will not govern Rivers on my knees – Gov Fubara sends warning to political detractors
I will not govern Rivers on my knees – Gov Fubara sends warning to political detractors
Rivers governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, yesterday vowed that he would not rule on bended knees regardless of what he called the ongoing fierce fight to destroy the soul of the state.
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No prophet married only one wife in the Bible – Celestial Church’s founder’s son
No prophet married only one wife in the Bible – Celestial Church’s founder’s son
Olatosho Oshoffa, the son of the founder of the Celestial Church of Christ, Worldwide, Bilewu Oshoffa, has shared his thoughts concerning polygamy in the church, saying the church doesn’t forbid the practice.
The shepherd of CCC International Headquarters, Ketu, Lagos, while defending his late father’s large family declared that no prophets in the Bible had one wife.
“Can I tell you something… (sic)? You see, in that scripture, Paul was only advising. Tell me in the Bible, which prophet of God had only one wife? Do your research and tell me,” Oshoffa said in an interview with Punch.
The late Oshoffa left 13 wives and 53 children behind raising concern about his lifestyle even as the leader of one of Nigeria’s Christian congregations.
However, Tosho, as the younger Oshoffa is also called, dismissed such concern, saying that despite his late father already having three wives, God still gave him the vision to start his ministry 76 years ago.
“I am sure in 1947 if there was a better candidate to found CCC, Oshoffa wouldn’t have been chosen.
“But because there wasn’t a better candidate, he was the only one that God found worthy to found CCC, despite having three wives. So those condemning my father should know that he never had any concubine.
“He married them (his wives), and they were all under his roof. But today, the so-called men of God with only one wife will have concubines outside.
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“Which one is better? So, I will tell you that if God were to judge by the number of wives before sending a bishop or pastor on a mission, my father would have been disqualified because he had three wives before God called him,” he stated.
When asked how his father was able to keep his large family closely knitted, he said his father never trained the children from different mothers.
“Let me tell you something, my dear brother. Our father, while on earth, used to gather us together and tell us, never say you are a son or daughter to any of my wives. But tell yourself, you are a son of Oshoffa.
“This means he used that girdle of love to tie us together. So we don’t see ourselves as children of our various mothers but as children of Oshoffa. That is the same way we related when he (Oshoffa) was still in this world and has been doing after his demise.
“Even today, the remaining Oshoffa wives that were younger than my mother, I still refer to them as my mother, because of the love that our father (Oshoffa) has used to bind us together. So, we all remain one as SBJ Oshoffa children,” he added.
On the leadership crisis rocking the celestial church, the cleric said such a crisis was expected after the departure of the founder. He was, however, hopeful that the problems would soon be resolved.
He, however, declared that his eldest brother, Rev. Emmanuel Oshoffa, is the leader of the church
“Now, when the founder of this church departed, the same way Jesus Christ departed, there were troubles among the apostles about who would lead.
“The same way as well that according to history, the Catholic Church at a time had multiple Popes. But today, they have only one Pope after so many centuries.
“This is the same situation with CCC. After the demise of its founder, there was so much trouble. The apostles also faced the same challenges on succession as those of the Catholic Church.
“…But as of today, the most acclaimed and accepted leader in CCC all over the world is the first son of the founder, my eldest brother, Rev. Emmanuel Oshoffa, who is based in Imeko, Ketu, and Makoko, the headquarters of the church,” he added.
No prophet married only one wife in the Bible – Celestial Church’s founder’s son
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Omokri has been paid to go after Obi – Haruna Goroh
Omokri has been paid to go after Obi – Haruna Goroh
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has been accused of being bankrolled by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to repeatedly attack Peter Obi.
According to a statement by Dr. Haruna Goroh, a social media influencer, he alleged that the way Omokri is “obsessed about discrediting Obi and legitimizing” Tinubu’s administration shows “what he is doing is now his full-time job.”
Goroh’s statement was in reaction to a statement by the former presidential aide who offered $10,000 to Peter Obi and his followers to “substantiate their now-viral claim that @waecnigeria deleted a post proving that Peter Obi took Anambra to Number One in education.”
Omokri, a firm critic of Obi, had said that “WAEC did not delete any posts. Their post is still on their X handle. What happened is that WAEC posted a link to a YouTube video from someone else. The video was not from them. Please fact-check me: WAEC does not have a YouTube video.
“The YouTube video itself was flagged for fraud by YouTube and pulled down. It has nothing to do with WAEC.”
Reacting to the former presidential aide’s statement, Goroh alleged that Omokri had already been given a job by Tinubu, which was not made public.
He alleged that Omokri’s obsession “about discrediting Obi” follows his desire to satisfy his paymasters.
“I am now convinced that Reno is being paid to go after Obi. I used to think that he was attacking Peter Obi to be noticed and given an appointment by Tinubu,” Goroh said.
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“I think he was already given the appointment, but they did not make it public because of the nature of the work he’s expected to do.
“The way that Reno is obsessed with discrediting Obi and legitimizing Agbado’s regime, I am sure that what he is doing is now his full-time job.
“The way that Reno is devoting so much time to digging out things to discredit Obi, he must be doing it as his paid full-time job,” he added.
Describing Tinubu as a political “guru,” Goroh said, “Tinubu is a guru when it comes to paying money to get what he wants. Reno is offering a monetary reward to people who have proof or evidence that will clear Peter Obi of what he is accusing him of.
“Where is Reno getting the money from? The same Reno that once exposed all the lies that surround Tinubu has forgotten all that because of what he is getting from Tinubu.
“I am not Igbo, nor am I sponsored by Obi or the Labour Party to speak for them. If my assertions are wrong, then Reno should stop saying anything about Obi for a month, and I will be convinced that he is not sponsored by Agbado Master.”
Goroh further mentioned that “Omokri keeps attacking the Obidients as if they are the ones behind Nigeria’s problems. Tinubu stole the elections and is ruling with a mandate that was not given by the people.
“The Obidients were not mobilized by Obi. They are the young people of Nigeria who are tired of these political thieves who have wreaked havoc on their country.
“They only saw one person who possessed the qualities needed to bring about that desperately desired change, and that person was Obi. The obidient are not only from the Igbo of Southeast extraction but are from all over Nigeria.
“What Reno is doing is what I call a deliberate diversionary tactic of this regime—to take the attention of Nigerians away from the evil of Tinubu’s regime.
“Nigerians are not fools; they are seeing what is happening. You can’t oppress the people forever; one day, they will push back.”
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