Six months after Rivers State Police Command announced
that it rescued twenty-four babies from a baby factory at
the Woji area of Obio-Akpor Local government area of the state, the
command has again rescued a day old child and arrested seven people
at a newly discovered baby factory at Igwuruta, in the Ikwerre
Local Government Area of the state.
Reach.ng learnt that the father of the
day-old child was also among suspects arrested, as findings made it
clear that he had arranged for the sale of his newborn baby boy for
N900,000.
The development was confirmed to newsmen on Tuesday, August 11
by the command’s spokesman, Nnamdi Omoni while parading the
suspects at the Port Harcourt.
Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, acting on a
tip-off, swooped on the suspects, including the owner of the baby
factory, just when the agreed sum of N900,000 for the baby boy was
paid in two tranches of N600,000 and N300,000 to the
go-betweens,” Omoni revealed.
He added, “the baby was born less than 24-hours before it
was sold. This conspiracy was between the father of the baby boy
and the prospective buyers.”
The PS confirmed that all the suspects in custody had confessed
their parts in the allegation against them.
Meanwhile, Mr Abdul-Wasiu Omo-Dada, the father of the
two blue-eyed girls from Kwara State has narrated his own side of
the storyagainst the report that he abandoned his
wife Risikat Azeez, with the children.
Reach.ng reports that Dada in a recent interview with The PUNCH
said he never abandoned his family as insinuated by his wife and
people who had supported her.
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NITDA Sharpens ICT Skills of Creative Kids for
Self-Development
The Director General (DG) of the National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, has advised
participants of the ‘Creative Kids Online Training Programme’ to
improve and sharpen their Information and Technology (IT)
skills.
According to him, doing so will tremendously contribute to the
socio-economic development of the country.
Mal. Inuwa, meanwhile, has assured all the trainees of the
Creative Kids online programme of the agency’s support, to further
develop their IT skills.
The DG, who was represented by Dr. Usman Gambo Abdullahi,
Director of IT Infrastructure Solutions, spoke at the graduation
ceremony of the online training.
He said what the children have learnt and accomplished in their
training shows what they can achieve in the nearest future,
especially in the field of global ICT.
He explained that there was a need for the children to keep
improving on the skills they have learnt, urging them to harness
such skills for the socio-economic development of the country.
“We have to ensure that our children learn. Because we cannot
afford, as a country, to be left behind in technology,” he
said.
Continuing, Inuwa added: “We have highly-talented individuals,
especially in the area of information technology. By showing
sustained interest in this field, you are not only going to be
improving yourself, you can also become problem solvers, inventors,
and innovators, who will create job opportunities and equally
contribute your quota in realizing a smarter Nigeria.
“The opportunities it offers are limitless. Look at the global
impact of Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, as
a result of their interest in technology. In Nigeria, we have
Mitchell Elegbe, Sim Shagaya, and Tayo Oviosu, to mention a few,
who are doing phenomenal things with technology”.
The NITDA Boss, while congratulating the organisers of the
training, appreciated 3logy for training the kids to acquire and
develop digital literacy skills, especially in emerging
technologies.
He said: “The federal government has made a strong policy
commitment to making Nigeria a ‘Smart Nigeria’ by the year 2030.
And one of the pillars to actualizing that is through the
acquisition of “digital literacy and skills”.
“As a nation, it is important that we have a younger generation
that is equipped with adequate digital skills, that will enable
them compete favorably in today’s digital age.”
Earlier, moderator of the ceremony, Mrs. Rahinat Muhammad, said
the children were full of potentials and needed to have memorable
experiences in acquiring requisite ICT skills, so as to become the
country’s future IT wizards.
Among the children participants were: Aliyu Bashir Gwandu, who
won the ‘Most Determined Participant’ award; Amina and Abubakar
Maida, received the ‘Most Punctual Participants’ award; while
Labeeb Muhammad won the ‘Most Well-Behaved Participant’ award.
In the four-week long training, the children were introduced to
robotics, the popular new Python programming for beginners, and
some other emerging information technologies.