Rivers
Body Of New Born Baby Dumped At University Campus
The body of a newly born baby has been found in front of the female hostel at the main campus of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Rumuolumeni Port Harcourt.
Eyewithness account said the dead baby was found with a placenta meanimg that the baby was born few minutes before being dumped by her mother.
According to the account a baby was found death and dumped at the female hostel (salvation hostel) of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education.
However the mother of the baby could not be found as at the time of filling this report.
Some students who withnessed the scene told newsmen that the baby was found with blood all over his body, describing it as a horrible scene.
Speaking to newsmen with newsmen the president Students Union Government( SUG) Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Moses Athenasius Bara confirmed the incident.
He said,the baby was found in a pit close to the female hostel about 50 kilometers away from the hostel adding that,the baby was already dead as at the time the students called his attention to the incident.
According to him,the baby is not up to a month he should be around few minutes after delivery
The SUG president said they are yet to know who the mother of the baby was.
According to him,”We don’t even know who actually dumped the baby there whether it is a students or an outsiders.
He however said,he doesn’t believe that students of the institution could do such thing because she would have been caught by her fellow students while dumping the baby.there or by her roommate or even the postress in the sense that, hostels are normally locked by 9:pm and opened at 5:am.
He argued that pregnancy is not something that can be hidden even for five months without being noticed.
“Also,the students of that particular hostel will not see their colleague in distress and keep mute, they will have raised alarm or better still take her to the school clinic” he said.
Bara said,it was a passersby who saw the baby and raised an alarm which attracted the attention of the students of the salvation hostel,the security personnel, the Dean of Student Affairs and the SUG himself.
According to him, the matter has been reported to the Rumuolumini Divisional Police station for wider investigation and to bring
the culprit and accomplices to book.
He urged, security personnel in the campus to put in more efforts in discharging their duties at any given time inorder to check future occurrence of such incident.
Bara also called on the students especially the females to take their studies seriously and not to engage themselves in this kind of act or any form of social vices.
Some of the students who spoke to newsmen said,the baby was found death already with blood all over the body and placenta along side with the baby.
They also said,the baby should be around five minutes after delivery adding that this might be as a result of economic challenges, rejection from parents or denial of the boyfriend that led the mother to dumped the baby that way.
Our Correspondent could not reached the University management for comment as at the time of filling this report.
John Bibor & Eunice Ubelejit
The Rivers State Judiciary has described as embarrassing and misleading a purported online publication by the News Week Electronic Media channel alleging that the State Chief Judge , Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi plans to embark on a One Year annual vacation.
The Judiciary in a statement signed by the Chief Registrar High Court Port Harcourt, DAVID IHUA-MADUENYI while dismissing the said report described it as malicious and baseless, stressing that the allegation levelled against the person and the office of the Chief Judge of Rivers state was an embodiment of falsehood.
The statement reads this “to put the records straight, the Chief Judge did not at any time announce nor intend to announce embarking on any recess or extended recess leave by whatsoever name called, as such leave is alien to the Judicial Officers Calendar of Vacations.”
The vacation calendar of Judicial Officers is of public knowledge, namely: Christmas Vacation, Easter Vacation and Annual Vacation “the statement stated.
He therefore urged members of the public and the judiciary community to disregard the misguided publication as it is targeted to causing disaffection , confusion and ill will in the State.
Maduenyi however threatened a legal action against the author of the publication, JAKE CLIFFORD and the publishers if they failed to retract the false publication immediately without hesitation.
Akujobi Amadi
Determined to sustained and promote a peaceful stability in the Niger Delta states, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has trained over 200 selected youths drawn from the nine states of the commission on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism (ADR)in settling conflicts and disputes in there various communities.
The one -day capacity Building workshop organised by the Department of the Dispute and Conflict Resolution, NDDC with the theme “Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mechanism: Facilitating inclusive youth Engagement for Transformative peace “held in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
Declaring the workshop open,the NDDC managing Director and chief executive officer, Mr Samuel Ogbuku said the essence of the workshop was to build the capacity of the youths in the region on conflicts management through Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR) mechanism which will enable them handle conflicts in there communities,noting that conflicts is part of human society and happens every day in the society.
Ogbuku who was represented on the event by the Director Research, planning and statistics,Dr Patterson OGOM, stressed that Niger Delta region is at the centre of conflict due to its dominance in oil explorations and exploitations and there is the need to acquaint the youths who are always on the front burner during agitations on a more convenient peaceful approach to go about resolving conflicts with out it snowballing to crisis.
According to him,the workshop will exposed the youths on how to manage conflicts in there areas when they arise, adding that carrying arms and destruction of national critical assests in there communities was not the best option for achieving peace when conflict arises.
Ogbuku averred that Niger Deltans are noted for settling there disputes through dialogue and that informed the choice for the ADR workshop.
” What we want to achieve in the workshop is how to resolve and manage these conflicts when they arise.How the we explore other windows of dispute resolution, negotiation, dialogue and nip them on bud before they occur.ADR is Germaine to Niger Delta region.
The NDDC MD/ CEO urged the participants to take the workshop serious so that they can take the message back to their various communities and States.
Also speaking, the Ag Director, ADR NDDC, Godwin Ayewumi Ogedegbe esq, disclosed that since the inception of the present NDDC management led by Mr Samuel Ogbuku the region has not witnessed crisis as it was in the past , adding that the commission has been proactive and preventive in conflicts management in the region.
Ogedegbe averred that the training was designed to teach the youths an alternative ways of resolving conflicts when they happen or occur rather than resorting to arms carrying and destruction of critical national assets in their domain, adding that Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is the best way to resolving and managing crisis.
He opined that peace is critical to the commission and the region, noting that when the youths destroy the oil installations and other critical national assets in the region it will affect revenue accruing to the commission and in turns affects development in the region.
“They are going to preach the message learnt here to their fellow youths that there are other ways of resolving conflicts despite carrying arms or destroying oil facilities in there communities as such acts can’t bring peace.”he stated.
Our correspondent reports that the participants were drawn from Rivers, Delta, Akwa ibom, Edo, Cross River and Bayelsa states
Others include, Imo, Abia and Ondo states.
Akujobi Amadi
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