Bauchi: Governor to Institute Social Scheme for Unemployed Youths

                 

 The Bauchi State Government began the registration of unemployed youths between the ages of 18 to 25 on the 18th of February. The registration is to last for a week.

According to an official in the state, the exercise is help determine the number and size of the unemployed youths so as to institute a social scheme to cater for them.

This event is co-incidental with the most notorious kidnapping scenario in Northern Nigeria in which seven foreigners were abducted; a Briton, an Italian, a German and four Lebanese.

The various unrest in northern Nigeria is enough fact for the institution of the scheme because all is not well. They just have to wake up to the social call. This should and ought to be a programme for the entire country in order to keep in touch with development and records.

With its take-off in Bauchi, one hopes other governors will wake up and act accordingly.

Determining the causes of Disasters in Lagos

                        

The Lagos State Government has taken a step further in ensuring that disasters are studied and properly managed in the state. The State Governor on the 18th of February constituted a tribunal to look into the causes of disasters in Lagos beginning from the December Fire incidence at Lagos Island.

This is coming at a point when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) according to the classified report of the Police anti-bomb squad exploded at around Festac axis on the 18th of February. The explosion took the life of a police officer and critically injured another.

This step is commendable only if the forthcoming report will be acted upon to the letter. Lagosians wait to see the plausible outcome or otherwise of the report.