FG ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF OWERRI AIRPORT FOR RUNWAY REHABILITATION. (PHOTO).

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 FG ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY CLOSURE OF OWERRI AIRPORT FOR RUNWAY REHABILITATION  The  Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has announced the temporary closure of the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, to allow for major runway rehabilitation works. A statement by the  Minister says the closure has become necessary to improve safety and operational efficiency at the airport, ahead of the Christmas travel season. It adds that the rehabilitation project is a joint partnership between the Federal Government and the Imo State Government, and will involve repairs to deteriorated sections of the runway, treatment of surface cracks, filling of potholes, resurfacing, and extension works to accommodate larger aircraft. The Minister disclosed that he had earlier spoken with the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma, who, along with other critical stakeholders in the South-East, agreed on the need for the temporary closure. The airport i...

3,000 GHOST POLICE PENSIONERS,DISCOVERED BY PTAD.-D.G OF P.T.A.D.

                                           According to the Director General of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate {PTAD}Nellie Mayshak,said they have discovered 3,000 ghost pensioners in the police pension scheme.She made the disclosure at a two day sensitisation workshop in Abuja yesterday thursday saying ''When PTAD was first given the police pensions payroll,it contained 18,000 pensioners which we thought were all genuine.But when we went around the states to verify,we discovered that there were 15,000 pensioners in the police.If we had not made this discovery,we would have been paying pension to these non-existing 3,000 pensioners''.She said that the diectorate saved the Federal Government more than N100 million monthly which would have been paid to the ghost pensioners.She said PTAD was partnering with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC} and Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission {ICPC} to ensure that pension fraudsters were eliminated in the system.She advised further that Pensioners are to submit their pension records to PTAD so that it could access their liabilities and advise them appropriately.

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