“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

NIPR LAUDS PROPOSED BAUCHI STATE FLYOVERS. (PHOTOS).



NIPR Lauds Proposed Bauchi State Flyovers


Bauchi State Chapter of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations NIPR has described the commitment of the state government to construct two flyovers in the capital as commendable.


The Chairman of the institute Rabi'u Muhammad Wada who made the commendation during the institute's monthly meeting in Bauchi said the flyovers to be constructed at Wunti and Central Market would add value to the  state.


Rabi'u Wada maintained that as a professional body the institute is mingful of all the  happenings at both the state and National Levels hence the need to encourage the state government on it's infrastructural development initiatives.


According to him, replication of similar gesture in other towns across the state would further improve economic activities and ease transportation challenges.


The NIPR Chairman assured that the institute would continue to support of the state government to deliver on it's mandate especially in areas of improving the quality of lives of the citizens.


The State Executive Council had during it's last extraordinary meeting unveiled plan to construct two flyovers at the busiest areas of Wunti and Central Market all in the state capital as well as construction of  two hundred kilometers roads across the three senatorial zones to ease vehicular movement

One more photo below. 


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