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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Anambra SCIAN VP appeals to FG over Onitsha -Owerri road By Anayo Okoli Monday, November 01, 2004 AWKA—VICE-President, Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria (SCIAN), Anambra State chapter, Alhaji Dauda   Ajagu wants the Federal Government to pay genuine attention to the abandoned Onitsha - Owerri road contract. He ask   Government to rehabilitate the nation’s refineries as a way of tackling the incessant petroleum products crisis in the country. Alhaji Ajagu also called on the fasting moslems to use the month of Ramadan to make peace with God and mankind, saying the   Ramadan period is a special period for Muslims to relate to God. He urged them to use the period to love one another and give   alms to the less privileged. In a message to encourage Muslims on the Ramadan fasting, Ajagu called on the federal and state governments to fulfill their   promises, pointing out that the only thing the citizenry need now is for democratic dividends to get to the grassroots. The Islamic   leader further called on the Federal Government to release funds to the contractor handling the Onitsha - Owerri road so that   work could resume in earnest on the road project. He lamented that with present condition of the ever busy road, the entire Eastern part of the country has virtually been cut-off   from other parts of the country. On the incessant petroleum products crisis, Alhaji Ajagu called on the Federal Government to   rehabilitate the nation’s refinaries, saying that it was shameful that Nigeria, a high profile oil producing nation should be going   through the hard-ship the citizens are going through. “I am appealing to the Government to rehabilitate our refinaries, so that we   can refine some of our crude oil for our use. Nigerians are suffering in the midst of plenty,” Ajagu said. He also urged the   government to look inwards and reactivate other income earning avenues like Cocoa, Palm Produce and Groundnut.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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