Buhari To Remove Fuel Subsidy, Invest Savings On Education

President Muhammadu Buhari plans to totally remove fuel subsidy, it has emerged. Money saved from this will be used to provide free and compulsory primary/secondary education across the country.
 This is reported to be part of the recommendations made by the transition committee that helped the president to work out a blueprint for his administration.

According to Vanguard, the Buhari-led administration is also planning to unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to make it more efficient in the production and delivery of products to Nigerians.

To ensure the planned removal go as planned, the Labour, which led a strike against a similar move by former president Goodluck Jonathan in 2012, was involved in the decision.

“Labour is part of the decision; they have accepted the proposal of fuel subsidy removal,” a source, who is a member of the transition committee, told Vanguard.

“A committee is likely to be set up by the federal government to work out the modalities of what is to be done in that respect.

“But the truth is that total removal of fuel subsidy has been recommended with adequate provisions for palliatives on free education and social welfare for the unemployed.”

Commenting on the planned unbundling of the NNPC, the source said: “The federal government is keen on plugging all areas of leakages in the corporation and whoever must have caused them must be made to account for such unpatriotic wastages. We don’t know whether that is what you call probe or not”.

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Orlando Police Dog Mangled Arm of Child Allegedly Breaking Into School

An Orange County attorney has said Orlando police used excessive force against his client, a 12-year-old boy accused of breaking into an elementary school, who was badly mauled by a police dog, News 13 reports.

Police arrested the boy earlier this month, with two others, after they broke into Shingle Creek Elementary School, according to News 13. Authorities say they ordered the three boys to stop and get on the ground; two complied, and the third, they say, did not. In response, they set the police dog on him.

The boy, who turned 13 on Friday, spent three days in the hospital. Now, he has to return to the doctor on a weekly basis to check for nerve damage. Bradley Laurent, his attorney,told the Orlando Sentinel that his arm is still too swollen to diagnose.

“This kid is going to need extensive rehab,” Laurent said, counting three separate bites. “There’s no telling if he needs surgery to repair any nerve damage, and he may need plastic surgery.” News 13 reports that the stolen items were school supplies.

According to the Sentinel, the two other boys also charged in the burglary say that their friend had stopped and was complying with officers when the dog attacked him.

“It shouldn’t have happened,” Laurent told News 13. “No matter what they were doing in terms of being on the property, that didn’t warrant harming anyone.”

“I would imagine that they have enough training to restrain a 12-year-old. I don’t see why it would be necessary to release a dog. A dog that you know is going to cause some serious injury.”

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