S.J News• [Sept 10, 2012]

S.J News• [Sept 10, 2012]• http://sjnewss.blogspot.com/ CFR, CON, OFR, MFR: Investiture of National Honours award on 149 Nigerians to be done September 17; Dr Mike Adenuga, Justice Mary Odili, Mohammed Abubakar (IG of Police), Brig-Gen Mobolaji Johnson, 145 others. Ministry of Health: FG earmarks $11.5m for family planning (condoms, implant etc); Maternal mortality rate @ 545 per 100,000 live births -Dr Bridget Okoeguale (Director of Family Health). DMO: FG floats Special Sinking Fund for reduction of ₦6.15trn domestic debts; External debts @ $6,04bn; Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Finance) to reduce domestic debts to about ₦500bn by 2015. Power: About $8bn spent on 10 medium sized power plants, constructed under National Integrated Power Project (NIPP); Supervised by Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) -James Olotu (MD, NDPHC). Ethics & Monitoring Unit: Task force, inaugurated by Mohammed Abubakar (IG of Police), arrests 3 policemen in Osun state for improper dressing. CBN: New ₦5000 note not forced on Nigerians; Compulsion on customers' acceptance illegal -Tunde Lemo (Deputy Gov, Operations). Enugu: Over 92,000 Enugu residents officially living with Human Immune-Deficiency Virus (HIV) -Enugu State Action Committee on HIV/AIDS (ENSACA). SAN: 25 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria to be sworn in by Justice Aloma Muktar (Chief Justice of Nigeria) on Wednesday; 2012/2013 legal year to begin. Iraq: Tariq al-Hashimi (Fugitive Vice-President) sentenced to death in absentia; Found guilty of running death squads; No fewer than 92 persons killed, over 350 injured in more than 20 attacks.