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Volume VIII, No. 207
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Normin needs 105k skilled workers in the next 5 years Since
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By MIKE BAÑOS Editor-at-Large
Ambassador Han Dong-man
IF plans push through, Region 10 will soon fulfill its vision as the Industrial Corridor of Mindanao. Based on the projections of nine registered projects in the Board of Investments for 2018 alone, Northern Mindanao (Region 10) will see the establishment of 6 mega projects totaling P232.7billion that’s projected to generate some 14,184 jobs over the next three years. AFP Group Holdings Corp. P158.4-B facility at Park 5, Villanueva, Phividec Industrial Estate-Misamis Oriental will manufacture slabs and hot rolled coils, and is expected to generate an estimated 10,000 new jobs. Nearby in Sitio Kirahon, Bgy. San Martin, Villanueva Steel Asia Villanueva Works P12.15-B expansion will produce concrete reinforcing steel See NEEDS, page 11
ROK Ambassador Han Dong-man at Xavier University.
Police arrest preggy brgy exec in anti-drug operation By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
Sen. Grace Poe, in her capacity as chairman of the committee on finance, conducts a public hearing on various pending legislations concerning the transport sector January 26 at Performing Arts Theater, University of Science and Technology of (Southern) Philippines main campus in Cagayan de Oro City. Flanking Poe are Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Maximo Rodriguez Jr. and USTP main campus chancellor Ruth Cabahug. photo by mark francisco
ILIGAN City--Police arrested on Thursday, January 24, a kagawad of a barangay in Taraka town in Lanao del Sur and her husband in a joint anti-drug buy bust operation of the Philippine National Police Drug Enforcement Group (PNP DEG) and Stations 1 and 5 of Iligan City Police Office. The suspect, identified as Sittie Aizah Macabando Badron, 24, married, pregnant to her third child. Senior Inspector Eric
Logroño, chief of Iligan City Police Station 1, said around 11:00 o’clock in the morning when police poseur buyer bought a sachet of believed to be ‘shabu’ from Sittie Aizah Macabando Badron, also known as “Sitti”, 24, while onboard her white Toyota Innova along the national highway of Barangay San Miguel, Iligan City. Logroño said Badron is the main target of the operation but her husband, Sadam Baniaga Sarip, 27, was also arrested for acting as driver.
Their two children, aged ten months old and five years old, were with them in the car when they were arrested. Aside from the sachet of ‘shabu’ bought from Badron, operatives confiscated from the “possession and control of the the couple” another six sachets of the same size, the five hundred peso buy-bust money and a cellular phone that may contain information about the suspect’s other “drug transactions.” See ARREST, page 11
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