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The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has sanctioned the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) for violating the terms of the land lease at Tarkwa Bay, near Light House Beach in Lagos. This, it claimed, was part of the efforts to boost accountability and ensure transparency which the fulcrum of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, as well as boost the confidence of local and foreign investors in Nigeria’s operating environment. LADOL, it was learned, profited at the expense of the federal government by subleasing 11.2426 hectares of land out of the total 121 hectares leased to it at an outrageous amount of…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has accused Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of using the personnel of Operation Amotekun to scuttle the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship primaries in Owo Local Government area. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Akure on Saturday by the party’s Director of Media and Publicity, Zadok Akintoye. However, in a swift reaction, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mr Ojo Oyewamide, described the allegation as false. He said that the PDP was ‘very unkind and mindless’ to have alluded to the use of Operation Amotekun that…
The Presidency has dismissed the assessment of the Buhari administration by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), describing the forum as a quasi-organization that boasts of no credible membership, and its leader was akin to a General without troops. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the forum had on Sunday scored the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government low, saying the Buhari -led government appeared helpless in finding solutions to the nation’s security challenges as well as poverty in the country. The forum addressed Journalists at the end of the meeting convened by its chairman, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, where it…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the government of Nigeria and Cross River state government of governor Ben Ayade to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja “over the prolonged, arbitrary detention; unfair prosecution; persecution, and sham trial of journalist Agba Jalingo.” Jalingo, who is the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, was arrested on August 22 over a report alleging that Mr Ayade diverted N500 million belonging to the state. In the suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/10/2020 filed last week at the ECOWAS Court, SERAP is arguing that: “The sole objective of the government of Nigeria and the Cross River state government of governor…
The Osun Police Command on Sunday confirmed the death of six persons involved in a road accident that occurred along Eripa-Otan Ayegbaju road, Boluwaduro Local Government of Osun. According to the Osun Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Folashade Odoro, the lone accident happened at about 11am on Sunday when the bus lost control and ran into a ditch in Eripa. Odoro said the bus, with registration number: LAGOS GGE 109 DY, belonged to SS Peter and Paul, Catholic Church, Lagere, Ile Ife, Osun. She said six people died in the accident while nine others sustained various degrees of injury.…
Dr Esther Somefun, a Gender and Reproductive Health Analyst, Sunday, says that women who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) find it difficult to enjoy sex. Somefun, work with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that it was difficult for circumcised women to enjoy sexual pleasure due to the complications of FGM. She described FGM also known as female circumcision, as the partial or total removal of female external genitalia due to non-medical reasons. “Due to the complications of FGM, women find it difficult to enjoy sex because the external female organ, the…
Eight out of the 14 Local Government Area Council chairmen on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Zamfara, have announced their defection to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This was contained in a statement signed by Zailani Bappa, Special Adviser (Media) to Gov. Bello Matawalle and made available to journalists in Gusau on Saturday. Bappa said the defectors include the chairman of the state’s branch of the Association of Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria (ALGON) and Chairman of Birnin-Magaji local government, Alhaji Muhammad Umar. Others are the ALGON vice-chairman and Chairman of Maru local government, Alhaji…
ABUJA – The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, says it has become expedient to clarify the misconceptions and misrepresentations regarding the alleged involvement of its personnel in the unfortunate crash that occurred on 1st February, 2020 within RS11.31 Ogbomoso general operation area of the Corps. A statement on Sunday by Bisi Kazeem, Corps Commander, Public Education states: “The crash involved a Toyota Hiace with registration number (AA 396 RBC) and an unregistered (Jincheng) motorcycle overloaded with 3 pillions whose video lately dominated the social media sphere. When the news of the crash first came to the knowledge of the Corps,…
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The Bishop of Oyo Diocese, Most Revd Emmanuel Badejo has called on political leaders in the country to put the people above party and personal interests in order to create a prosperous nation. The Bishop made the call in Ado Ekiti at the thanksgiving mass for the 55th birthday of the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi. Badejo, who stated that God is calling on leaders to put people above party because the people come first, warned that those who fail to do so would “become liabilities and be thrown into the dustbin of history”. The clergyman also urged…