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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a senior official of Kwara Ministry of Finance, Mrs Olajumoke Rhoda Oyawoye, in connection with alleged employment scam. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Publicity of the commission, announced this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Monday. The EFFC stated that Oyawoye, a grade level 14 officer, allegedly received various sums, amounting to about N3 million, from her victims, who were seeking employment into the Federal and State civil service, and issued them fake appointment letters. “Trouble started for Oyawoye when…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has approved the appointment of Mrs Morenike Olapeju Babafemi as the new Head of Service in the state Civil service. Mrs Babafemi, who has had a stint as Acting Head of Service, before proceeding on an overseas training programme last year, was until the new appointment, a Visiting Research Fellow at the African Leadership Centre, School of Global Affairs, King’s College, London, United Kingdom. Her appointment as Head of Service takes effect from Monday, February 10, 2020. She is to take over from Mr Ayodeji Ajayi, who retires from the civil service on February…

Tricycle operators from Lagos Mainland, Yaba and Oyingbo on Monday staged a peaceful protest at Maryland against the ban on their operations in some parts of the state by the Lagos State Government. The tricycle operators, commonly referred to as “Keke Maruwa”, urged the government to rescind its ban on a commercial motorcycle and tricycle operators in 15 local government and council development areas which began on Feb. 1. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hundreds of protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as “Create Jobs, Don’t Take Jobs”, “Sanwo-Olu, My Job is My Life” and Maruwa…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has said that the National Assembly is open to suggestions from Nigerians on the best ways to tackle the menace of hate speech and fake news. Lawan stated this on Monday in an address delivered to declare open a Town-hall meeting on the Hate Speech and Social Media bills organized by the Daar Communications in Abuja. The Senate President said there is need to address the challenge of hate speech and fake news in Nigerian society. “We are here today because of some of these challenges, which is the challenge of hate speech…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said his ministry will this month convene a stakeholders’ meeting as part of efforts to design a framework for the sanitization of the social media. The Minister stated this in Abuja on Monday when he received the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Jyrki Pulkkinen, and the Ambassador of Innovation of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Finland, Mr. Jarmo Sareva, who were on an advocacy visit to promote the ideals of the Freedom Online Coalition. He said the government’s response to the irresponsible use of social media to promote fake news and…

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Oyo State, Professor Oyelowo Oyewo, on Monday, stated that the intervention of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on the dissolution of local government leadership in Oyo State was selective and as a result of lack of proper briefing. Oyewo, who stated this while appearing on a Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily, maintained that the AGF was not properly briefed on the local government situation in Oyo State. According to him, the dissolved council chairmen were not properly constituted, having emerged from an election that was held in disobedience…

The Kaduna State Police Command, on Sunday, arrested a suspect with improvised explosive devices (IED) at the Living Faith Church, Sabon Tasha, Chickun Local Government area of Kaduna State. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. Sabo said that the suspect, a middle-aged man, identified as Nathaniel Samuel, was arrested with items suspected to be IEDs. He said that the command had commenced investigation to ascertain the suspect’s mission. The PPRO said that only investigation could reveal Samuel’s agenda with the devices. Sabo promised to give details…

The Lagos State Government has directed the management of Lagos Bus Services Limited (LBSL) to deploy a fleet of 65 buses to join some major routes as from Monday to ease commuters’ pain. The Public Affairs Officer of the LBSL, Mr Afolabi Olawale, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Lagos. Olawale said that the step was part of the ways of providing succor and ameliorating the hardship that the commuting public might be facing as a result of the restriction order on the operators of motorcycles and tricycles in some parts of the State. He stated that the…

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) says it has rescued and reunited a kidnapped student, Gift Abikor, 17 of the Federal Government College, Rubochi, with his family. A statement by DSP Anjuguri Manzah, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the FCT on Sunday in Abuja said that the student was rescued on Jan. 31 unhurt. He said that the student was abducted on Jan. 28 and that his rescue followed an order to commence investigation into the abduction by the Commissioner of Police in charge of FCT, Mr Bala Ciroma. Manzah pledged the commitment of the…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Cross Rivers has described as untrue the social media publication stating that a JSS 2 student impregnated a serving corps member in the state. In a statement signed by Mr Abdullahi Yuguda, Head, Press and Public Relations Unit of NYSC in the state, the scheme described the report as `fake and untrue.’ “The attention of the NYSC in Cross River has been drawn to a malicious publication making the rounds in the social media, alleging that a female corps member was impregnated by a teenage boy (student) in the state. “To put the…