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Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated businessman and politician, Prince Ned Nwoko, on his 60th birth anniversary. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, the governor said Nwoko, a former member of House of Representatives, contributed immensely to political evolution in Delta and the development of his Idumuje-Ugboko community in Aniocha North Local Government Area. He lauded the former lawmaker, who re-presented Aniocha/Oshimili Constituency in the green chamber from 1999 to 2003 for his patriotic contributions to the state and country, especially with his Malaria Eradication Project in Africa. The governor affirmed that the Nwoko had continued to make life meaningful for the downtrodden, and urged him not to rest on his oars. “You have consistently impacted positively on the lives of people irrespective of tribe, religion, social status or political affiliation through your entrepreneurial drive. “Your Malaria Eradication Proje

The office of the inspector General of police, IGP,Abuja has absolved a former member of House of Representatives, Prince Ned Nwoko of allegations of intimidation and harrasement of some persons in Idumuje ugboko community in Aniocha North local government area of Delta over a lingering land dispute . This is the outcome of a police investigation, following a petition to the IGP written against Prince Nwoko by some members of the community including one Mr. Chris Aligbe and others, all indigenes of Idumuje Ugboko. The petitioners in a letter dated 6th August 2020,had alleged among other things that Prince Nwoko a lawyer and business man, had in the past four years unleashed terror on the community, particularly against a claimant to the throne prince Chukwunonso Nwoko ” for not allowing him to take over peasant farmer ancestral land”. But according to the report released by the office of the IGP monitoring unit, Force headquarters Abuja signed by Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP A.

Contrary to a denial by billionaire owner of Rainoil, Dr Gabriel Ogbechie that he was not arrested and detained by the FCT Police Command over assassination plot against billionaire International Lawyer and politician, Hon. Prince Ned Nwoko, reports indicated that Ogbechie was actually arrested and detained by the police. A police source revealed that Ogbechie was arrested and detained by the police on Friday December 4, but that he was later released on bail to his lawyer, Barrister Ademola since it was a bailable offence. "Why did his lawyer stand as surety for him if he wasn’t bailed.  "Anyway he was arrested and he was bailed and I have seen both the arrest warrant issued by a court and the bail forms signed by his lawyer, Barrister Ademola," said a police source. In an open letter to the Inspector General of Police last week, Prince Nwoko had alerted the IGP about a hatched plot to assassinate him over the Idumuje-Ugboko murder and terrorism trial. Nwoko had in the

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has taken delivery of 2019 Model S Class Mercedes Benz amidst percentage salary payments to all categories of workers in the state. In a viral video at the weekend, the governor was seen examining the car, and about to test drive the latest addition to the collection of his array of cars which includes BMW, sports car, Bulletproof Mercedes jeep, and many more. His latest addition was coming at a time when all categories of workers on the state were being subjected to percentage salary payments with Local government workers the worst hit. While the state workers have been going home with 80 percent for the past five months, local government workers have consistently been on a maximum of 40 percent. Some of the local government workers who spoke on condition of anonymity said his take-home after deduction has stagnated at N4,000 per month for the past seven months! Recall that last month Local government workers in Kogi state under the aegis of Jo

A walk against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, organised by the office of the Lagos State APC Women Leader, Hon. Jumoke Okoya-Thomas has been scheduled to hold on Tuesday 8th December, 2020. The walk is tagged; "Walk Against All Forms of Sexual And Gender-Based Violence." The event, which begins at 8am from Broad Street Elephant House to Freedom Park, Lagos Island, was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, Lagos Island Local Government Area and Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area. It will be recalled that while addressing a press conference on Gender Based Violence week (GBV), themed: Örange The World: Fund, Respond, Present, Collect!, at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, recently wife of the state Governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, noted that it was essentially “to unveil activities we have lined up in furtherance of the Lagos State Gender-Based Violence Week designed to scale up awareness and galvanize action.  "This is with the view to ensuring eradi

Women Leader of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Jumoke Okoya-Thomas has made a case for the eradication of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Lagos State in particular and in Nigeria generally. Speaking on this year's Lagos Gender-Based Violence (GBV) week and the 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women and girls, Okoya-Thomas said that the matter has assumed an alarming rate and that it should be curtailed to prevent further damage to the victims of the violence. The Women Leader, who spoke to journalists on Wednesday, appealed to all stakeholders to rally round the government and other concerned agencies as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) to end domestic violence and sexual harassment against women and girls. While commending the Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu-led government and the state's First Lady, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu for their efforts in this regard, Okoya-Thomas said that she would continue to play a positive

Residents of Agege, Fagba and other areas of Lagos West Senatorial District have urged the Lagos State Government to send miscreants away from railway line and other parts of the state to avoid a repeat of the aftermath of the #EndSARS Protests that wrecked havoc in the state and all over the country. Commenting during the 3-day public hearing organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly between Wednesday 18th and Friday 20th November at the assembly premises on Friday, the residents of the senatorial district stated that the violence that led to the loss of lives and properties could have been avoided. Mrs. Bisi Mohammed from Fagba said that her house got burnt in the inferno and that she didn't have anything to show as evidence, which was why she could not present her cases properly in the form provided by the assembly. Also speaking, the Iyaloja of Daddy Savage Market, Fagba, Mrs. Oladoyinbo Toyin said that she would like the government to help the marketers as some of them lo

Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday began the process of bringing succour to the victims of the aftermath of #EndSARS protests across the three senatorial districts in the state through a 3-day public hearing. The Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa had on October 26 set up a nine-man Ad-Hoc Committee to investigate the level of destruction of properties and loss of lives with a view to determine compensation for the victims. Going by the procedure of the Committee, residents of Lagos Central Senatorial District were attended to at Wednesday's sitting.  Residents of the the other two Senatorial districts, Lagos East and West are expected to attend the hearing between Thursday and Friday. In his speech, the Chairman of the Committee, and Deputy Speaker of the House, Hon. Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni said that the House was marking a giant stride to complement the efforts of the state government on the issue, saying  "We are want to display our indomitable resilience

Chairman of the Ogun State House of Assembly Service Commission, Hon. Waliu Taiwo has promised to ensure a  good working relationship between the legislature and the executive in the state. Addressing newsmen shortly after the inauguration of the members of the newly constituted Ogun State House of Assembly Service Commission in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Taiwo said that time had come for the two arms of government to work together. The former two-term commissioner in the state added that time had come for the state to claim its rightful place among the comity of states in the country. "My plan is to create a good working relationship between the executive and the legislature and ensure good welfare packages for all the members and staff of the state house of Assembly. "As a former member of the state house of Assembly and a former commissioner in the state, I know what to do to ensure synergy between the two arms of government. "What we need to do is to serve as a reliable in

Former  Governors and deputy governors of Lagos State including Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, and Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will lose their hefty pensions and emoluments with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu's proposed new bill. Governor Sanwo-Olu announced plans to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former governors, deputies and categories of public workers on Tuesday. Sanwo-Olu disclosed this while presenting the Year 2021 budget proposals of N1.155 trillion tagged: ‘The Budget of Rekindled Hope’ to members of the State House of Assembly for consideration and approval. The event had in attendance Deputy Governor, Femi Hamzat; Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; Chief Judge of Lagos, Justice Kazeem Alogba; Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Mrs Folashade Jaji; Head of Service, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola; Chief of Staff to the Govern

On Friday, November 6, Citation, the seventh movie of filmmaker par excellence, Kunle Afolayan, will be released on video streaming platform, Netflix, to a global audience. The coming of age movie, written by Tunde Babalola, is a university drama centred on a female postgraduate student who has to find a way of dealing with the incidence of sexual harassment from a popular male lecturer. It was shot in Nigeria, Senegal and Cape Verde and features tested thespians like Haitian-born Hollywood actor, Jimmy Jean Louis, Sadiq Daba and Gabriel Afolayan with a cameo by Dr Mrs Ibukun Awosika, the chairman of First Bank of Nigeria. Last Saturday, Citation was premiered to a select audience at the Terra Kulture, Victoria Island. The event had in attendance the cast of Citation; Dr. Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Temi Otedola, Ini Edo, Gabriel Afolayan, Seun Kuti, Toyin Ogundeji alongside the partners behind the movie; Ford Foundation, Access “W’ Initiative, Natnudos, Canon, Flyboku, GAC Motors, Arik Air, A

The Council of Patriotic Yoruba Youth has had the opportunity to conduct an initial assessment in the aftermath of Tuesday October 20, 2020 event at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos in which pandemonium broke out as #EndSARS protesters that had camped out there in defiance of a curfew announced by the state government were fired upon by hoodlums suspected to have been rented by IPOB.    On the following day, there was widespread arson across the state with the destruction of the Nigeria Ports Authority building, Oriental Hotel, Television Continental (TVC) studios, the Nation Newspapers head office, the Palace of the Oba of Lagos, the family homes of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, BRT depot in Oyingbo with scores of buses, other BRT locations and buses, looting of ShopRite outlets, burning of police station and vehicles,  burning of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) vehicles, and destruction of several other homes.   Because the nearby CCTVs were earlier disabled and power supply (

The Coalition of Human Rights Monitoring Groups (CHRMG) has assured Nigerians of maximum safety throughout the Nigerian Army's operation 'Crocodile Smile' which it says is targeted at criminals.    CHRMG's coordinator, Abubakar Gana, gave this assurance on Monday at a press conference in Abuja ahead of the start of the exercise.    Gana said the annual operation has no connection with the ongoing #EndSARS protests in the country, contrary to the misconception by "some distractors and tattlers of fake news".    In his words, the 'Crocodile Smile' is "targeted at the identification of fleeing Boko Haram terrorists from the hot theatre of war in Northeast, but are sneaking into other parts of Nigeria to cause atrocities".    He added that the " exercise has also progressed into the first-ever cyber warfare exercises packaged to identify, track, and counter negative propaganda in social media and in the cyberspace, which is a potent weapon o

The Civil Situation Room has called for an immediate suspension of the #EndSARS protests across the country over human rights abuses.    The situation room, consisting of over 100 human rights groups said the protests have taken a violent twist in recent days, infringing on the rights of other citizens and entrenching criminal activities.   Protests demanding an end to Police brutality entered its 12th day on Monday despite the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and subsequent formation of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT).    In the last couple of days, the exercise has become fierce, particularly in the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Benin.    Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, coordinator of the Situation Room on #EndSARS Comrade Adamu Kabir Matazu said protesters are now involved in abuses, depriving people of their lives.    He, however, urged leaders of thought all over the world to prevail on the #EndSARS protesters to respect the rights

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has expelled its Senate President, Abubakar Gambo Mohammed.   It was gathered that Mohammed was expelled on Tuesday during an emergency joint Senators (SUG President) and Stakeholders congress for offences ranging from public extortion, anti-organizational activities, illegal conveying of NANS senate meeting on zoom platform, sabotage and gross indiscipline.   He was also accused of tampering and manipulation of the NANS Constitution and Charter of Demand without recourse to constitutional provisions, a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting read.   “Despite the information being in public domain, the desperate merchants, so called former leaders represented at the illegal zoom senate meeting by Ogolo Victory, a former Vice President of NANS in 2005 and Haruna Kadiri, former NANS Zone B coordinator 2006/2007 and factional President in 2017, disgracefully, against the practice, constitution and tradition of NANS, procured with #3