Governors of the northeast states have agreed to continue the partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an agency of United Nations, and other stakeholders to build more houses for people who were displaced from their homes following the prolonged Boko Haram insurgency. Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, made the commitment on behalf of his two colleagues, whose states of Adamawa and Yobe along with his state were the most affected by the insurgency. Zulum, in his remarks during the presentation of awards to winners of the inaugural Housing Design Competition tagged “Home After Crisis” in Abuja on…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja has again ordered that Professor Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), be remanded at the Kuje Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service again pending the conclusion of his bail application. This is even as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) applied to the Court to substitute the earlier charge. This was granted with the addition of one Barrister Sunny Anyanwu as 2nd Defendant. Barrister Anyanwu, before now was one of the lawyers representing the first defendant in Court but was…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Friday, 26 January, 2024, reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the improvement of the education sector in the state. He expressed the readiness of the state to provide necessary support in the areas of education infrastructure and the recruitment of more teachers in order to improve the quality of education. Governor Makinde made this known while receiving a Sweden delegation led by the Ambassador of Sweden to Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and ECOWAS, Her Excellency Ms Annika Hahn-England, at his Ikolaba residence in Ibadan. While welcoming the team, the governor said that his administration has recruited…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured that it will continue to support the Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies in their efforts to provide security in the Niger Delta region.The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, gave the assurance when the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olatunji Disu, paid him a courtesy visit at the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt.Ogbuku said that the NDDC appreciated the services of the police to the society, adding that as an interventionist agency, the Commission had a responsibility to make sure that those who protect the lives and property of…
Lagos State has attained the most advanced stage in land documentation and acquisition, launching an electronic Geographic Information System (e-GIS) which provides digitised access to all data pertaining to the State Land before a purchase is facilitated. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, 26 January, 2024, launched the e-GIS portal — a one-stop digital platform that sanitises and revolutionises the process of acquiring, documenting and verifying land in Lagos. As the portal went live, applications for land titles transitioned from the centuries-old manual paperwork into digital form. The innovation has also completely eliminated services of middlemen in processing of land titles,…
Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr.Oladele Alake has called on manufacturers of mine explosives to combat alleged leakages from their factories by tightening the security and logistics of their operations. Speaking at an emergency meeting with the manufacturers in his office on Friday, 26 January, 2024, in Abuja, Alake said there is popular outcry against the role of the manufacturers in the easy access of unauthorised persons to explosives and indiscriminate storage across the country. Noting that the government is reviewing the system for tracking the movement of explosives from the manufacturers to end-users, the Minister urged them to look…
By Tunde Rahman Is the Non-Aligned Movement still around? Is the organisation still in existence? That was the weighty question Professor Ikechukwu Okoro, a visually impaired Nigerian and Iowa State University don, slammed on me the moment I informed him of my mission in Kampala, Uganda. Professor Okoro and I had met on our way to Addis-Ababa, me en route Kampala and he, Atlanta, in the United States. It wasn’t as if the issue he raised had not previously crossed my mind, but I did not bother much about it since I was headed for the NAM conference anyway until…
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos bishop, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old assistant (name withheld). Justice Rahman Oshodi also sentenced Daniels, the Bishop of Reign Christian Ministry, Lagos, to three years in prison for sexual assaulting a 19-year-old member of the church (count three of the four-count charge). The judge held that the cleric should spend the rest of his life at the Kirikiri custodial facility, Lagos. Oshodi held that prosecution established the ingredients of the two offences. According to him, Daniels is a liar and does not have any…
Chairman Isale Eko Descendants Union, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem SAN has felicitated with former Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice for Lagos State, Mr. Olasupo Shasore SAN on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In a statement he signed, titled, “SALUTE TO OLASUPO SHASORE SAN @ 60- A distinguished Isale Eko powerhouse and Omo Eko Pataki”, Kazeem expressed admiration for Shasore’s great dedication to service. The legal luminary who was also a former Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice said Shasore’s selfless leadership of the Isale Eko Descendants’ Union legal team in its fight for the protection of the…
A private jet having about 10 persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has overshot the runway at an airport in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. An impeccable source said the incident happened on Friday, 26 January, 2024, around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and skidded into the nearby bush. Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were immediately deployed to the scene. But there was no death or casualty recorded. “It was a private plane from Abuja. It landed safely but overshot…