The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour, NACTAL, has called on government to create enabling environment for proper nurturing and upbringing of Nigeria children. This call was made by the group’s National President, Abdulganiyu Abubakar on this year’s children’s day. To mark this year’s event themed:“State of the Nigeria Children Today: Proper Parenting for value re-orientation and national consciousness”, NACTAL says the theme by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs no doubt underscore the significant role of parents, caregivers, guardians and children minders who are involved in the life of children in nurturing a total child devoid of negative…
Author: Funke Busari
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Alkali Baba Usman, has approved the redeployment of some Police Public Relations Officers, PPROs and appointment of new ones. The redeployments and new appointments, which affected 15 Officers, according to a signal signed by the Force Secretary, Assistant Inspector General of Police, Habu A. Sani and dated May 25, 2023 affected, CSP Isah Gambo, spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command, who has now been moved to Zone 4, Katsina; Stifanu Sunday Bako, PRO of Zone 7, Abuja, now to serve in the Force Criminal Investigation Department; SP Ihunwo Joseph of Zone 13, who is now PRO…
BEING VALEDICTORY SPEECH BY FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN AS MINISTER OF STATE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2023. Mr. President, you first appointed me as Minister of State in the Ministry Niger Delta Affairs in August, 2019 and you later redeployed me as Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Today, I cannot find the words to express the depth of my gratitude to you for finding me worthy, out of over two hundred million Nigerians, to be nominated and subsequently appointed to serve as a Minister of the…
A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has faulted the decision of the Supreme Court on the double nomination case against the joint ticket of the President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had approached Court to invalidate the joint ticket. Reacting to the judgement through a statement on Friday, Timi Frank said the court that is meant to be the last hope of the citizenry has become a place of the highest bidder, wondering whom Nigerians offended. According to him, one would be tempted to…
On 21st May, 2023, in the midnight, the Area Commander and the Divisional Police Officer, Igando received a distress call from members of the public touching on an ongoing armed robbery around a property at Igando. Though Ugochukwu Onyenuforo, 30, Ramon Ogundele, 32, Yaro Ndudu, 25 and Abiodun Usman, 30 – the suspected robbers were four in number, they alledgedly unleashed terror on residents around the Igando area of Lagos. But Officers attached to the Lagos State Police Command led by the Igando Divisional Police Officer, DPO, CSP Ekehinde Ohiomba with a team of Police officers braved the odds to…
Mrs. Favour Monday, wife of the police officer, Inspector Monday Orukpe gruesomely murdered from the torture he suffered from some military officers in Trade Fair section of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway Area of Lagos August last year have sued the Army, claiming a N300 Million damages for the illegal violation of the fundamental rights to life of their breadwinner. In an originating motion filed before the Federal High Court, Lagos by Femi Falana chambers on behalf of the deceased family, they are praying the court among other things to declare that the extra-judicial killing of the Applicant’s husband, Inspector Monday Orukpe…
The General Manager, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe, has advocated for the nerd for a noiseless Lagos through reduction of vehicular noise. The GM, who made this advocacy at the eight edition of Noiseless Lagos Campaign, said “Noise pollution is the undesirable persistent sound resulting from various human activities, especially in cities. “According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, noise pollution can have a significant impact on our physical and mental health, as well as our overall quality of life. “With the increase in population and the need for transportation within cities, the increasing vehicular use…
Mr. Michael Adeniran, father of late Omodesola Whitney Adeniran, said his 12-year old daughter was not a sickly child until her death, he insisted that the student of Chrisland High School in Lagos died on February 9, 2023 during the school’s inter-house sports activities at the Agege Sports Stadium due to electrocution. The first prosecution witness in his evidence in chief before Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja while being led by the State Prosecutor, Dr. Babajide Martins on Thursday. According to him, “On the day of incident, February 9, my daughter left home in her…
Election Petition Tribunal, EPT, sitting in Lagos State on Wednesday dismissed petitions filed by the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, and Action Peoples Party, APP, against the election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat. The Chairman of the three-man Tribunal, Justice Arum Igyem Ashom, dismissed the petitions following withdrawals by the parties. According to both parties Counsel, Henry Bello and Francis Ese, their clients have decided to do away with their petitions. Respondents to the petitions are Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and All Progressives Congress, APC. Recall that Sanwo-Olu polled 762,134 votes to defeat Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour,…
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, CGI, Isah Jere Idris, MFR and his predecessor have commended the Nigerian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration, NGC, and the Journalists International Forum For Migration, JIFORM. The commendations were made at the opening ceremony of the 2-day JIFORM’s workshop on sensitisation strategies and reportage on Irregular Migration and human trafficking held in Abuja on Monday. Represented by Assistant Controller General, ACG, Ngozi Odikpo, the acting Deputy Comptroller General Migration, the CGI Isah Jere, thanked the NGC for identifying journalists in the country. He however charged media practitioners in the country to…