Funke Busari, Lagos The Oba Elect, Igbanko of Igbanko Kingdom, Muritala Adekunle Shittu Molade has appealed to the Lagos State Government to avert bloodshed/faceoff, stall full scale crisis, avoid unnecessary loss of lives and property and to forestall breakdown of law and order that could trigger from alleged plans of the State to install one Sheriff Adeshina Bello as the Oba of Igbanko Kingdom without the consent of the three major kingmakers first sought and obtained and as it is contained in the Lagos State Obas and Chiefs Laws of Lagos State. In the appeal letter, Oba in-waiting speaking the…
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Funke Busari, Lagos Lagos State Government has directed Junior Secondary Schools, JSS3 students who are registered for National Examination Council, NECO, Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE, to resume from Monday, 10th August, 2020. This directive was given through the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo in her office at the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja on Thursday. This latest development is coming on the heels of the directive to the earlier pronouncement issued by the Lagos State Government, directing SS3 and Technical Studies, TEC3, students in the State to resume on Monday, 3rd of August 2020 to enable them revise and…
Nigerian singer and songwriter Azeez Adeshina Fashola alias Naira Marley, was arraigned on Thursday for violating Covid-19 lockdown. This is according to the Lagos State Police Command Public Relations officer, SP Bala Elkana. The defendant was brought before Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile) Court, Oshodi for violating the cessation of movement and inter-states travel order in the state. Fashola was docked at about 1530hrs when operatives of Lagos State Police Command, from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba took him to the court. Recall that on June 13, 2020 at about 2:00 p.m, the suspect traveled to Abuja in total…
Thank God I am back at my duty post! I returned to work today, Wednesday, August 5, 2020 after several weeks away, battling the monstrous Coronavirus. It began with a feverish condition on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. I usually don’t joke with my health so I stopped at a pharmacy on my way home, got an anti malaria drug with some paracetamol and I used it as recommended.I must state here that I have never completed a full dose of any malaria treatment or drugs before getting back on my feet in my adult life, never! In fact, you would…
The Electoral Committee of the Nigeria Bar Association, ECNBA, officially declared the Templars Senior Partner, Mr. Olumide Akpata the winner of the presidential election on Friday. Mr. Akpata polled a total of 9,891 votes to beat his two rivals, Dr. Babatunde Ajibade, SAN, and Deacon Dele Adesina, SAN, who scored 4,328 and 3,982 in that order. Meanwhile, while speaking at the NBA Headquarters in Abuja with supporters, Mr. Olumide Akpata expresses his appreciation for being voted in and assured that by the grace of God, transformational leadership would be witnessed in his administration. Below is his acceptance speech Let Us…
The National Leader of the Pan-Yoruba Socio-political group, Egbe Afenifere, Pa Ayorinde Fasanmi has died at the age of 94. The Second Republic Senator who was born on the 25th September, 1925 in Iye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, was until his death a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC. His death which was announced in a statement signed by his son, Folabi Fasanmi on behalf of the family. He said the nonagenarian passed on peacefully in Osogbo, the Osun State Capital on Wednesday night. The late Afenifere leader joined the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN in 1978 and in 1983 was elected member…
A Lagos division of Court of Appeal, on Monday affirmed the decision of a Lagos High Court, that convicted and sentenced a former supervisor with Chrisland Schools, Mr. Adegboyega Adenekan, to 60 years imprisonment for defiling a two and half years pupil of the school. Justice Mohammed Garba and other members of the panel unanimously affirmed the judgement of the lower court and held that Adenekan’s appeal lacked merit and dismissed his case. Justice Sybil Nwaka of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court had on October 24, 2019 convicted and sentenced Adenekan to 60-years imprisonment for defiling the…
On Saturday, stakeholders converged at a webinar organised by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP to activate advocacy to end the menace plaguing declaration of assets by public officials. The event organised by SERAP in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, virtually launched its latest report titled: “Citizens’ Guide to Asset Declarations by Public Officers in Nigeria, in a deliberate effort to address the issue of corruption in the country. SERAP’s Asset Declaration Report is coming on the heels of its findings on circumstances making public officers vulnerable to hiding their assets from the public’s glare.…
Temporary reprieve may have come the way of a social media influencer, Ismaila Mustapha popularly known as Mompha, as Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to release all items seized from him when he was arrested. Justice Liman made the order on Friday while ruling on an application filed by the defendant’s counsel, Mr. Gboyega Oyewole, SAN in asking the court for the order to release the seized items. Items asked to be returned are five wristwatches, an apple iPod, an IPhone 8 device and one sunglass found on him…
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has appealed to residents of the State to exercise patience and bear the discomfort that will be experienced from the six-month partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge, which starts Friday. The Governor said the closure of the 11.8km bridge – the busiest in the State was inevitable, following physical deterioration observed on the structure after an integrity test conducted by the Federal Government. The closure of the bridge, Sanwo-Olu said, will bring about pain, but the Governor said the development was necessary to prevent disaster that may result from the total collapse of…