THE Lagos State government, yesterday, vowed to clamp down and prosecute individuals who engage in open defecation in the state, particularly along the Berger Expressway and rail lines. The Lagos State Commissioner for The Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, has ordered 24-hour operation of public toilets around Berger Bus Stop, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, aimed at checkmating the menace of open defecation. Speaking during an advocacy and sanitation exercise, the Commissioner, represented by Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Gaji Omobolaji, said the enforcement action was aimed at preventing the spread of communicable diseases in the state. Gaji said: “The…
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UNICEF has engaged the High-Level Women Advocates (HiLWA) to ensure sustainable ways of increasing adolescent retention, transition and completion in secondary schools. HiLWA, an NGO, works with UNICEF to assist the girl-child in possessing relevant educational qualifications. UNICEF’s education specialist in Sokoto, Francis Elisha, said participants at a two-day national HiLWA meeting on Thursday in Kaduna were drawn from 12 states in the North. He explained that the identified women have excelled in their professional endeavours, where some have attained the positions of directors, permanent secretaries, and commissioners, among others. He added that women greatly influence issues around improving adolescent…
A reckless driver on Thursday killed a final year student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, throwing the institution into a gloomy state. The victim, a student of the Department of Foreign Languages, was at the school to submit her project when she was knocked down while crossing the road to enter the school, according to a statement by the institution’s spokesman, Abiodun Olarewaju. The student, identified as Esu Rita Ema, was crossing the Ife-Ibadan axis of the road at the campus gate when the accident happened “Members of the Federal Road Safety Corps came to recover the corpse…
The police command in Enugu state says it has 123 persons in its custody over their alleged involvement in various crimes in the state. The command also disclosed that it rescued 19 kidnap victims and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition. The Commissioner of Police, Kanayo Uzuegbu, said this at a news briefing in Enugu on Thursday. Mr Uzuegbu said that the suspects were detained in connection with alleged murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and cultism, among other crimes, between July and August. He also said that the police recovered 15 assault rifles, including an AK-47, 25 pump action guns…
The Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday discharged and acquitted six men charged with breach of the public peace during the 2020 #EndSARS protest. They are Daniel Joyinbo, 31, Adigun Sodiq, 28, Kehinde Shola,32, Salaudeen Kamilu, 29, Sodiq Usseni, 33 and Azeez Isiaka, 34. The defendants had in a plea bargain agreement, pleaded guilty to a count charge of breach of the public peace preferred against them by Lagos government. After listening to the plea bargain agreement, the magistrate, Bola Osunsanmi, found the defendants guilty and convicted them of the offence. She, however, cautioned and discharged them, adding that they…
The Ondo State House has asked the state government to strengthen more the Ondo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corp in curtailing criminal activities across the state. The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Chief Olamide Oladiji, made the call in a resolution after a deliberation on a matter of public interest by the Assembly on Thursday. He asked the government to provide accurate needed logistics and sufficient funds for the activities of the corp in ensuring that lives and property were secured in the state. The speaker, who read the resolution after the deliberation harped on killing of two…
The government of Ondo State is going into a partnership with the World Bank to build facilities in 203 wards of the State to support primary healthcare delivery to the people at the grassroots. The Governor of the State, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, disclosed this development on Thursday during the presentation of Instrument of Appointment and Staff of Office to the new Ajana Afa-Okeagbe Akoko, Oba Mofolorunso Adegboyega Arasanyin, at the Palace of Afa-Okeagbe in Akoko North West Local Government Area. The Governor said the World Bank-sponsored project, which has the counterpart funding from the state government, will take healthcare…
The Organisation of Justice for Equity Sustenance has called for collaboration between the Independent National Electoral Commission and other electoral bodies for transparent local government elections. OJES CEO Bafunsho Tunde made the call on Thursday in Abuja. He said the State Independent Electoral Commission and the proposed Local Government Independent Electoral Commission must partner INEC to guarantee credible elections at the local government levels. According to Mr Tunde, the federal, state and local government areas are autonomous and this must reflect on them politically, socially and economically in rendering service to the voters that elected them. “However, the SIEC has…
A Sharia Court in Kano State on Thursday remanded a 25-year-old man, Hassan Adamu, for stealing 15 cemetery iron signboards from a cemetery. The police charged Adamu, who resides in Unguwar Dabai, in the Gwale Local Government Area of Kano with criminal trespass and theft. The defendant pleaded guilty to the two count charge. The Judge, Umar Lawal-Abubakar, however admitted the defendants to be remanded in prison for six month. Mr Lawal-Abubakar also ordered that he should be given 30 lashes of cane. Earlier, the Prosecution counsel, Inspector Abdullahi Wada, told the court that the case was reported on August…
Two brothers – Oluwatoyin Nejo, 45, and Oworinde Nejo, 50, on Thursday appeared before an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State, over alleged N160,000 fraud. The defendants, a mechanic and farmer respectively, of no fixed addresses, are facing a three-count charge of misdemeanour, assault and Advance Fee Fraud. The prosecutor, Inspector Ayodeji Omoyeigha, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on June 6, at about 12.00p.m. at Ode Erinje in the Okitipupa Local Government area of the state. Mr Omoyeigha said that the defendants fraudulently obtained the sum of N160,000 from the complainant, Modupe Akingboyei under the…