Popular social media influencer and Ondo State Youths Representative on the EndSARS Panel, Oluyemi Fasipe has urged the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to ensure speedy implementation of submitted EndSARS Panel Reports across the country. Yemie Fash lamented what he described as willful non-implementation of the EndSARS Panel Reports submitted to state governors across the country. While speaking on Tuesday in Akure, he said the panel report was an evidence of social contract between aggrieved Nigerian youths and Nigerian government. Yemie Fash said that the youths had played their part in the social contract by withdrawing from the streets and…
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Hon Abiola Peter Makinde, Honorable Member of the House of Representatives, representing the people of Ondo East and West Federal Constituency at the Green chamber has broken ground for the construction of an ultra-modern Ondo City public library. The event held on Monday, 31st of January 2022 at the proposed site of the building had in attendance Royal Fathers, political and party leaders through the length and breadth of Ondo, Federal Ministry of Education representatives,State Ministry of Education, The Provost and Members of the Adeyemi University Management Staff, Honorable Commisioner for Culture and Tourism Ondo State, Hon Wale Akinlosotu. Also…
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has urged members of the All Progressives Congress in the state to conduct themselves peacefully in today’s governorship primaries across the 177 wards of the party in the state. This was contained in a statement on Thursday by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, titled, ‘Fayemi Commends Apc Aspirants For Peaceful Conduct’. The governor “commended the aspirants for their great effort at mobilising for the ruling party” and “urged members of the party to conduct themselves peacefully during today’s primary election across the 177 wards in accordance with the law”. While assuring the residents…
A new date has been set for the multimillion-dollar fraud case involving Olalekan Ponle, aka Mr Woodberry. This is contained in court documents from the Northern District of Illinois. “This docket entry was made by the Clerk on Tuesday, January 25, 2022: MINUTE entry before the Honourable Robert W. Gettleman as to Olalekan Jacob Ponle: At the parties’ request, telephonic status hearing set for 1/26/2022 is stricken and reset to 3/4/2022 at 9:30 a.m,” the court document said. Mr Ponle was arraigned on a separate charge in Chicago last July. He was arrested in Dubai alongside Hushpuppi and charged in…
The Police Service Commission has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to deepen investigations into the connection between Abba Kyari, the suspended head of the Intelligence Response Team, and suspected internet fraudster, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as Hushpuppi. Kyari had been suspended in July 2021 for alleged involvement in a $1.1 million Internet fraud allegedly perpetrated by Hushpuppi and four others; AbdulRahman Juma (Abdul); Vincent Chibuzo (Kelly); Rukayat Fashola (Morayo); and Bolatito Agbabiaka (Bolamide). The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI had in its report alleged that Hushpuppi paid $20,600 to two bank accounts allegedly provided by Kyari on January 20, 2020. When summoned by…
The Management of BEDC Electricity Plc. (BEDC) has commended Illah Community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State for its role in the arrest of electricity vandals stressing the rising cases of vandalism across its franchise areas which it says aside being an economic crime is an act of sabotage against the good purpose and intents of the company. The management said, the power sector has been the most hit in the most devastating manner and the effect of vandalism cannot be over emphasized as residential customers, industries, small and medium scale businesses are being starved of power…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday said it would beam its searchlight on politicians and political parties to track the sources of funds for their campaigns in the 2023 general election. The commission, therefore, promised to set up committee to monitor election expenditure ahead of the elections. The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, represented by a National Commissioner, Kunle Ajayi, stated this in Abuja during a policy round table conference on political campaign finance organised by The Electoral Forum, an organ of the Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development with support from MacArthur Foundation. He said, “As…
Abdulmalik Tanko, the proprietor of Noble Kids Nursery and Primary School, Kawana, Kano, has narrated how he used a N100 rat poison to end the life of Hanifa Abubakar, one of his pupils. Recent reports on how Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil of the school, was kidnapped while on her way from Islamiyya School in December and subsequently killed. Tanko had demanded a N6 million ransom from the parents of the child and in the process of collecting part of the money, he was arrested. He had failed to disclose that the victim had been killed. When he was arrested…
At least two persons were killed on Friday after a violent clash broke out between two rival groups at Idumota area of Lagos Island. It learnt that the unrest began on Thursday evening between the rival gangs from Idumota, Balogun, Martins and Oluwole but generated into a clash on Friday morning. Footage circulated online shows the suspected hoodlums armed with machetes and local guns chasing each other, while residents of the area scampered for safety. Commercial activities in the area were affected, with shops closed due to the clash. Normalcy has since been restored by security operatives. Jubril Gawat, the…
As part of the Buhari Administration’s plan to take 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years, the World Bank-supported COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus also known as NG-CARES, will also leverage on existing job creation, wealth creation and poverty reduction programmes at the community level. These include programmes such as State Cash Transfer Units, Agriculture Development Agencies, Job Creation Unit/MSE Support Units supported by the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) of the Administration. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the National Launch of the NG-CARES programme implementation with the World…