President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Judicial Commission of Enquiry to investigate the alleged financial impropriety and mismanagement of recovered assets levelled against the suspended Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu. Magu was accosted on, July 6 2020, in front of the Wuse Office of the EFCC and directed to appear before the Salami-led panel. Although Buhari’s letter approving the judiciary panel was written on July 3, 2020, its terms of reference and allegation against Magu were made available to him on Saturday, August 8. Multiple sources close to the Presidency also disclosed that the panel…
Author: YemieFash
The National Executive Committee of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has cleared Ondo Deputy Governor, Hon Agboola Ajayi, to contest the October governorship election under its platform. Ajayi resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) in June and joined the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he contested the primary in July but failed to clinch the governorship ticket. He met with former Governor Olusegun Mimiko for talks on running under the ZLP. His application was sent to the NEC of the party, which met at the weekend and approved it. Ondo ZLP chairman Hon. Joseph Akinlaja confirmed the clearance…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday, July 29, promised to meet OreofeOluwa Lawal, the boy who was telling her mother to ‘calm down’ in a viral video while he was about to be punished for his wrongdoing. With his mom insisting that he still has to be flogged for his misdemeanor, the little boy sticks two index fingers in the air and said: “This is my last chance…my last chance in the world.” Governor Sanwo-Olu stated that he was moved by his sobriety, which reflected in his promise of “last chance,” when confronted with the fact that he was…
Senate President Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan has sponsored the wedding of 300 vulnerable families in Yobe North. Speaking to journalists in Gashua shortly after the procession, the senate president’s representative, the Speaker Yobe State House of Assembly, Ahmed Lawan Mirwa, said the mass wedding programme was aimed at supporting the families of the less privileged. He said the programme would also discourage social vices such as rape, child abandonment among others. In his remarks, the coordinator of the programme, Muhammad Garba Gagiyo who is also the Commissioner, Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, said all the women were supported with beds…
The attention of the Yoruba Youth Assembly, under the leadership of Hon. Olarinde Thomas, has been drawn to the illegal suspension of Hon. Tomide Akinribido,the Deputy Minority lewder of the Ondo State House of Assembly. At an Emergency Meeting of the Yoruba Youth Assembly held on 5th August, 2020, The suspension of Hon. Tomide was carefully considered amongst other matters, after which, we arrived at some important resolutions as highlighted below, that: 1. The Yoruba Youth Assembly as the umbrella body of all Yoruba Youth organisations in Nigeria shall continue to implement its role towards the entrenchment of the…
A twenty-year-old fashion designer, Ayomide Taiwo, attacked by a police officer, Inspector Ago Egharepbe, attached to Ibokun Divisional Headquarters, Osun State, is dead. Ayomide had been in a coma since Tuesday following the attack by Egharepbe, who was said to have requested a bribe from him. He passed on around 10 am on Sunday. An uncle to the deceased, Segun Agboola, broke the news to Yemiefash medium on Sunday. He said, “Ayomide never made it. He died after spending about six days in a coma. Since the incident happened on Tuesday, he had been in a coma. “We are planning…
The remains of the late former senator, Buruju Kashamu, have been buried. He was buried a few minutes about 12:55 pm on Sunday at his Ijebu Igbo home. Earlier, the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, was at the Ijebu-Igbo home of the late Buruji Kashamu. Also, a crowd of sympathisers and loyalists of the late Senator, who represented Ogun East Senatorial District between 2015 and 2019, thronged Kashamu’s Ijebu-Igbo home. YemieFash medium reports that Kashamu died on Saturday, due to COVID-19-related complications at the age of 62. Our correspondent learnt that the remains of Kashamu arrived from Lagos on…
The Federal Government still owed its retirees in the civil service under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) a whooping sum of N85 billion. The N85 billion is the outstanding accrued pension arrears between June 2019 to date, and this is despite the release of the sum of N7.45 billion as outstanding accrued rights for the pensioners’ payment two weeks ago by the government. YemieFash medium findings revealed that civil servants who retired in the federal civil service cannot get their pensions, or access any fund from their pensions through the Retirement Saving Account, even after a year of retirement. This,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday said it would stop the announcement of results in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State scheduled for September 19 2020 if there was threat to peace. The commission specifically threatened to withdraw from the exercise even if election has started at any time violence erupted. INEC National Commissioner and chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, tabled the issues in an interview in Abuja. He was reacting to enquiries from our correspondent on the scary developments in Edo State, about six weeks to the governorship election and the outcome of…
The Senate arm of Nigerian National Assembly has applauded the efforts of Nigerian Army in the North West which has substantially helped to curtail the criminal activities of bandits in the region. This commendation was made by the Chairman of Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume at the weekend. The senator noted with satisfaction that restoration of security and orderliness to the North West were already becoming manifest due to the concerted efforts of the military. Senator Ndume was quoted as saying that he had happily observed that farmers have returned to their farms in many parts of…