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      President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called for closer bilateral relationship between Nigeria and Egypt and also with Morocco. Lawan made the call at a separate meeting with the Egyptian Ambassador in Nigeria, Assem Hanafi Elseify and also with the Moroccan Ambassador in Nigeria, Moha Ou Ali Tagma who paid him courtesy visits on Tuesday. Lawan said Egypt and Nigeria are leading countries in Africa and acknowledged that the two countries have had a very long relationship. "Nigeria has been quite supportive of Egypt and Egypt has been supportive of Nigeria. We need to expand and widen this cooperation and partnership between our two countries," Lawan said. The Senate President said the parliamentary relationship between Egypt and Nigeria needs to be improved adding that "there is need for the cooperation that we share between us as two major African countries to be well grounded, established and sustained between our parliaments."He said Parliaments no...

      H.E Deputy Governor of Lagos State Dr Obafemi Hamzat on his way to Lasu to deliver a lecture apprehended road users passing one way from Carter bridge axis down to Mile 2 axis.More details later and more photos below.

      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Wednesday October 9, 2019, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Ayodeji Samuel Alaja to nine months imprisonment for possession of fraudulent documents before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The convict was arraigned today by the EFCC on one-count charge of involvement in internet fraud. The count charge reads: "That you, Ayodeji Samuel Alaja, sometime in 2019 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, knowingly had in your possession documents containing false pretence." The convict pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him. In view of his guilty plea, the prosecution counsel, Ebareotu Pereagbe, informed the court that the convict had entered into a "plea bargain” with the Commission. The prosecution counsel, Pereagbe, therefore, reviewed the facts of the case, wherein the convict made a confessional ...

     Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, sentenced one Alabi Okikiola to 12 months in prison after finding him guilty of fraudulent impersonation in a criminal charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office. The judge also ordered that four other suspected internet fraudsters be remanded in prison pending the d etermination of their bail applications. The accused - Falade Fisayo Abimbola, Arowojobe Femi Oluwaseun, Akinsipe Olalekan Gayus, and Ezekiel Rotimi Akinyele - were arraigned separately on different count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretense, possession of fraudulent documents and money laundering. They all pleaded not-guilty to their respective charges, prompting the prosecution counsel, Dr. Ben Ubi and Babatunde Sonoiki, to pray the court for trial date and order to remand them in prison custody. The trial judge adjourned to October...

    Femi-Fani Kayode who shared the photo below today with the caption ''   If you believe that the north will support an Igbo Presidency in 2023 then you still dont understand the injustice that Nigeria represents. The north will NEVER support an Igbo presidency and that is the tragedy of Nigeria. The entire south needs EMANCIPATION and not Presidency. (Femi Fani-Kayode)  ''.What do you think?.More photos below.     

     In continuation of its capacity building initiatives to effectively tackle various security challenges confronting the Nation, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has commenced the training of another batch of Special Forces (SF) personnel. The SF Course 5/2019 was inaugurated today, 9 October 2019, at the Regiment Training Centre (RTC) Annex in Bauchi. The Course, which is the seventh of such training programmes by the current NAF administration, is the first to be conducted at the newly established RTC Annex in Bauchi. The choice of Bauchi is to enable the trainees acclimatize to the arid conditions prevalent in the North East, as well as decongest the RTC’s main training facility in Kaduna. Inaugurating the Course, the Air Officer Commanding Ground Training Command (AOC GTC), Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Idi Amin, stated that the training programme was yet another glowing demonstration of the realization of the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar’s, v...

          Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, made a passionate call to all residents of the State to register for the Health Insurance Scheme introduced by the government towards ensuring improved healthcare delivery. Subscription to the scheme, Sanwo-Olu said, would enable the Government prioritise its healthcare programmes to enhance its quality and affordability to the residents. The Governor made the call at the ongoing Medic West Africa Conference at the Eko Convention Centre, Victoria Island. Sanwo-Olu said the health insurance coverage must be scaled up as a condition to build the confidence of private investors in the scheme, which, he said, was created to remove burden on the residents by providing affordable healthcare. He said: “For health to be completely affordable and accessible, people must subscribe to our Health Insurance Scheme, where we need to increase coverage in terms of registration. This is how developed ...

      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 secured the conviction of one Akinbamidele Femi John in a Kwara State High Court, presided over by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar. The convict faced three-count charges, bordering on internet fraud and other fraud-related offences. Count one of the charge reads: "That you, Akinbamidele Femi John (a.k.a Brenda Jason) on or about 20th March, 2018 at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court attempted to commit an offence by pretending to be Brenda Jason, a female with a gmail account: jasonbrenda00@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 95 and 321 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 324 of the same law." It could be recalled that Akinbamidele upon his arraignment on Monday, October 7,2019 pleaded guilty to all the three charges levelled against him by the EFCC. While sentencing him today, Justi...

       Chinwendu Goes To School By Vincent Ezechukwu This is no ‘Eze Goes To School’ tale but one of former child bride with happy ending. This evening, Tuesday, 8th September, 2019, Miss Chinwendu, a former Child bride whose story went viral few months ago resumed school, through the benevolence of Anambra State Commissioner For Women and Children affairs, Lady Ndidi Mezue. The Honorable Commissioner made sure that Chinwendu, soon after walking away from the marriage, was rehabilitated, trained in tailoring and empowered with other 100 Ndi Anambra by Industrial Training Fund, ITF. Concluding the process of healing and rehabilitation, Chinwendu was today, in an emotional scene, accompanied by the Honorable Commissioner, her elderly father and some staff of the ministry of women and children affairs to the school where she will restart her education and the journey to put her life back on track. We wish her the very best.More photos below.

      Engr Jude Igwemezie, a Nigerian engineer has won a $500 million contract to build a monorail network in Iraq. Engr Jude Igwemezie’s company, TransGlobim International won the contract to construct a viable rail transportation network for Najaf, Iraq. The Contract will be completed in 3 years by his Company. Engr Igwemezie was quoted to have said that he had tried getting involved with Nigerian officials to construct several rail lines in the country in the last 18 months all to no avail. This he said frustrated him into looking elsewhere before he got the Iraq offer N500 million dollars is N180 billion Naira approx There is no limit to what man can achieve with Hard work and determination.More photos below.

     President Buhari receives in courtesy visit Former Ministers who served in his Military Administration from 1984 to 1985 in State House on 9th Oct 2019. PRESS RELEASE: ON THIS LAST LAP, I’LL DO MY BEST TO CARRY EVERYONE ALONG, PRESIDENT BUHARI PLEDGES, AS HE RECEIVES MINISTERS WHO SERVED WITH HIM UNDER MILITARY RULE It was a refreshing time of going down memory lane, as President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received at State House, Abuja, some of the Ministers who served with him as military head of state between January 1984 and August 1985. The President recalled “how we got things done then,” because it was a military administration, a nd pledged to “carry everyone along on my last lap as a democratically elected leader.” President Buhari thanked the former Ministers “for being consistently in touch” and particularly lauded the military for building Abuja as new Federal capital for the country. A minute silence was observed in memory of those who have ...