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    Mafe, who was celebrating his 46th birthday few hours ago we gathered to have slumped and he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Before his death, Asiwaju 'Yinka Mafe was elected the Councillor of Ward three in Sagamu Local Government Legislative Council in December 1998, a term which ended in 2002. Asiwaju Yinka Mafe was elected as a member of the Ogun State House of Assembly in 2011 and became the Chairman House Committee on Education, Science and Technology and re-elected in 2015. He represents Sagamu 1 constituency of Ogun State in the House of Assembly. Asiwaju Yinka Mafe was born on the 4th of February, 1974 to the family of Chief Timothy Mafe and Mrs. Lydia Mafe(now of blessed memory) in the local town of Emuren, a suburb of Sagamu, Remo, Ogun State. He has one sister from his mum and 7 other step-siblings. He spent his early days in Warri where he had his primary education and later at Igbudu Primary School, Warri, Delta State. He also attende...

      ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND DIARY:      On the 05/2/2020 at about 11:15am,an overhead Tank filled with water fall into a classroom of Royal Kings Foundation nursery and primary school Nkpor-Agu in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State. Police patrol team led by DPO Ogidi Division CSP Mark Ijarafu rushed to the scene. On arrival it was discovered that the overhead tank of about 800 gallons capacity filled with water fell from its high stand from a neighbouring house adjacent to the school on the roof of the pre-nursery class and directly into the classroom.As a result, Four children sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to Idemili hospital Nkpor for medical attention. Unfortunately,two of the children namely, Wisdom Ezewudo 'm' aged about 3years and a female pupil of about 2years, whose identity is yet to be ascertained were confirmed dead on arrival by a medical doctor while two others namely Chimelumeze Obelenwa 'm' aged One year ...

    In reply please quote Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.2/ Date: 5th February, 2020 The Director of News ……………………………. PRESS RELEASE ​POLICE TACTICAL FORCES STORM ANSARU TERRORISTS’ CAMP Neutralize over 250 terrorists and bandits Special Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Nigeria Police backed by the Special Forces of the Police Airwing, in a daring offensive operation, stormed one of the largest operational camps of the Ansaru Terror Group (also housing other bandits and kidnappers) located in Kuduru Forest, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State and successfully neutralized over 250 high-profile members of the Ansaru Terror Group. The operation which commenced in the early hours of today, 5th February, 2020, was carried out by a combined team of operatives of Operation Puff Adder made up of the Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Special Forces, Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Special Tactical Squad (STS) and Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS...

        Today, The Queen opened Wolferton’s new Pumping Station, 72 years after Her Majesty’s Father, King George VI, opened the original station on 2nd February, 1948. The Station sits within the Sandringham Estate, home to Sandringham House – the private residence of The Queen and The Royal Family. King George opened the pumping station shortly after WWII, to enable the surrounding marshland, which sits below sea level, to be drained, dried out and farmed. It has been 'keeping Nor folk's feet dry' ever since. The Queen toured the new station, which has been rebuilt over the past 18 months to create a more environmentally friendly facility to better protect its local wildlife, including nesting birds on the neighbouring marshes. Her Majesty met a group of long serving staff, all of whom have worked at Wolferton for over 20 years, and viewed the plaque unveiled by King George in 1948.More photos below.   

       Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said part of the strategies to realise his administration’s traffic and transportation blueprint is to scale up the capability of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to discharge its mandate. Improving efficiency of the State-owned traffic management agency, Sanwo-Olu said, is central to the efforts being put forward by his Government to diffuse gridlocks on the roads and reduce travel time for commuters. The Governor spoke on Wednesday at the passing-out parade of 1,017 newly recruited LASTMA officers who graduated from Induction Course 10 of the agency. Sanwo-Olu reiterated his obligation towards strengthening the resourcefulness of LASTMA personnel at all level, noting that his administration had doubled welfare packages of LASTMA officials to motivate them for optimised performance. He said: “The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority was established 20 years ago to tackle traff...

      Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu receives the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, at Lagos House, Alausa, on Wednesday, February 5, 2020.More details later and more photos below.

       The Department of State hosted the Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama and his interagency delegation from Nigeria, for the Binational Commission (BNC) themed, “Innovation and Ingenuity.” The Binational Commission is the premiere platform of engagement between Governments of the United States and Nigeria to expand cooperation and advance shared goals. The delegations discussed areas of strategic collaboration toward measurable progress, particularly in the areas of trade and investment, development, good governance, and security cooperation. The team led by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva accompanied by the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mallam Kyari and Hon. Musa Sarkin Adar held strategic meetings at the  # BNC  with; the Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Energy Resources, Frank Fannon. The focus for the meeting is to strengthen cooperat...

         President Muhammadu Buhari presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House, Abuja.More details later and more photos below.

      We are again constrained to react to unfounded allegations by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) about the payment or non-payment of ransom for the release of the Chibok and Dapchi schoolgirls. Media reports quoted CAN’s Director of Legal and Public Affairs, Kwamkur Samuel to have said inter alia: “Nigerians need to know, if they have not known the reason why the Presidency could not pay ransom to  rescue Chibok girls. It is because 80% to 90% of the girls are Christians. The reason why Dapchi girls’ ransom was quickly paid and they were returned is the discovery that most of the girls were Muslims except Leah Sharibu who is still in captivity.” When the media in August 2018 quoted a United Nations Report alleging that the Federal Government paid a “huge ransom” for the release of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls on March 21, 2018, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, immediately disputed the report, insisting that no ransom was p...

      A beggar who claimed he needed money to take care of his sick wife was exposed when two Good Samaritans who offered to help followed him to the hospital and discovered that he was lying. The man walked up to two women in a car and told them his wife needed blood urgently. They informed him they didn't have enough cash, then asked him to enter their car so they could follow him to the hospital and take care of the payment. However, when they got to the gate of the hospital, the man refused to take them to his supposed sick wife. He claimed the wife was in the theatre and the doctors wouldn't let them see her. He then added that he didn't want to make them go through the stress of walking "up and down" in the hospital. When the women confronted him and told him he was lying, he told them that they are rich and won't lose anything by giving him some money.More photos below.

      The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has told the various service chiefs that Nigerians are on the necks of their representatives in the House over the security situation in the country. The Speaker said although the service chiefs were doing a lot, the anxiety among Nigerians was enough reason for the military commanders to redouble their efforts, challenging them to take the battle to the criminals. Gbajabiamila spoke at the meeting of the joint House Committees on ‎Defence, Army, Navy and Air Force with the Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff and the Chief of Air Staff. "I thought I should be here to encourage everybody that we're all on the same page. We all know the situation in Nigeria today, we can't hide from it, we can't shy away from it, we cannot pretend that it doesn't exist. "We spent practically the whole day on Wednesday (January 29) discussing the security situation in Nigeria...

     The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Iyonsi Timeyin Timothy before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos, on a two-count charge bordering on possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of $4,500. One of the counts reads: "That you, Iyonsi Timeyin Timothy , sometime in September, 2019, in Lagos, withi n the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of $4,500.00 (Four Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars) from one Julia Zagorski under the false pretense to wit: “romance scam”, which pretence you knew to be false and committed an offence contrary to Sections 1 (1) (a)and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act No: 14 of 2006.” The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges following which prosecution counsel, K. Uduak, asked the court for a trial date, and for the defendant be remanded in N...

    By Sola Olugbemiro. Following his unguarded utterances full of incitement and threat to peace in Zamfara State, former Governor Abdulazeez Yari was yesterday, arrested and quizzed by the Nigeria Police in Abuja for six hours. An Impeccable source who spoke to our correspondent in Abuja said the former Governor, who looked visibly rattled, was subjected to six hour query over his utterances which were reported by many online media, where he made inciting statements inimical to the peace attained in Zamfara State. "Between 11 am and 5pm, the former Governor was brought to the Force headquarters and vigorously drilled over his reported utterances he made a few days back during a meeting held in his home village of Talata-Mafara in Zamfara State", our source revealed. It would be recalled that the former Governor, following alleged desperate attempts to overtly subvert the road map to peace in the state, openly called his supporters to confront authorities in their la...