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       The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Mr. Olawale Fapohunda has presented the Western Nigeria Security Network Bill (WNSN) also known as the Amotekun Bill to the Governor of Ekiti State on Monday 10th of February 2020, at the Governor’s office, Ado-Ekiti. Mr. Olawale Fapohunda while presenting the Bill appreciated the Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi for his unique responsiveness, passion, and commitment to the safety of the lives and properties of the people in Ekiti State. The Attorney General, while addressing the Governor on the Amotekun Bill said, all the (6) six Attorney Generals’ from the southwest states namely Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, and Lagos State have been working assiduously to provide a legal framework which will serve as an operational guideline for the proposed Security Agency across the Western States. Mr. Fapohunda stated that the Amotekun Bill contain 38 provisions and enumerated some of the key provisions to include the Est

      Account opening exercise for verified subscribers of Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) across the 20 Local Government Areas of the State has commenced in preparation for the farming season. Representing the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Dotun Shorunke who led a monitoring team from the Ministry to some Local Government Areas including Abeokuta South, Abeokuta North, Odeda, Yewa-North and Imeko-Afon Local of the State affirmed that farmers trooped out for the exercise which he said was necessary for the next phase of the programme as they have also been linked with Bank Verification Exercise. He assured the verified subscribers of the provision of improved seedlings and certified seedlings for optimum outputs just as their farms also would be insured against unforeseen circumstance. Dr. Shorunke expressed satisfaction on the level of work on the commencement of land clearing in Apojula, Odeda Loca

     Photos: President Buhari on a Sympathy Visit to Borno State over Recent Terrorist Attack on 12th Feb 2020.   Borno Condolence 6: President Buhari with Borno State Governor Prof. Babagana Zulum and Borno Elders at the Shehu’s Palace during a Sympathy Visit to Borno State over Recent Terrorist Attack on 12th Feb 2020 Borno Condolence 7: President Buhari with Borno State Governor Prof. Babagana Zulum and Shehu of Borno HRM Abubakar Umar El-Kanemi at the Shehu’s Palace during a Sympathy Visit to Borno State over Recent Terrorist Attack on 12th Feb 2020.More photos below.

      An online medium given particularly to fake news publishes that Zahra, daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has fraudulently secured a job with the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). While Zahra, just like any other Nigerian, can work wherever she secures employment, we hasten to add that the story is false in every material particular. The publication is untrue, malicious, and meant to cast  aspersions at the First Family, since the tendentious platform claims the job was secured fraudulently. All people of goodwill are enjoined to ignore the hack piece, masquerading as a news story. Femi Adesina Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) February 12, 2020.

      What can be called a fundamental change has been instituted in the Lagos State Civil Service. Henceforth, elevation of any person to the position of Permanent Secretary will now be based on examination and rigorous interviews, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu declared on Wednesday. Besides, the Governor said the regular promotion of civil servants from one level to another would be based “strongly” on performance - a move disrupting the grade level model being used by the Civil Service. Sanwo-Olu introduced the new rules at the launch of knowledge-sharing platform tagged: “A Disruptive S.H.i.F.T” at Adeyemi Bero Auditorium in the Secretariat, Alausa. The event, organised by the Ministry of Establishments, Training and Pensions, was created with an objective to harness the creativity and innovativeness of civil servants to transform the State’s public service into a 21st century workforce. S.H.i.F.T is an acronym for Simple, High-Impact, interactive, Focused, Transformational.

      Lagos State Government has dismissed the rumoured suspicion of cases of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-2019) in Gowon Estate, Alimosho Local Government Area of the State. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, dismissed the rumour making the rounds on social media that Chinese from Wuhan, China residing in Osoba Close, Gowon Estate displayed severe symptoms of Coronavirus disease, saying there is no truth in the report. Giving an update on investigations carried out by the Ministry through its surveillance team, Prof. Abayomi declared that there is no suspected or confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Lagos State contrary to fake news being circulated in the media. Speaking further, the Commissioner explained that the State surveillance team and other relevant stakeholders in Alimosho visited the alleged scene of the suspected cases and its environs on the 9th of February 2020 and discovered that there were no Chinese nationals residing or carrying on business in and

      A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), AIDs Health Care Foundation (AHF), will distribute 250,000 condoms in six states of the federation along with the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in commemoration of the 2020 International Condom Day (ICD). Steve Aborisade, marketing manager of AHF Nigeria, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. He stated that the 2020 ICD, with “Safer is Fun” as its theme , will be celebrated on Feb. 13, to commemorate Saint Valentine’s Day which is celebrated on February 14 annually. He said that AHF would mark the day with a road walk, free distribution of condoms and HIV testing and counselling exercise across six AHF-Nigeria programme states of Benue, Kogi, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Nasarawa, Anambra and Abuja. Other activities include entertainment and educational “Safer is Fun” activities alongside advocacy messages. The marketing manager noted that Dr Echey Ijezie, the Country Programme Director of the foundation in Nigeria had reiter

     The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has vowed to apprehend the promoter of a report in the social media, claiming its Port Harcourt holding facility is overcrowded and alleging mistreatment of detainees. Head of the Port Harcourt Zonal office, Usman Imam speaking at a media briefing today, February 12, 2020, dismissed the report as fake news. According to him, "the picture of detainees crammed into an ope n air cell purported to belong to the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt is fake. The images are strange to us". He further stated that the Commission, "do not have an open cell, our cell is a stand-alone facility with no close proximity to any storey building; we have never had large inmates that the cell could not accommodate, and we have no history of mistreatment of detainees".More photos below.

     The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Wednesday, February 12, 2020, arraigned four suspected fraudsters, Richard Ironbar Edemdem, Samuel Okpapi, Nelson Ojovbo, Bamigbade Olushola and a company, ISD Technology Limited.They were arraigned before Justice Muhammad Liman of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on a three- count charge bordering on felony and stealing to the tune of N36, 837, 438.20 (Thirty   Six Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty-seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Thirty-eight Naira, Twenty Kobo). One of the counts reads: "That you, Richard Ironbar Edemdem, Samuel Okpapi, Nelson Ojovbo, Bamigbade Olushola and ISD Technology Ltd and and one Shola (Still at large), sometime in 2017, in Lagos within the Jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired among yourselves to commit a felony to wit: Tampering with critical mobile Telecommunications network system and thereby committed an offence contrary to Sections 27 (1)(b) and 10

     The thousands of members of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) spread all over Nigeria mourn the passing on of one of Nigeria’s greatest musicians of all times, Dr. Victor Abimbola Olaiya. Reacting to the news of the passage of the great highlife superstar, singer and trumpeter, COSON Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji who spoke from COSON House in Ikeja today  said, ‘This passing of Dr Victor Olaiya is like the fall of a big Iroko and the end of an era. Dr Victor Olaiya was in every way one of Nigeria’s greatest musicians of all times who held on to his art decade after decade after decade. His influence on Nigerian music and musicians is immeasurable. His impact on entertainment in the country is unequaled. Yes, there will be other musicians over time, but there will not be another Victor Olaiya. Fare thee well great Maestro”.