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   Edo State Governor shared all these photos on their social media page with the caption '' My wife and First Lady of Edo State, Mrs Betsy Obaseki and other key govt officials have visited the family of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa to commiserate with them over the death of their daughter. She assured the state govt’s commitment to get  # JusticeForUwa  and bring the culprits to book''.More photos below.

     Lagos State has taken an audacious step towards improving security in all communities across the State, with the inauguration of State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC) and its operations arm, State Community Policing Committee (SCPC). Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, inaugurated members of the two committees at a ceremony held at the State House in Alausa, pointing out that the event marked a turning point in the Government’s deliberate effort to re-strategise and rethink the security architecture using Community Policing Initiative as proposed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Muhammed Abubakar Adamu. The security initiative, the Governor said, is long overdue, adding that the reform is being implemented with the objective to address inadequacies of the current policing model, which, he said, had failed to engage members of local communities and neighbourhoods in knowledge sharing and intelligence gathering that could help in ...

     COVID-19 Update by the Incident Commander, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, June 3, 2020. Good people of Lagos, Today, 20 COVID19 Lagos patients; 14 males and 6 females, all Nigerians were discharged from our Gbagada, Eti-Osa (LandMark) and Agidingbi Isolation facilities to reunite with the society. The patients, 11 from Gbagada, 8 from Eti-Osa (LandMark) and 1 from Agidingbi Isolation Centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19. With this, the number of  # COVID19  confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos is now 928. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu June 3, 2020. One more photo below.

           Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, former Governor of Abia State was on Wednesday night released from the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. The former governor, now a serving senator, was reportedly set free from prison around 7:30pm. The Federal High Court in Lagos, had on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of  Kalu from Kuje prison.The court also ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to immediately put machinery in motion for the retrial of the former governor. The court further ordered that his trial should start afresh along side the former Director of Finance in Abia State Government  House, Ude Jones Udeogu in line with the judgement of the Supreme  Court that declared Udeogu’s trial, conviction and sentence a nullity. Orji is serving a 12-year jail term at the Correctional Service Centre in Kuje, Abuja for looting N7.65 billion belonging to the Abia State Government. The former Governor now a Senator of th...

      Yesterday,Queen Elizabeth celebrated 67th anniversary as a Queen.  Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June, 1953 in Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty was the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, the setting for every Coronation since 1066. Whilst an occasion for celebration, The Queen’s Coronation was a solemn, religious ceremony that lasted almost three hours.‬ ‪The service has remained essentially the same for over 1,000 years.More photos below.

      The International Police (Interpol) on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 extended its globalized information- 247 to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. . . The information platform, codenamed 1P-247, was extended to the EFCC in a brief ceremony attended by the Acting Executive Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, key officers of Interpol and some management staff of the EFCC. . . The IP-24/7 is a global police communications system that connects law enforcement agencies in all the 194 member countries. It enables users to share sensitive and urgent police information with their counterparts around the globe, 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year.

      The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Mustapha Magu, was, on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, inducted into the President Muhammadu Buhari Integrity Hall of Fame in recognition of his record of integrity, transparency and honesty in his duties. . . The induction was done by Arewa House (Centre for Documentation and Research), Ahmadu Bello University, at the Corporate Headquarters of the EFCC, Abuja. . . Director of the Centre, Dr. Shuaibu Shehu Aliyu, while justifying the choice of Magu for the honour, said that the EFCC's boss has demonstrated courage, consistence and integrity in the discharge of his duties. He also stressed that, many corrupt Nigerians, that were considered untouchable in the past, had been brought to book. "We are impressed by the courage and integrity of Magu and the record-breaking results that the EFCC has garnered since he assumed his role in 2015", he said.One more photo below.

      Following Boko Haram terrorists' failed attack on troops' location at Banki Junction and Response Area Firgi from the 7 Division Strike Group and the subsequent fierce battle with the terrorists on the 26th of May 2020, credible information from reliable sources have comfirmed the death of some high ranking Commanders of the Abubakar Shekau's faction of the BH terrorist' group. Some  of the notorious BHTs Commanders that met their waterloo during the operation include Manzar Halid, Amir Abu Fatima and Nicap among several others. Reliable information further confirmed the extermination of Seventy two members of the sect while many others were injured including some high profile Commanders and fighters like Abu Jamratu AL-Naweer, Kaka Bana and Tareta babakari. Additionally, a large number of their equipment including many gun trucks, motorcycles and bicycles were equally destroyed by troops in collaboration with the Air Task Force during BHT’s withdrawal in...

      Photos: President Buhari presides over a Virtual meeting of the Federal Executive Council Meeting in State House on 3rd June 2020.More photos below.

     It was gathered that the incident happened on Monday but the deceased’s body was found around their residence in Akinyele area of Ibadan on Tuesday. Her family members were said to have discovered that she had been raped after her body was examined. Barakat has been buried in accordance with Islamic rites. Until her demise, she was said to be a year-one student of the Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training, Ibadan. Barakat’s death comes less than seven days after the “gruesome” murder of Vera Omozuwa, a student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), who was raped while reading inside a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Benin.It also comes amid the ongoing outrage over the killing of Tina, a 16-year-old girl, by a police officer in Lagos. Several Nigerians have taken to social media, particularly Twitter, to demand for the arrest of those who carried out the evil act using the hashtag #JusticeForBarakat. “While we were expressi...

     President Muhammadu Buhari rejoices with former Oyo State Governor, Christopher Alao-Akala, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The President salutes the Ogbomoso-born grassroots politician, lauding him for ability to blend with all classes of society, and touching lives positively. President Buhari felicitates with the family, friends and political associates of the former governor, wishing him longer life, good heal th, and greater service to his people and motherland. Femi Adesina Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) June 3, 2020.

      June 3, 2020 Press Statement PDP Rejects Slash In Health, Education Budgets, Berates APC, Buhari Presidency...Demands Immediate 100% Increase The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the slashing of the 2020 budgetary allocations for basic health care from N44.4 billion to N25.5b, and the Universal Basic Education (UBE) budget from N111.7 billion to N51.1 billion, by Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing it as the height of insensitivity to the plights of Nigerians. The party charged President Buhari to immediately recall the budget rework the figures to reflect a 100% increase in the initial figures as a step forward towards meeting the needs of the citizens at these sub sectors. The PDP insists that in slashing the budget for the primary health need of the people to N25.5 billion (a 42% cut) and UBE budget to N51.1 billion (a 54% cut), in a country of over 200 million people, who are already economically overburden,...

      The Lagos State Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Olowo, has reeled out strategies already deployed by the State government to keep its finances intact in spite of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy. He said that, although the direct impact of the pandemic has led to a drop in the State’s IGR and Federal Allocation, potential decline of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and increased pressure on income and purchasing power of Lagosians, the present administration had in swift response re-ordered the Y2020 Budget and re-prioritised its Capital Expenditure to reflect current realities. Dr. Olowo, who made this disclosure while giving the scorecard of the Ministry at the Ministerial Press briefing commemorating the one year in office of the State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the JJT Park Alausa, Ikeja, declared that Lagos State achieved 106% performance in the first quarter of Y2020 Revenue as against Budget. He, however, main...

      On the 31/5/2020 at about 10:10pm,along Enugu Onitsha Road Ogidi,a MAZDA Jeep with REG.NO AKD 867 EH driving by one Onunkwo Obinna Ifeanyi 'm' of No: 6 Ezenwa Azu Ogbunike in Oyi LGA of Anambra State from Onitsha heading to Awka suddendly loss control and knocked a middle aged man of about 40 years whose identity is not yet kno wn on the pedestrian lane,As a result,victim became unconscious. Police operatives attached to Ogidi Division visited the scene and rushed victim to the hospital where he was certified dead on arrival by a medical doctor on duty.Corpse deposited at the mortuary for postmortem Examination and preservation. Meanwhile,the driver was arrested and obstruction cleared to enable free flow of traffic in the area. However,efforts to locate the relatives of the victim proved abortive since the date of the accident.In view of the foregoing,the Command urged the public whose relations got missing and matched above description to report at Ogidi P...

      June 3, 2020 By Umar Muhammed, Lafia The first son of Archbishop Joseph Masin, the Nasarawa State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, who was kidnapped on May 28, Bishop Miracle Masin, has said he sold about three cars belonging to him, his wife and his father before he could raise the ransom to secure his father’s release. He noted that they also got contributions from some individuals to secure the  release of his father who was abducted at his residence in Bukan-Sidi, Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. While decrying the harsh treatment meted to his father, who is also the General Overseer, Word of God Worldwide Gospel City, in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday, Miracle refused to disclose the amount paid by the family. He explained that they started negotiations with the kidnapers from N45m, noting that when the kidnappers checked his father’s contacts on his phone and saw the caliber of persons there, they jacked ...