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KDSG Security Update: 9th Friday July 2021  El-Rufai condemns killings in Zangon Kataf, Chikun, Igabi LGAs, citizens disappearance in Jema'a LGA  The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has condemned killings and disappearances of citizens in Zangon Kataf, Igabi, Chikun and Jema'a local government areas of the state.  Security Agencies had previously reported killings of citizens in Kibori, Katsit and Afana in Zangon Kataf local government area, and Amana Kasuwa of Igabi LGA, before reporting the killing of nine persons today Friday 9th July 2021 at Warkan village of Zangon Kataf LGA, and one person at Kakkau area of Chikun LGA.  The Governor condoled the families that lost their loved ones and wished the citizens who sustained injuries speedy recovery. He also directed the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency to urgently assess damages at Warkan village and provide relief materials to the affected citizens.  The disappearance of five youths from Kafanchan town o

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, July 9, 2021 sentenced a final year student of Ekiti State University, EKSU, Ado Ekiti, Adeyemi Kehinde and a 21-year-old student of the Kwara State University, KWASU, Molete, Oladosu Olakunmi Olalekan, to various prison jail terms, having found them guilty of offences bordering on cybercrime The two convicts were arraigned on separate charges today by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Adeyemi, also known as ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was charged on one count, while Oladosu was prosecuted on three counts.  Particulars of the charge against Adeyemi read: “That you, Adeyemi Kehinde (a.k.a Queen Elizabeth) sometime in February, 2020 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly induced one Miller, a white man to send you gift card worth the sum of $400 US Dollars when you knowingly pretended and represented yourself to b

 EFCC Arraigns Three Businessmen for Fraud in Maiduguri The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 8, 2021 arraigned three businessmen Lawan Karta, Aisami Sherif and Babagana Bulama, before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri for the offences bordering on criminal conspiracy, misappropriation, and obtaining money under false pretence.  Karta and Sherif were jointly arraigned on a two-count  charge for allegedly  selling a purported plot of land to one Mohammed Umar Bolori in the sum of N10, 000, 000.00 (Ten Million Naira). Investigation revealed that the complainant made a deposit of N5, 000, 000.00 (Five Million Naira) to one of the defendants’ account during his visit to   the land. Afterwards, his attention was drawn to the fact that the plot of land belonged to one Alhaji Abba Kagu Marte and all efforts to retrieve his initial deposit failed. Count two of the charge reads: “That you, Lawan Karta, Ais

His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma today received a high powered 6-man delegation from the Nigerian Navy led by Rear Admiral Odogwu Ezekobe, the Chief of Policy and Plans, on a familiarization visit to the Governor on the proposed Naval Base to be situated at Osse Moto, Oguta LGA. According to Governor Uzodimma “the recent events in the State have proven the need to strengthen security in the state to protect our lands and maritime boundaries and curb the criminal activities of oil bunkers and unknown gunmen at the Imo State waterways which is not just a State issue but a National sabotage, hence the need for the partnership”. The Governor in his statement assured them of every necessary co-operation from the Government of Imo State. Speaking earlier, Rear Admiral Odogwu Ezekobe, disclosed that the partnership can be traced to the good relationship of Governor Hope Uzodimma and the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Zubairu. Rear Admiral Ezekobe stated that protection

Governor Samuel Ortom, on behalf of his family, the Government and people of Benue State, congratulates the Tor Tiv, His Royal Majesty, Professor James Ayatse on his appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as Chancellor, University of Benin.  The Governor describes the appointment as well deserved. He states that the wealth of experience of the Paramount Ruler of the Tiv nation as former Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Makurdi and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Dutsin-Ma in Katsina State, will immensely benefit the University of Benin.  He appreciates President Buhari for the appointment of the Tor Tiv and expresses the hope that more Benue sons and daughters will be given key appointments at the federal level.  Governor Ortom wishes His Royal Majesty, Professor Ayatse a successful tenure as the University Chancellor and prays God to bless him with good health and wisdom.  Terver Akase 

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya has commiserated with troops who were involved in a road traffic accident on Thursday 8 July 2021, at Garin Kuturu, along Maiduguri- Damaturu road, while responding to a  distress call.  Sadly, one of the Gun trucks conveying the troops skidded off the road and rammed into a road shoulder, causing the vehicle to somersault. Nine personnel who sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident have been evacuated and are currently receiving medical attention in a military medical facility.  No fatality was recorded in the accident.  Gen Yahaya lauded the troops for their swift response and urged them to be more circumspect during emergency operational responses. ONYEMA NWACHUKWU  Brigadier General  Director Army Public Relations 9 July 2021

                       9th July 2021 The coalition of Nasarawa State Health Professional Associations (CNSHPA) has suspended its one-month-old strike. Spokesperson of CNSHPA, Mr Kyari Caleb, made this known while briefing newsmen on Friday in Lafia. Caleb, who is also the state Chairman of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), explained that the suspension of the strike followed interventions by major stakeholders in the state. He added that the agreement to suspend the strike was reached on Friday (today) at the congress of the coalition, following appeals by the Traditional Council of Chiefs in Nasarawa state, led by its Chairman and Emir of Lafia, Sidi Bage. Caleb, therefore, directed members to resume work immediately to allow well-meaning individuals to continue to meditate on grey areas. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the state chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr Emmanuel Sabo, has distanced his association from the agreement signed be

  POLICE PRESS RELEASE, LAGOS STATE COMMAND, DATED 8TH JULY, 2021 AIYE CONFRATERNITY 7/7 CELEBRATION: LAGOS POLICE ARREST 4, RECOVER WEAPONS AS POLICE GO TOUGH ON SUSPECTED CULTISTS In furtherance of the command's repeated warnings against the Neo Black Movement of Africa, aka Black Axe 7/7 annual celebration, slated for 7th July, 2021, the police operatives attached to Area "J", Ajah and Ogombo Division of the Lagos arrested 4 suspected members of Aiye Confraternity on 7th July, 2021. The operatives attached to Area J, Ajah, while on routine Stop and Search, arrested two suspected cultists: Michael Abejoye, m, 23, and Olalekan Quasim, m, 43 at Eleko Junction, Ajah Area at 1.30pm, with the regalia of Aiye Confraternity. Similarly, the police operatives attached to Ogombo Division, arrested two (2) suspected Aiye Confraternity members one Andoh Emmanuel Kolawole, m, 25 and Oluwasegun Destiny, m, 28, on 8th July, 202, at 6.30am, in Ogombo Area of Lagos State. Items recovere

  According to Vulture, DMX officially died from a cocaine-induced heart attack that caused a lack of blood circulation to his brain. “It was cardiac arrest for a period of time, so there was no circulation to the brain,” a source from the Westchester County medical examiner’s office told Vulture. The lethal series of events was caused by acute cocaine intoxication, the source added. The publication reported that an analysis of Simmons’s urine showed the presence of cocaine. The source explained to Vulture that although DMX’s heart was revived at one point and there was a pulse, his brain was already dead. “His death literally happened immediately because the brain was dead,” the source added. “So obviously, there were a number of days where he was on ventilatory support and so forth in the hospital,” the source said. “However, he was diagnosed brain-dead early on … He never woke up from [a] coma.” Born Earl Simmons, the rapper reigned over the late 1990s and early 2000s and was among

Oba Erinwole Road: Abiodun orders contractor to complete project in two weeks Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has given the contractor handling the reconstruction of the Oba Erinwole Road in Sagamu, two weeks to complete the project. Abiodun who gave the order on Thursday while inspecting the level of work on the four-kilometre road, expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pace of work, and urged the State Commissioner for Works, Ade Akinsanya to ensure the job was completed in the next two weeks. "I am not impressed with the speed of work on this road. I have directed that the job most be delivered in the next two weeks. The caves must be rehabilitated, streetlight replaced and the road margin fixed", he said. He explained that the initial contract was to repair the failed section which was the lowest part of the road, adding that the need to repair the entire stretch of the road from the Sagamu-Benin Expressway to Ikorodu Junction, was to ensure that the road was complet

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE FG TO STRENGTHEN TIES WITH BELARUS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH The Federal Government affirmed its commitment to strengthen its bilateral ties with the Republic of Belarus in order to diversify its economy. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, made the disclosure when the Ambassador of Belarus Vyacheslav BRIL paid him a courtesy visit in his office. The SGF noted that Nigeria’s long existing ties with Belarus in the area of trading has not improved and requested the Ambassador to explore means of improving trade relations so as to boost its volume of trade. “To assure you that slowly but steadily, we will continue to build on this very strong relationship that we believe will be mutually beneficial to Nigeria is a trading partner with Belarus. But we hope to see improvements in the same as the volume of trade between the two countries have not really increase in the dimension that we want to s

 Nigeria Proposes 1-Year For Artefacts' Full Return The Federal Government has proposed a one-year time limit for the full return of its artefacts from Germany, which has agreed to repatriate hundreds of antiquities which were looted from the Bini Kingdom in 1897. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the proposal during a round-table with German Museum Directors and government officials in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday. The Minister, who is leading a Nigerian government delegation for high-level talks with German government officials on the repatriation of the artefacts, said the agreement for the repatriation of the Benin Bronzes from Germany must be signed by December 2021, ''For us, the most important issue in the road map is the signing of the agreement and the date of return. We won't move forward if we don't have a clear date on signing and return,'' he told participants at the round-table. ''Full return should be c

The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a medical practitioner:   Dr. Eze Ekwealor before Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,  for suspected  employment scam to the tune of N2,180,000(  Two Million,  One Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira only).  He was arraigned  on Monday,  July 5,  2021 on  eight-count  charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and forgery contrary to Section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act. 2006 and punishable under Section (1) (3) of the same Act. One of the charges read: "That you  Dr. Eze Ekwealor on or about the 30th day of August, 2019 at Port Harcourt, Rivers State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud commit a felony to wit: obtained the sum of N500,000.00 from one Okoye Chinyere Evelyn through your bank account no: 2083960420 domiciled with Zenith bank Plc u

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, July 8, 2021 sentenced Giwa Nurudeen, a 25-year-old final year student of the University of Ilorin, to three years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on internet scam.  He was arraigned today by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a three-count charge of internet fraud. Giwa, a native of Ibadan, ran into problem on May 4, 2021 when operatives of the EFCC received credible intelligence about the activities of some suspected internet fraudsters operating around Tanke Area of Ilorin, an action which led to his arrest. Count 2 of the charge reads: “That you, Giwa Nurudeen, sometime between the month of January, 2020 and December, 2020 at Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did knowingly had under your control the sum of N30, 317, 697.00 (Thirty Million, Three Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Six Hundred a

Below is the APC Membership Register for Ward 4, Aniocha North (Lauretta Onochie's Ward and LG)  Lauretta Onochie's name is number 2 on the register   Note! This is APC Membership Register used during the Recently concluded APC Membership Registration . PRESS RELEASE. July 8, 2021 Press Statement PDP To Onochie: Stop This Denial, You Are A Member of APC The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has derided All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart and President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie, for denying her life in a desperation to be appointed as a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Nigerians were amused to watch Lauretta Onochie, a nationally known APC front runner, as she spewed falsehood before the Senator Kabiru Gaya-led Senate Committee on INEC in denial of her membership of the APC. With her lies, Lauretta Onochie, a die in the wool APC member, whose name appears as number 2 on the ward 4 register of the APC in Aniocha Loca

…Urges Council Boss To Deliver For APC In July 24 LG Polls …I’ll Continue Where My Predecessor Stopped, Says New Chairman Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has sworn-in Hon. Biliaminu Samson Agunbiade as the new Executive Chairman of Eti-Osa East Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in the State. Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony of Agunbiade held at the Lagos House, Ikeja on Thursday, Governor Sanwo-Olu urged the new chairman to ensure a successful end of the tenure of his predecessor. He also charged him to work with the leadership of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) at state and local government levels to secure total victory for the party in the July 24 council elections. Agunbiade, a former Vice Chairman of Eti-Osa East LCDA became the new council boss following the demise of the immediate past Chairman, Hon. Olufunmi Olatunji, who died on Monday June 21. Governor Sanwo-Olu while stressing the need for continuity of good governance in Eti-Osa Ea

 LASBCA CONFIRMS PARTIAL BUILDING COLLAPSE IN LAGOS  The Lagos State Building Control Agency has confirmed that a three-storey building located at 19, Church Street, off Adeniji Adele Street on Lagos Island, partially collapsed on Wednesday.  According to the General Manager of the Agency, Arc. Gbolahan Oki, the preliminary investigation into the cause of the collapse, which occurred late in the night while residents were asleep, indicated the structural failure of a part of the beam carrying a water tank used by the occupants. While commiserating with families of affected victims, Arc. Oki appealed to Lagosians to always report cases of distressed buildings around them, noting that this will help stem the tide of needless loss of lives and property caused by building collapse. Speaking further, the General Manager said the Agency has taken several steps to address issues of collapse in recent times, including massive stakeholders’ engagement and enlightenment with building developers,

Mr. Philip Okafor, a 200-level student of Microbiology of University of Benin, Edo State, has received Dean's Special Prize for Exemplary Behaviour for returning a missing wallet belonging to another student containing a substantial amount of money, at a time he had no money to pay for his school fees. Jerry Orhue wrote on Facebook; "An Angel in the Midst of Men Meet Mr. Philip Okafor, a 200 level student of Microbiology and recipient of the Dean’s Special Prize for Exemplary Behaviour. Mr. Philip Okafor found a wallet belonging to another student and containing a substantial amount of money. He looked everywhere until he finally found the owner, (name withheld) another 200 level student of Environmental Management and Toxicology. This good deed was brought to the attention of the Dean who thanked Mr. Okafor for his exemplary behaviour and offered him unfettered access to the Dean’s Office should there be any need for him to come. Two months or so down the line, Mr. Okafor wal

  Kim Kardashian announced on social media that the beauty line that helped her to become a billionaire will be shut down as of 01 August. Fans are speculating that she's dropping the 'W'  from the brand name amid her divorce from Kanye West. July 6, Kim Kardashian announced that her KKW Beauty empire is temporarily shutting down, in preparation for a complete rebrand.  According to a statement from Kim Kardashian on Instagram, KKW Beauty will close down August 1 at midnight, with the site’s entire stock of products going on sale before then. In the post, the reality TV star and beauty tycoon explains that the company will “come back to you under an entirely new brand with new formulas that are more modern, innovative, and packaged under a sustainable new look.”  “I’m excited to continue to develop and expand my product range and for you to finally be able to experience it the way that I have always envisioned,” continued Kardashian.  While the reasoning behind the rebrand