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 LAGOS CELEBRATES WORLD SCHOOL GAMES YOUNG GOLF CHAMPIONS The Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC) has celebrated four young golfers who represented Nigeria at the World Schools Games Golf Championship in St. Andrews, Scotland, recognising their achievements and engaging parents and stakeholders on the next steps for youth golf development in the state. The Director-General of the Lagos State Sports Commission, Mr Lekan Fatodu, received the young golfers, drawn from schools in Lagos, at a reception held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere. The Nigerian contingent made its debut at the championship, held from September 14 to 16, 2026, competing against young golfers from different countries at the Home of Golf, St Andrews.  Toluwalashe Balogun of Lagoon Schools, Lekki, finished runner-up in the Junior Girls category, while Tiaraoluwa Ahmadu of St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi, secured a top-five finish. Oluwamayomile Orungbeja of St. Gregory’s College also finished among the top...

N500M 'LARGESSE': I RECEIVED N266M, SENATOR CONFESSES. (PHOTO).


 N500m ‘Largesse’: I Received N266m, Senator Confesses


Senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe, has said contrary to the claim that some ranking senators received N500 million from the 2024 budget, he had only received N266 million.


A federal lawmaker representing Cross River North, Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, had during plenary, on Tuesday, said that some senior senators had received N500 million each from the 2024 budget.




The revelation came on the heel of an ongoing controversy over an allegation of budget padding made by Senator Abdul Ningi in an interview with BBC Hausa.


Ningi had earlier accused the Senate of padding the 2024 budget, saying the National Assembly added an extra N3.7 trillion to the initial budget.


Reacting to the development, during a chat with ARISE TV, Senator Abaribe said Ningi knew it was a mistake claiming what he could not prove, because he was not a new member in the Senate.


Abaribe added that despite him, himself, being a senior senator, he had not received the N500 million alleged by Jarigbe.


He said, “Senator Ningi knew it was going to be a mistake. He knew. He’s a member of the Senate. He can’t say he didn’t know. He’s an old Senator. He has been in the Senate before. He knew that this wasn’t correct.


“I never got 500 million. I think Jarigbe tried to clarify his statement. He came back subsequently to say, ‘No, Ningi told me I was given’, because he didn’t get. He’s also a ranking Senator.


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“So, I think that at the end of the day, what you see really is that…well, I’m an APGA Senator–the only APGA Senator in the Senate. Maybe being a minority of the minority, they didn’t consider me worthy of being given. Nobody told me about that money.


“I wanted to say that, without equivocation, that both Jarigbe and the Senate leader tried to clarify this issue. Number one: nobody was given 500 million. Even a few of my colleagues called me to say, ‘Ahh you get 500 million we dey beg you for money but you no wan give us one naira out of it.’


“Can you imagine? So, of course I got 266 million for what’s called Zonal Intervention Fund which Nigerians call “constituency project” funds. And this thing takes a budget circle which is twelve months. So if at the end of twelve months you don’t see what’s in the budget for your constituency, then you hold your representatives whether in the Reps or Senate culpable.”

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