Apapa traffic: Lagos Govt sets up Mobile Court to try traffic offenders

 FOLLOWING a 72-hour directive issued by the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo last Friday, in Lagos to restore order in Apapa and its environs, the Lagos State Government has resolved to set up a Mobile Court within the axis to summarily deal with recalcitrant drivers of articulated vehicles. Apapa gridlock This came as the Joint Task Force set up by the government has evacuated no fewer than 2000 petroleum tankers and containers to holding bays. Also, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday, extended the operation of the Task Force by another 48 hours, even as he said he will convene a meeting involving all the stakeholders in Alausa, Ikeja, today,  with the aim of finding a lasting solution to the gridlock. Mobile Court The State Government said members of the state

I didn’t discuss NYSC exemption certificate scandal with Adeosun – Pastor Bakare

The Founder and Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has given further insight into his encounter with the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, at the Presidential Villa recently.

The vice presidential candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 presidential election, said meeting Adeosun in the Villa was totally unplanned.

Bakare who spoke with Daily Sun in Abuja however said he did not discuss with the London-trained economist the controversy trailing her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate.

IPOB faults Malami over comments on FG’s refusal to release, Dasuki, El.Zakzaki

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has condemned the statement credited to Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, AGF,  Alhaji Abubakar Mallami, SAN over the refusal of the federal government to obey multiple court orders to release both Sheikh El-Zakzaki and former National Security Adviser, NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki from extra judicial detention. In  a statement signed by spokesman, Emma Powerful, IPOB stated:

I have Solution to End Herdsmen Killings in Nigeria- Moghalu

Presidential aspirant, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has promised to put an end to attacks by cattle herders and other insecurities in the country if he wins the 2019 presidential election.
The struggle for access and control of lands over which roaming herdsmen graze their cattle has led to conflict with local farmers all over the country, resulting in the death of hundreds just this year alone with herders credited with a majority of unprovoked attacks.

Atiku, Catholic bishops, Afenifere, Ohanaeze fault Buhari’s vow to deal with killer-herdsmen

President Muhammadu Buhari Democracy Day speech has sparked outrage in the polity as Catholic Bishop Council of Nigeria, CBCN; former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, yesterday faulted his vow to deal with herdsmen. The President had in his nationwide broadcast, yesterday, to commemorate Democracy Day and his administration’s third anniversary, said those behind the killings in the country and their sponsors would not be spared in Federal Government’s determination to punish criminals. President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the guests during the Democracy Day Lecture held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja However, while the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, described the President’s statement as vague and evasive, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar,

Vote-buying has no impact on the outcome of Ekiti election — NHRC

In this statement on the Ekiti State election of July 14, the Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) says vote-buying has no impact on the outcome. The statement was signed by Dr. Taiwo Adeleye and Comrade Sola Ajayi, among others. We have read so many reports, many of them accurate but there have also been inaccurate reports released to score cheap political gains. We monitored the election. Many of us here were in Ekiti as monitors. We were in Ekiti two weeks before the election, gathering information and monitoring pre-election activities. It was easy for many of us to predict the outcome of the election even before INEC released the results on Sunday

I didn’t want to see a ball: Neymar recounts World Cup agony

World’s most expensive footballer, Neymar Jr. has for the first time narrated his agony over the disappointment suffered by Brazil in the Russia FIFA World Cup, which ended on 15 July. The PSG player told AFP in an interview that after Brazil’s quarter-final beating by Belgium, he “didn’t want to see a ball or to see any more football. I wanted to disconnect a bit from everything”. Brazil’s forward Neymar reacts to their defeat at the end of the Russia 2018 World Cup quarter-final football match between Brazil and Belgium at the Kazan Arena in Kazan on July 6, 2018.

We already have state police and nobody should deny that —Fashola

Let’s start with the announcement that maintenance work on the Third Mainland Bridge will take 27 months during which the bridge will be shut to traffic. Is the bridge really going to be shut down for 27 months? No. And let me quickly tell you how important it is to get as accurate as possible when information is put out there. I know that, of course, the traditional media continues to compete with millions of publishers who can now publish by phone. But what comes out from the traditional media must be reliable and accurate. The statement that we put out was that we were closing it for the first three days, I believe, from the 27th of July or thereabouts. We had tried to do it before but we thought that if we allowed children to go on vacation, it would reduce the number of vehicles that needed

2019: I don’t foresee light at the end of the tunnel — Balarabe

Alhaji Balarabe Musa is a former governor of old Kaduna State. The veteran politician of leftist tendency, in this interview, bares his mind on the state of the nation. How do you see the spate of killings in some parts of Nigeria?  The latest killing in Sokoto proves that it’s a nationwide problem. It is not a regional problem, neither is it the product of Boko Haram insurgency or herdsmen or ethnic, religious – based cleansing. Every reasonable person should know that we have aspects of insecurity in every part of Nigeria. The killing is done in such a sophisticated manner that you cannot trace it to an aggrieved community or group of people. It is well planned, articulated and executed. So what is to be done? The killings continue while the Federal Government insists it is doing its best to arrest the situation. Certainly we cannot allow it to continue. But, unfortunately, it will continue because we have a weak government at the centre. In other words, the Federal Government and the

Jude, Monday, Faith: Stolen in Ondo, sold for N2.7m Delta

Couple on the run after stealing two other kids By Dayo Johnson, Regional, Editor, South West. WITHIN three days, Nkiru Victoria, 45, made a profit of N900, 000 for selling three siblings in Ile-Oluji area of Ondo State. She had allegedly bought the kids for N600, 000 each and resold each for N900, 000. The children spent about four months in three different homes they were sold to in Asaba, Delta State capital before they were recovered. One Esther, who had allegedly kidnapped and sold the three children earlier, had packed into No 12 Ayeyemi Street, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State as a tenant. Six days after, she was said to have stolen the children of same parents: Jude Stephen, four years; Monday Stephen, two years and Faith Stephen, 10 years. She faked church vigil to the eldest sister of the victims as their parents were away in the farm on the ill-fated day. After she had successfully stolen the siblings, she allegedly sold them to Augustine Anyanwu who, in turn, sold them to Nkiru. Nkiru, now in the custody of the police in Ondo State, admitted to have bought the children from