Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has submitted a bill to the state house of assembly to revoke the payment of pension and entitlements to former governors. Jubril Gawat, the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant on New Media, made the disclosure on Tuesday via his official Twitter handle. “Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu has announced his intention, through executive bill, to repeal the public office holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension & other entitlements to former governors and their deputies,” Gawat wrote. More details soon.
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Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali’s former president, has died at the age of 72. A family member and a doctor confirmed the death of the ex-Malian leader on Tuesday. “Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey,” where he had been taken for health reasons, his nephew Oumar Toure told the news agency AFP. The former army general ruled for 10 years and was celebrated for enacting democratic reforms in the West African nation, before being ousted in a military coup in 2012. Toure came to power in 1991, when he led a coup against dictator…
Amid continued closure of Nigeria’s land borders, the Federal Government has granted Dangote Cement exclusive access to resume export of its product across the country. According to Bloomberg, Michel Puchercos, chief executive officer, said on an investor call in Lagos that President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration gave the authorization for Africa’s biggest producer to export cement to Niger and Togo in the third quarter for the first time in ten months. The export was made possible “through authorization given by this administration,” said Pucheros. The government had in August 2019 shut the land borders to check smuggling of arms into the…
The most exhilarating part of the US Presidential election 2020 is the fact that President Trump lost the election. It is what many observers thought would happen. They prayed for it. They wished it. In the end, that is what happened on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The major news networks called the election and announced Joe Biden as the President-elect of the United States. Whatever level of excitement that the election may have generated however, it was after all, an American election. It was one of the closest and most fiercely contested elections in American history. Over 160 million voters…
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has quit his position following expiration of the five-year tenure. Prof. Yakubu who was reappointed as INEC Chairman by President Muhammadu Buhari, handed over to AVM Ahmed Mu’azu (rtd), as Acting Chairman, on Monday. Mu’azu would take over affairs of the commission pending Prof. Yakubu’s confirmation by the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly. Speaking at the handing over ceremony, the immediate past INEC Chairman noted that it will be inappropriate for him to remain in office beyond today, 9th November 2020, without confirmation by the Senate and swearing…
Pfizer Inc has developed a COVID-19 vaccine found to be more than 90-percent effective. This is a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people and rendered economies. Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE are the first drugmakers to release successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine, Aljazeera reports. The companies said they have so far found no serious safety concerns and expect to seek US authorisation this month for emergency use of the vaccine for people aged 16 to 85. If authorised, the number of doses will…
The petroleum workers under the aegis Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have threatened to embark on another strike, raising fears of a possible return of fuel scarcity in the country. In a letter signed and released by Lumumba Okugbawa, PENGASSAN General Secretary, on Sunday, the workers were directed by the association to vacate their duty posts. The decision was taken by PENGASSAN to kick against the failure of the government to make any concrete move as regards the differences between the association and the government on matters bordering on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information…
Officers of the Nigerian Army have reportedly been killing and breaking into the homes of residents who were not connected with the attackers that killed six soldiers and stole their weapons, Sahara Reporters reports. An eyewitness, who spoke with Sahara Reporters, said one of the soldiers shot into the air before the Keke rider was driven off in his tricycle. “As I was in the market buying something, soldiers ran in. I don’t know what was pursuing them,” the eyewitness said. “They ran and hit a Keke; the Keke boy did not do anything. They just entered the Keke and…
The Presidency has assured that Nigeria will do all it can to ensure Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister, emerged as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, gave the assurance during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, on Sunday. Shehu stated that no stone will be left unturned by the government as Okonjo-Iweala moves to make history as first African to hold the position of DG of the trade organisation. “President Buhari has been talking to all world leaders, at some point, Ngozi had a…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel Of Inquiry set up to address the issue of police brutality has suspended sitting for one week after youths representatives pulled out of meeting in protest against freezing of accounts of some ENDSARS protesters by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Sahara Reporters reports the CBN had obtained a court order to freeze the bank account of Bolatito Rachael Oduala alongside 19 others over their role during the #ENDSARS protest. Oduala, who is also on the Lagos panel as a youth representative, withdrew from the panel sitting today in protest of the move by the CBN. Her…
No government is short of opposition. In a democracy, the residence of an animated opposition signals the buoyancy of the system. Where there is democracy, there is opposition. In fact, opposition is the mitochondria of a republican system – it keeps the government on the mill working according to purpose. Why is the Buhari administration after the only opposition platform of all citizens? Really, the principal task of the administration from its conception was dismantling instruments and institutions of check. The Buhari executive thwacked the judiciary and effectively broke its back when agents of the state attacked judges in their…
The judicial panel established by the Lagos State Government to investigate police brutality is currently playing closed-circuit TV footage from the October 20 Lekki shooting. The Cable reports the panel is saddled with the responsibility of investigating cases of brutality and human rights violations committed by operatives of the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS), among other cases of abuses. At its sitting in Lekki on Friday, the panel obtained footage of the incident from the Lekki Concession Company (LCC). Doris Okuwobi, the chairperson of the panel, granted approval for the footage to be played after hearing from counsels.