Alhaji Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN has told us FoI does not apply in his headquarters of the Thief'nuibu CABAL =>
$90m loan spending: FOI Act not applicable to Lagos •Fashola tells court
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos that he intended to file a preliminary objection challenging the suit by a civil society group, seeking to compel him to release information relating to how government spent the $90 million loan obtained for improving public schools in the state.
The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ade Ipaye, at the resumed hearing in the matter before Justice Saliu Saidu, hinted of the government’s intention to challenge the suit, in addition to a counter-affidavit he earlier filed in opposition to the suit.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) instituted the suit against Fashola and Ipaye, and prayed the court to compel the governor to disclose how the loan allegedly obtained from the World Bank for education in the state was spent.
SERAP had argued that it resorted to suing the governor and the Attorney-General after the government refused to honour its letter dated December 1, 2013, requesting for the information brought in pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2011.
But Ipaye had, in a counter-affidavit, opposed the suit, arguing that the FoI Act was not applicable to Lagos State, because the law was a federal legislation.
STOP spreading rumours and hypocritical lies as if you are daft & dumb like the old pensioner who is begging to APPLY for our nation's top job. I hope that is not your case
APC Rep Quizzed Over Death Of Two After Campaign Rally
A member of the House of Representatives, Olusegun Williams, had been quizzed by the Ogun State Police Command over the death of two residents of Erunbe, Ago Oko, Abeokuta, who were allegedly shot by the lawmaker’s police aides during his re-election campaign rally in the state capital on Wednesday.
The two victims, Mrs Taiwo Ganiyu and one Azeez, popularly known as Butter, died from gunshots allegedly fired by the police escort of the lawmaker.
Williams,who represents Abeokuta South Federal Constituency, is seeking re-election to the House.
Our correspondent gathered that he was quizzed at the police headquarters, Eleweran, for 11 hours, having arrived at 10am and left around 9pm on Thursday.
Pressure from the relatives of the deceased was said to have necessitated the lawmaker’s invitation by the police.
Williams has, however, denied that his police escort was responsible for the shooting, alleging that the killing was the handiwork of some fifth columnists.
He said he had left the venue of the campaign before some hoodlums invaded the area, explaining that he later learnt that some people had been shot, and they later died in the hospital.
He said, “After we finished our meeting with party leaders, the very important personalities left under heavy security.
“It was later around 6.30pm that I heard that two people were shot, and that they later died. I will reiterate that my security escort was not responsible for the shooting.”
The families of the victims had however failed to accept reports that they were shot by hoodlums.
They insisted that the police should carry out an autopsy on the corpses.
State Chairman of the Committee for the Defence Human Rights, Folarin Olayinka, had indicated the interest of the group in the case.
He said, “We are waiting for the report of the autopsy. We learnt it will be out on Tuesday. We have vowed to get justice for the families of the deceased.”
rozayx5: hypocrites, common FOI they cant apply to their fund raising
You sef too dey like find trouble.
Alhaji Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN has told us FoI does not apply in his headquarters of the Thief'nuibu CABAL =>
$90m loan spending: FOI Act not applicable to Lagos •Fashola tells court
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos that he intended to file a preliminary objection challenging the suit by a civil society group, seeking to compel him to release information relating to how government spent the $90 million loan obtained for improving public schools in the state.
The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ade Ipaye, at the resumed hearing in the matter before Justice Saliu Saidu, hinted of the government’s intention to challenge the suit, in addition to a counter-affidavit he earlier filed in opposition to the suit.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) instituted the suit against Fashola and Ipaye, and prayed the court to compel the governor to disclose how the loan allegedly obtained from the World Bank for education in the state was spent.
SERAP had argued that it resorted to suing the governor and the Attorney-General after the government refused to honour its letter dated December 1, 2013, requesting for the information brought in pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2011.
But Ipaye had, in a counter-affidavit, opposed the suit, arguing that the FoI Act was not applicable to Lagos State, because the law was a federal legislation.
Jobless youth killed while struggling for campaign money
A 25-year-old man, Kingsley Ughala, has been shot dead while struggling to share the money dashed out by a politician after a rally of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State.
The incident happened on Friday afternoon in the Gbagada area of the state.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Kingsley had followed the APC to a rally and returned with some group of boys who later besieged the campaign office of the APC governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, for “settlement.”
Our correspondent was told that after money was given out to the men, trouble started when a particular group wanted to pocket the largesse.
In the ensuing scuffle, the Imo State indigene was shot dead.
His corpse was said to have been deposited at the Gbagada General Hospital mortuary.
It was learnt that the police, had however arrested a suspect, Abayomi Ayeni.
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Maiduguri, accused Borno State Elders of playing to the gallary over the activities of Boko Haram Islamic sect insurgency in the state, describing the situation as unfortunate.
Jonathan spoke during an interactive session with Borno State stakeholders at the Multi-Purpose Hall, Government House Maiduguri, in continuation of his two- day working visit to Borno and Yobe States, the epicentres of Boko Haram.
He was responding to requests by the Elders for the Federal Government to grant amnesty to the sect members as well as withdraw the military Joint Task Force, JTF from Maiduguri and other areas in the state during the second day of his working visit to Borno State..
President Jonathan lamented that none of the elders in the state had publicly condemned the killings and bombings being carried out by the sect members and advised them to put their ‘’house in order,’’ by talking to their children who had been causing havoc in the country to drop their arms against the country.
Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram JUNE 3, 2013
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.
I’ll meet other generals to draft anti-terror plan – Buhari
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday said that though Nigeria is a rich nation, its people are extremely poor due to bad governance.
He also promised to involve serving and retired military generals to devise an effective strategy to crush insurgency in the country, if elected as President in 2015.
This daft & dumb old pensioner can only fool his blind Bartimaeus followers with this FRAUDULENT talk.
Did he not say he will consult army generals on what to do
I’ll meet other generals to draft anti-terror plan – Buhari
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday said that though Nigeria is a rich nation, its people are extremely poor due to bad governance.
He also promised to involve serving and retired military generals to devise an effective strategy to crush insurgency in the country, if elected as President in 2015.
Did he not say the army should STOP fighting Boko Haram because they are killing northerners and burning their houses
Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.
When will we also read the interview of the northern yam FARMERS who donated 5,000,000 tubers sold @ N1,000 each to raise N5 billion for Buhari's APCheat on Sunday 04 January 2015
That must be the money the old pensioner has been using for private jets, double decker buses, hire musicians, pay rally crowds, buy brooms etc. Apart from the billions of Rivers state people's money that their Donatus General Amaechi is spending for the campaign.
papaejima1: GOOD NEWS: Nigeria Gets New Buyer For Its Crude Oil
Reports just coming in inform that China has stepped forward to buy more oil from Nigerian Federal Government. Making this cheery announcement on Thursday was China’s Deputy Chief of Mission in Nigeria, Mr. Zhang Bin. According to the diplomat, the Chinese government is looking forward to importing more of Nigeria’s oil following the loss of America’s market.
Zhang disclosed that China was interested in Nigeria’s oil and that when President Goodluck Jonathan visited China in 2013, the country discussed the possibility of importing more oil from Nigeria. “And I think we are working on this and we hope that the Nigerian side would allow us to import more. “Actually what we are looking at is improved economic cooperation between the two countries, we are the third largest trade partner with Nigeria”, he said.
Zhang also informed that the trade volume between Nigeria and China in 2014 exceeded $16 billion, but his country was looking at possibilities of improving balancing of trade with Nigeria. He said the figure exceeded that of 2013, which he put at $13.5 billion. oil “In 2013, the trade volume between Nigeria and China was $13.5 billion and then according to our statistics, from January to November 2014, the trade volume already amounted to $16.47 billion. “So that means that in the first 11 months, the trade volume exceeded that of the year 2013, which indicates an increase of 35 per cent over the previous year. “We do have this problem of trade imbalance and the Chinese side is going all out to solve it. “One of the solutions is that we encourage more Chinese enterprises and companies to import more from Nigeria, especially agriculture products and also some of the manufactured products,” he said.
The envoy explained that a few years ago, China started importing cassava and some agriculture products like cocoa and palm oil from Nigeria. Zhang said due to the joint efforts of both sides, imports into China from Nigeria had increased by a large margin last year. According to him, in the first 11 months, there was an increase of 93.7 per cent in China’s imports from Nigeria, adding that the import percentage was almost doubled.
The Chinese official said his country encourages its companies in Nigeria to invest in telecommunications, agriculture, automobile assembling, food processing, energy, mines and solid minerals. Zhang said China’s competitive telecommunication companies like Huawei and ZTE currently supply the Nigeria’s network operators with terminals and broadbands. He revealed that the business volume of just one Chinese telecommunication company in Nigeria for a year was huge, putting it at about $1 billion.
OPEC PRODUCTION LEVEL According to him, China and Nigeria were also working on other projects like the rehabilitation projects for the Nigerian Railway Corporation and the Zungeru hydropower project in Niger State. It would be recalled that since the slump in the price of crude oil in the global market coupled with the reduction of amount of crude oil exported to the United State, the amount of revenues Nigeria generates from crude oil has reduced significantly. A situation that had led to the devaluation of the Naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The CBN officials explained that the move to lower the value of the naira against the dollar was aimed at strengthening the currency in the course of the dwindling oil price.
CBN governor Godwin Emefiele also urged the government to speed up the process towards the immediate passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) pending passage for the past two years.
Mogidi: APC Rep Quizzed Over Death Of Two After Campaign Rally
A member of the House of Representatives, Olusegun Williams, had been quizzed by the Ogun State Police Command over the death of two residents of Erunbe, Ago Oko, Abeokuta, who were allegedly shot by the lawmaker’s police aides during his re-election campaign rally in the state capital on Wednesday.
The two victims, Mrs Taiwo Ganiyu and one Azeez, popularly known as Butter, died from gunshots allegedly fired by the police escort of the lawmaker.
Williams,who represents Abeokuta South Federal Constituency, is seeking re-election to the House.
Our correspondent gathered that he was quizzed at the police headquarters, Eleweran, for 11 hours, having arrived at 10am and left around 9pm on Thursday.
Pressure from the relatives of the deceased was said to have necessitated the lawmaker’s invitation by the police.
Williams has, however, denied that his police escort was responsible for the shooting, alleging that the killing was the handiwork of some fifth columnists.
He said he had left the venue of the campaign before some hoodlums invaded the area, explaining that he later learnt that some people had been shot, and they later died in the hospital.
He said, “After we finished our meeting with party leaders, the very important personalities left under heavy security.
“It was later around 6.30pm that I heard that two people were shot, and that they later died. I will reiterate that my security escort was not responsible for the shooting.”
The families of the victims had however failed to accept reports that they were shot by hoodlums.
They insisted that the police should carry out an autopsy on the corpses.
State Chairman of the Committee for the Defence Human Rights, Folarin Olayinka, had indicated the interest of the group in the case.
He said, “We are waiting for the report of the autopsy. We learnt it will be out on Tuesday. We have vowed to get justice for the families of the deceased.”
2undexy: "Jonathan and Sambo have been doin it steadinly". Since when? 6 years ago, and hardly can u pinpoint one success story of an economy sector done successfully. Zero infrastructure, our electricity is depreciating, crude oil has now turned to "no buy commodities", everything has disintegrated.
Bro, better wake up from your slumber and lets move forward. And the only option is to vote Buhari.
2undexy: It is very necessary ma guy...we need money 2 buy recharge card, and we need recharge card to browse the internet...but, alas!! The two is bein shared free of charge.
But, if u wanna hav this kind of awoof frequently, u hav to vote in the Change Party.
Vote feBUHARI.
Thank you for confirming the utter cluelessness of the APCheat leaders and their followers.
Who will PRODUCE the money that will be used to do the awoof?
Niger Delta oil revenue abi, nor be so That we BLACK people cannot explore, exploit or refine?
No wonder the perpetually unelectable old pensioner promised to make us area boys and almajiris by dashing us N5,000 to 25 million unemployed that is N1.5 trillion i.e. 1/3rd of our 2014 budget
The daft & dumb old soldier has no clue about providing infrastructure, utilities and facilities coupled with sound economic policies to attract private investors to our farms & factories thus creating EMPLOYMENT so we can earn a living in DIGNITY. This is what the scientific duo of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and Arch. Namadi Sambo have been doing steadily and now recognised by eve the international community
odk1: During the Cambridge exam years mathematics was not a compulsory subject. if you know someone that schooled during that period you can confirm. As it affects the military then I'm not sure. But I guess it should not matter cos you don't even have to sit for the subject.
Absurd rationalisation filled with LIES as usual from the house of APCheat.
aresa: Btw, JonaSATAN never pay the FG's portion of the Lekki deep sea port hence sabotaging the project per Fashola in the video...
Awon oloshi enemy of progress...
That should be a title reserved for the perpetually unelectable presidential candidate who CANCELLED Lagos metro and threw the initiator, Jakande in jail
austinvsb1: Ambode is the only option for lagos abeg. Can't even afford to tamper with the developmental trend in lasgidi. Especially that eko Atlantic project! Light rail nko. Enemies of progress of lagos are the ones clamouring for jimi agbaje. Imagine groups saying 'end to lasaa, lawma'. How dumb can they be?? They even want okadas back on major roads. Lubbish! AMBO, ATIDE!
reborn1: Lmaooo. See as den open Jimi yansh. His popular name is Jimi The Chemist. The guy is truly kidding, no wonder he keep changing party like menstrual pad. barawo
You must be talking about your old pensioner of a perpetually unelectable presidential candidate, Buhari.
- ANPP 2003 with his in-law, Modu Sheriff - APP 2007 with Modu Sheriff - CPC 2011 with Abacha pikin - APCheat 2015 with Thief'nuibu CABAL
Politics › Re: You Can Ban The Press If They Will Embarrass A Public Officer - Buhari by anonimi: 10:21am On Feb 01, 2015
