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A source has said Dr Wale Babalakin was bent on sacking UNILAG VC to pave way for his practise of awarding contracts to himself and his cronies.

The source who was close to the administration of the University of Lagos claimed Babalakin, who is the University Governing Council Chairman, and the embattled Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe fell apart after the latter rebuffed Babalakin’s several attempts to take over the headship of the University’s tenders board in breach of the law, TheConscienceNG reports.

Our correspondent gathers that relevant laws guiding the administration of the citadel of learning stipulates that the VC chairs the tenders board.

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“Whoever heads the Tenders Board wields enormous influence over procurement and awards of contracts in the University administration. This is why the Chairman wants the Vice Chancellor out to enable him have total control over contracts in UNILAG.

“Moreover, it is Dr Wale Babalakin’s practice at any institution he heads to take forceful leadership over the Tenders Board even when it contradicts the Law, ” the source told TheConscienceNG.

Meanwhile, the Senate of UNILAG has expressed support for the embattled Vice Chancellor, Professor Ogundipe and condemned his purported removal.




https://theconscienceng.com/home/unilag-why-babalakin-wanted-vc-out-desperately-source/

Fresh revelations emerging from the UNILAG crisis have exposed Dr Wale Babalakin, the ProChancellor of allegedly falsifying voting results.

From the analysis of the votes received by TheConscienceNG as claimed by the Pro-Chancellor to have sealed the fate of the embattled Vice Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, there are obvious discrepancies as six of the voters insisted they had voted in favour of the Vice Chancellor, leaving only 5 valid votes from the 11 votes declared by the Pro Chancellor.

As members of the governing council that voted at the emergency meeting began to speak up, it can be deduced that majority voted against the removal of the vice chancellor which led to the UNILAG crisis.

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https://theconscienceng.com/home/unilag-crisis-new-revelations-expose-babalakin-on-falsified-votes/

Senator Buruji Kashamu, popular politician and People’s Democratic Party’s chieftain has passed on at 62 following Covid-19 complications.

Buruji died on Saturday at the Lagos high brow hospital, First Cardiologists Consultants after battling the deadly coronavirus for weeks on life support machine.

https://theconscienceng.com/home/senator-buruji-kashamu-dies-of-covid-19-complications-at-62/

Going by the provision of sections 24 and 27 of the public procurement Act No 65 of 2007, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North senatorial district and chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs should have been arrested, charged and tried following the mammoth allegations of fraud, contract inflation violation of the public procurement Act, flagrant abuse of office and embezzlement of public funds to the tune of N3,483144,00 (Three billion, four hundred and eighty three million, one hundred and forty-four thousand naira meant for the procurement of plastic desks and chairs for primary and secondary schools in 9(Nine) oil producing states in Nigeria in the 2016 appropriation of the NDDC, TheConscienceNG reports.

The above monumental revelation was revealed against Senator Peter Nwaoboshi by Raymond Ebigoni Edgar. SA on Media to the Acting MD NDDC in a statement syndicated to this online newspaper on Friday, 7 August.

According to Edgar, “in all these allegations, it was learnt that the tenders Board of NDDC was never consulted before the award of the contracts to 15 different companies having links to senator Peter Nwaoboshi through proxies, friends and relations.”


https://theconscienceng.com/home/n3-4billion-fraud-in-nddc-senator-peter-nwaoboshi-in-alleged-fresh-procurement-scandal/

The #Lagos State government has announced the reopening of worship centres, including churches and mosques with effect from August 7.

This followed mixed reactions from the public over the continued lockdown of worship centres, as worshippers and religious leaders appear divided over the safety of lives at the centres as the novel coronavirus popularly known as covid-19 continues to hit hard in Nigeria and the world, with increasing infection rates and casualties.


https://theconscienceng.com/home/breaking-lagos-reopens-churches-mosques-worship-centres/

The Federal Government has announced the resumption of schools for secondary schools exiting classes only in the country on August 4.

The reopening of school announcement was made in a press release on Monday, July 27, 2020 from the Federal Ministry of Education, Office of the Director, Press and Public Relations Mr Ben BemGoong.

The press release which was posted on the Twitter stated that students WASSCE will be given two weeks to prepare for the exam which is to start on 17th of August, 2020.




https://theconscienceng.com/home/breaking-buhari-bows-to-pressure-announces-school-reopening-nigerian-students-to-sit-wassce/

The Edo State Government has condemned the attack on its guests, notably governors and other Very Important Persons (VIPs), on Saturday, at the Oba’s Palace in Benin City, prequel to the flag-off of Governor Godwin Obaseki’s campaign for re-election.

In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said the thugs were sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC), its candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu and the sacked National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who he said had in the past few days engaged thugs.

According to him, “We are appalled by the deployment of thugs to the sacred grounds of the Oba Palace by the APC, Ize-Iyamu and Oshiomhole with the sponsorship of a Benin billionaire to harass guests who are in the state for the flag-off of Governor Obaseki’s campaign and had visited the palace to pay obeisance to His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin.


https://theconscienceng.com/home/edo-govt-condemns-attacks-on-guests-at-obas-palace-fingers-apc-ize-iyamu-oshiomhole-for-sponsoring-thugs/

Despite the recent cracks in his team, Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the October 10 governorship election.

Akeredolu was declared the party’s flag bearer, having won the highest number of lawful votes at the party’s primary election held at the International Conference Centre, Akure on Monday.

Chairman of the governorship primary election committee who is also the Governor of Kogi State, Mr Yahaya Bello announced the results at the end of the exercise which lasted for several hours.


https://theconscienceng.com/home/breaking-akeredolu-emerges-apc-governorship-candidate-in-ondo/

To curb the rising wave of domestic violence, police brutality, rape and other gender-based violence in Nigeria, especially with the worrisome 717 rape cases recorded between January and May, 2020 during the Covid-19 induced lockdown, a contemporary film foundation and studio, Film For Impact Foundation has organized an Online Film Festival tagged ‘Raise A Voice Challenge 1.0’.

With a theme: ‘Break The Cycle’, the online festival was organised to inspire established and upcoming filmmakers and actors across the continent to lend their voices to social vices that have gone unresolved for long, and whose cycle needs to be broken.

With experts and resourceful personalities like, Dr. Kole Shittima, African Director, MacArthur Foundation, Ms. Osai Ojigho, Country Director, Amnesty International, Azuka Chinelo Agugua, Acting Head of Public Enlightenment (ICPC), Hamza Lawal, Chief Executive, Connected Development, Odey Friday, Country Director, Accountability Lab. Nigeria and CSP Francis Erhabor of the Nigeria Police Force, Dorothy Njemanze, Executive Director DN Foundation, all attending as special guests and speakers, the competition/award ceremony is set to highlight the key problems and also proffer solution and hope for victims.


https://theconscienceng.com/home/foundation-boosts-campaign-against-violence-with-raise-a-voice-challenge-1-0-film-competition/

The recent order given by President Muhammadu Buhari for a coordinated probe of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is unnerving the campaign of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 19 gubernatorial election.

Mr. Saturday Uwuilekhue, the former commissioner representing Edo State on the board of the NDDC, who is the conduit, is said to be on the run over the billions of naira he looted from the commission, some of which he has channeled to the APC candidate’s campaigns on the directives of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former national chairman of the APC.

Recall that Uwuilekhue had indicated interest to contest for the governorship ticket on the platform of the APC, but was asked to step down by Oshiomhole.

Uwuilekhue is reported to have diverted funds meant for NDDC projects in Edo State, when he served as commissioner, including the money approved for the construction of his street, Aifuwa, in Upper Sokponba area of Benin City, which has since been abandoned.



https://theconscienceng.com/home/confusion-buharis-ordered-probe-of-nddc-unsettles-ize-iyamus-campaign/

A 38 years years old man, Omeli Humphrey Darlington, has petitioned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, over alleged threat to his life, by some officials of First Bank Nigeria Plc, following a fraud case of N355 million, at the IBG section of the bank, in 2013.

The dispatch rider, who last worked at Iganmu-Lagos Office of Final-IBG, in a petition dated May 20, 2020, stated that because of the said fraud, which was allegedly carried out by one Jaiyesimi Abimbola, a senior staff of First Bank Nigeria Plc, the petition became necessary as he noticed that some powers from the bank to are attempting to terminate his life in order to cover up the alleged fraud.


https://theconscienceng.com/home/alleged-n355m-fraud-dispatch-rider-petitions-igp-over-alleged-threat-to-life-by-first-bank-officials/

The House of Representatives Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), on Wednesday, interrogated officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Auditor-General of the Federation over an alleged N82.5bn spent by the NNDC between January and May 2020.

The committee’s chairman, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo (APC, Ondo), said the documents submitted by both the CBN and the Auditor-General of the Federation showed that the total amount spent by the NDDC from January to May 2020 was N81.5 billion.

https://theconscienceng.com/home/shocking-cbn-documents-show-nddc-spent-n82b-on-condolences-in-five-months/

Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy to Governor Godwin Obaseki has revealed that the APC is evidently frustrated with promoting a candidate like Ize-Iyamu who shuttles between EFCC cell, the courts and campaign grounds.

Osagie said marketing a defective oroduct like Ize-Iyamu must have been frustrating and burdensome for the APC, as he is clearly the worst candidate that any party has presented for elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1999; No campaign manager has had the task of selling a candidate that shuttles between EFCC cell, the courts and campaign grounds, in our recent political history.

https://theconscienceng.com/home/osagie-apc-frustrated-promoting-ize-iyamu-who-shuttles-efcc-cell-courts-and-campaign-grounds/

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has expressed delight over the appointment of Prof. Stephen Okodudu, a seasoned administrator with proven competence in public service, as Ag. Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt.

In a statement, the party chief expressed a deep felicitation on the appointment, describing the new Ag. VC as an academic thoroughbred with a whopping mastery in strategic managerial skills necessary for the efficient running of the institution for better output.

"I am delighted to felicitate with you my brother and friend Prof. Stephen Okodudu, on your appointment, having risen through the ranks to the zenith of your illustrious career as Vice Chancellor (Ag.) of one of Nigeria's leading higher institutions, the University of Port Harcourt".

https://theconscienceng.com/home/eze-applauds-appointment-of-prof-okodudu-as-ag-vc-of-uniport/