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President Muhammadu Buhari looks sporty as he steps out for the 12th Nigerian Navy Games in Lagos.

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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is visiting Lagos on Thursday to inaugurate the 12th Nigerian Navy Games as well as its new Sports Complex.

It read, “President @MBuhari visiting Lagos today, to flag-off the 12th Nigerian Navy Games, and commission the Navy’s new Sports Complex, in Navy Town, Ojo.

Buhari is expected back in Abuja on the same day.

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The Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has described the continued importation of petroleum products into Nigeria, despite the country’s being one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world, as shameful.

Obaseki said this on Sunday in Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State, at the 10-year remembrance service of Chief Jeremiah Ighodalo, father of the Chairman of Sterling Bank Plc, Dr. Asue Ighodalo.

He said “The continuous importation of fuel into the nation is a patriotic shame to Nigeria.

“As one of the largest producers of crude oil in the African continent, Nigeria has no business importing fuel into the country. It’s a shame we are still importing fuel”

As a nation, we should not be importing fuel at this point in our life. It’s a patriotic shame borrowing from the words of Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adiche,” he said.

Also speaking, the President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, while speaking on his refinery, said the plant will hopefully begin operation and supply of products in 2023.

He explained that the refinery can provide petroleum products for the whole of Nigeria and some parts of West and Central Africa hopefully by 2023.

He said he is hopeful that the refinery will address the importation of fuel once it commences operation.

It’s shameful Nigeria still imports fuel, says Obaseki
… Dangote assures refinery to be ready next year pic.twitter.com/Vcg8OEoYER

— H. E. Godwin Obaseki (@GovernorObaseki) September 6, 2022

Sowore arrives Lagos three years after DSS arrest, vows to jail Buhari for 'killling Nigerians

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The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress and Convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Mr Omoyele Sowore, has arrived in Lagos State today to attend the 13th Memorial Lecture of late human rights lawyer and activist, Gani Fawehinmi, as a guest speaker.

Sowore was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Service at midnight on August 3, 2019, for convening the #RevolutionNow protest slated for August 5 of the same year. He was later charged for treasonable felony among others and was released on December 24, 2019.

Sowore was thereafter put under city arrest, and was not allowed to leave the Federal Capital Territory until a Court of Appeal in Abuja lifted the movement restriction within the country on April 13, this year.

He is, however, still restricted by a court order from traveling out of the country, as his passport was seized.

The human rights activist arrived Lagos today to speak at the 13th memorial to the celebrated lawyer and activist, Fawehinmi, who died September 5, 2009. The event holds in the Ikeja area of Lagos today.

Chief Fawehinmi, who was until his death a Nigerian author, publisher, social critic and politician is fondly remembered for his activism and defence of the common man in court pro bono.

Fawehinmi became a SAN in September 2001, and was awarded the Senior Advocate of Masses in Obafemi Awolowo University in 1988, among other international awards.
In the course of his activism, Fawehinmi was arrested and jailed serval times by successive governments under the military rule.

Others who would be at the Monday programme include the Chairman, Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran; the General Secretary of the Federation of Informal Workers Organisation of Nigeria, Gbenga Komolafe and others.

The programme divided into three lectures was  themed as follows: (1) A reflection of 23 years of electoral system and democracy in Nigeria; which way forward? (2) Fuel subsidy regime: Corruption in the oil industry and the way out. (3) Crisis in Nigeria educational system and indefinite strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.