Landlords and residents of Agbado-Okearo in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State have begged Governor, Dapo Abiodun to stop an alleged attempt by the Lagos State Water Corporation to demolish over 400 houses in the area.
The Chairman of the Agbado-Okearo Community Development Association, Samson Abegunde, made the appeal in a statement on Sunday and urged Abiodun to prevail on his Lagos State counterpart, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to order the LSWC to stop further demolition of houses in the area.

Abegunde said houses numbering about 400 had been marked for demolition to pave the way for pipelines that the LSWC plans to lay in the area through to Lagos State.

According to him, most of the landlords have been living in the area since 1972 without any problem.

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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday pushed back against some of the conspiracy theories spreading online accusing him of creating the coronavirus outbreak.
“It’s a bad combination of pandemic and social media and people looking for a very simple explanation,” the Microsoft founder said during a CNN Town Hall interview.

Doctored photos and fabricated news articles crafted by conspiracy theorists – shared thousands of times on social media platforms and messaging apps, in various languages – targeting Gates have gained traction online since the start of the pandemic.

A video accusing Gates of wanting “to eliminate 15 percent of the population” through vaccination and electronic microchips has racked up millions of views on YouTube.

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Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight champion who retired in 2005, said Thursday he will make a comeback at age 54, fighting Roy Jones Jr. on September 12 in Los Angeles.
On his Legends Only League website, Tyson announced the bout against Jones, a 51-year-old fighter who briefly held the heavyweight title and has fought consistently into his 50s.

“It’s just going to be amazing,” Tyson said

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The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency alongside other response agencies have declared readiness for the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge for routine maintenance.
The bridge will be closed from Friday, July 24, 2020, to Sunday, July 24, 2021.

LASEMA spokesperson, Nosa Okunbor, disclosed this after a meeting with stakeholders including the Director-General, LASEMA, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu; the DG, Lagos State Safety Commission, Lanre Omojola; and the General Manager, Lagos State Waterways Authority, Oluwadamilola Emmanuel.

He stated that during the meeting, strategies were mapped out to deploy members of staff and equipment on land and water for the safety of the residents during the period of the partial closure of the bridge.

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The Federal Government has proposed N12.66tn as aggregate expenditure for the 2021 fiscal year on a deficit of N5.16tn.

It would be partly financed by a total loan package of N4.28tn while the rest would be from internally generated revenues.

The proposals were contained in the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper presented to the National Assembly by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday.

The proposal targets N481.41bn as statutory transfers, N5.75tn as recurrent expenditure, N3.33tn for capital expenditure and N3.12tn for debt servicing.

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it supported the decision of the Federal Government to stop Senior Secondary School 3 pupils from partaking in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination earlier scheduled to commence on August 4.
The union advised the government to shut down schools until 2021 to ensure adequate preparations, citing the case in some countries such as Kenya.

Our correspondents had reported on Saturday that the Federal Ministry of Education met with officials of the West African Examination Council in Abuja and resolved to announce a new date for the examination.

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, had also said the government would consult with the four other countries under WAEC to set a new date, while announcing COVID-19 mandatory guidelines for schools which must be kept before July 29.

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The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre has accused Russian spies of trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine being developed in laboratories in Oxford and America.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, security services have warned that Russian spies were targeting organisations trying to develop coronavirus vaccine in the UK, US and Canada,

The UK’s NCSC said the hackers “almost certainly” operated as “part of Russian intelligence services.”

The UK, US and Canadian agencies said the hackers had exploited software flaws to get access to vulnerable computer systems and had used malware called WellMess and WellMail to upload and download files from infected machines.

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Nine of the nation’s 27 power plants were idle on Thursday, leaving a total generation capacity of 2,079.1 megawatts stranded.
Total power generation in the country stood at 3,269.6MW as of 6am on Thursday, up from 3,074.6MW the previous day, according to the Nigerian Electricity System Operator.

The data obtained from the system operator showed that the idle plants included five of those built under the National Integrated Power Project, namely Alaoji, Olorunsogo II, Omotosho II, Ihovbor and Gbarain.

Other plants that did not produce any megawatt of electricity as of 6am on Thursday were Afam IV & V, Ibom Power, AES and ASCO.

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The 2022 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar will now take place instead in 2026, the IOC and hosts Senegal announced on Wednesday.
The four-year delay was forced by the global health crisis generated by coronavirus, and the holding back by a year of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and a slew of other major international sporting competitions.

“The postponement of Dakar 2022 allows the IOC, the National Olympic Committees and the International Federations to better plan their activities, which have been strongly affected by the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020,” read a joint statement issued by Olympic rulers the IOC and Senegal.

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The Senate on Wednesday, asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to direct the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity to set up a committee to review the age limits for job seekers in the country to allow competent applicants to be employed.
The resolution followed the consideration of a motion by Senator Ibrahim Gobir.

Gobir cited Orders 42 and 52 of the Senate Standing Rules, and noted that requirement of Ministries Departments and Agencies and other private bodies, which set age barriers, “inadvertently excludes and marginalises skilful and competent prospective applicants from participating in such exercises.”

He said, “Many individuals resort to falsifying their age all in a bid to fall within the required age limit for them to be gainfully employed.

“This development, where a person believes he is unemployable, can lead them to embracing criminal activities and further increase the growing crime rate and insecurity in the country.”

In his contribution, Senator Bala Na’Allah drew the attention of the upper chamber to the Federal Government’s embargo on employment over 13 years ago.

He said the embargo period must be factored into the review of age limits by the Ministry of Labour and Productivity for prospective job seekers in the country.

“I think in the review, that has to be taken into account, and therefore, the age limit can now be raised in addition to the established age. That should be the legal verdict for the review,” Na’Allah said.

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, condemned the discrimination against job seekers as a result of the barrier imposed by the prescribed age limit.

He said, “It is not through a fault of theirs that people are discriminated against. They’ll tell you only 30 years’ limit; meanwhile, someone graduated 10 years ago.”

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The House of Representatives has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to order a partial reopening of schools to allow pupils sit for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
The House made the call at the plenary on Tuesday following a unanimous adoption of a motion moved by a member, Nnolim Nnaji.

The Committee on Basic Education and Services had earlier on Friday faulted the decision by the Federal Government to suspend the plan to partially reopen schools for pupils in final classes to take external examinations.

The committee had particularly criticised the decision to disallow Nigerian pupils from sitting for WASSCE to be conducted by the West African Examination Council for the 2019/2020 academic session.

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The Oyo State Police Command has denied that men of the command were responsible for the killing of Biola Ebila, the alleged gang leader of the ‘One Million Boys’ in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Ebila was reportedly killed in the Kudeti area of Ibadan on Sunday following a clash between two rival cult groups.

The state Commissioner of Police, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, said in a statement that the allegation was mischievous.

The statement, signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, titled, ‘How Oyo Police murdered One Million Boys’ gang leader,’ read in parts, “The attention of the Commissioner of Police,

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Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Monday, sentenced a cultist, Tayo Bakare, to 20 years’ imprisonment for raping an undergraduate of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, and her friend.

It was reported that Bakare was arraigned on eight counts bordering on conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, deprivation of liberty and rape.

The prosecution said the offences contravened sections 260(1) (2), 272, 297(1) and 299 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2015.

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The Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa has risen to over 14,000.
The UN’s health agency gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Monday.
“COVID19 cases in Africa rise to over 14,000 – with 2,523 recoveries and 754 deaths reported,’’ it said.
The breakdown on the WHO African Region COVID-19 dashboard showed that South Africa, Algeria and Cameroon had continued to top the list of countries with the highest reported cases.
South Africa has 2,173 cases and 25 deaths followed by Algeria with 1,914 cases and 293 deaths, while Cameroon has 803 confirmed cases with 10 deaths.
According to the dashboard, the countries with the lowest confirmed cases are

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The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment in collaboration with the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) has commissioned one billion dollars worth of locally-assembled vehicles. The vehicles are locally produced by 17 companies including Coscharis, Nissan, Innoson, Ford and Elizade motors among others, that are pioneering made-in-Nigeria vehicles

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Adeniyi Adebayo, while commissioning the Nigeria-produced and assembled vehicles on Monday in Abuja said the vehicles would also later be used for “2020 Argungu Motor Rally’’.

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The US Department of State has announced a $7 million reward to anyone that can provide credible information that will lead to the arrest of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.



The Deparment made this known in a tweet posted some hours ago. The tweet reads



The United States Department of State offers a #reward of up to $7 million for information leading to the arrest of #terrorist Abubakar #Shekau , leader of #Boko_Haram

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suspected child trafficker identified as Mary Yakubu has been arrested with 23 children by the Taraba State Police Command.



The suspect who was paraded before newsmen on Monday March 2, was nabbed with children between the ages of four and seven, comprising of 14 boys and nine girls.



Taraba State Police Spokesperson, David Misal said the children have been handed over to the Ministry of Social Welfare in the state. He further revealed that 7 parents have been arrested so far while investigation to arrest others, have been intensified.

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The report that Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is seeking to get a $500 million loan to digitalise the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), and bring it up to the standard of Cable News Network (CNN) that got him trending on Monday on Twitter may not be true after all.

Although, the minister indeed wants approval of a $500 million by the National Assembly during his appearance before the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Loans to defend the loan the ministry applied for from President Muhammadu Buhari’s $29.96 billion loan for funding infrastructure in the country, only $11 million is meant for the digitalization of NTA.

$245 million would be spent on establishing the media and culture industry centre and the remaining amount for integrated television services to infuse on network.

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Nigeria has gotten an approval from the International Court of Arbitration to resume works on its 3050 megawatts (MW) capacity Mambilla hydro power plant, the federal government has said.

According to a statement from the ministry of power, a lawsuit filed at the International Court of Arbitration against the execution of the project which could be the country’s largest hydro power plant when completed, has been withdrawn.

The ministry quoted the chairman of the project delivery committee for the plant, Mr. Farouk Yabo, to have made the disclosure during the project’s sensitisation meeting.

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He declared that his critics should leave him to God and stop judging him on the social media, saying "Nigerians, outside Iwoland are ignorant of the true situation things and the hardship some monarchs in their domains are inflicting on their subjects."

In a personnally signed statement, which was forwarded to journalists in Osogbo, Oba Akanbi said: "for those, who care to know the background to the Ologbagba's arrongant attitude at the AIG Zone 11 peace meeting, I have decided to break my silence. What played out at peace meeting was a gang up to twist my hands backward and prevent me from defending these poor people they have continued to oppress with impunity."

According to him, "it was a case of the oppressor fighting back against the defender of the oppressed, their victims.

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MEMBERS of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on on Saturday met in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in a fresh move to find a solution to Nigeria’s continued closure of its borders to curb smuggling.

Benin Republic, Niger Republic, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, are all displeased with Nigeria’s unilateral decision to shut its borders.

Niger’s army chief Salou Djibo lamented at the meeting that the border closure “strikes at the roots of our grouping — the free circulation of people and goods.”

“The unilateral closure of the borders goes against all the commercial and free movement treaties signed by Nigeria in the framework of ECOWAS,” he said.

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The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, has said that the law banning motorcycles and tricycles in the state, has been in existence since 2012.

Hamzat stated this when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.

The operations of commercial motorcycles and tricycles were banned in six local government areas and nine local council developments.

Hamzat denied that the ban was targeted at anyone or group.

“The truth of the matter is that it is a law that has been in existence since 2012. It was revised by the past administration in 2018. So, it is a law that has been there for like nine, 10 years.

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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on Wednesday told the residents of Borno State that the Boko Haram insurgents or any of their factions cannot carry out attacks on the people without the supports of some of the locals.

Buhari, who was said to be in the state to sympathise with the government and people of the state over the Boko Haram insurgents’ attack which claimed many lives at Auno in Konduga Local Government Area, noted that the fight against insurgency could not be achieved without good intelligence and support of the people.

He said, “Boko Haram or whatever they are cannot come to Maiduguri or its environs without the local leadership knowing, the local leadership is in charge of security in their own respective areas.

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Osun State Government has disclosed that the proposed rehabilitation of 54.3km road projects that would be embarked on will cost the state the sum of N5,245,729,794.95.

The government, in a press conference addressed by the Commissioner for Works and Transport, Mr. Remi Omowaye after the State Executive Council Meeting on Monday, at the Governor’s Office, Abere, Osogbo said the road network would mitigate the hardship being experienced by the residents of the state.

While giving the breakdown of the roads, Omowaye revealed that five major roads had been approved by the Council across the three senatorial districts for reconstruction and rehabilitation.

According to him,

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A former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sule Lamido has described insinuations from certain quarters that the formation of the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed, ‘Operation Amotekun’ is a ploy by the region to exit the country, as diversionary.

Lamido said that rather than being the beginning of the region’s drift towards regionalism, it simply signals the region’s loss of faith in the country Nigeria.

He said: “What we are going through currently is that people no longer have faith in their country, nobody feels secure or safe. Whether they are Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa, nobody feels safe. The operators of the economy and, indeed, the nation, have failed. Nigerians are now trying to device their own means of securing their lives by themselves.

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Following reactions that greeted the formation of Southwest regional security organization, codenamed Amotekun, a Fulani socio-cultural organization, Miyetti Allah, has alleged that the aim of security formation is ‘to cleanse the Fulani tribe from the Southwest’.

Leader of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, in Bauchi state, Alhaji Sadiq Ahmed, said the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) also known as Amotekun, lacks the legal framework to succeed.

The elder statesman who admitted on Saturday that the nation was facing serious security threat called for the restructuring of the security architecture in the country.

According to him, “I can tell you one thing, Amotekun will not last because it is indigenous, regionalized and lacks constitutional backing.

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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari declared on Friday that Nigeria would soon see the end of the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.
Buhari told the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, who visited him in Abuja that Nigeria had faced challenges in the past and managed to overcome and forged on.

”If we were capable to fight a 30-month civil war and reorganized our country, I wonder why people are thinking that Nigeria cannot do it,” his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr.Femi Adesina, quoted him as saying.

He said much of the terrorism in West Africa, particularly Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso was caused by the crisis in Libya.

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The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye said Friday that God told him that Nigeria was yet to experience fire outbreaks this year.

The cleric had said in his prophecies for 2020 on New Year’s Eve at the church’s international headquarters located along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway that there would be fire outbreaks this year.

In January 2020, there were no fewer than 20 major fire outbreaks in different parts of the country.

Adeboye, who spoke at the February Holy Ghost Service of the church tagged ‘Let there be Light II’, said that he is not a prophet but as a pastor, he hears from God once in a while, adding that if what God told him about Nigeria should come to pass, the country won’t be able to cope.

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Gokada, a bike-hailing company with operations based in Lagos, is redirecting its focus to logistics.

This is coming after the Lagos state government under the leadership of Babajide Sanwo-Olu banned the use of motorcycles and tricycles in 16 local governments and local council development areas.

Tweeting in response to a report about the company laying off most of its workforce, Fahim Saleh, Gokada CEO, said: “We still have money in the bank and are pivoting towards deliveries while this transport ban gets sorted”.

According to Saleh, the company was due to make a profit in January when the ban was announced.

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The Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, on Wednesday said the Federal Government will receive the sum of $318,460,329 looted and stashed away by former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, from the United States of America within 72 days.

Malami, who is also the minister of justice, made this known on Channels Television Politics Today in a telephone interview.

Malami on Tuesday had signed a tripartite agreement on behalf of the Federal Government with the United States of America and the Island of Jersey to repatriate the funds.

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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N65.9 billion for road projects across the country.

Minister of State for Works and Housing, Abubakar Aliyu, told State House correspondents on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The minister said that the ministry presented two memos to the council which were approved.

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Former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan met in South Korea along with Patience Jonathan at the ongoing World Summit 2020 in Seoul.

The two former presidents were attending tge World Summit 2020, organised by Universal Peace Federation for world leaders to deliberate on the imperatives of peace, security and human development.

“I was delighted to meet His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the ongoing World Summit 2020 in Seoul, South Korea where we joined leaders from across the world to make a case for lasting peace, interdependence & shared values among the world’s peoples and nations,” Jonathan tweeted on Tuesday.

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