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In addition to the mind-blowing revelation from @GovWike here, it’s worth noting that the biggest refund ever approved by the FGN for payment to States for work done on Federal roads, went to Rivers State, and was approved by @MBuhari. 78 Billion Naira. pic.twitter.com/DfMd0rUYmT

— Tolu Ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) November 18, 2022

The Lagos State Taskforce on Wednesday carried out raids in Abule Egba Bus stop to enforce and maintain the ban on the activities of commercial motorcycles plying major highways across the state.

Stern-looking members of the task force charged with enforcing the ban were seen by our reporter clearing, arresting and seizing dozens of riders and their motorcycles.

The operation, which lasted for about two hours, led to the seizure of over 70 motorcycles.

The Lagos state government first banned motorcycles on highways and six local governments and nine Local Council Development Areas in June 2022, citing security reasons.

Since then, hundreds of motorcycles have been impounded and crushed while the affected areas appears more peaceful with fewer reports of crime and criminal activities.

The government later extended the ban on the activities of commercial motorcycles, to four more Local Government Areas (LGAs) and six Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

TheSameGuy:
And u could see what has become of Ukraine today.

Don't you

TheSameGuy:
Only unreasonable and Political novice will criticize Tinubu for that statement.

Funke is an actress not a politician, it's an Insult to mention (be referring to) her as a threat even in presence of Lagos ward councilor.

LeoDeKing:
Where is the fire?

What I saw there are two scallywags namely Oguche and Nkem who are more interested in what happens in Lagos than their desolate villages.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Funke Akindele have nothing in common. Tinubu is a seasoned public administrator while Funke plays role in home videos for a price.

So they are poles apart and they should stop mentioning her name in the presence of the great Asiwaju of Nigeria.

Funke is no where close to Senator Remi Tinubu, not to talk of the Jagaban of Africa.

PRESS RELEASE:

BURSTED: LAGOS STATE ENTRANCE EXAM CHRISTIANISED - MURIC

An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has accused the Lagos State Ministry of Education of inserting Bible knowledge questions in the 2022 entrance examination for Lagos State public schools. The group alleged that the development gave Christian candidates an edge over their Muslim counterparts and put Muslim candidates at great disadvantage as they are certain to miss those questions.

This was disclosed in a press statement issued on Tuesday 2nd August, 2022 by the group’s director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.

The statement reads:

“Our office has been inundated by reports of strange questions in a general paper set for the Lagos State Primary Six Placement Test Into JSS 1 in Lagos secondary schools held on Saturday, 23rd July, 2022. The reference number on the question paper was LSA/PT/2022.

“Although the paper was captioned English Studies/Verbal Reasoning/General Paper, specifically, questions 12 and 14 were straight from the Bible and only Christian candidates could have made head or tail of them. These two questions were designed for Muslims to fail.

The questions were designed to upset Muslim students and make them lose confidence in themselves thereby leading to confusion, frustration and ultimate failure. The caption of that paper should have been ‘Common Entrance in Lagos State…Muslims Come and Fail’.

“Question number 12 which is an objective, says, ‘Paul was born in a city called …Tarsus…Jerusalem…Jordan…Bethel. Candidates were expected to pick one of the four options. But how on earth is a Muslim candidate expected to know what to pick? Ditto for question number 14 which reads ‘The English Bible was translated into Yoruba language by …Pastor Joseph Ayo Babalola…Bishop Benson Idahosa…Pastor Enoch Adeboye … Bishop Ajayi Crowther.

“This is parochial, provocative and unacceptable. This is another proof of the Christianisation of the education sector in Lagos State. How can anyone defend this? It is scandalous. Who set these obnoxious questions? Who proofread and supervised the examination? Who approved the questions? It is clear that this is the handiwork of religious bigots, but then somebody is guilty of gross negligence. Heads must roll.

“We knew this was going to happen when all the six tutor generals in the state are Christians and the state government refused to listen to appeals from Muslims to stop its exclusivism. We had three Christians and three Muslims in the days of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Raji Fashola. Muslims were removed under Ambode and the incumbent has refused to listen to complaints from the Muslim Community.

“The Muslim candidates have been put on a tight rope because the instruction on top of the question paper says ‘Attempt all questions’. This means that anyone who jumps those two biblical questions does so at his or her own risk. The questions have effectively caged the Muslim students and placed them between Scylla and Charybdis, the horrible six-headed monster in Greek mythology and its fearful whirlpool on the other side.

“Heads must roll over this unless the state government has already given the licence to marginalise, traumatise and dehumanise Muslims in Lagos State to their Christian counterparts. There must be consequences for this gross anomaly unless the state government has sold its Muslim citizens to the bishops and pastors mentioned in question 14 for a pot of porridge.

“Any government that treats its citizens like this cannot expect love and unity among them. Neither can such a government earn the respect and support of the section that it marginalises and treats like outcasts. This attitude does not engender love. Neither does it depict tolerance.

“Lagos Muslims pay tax like their Christian counterparts. Why then are they being relegated to third class citizens. The tax paid by them forms part of the state’s internally generated revenue which is used to pay staff of the Ministry of Education and its teachers, including those who drafted those two offensive questions.

“No attempt was made to balance the trend and thus mitigate the offence by adding two Islamic questions. The paper was therefore a direct assault on Islamdom. The authors are daring Muslim parents and other Muslims in Lagos State to do their worst.

“Therefore, we demand apology from the Ministry of Education. Furthermore, we demand an investigation into circumstances surrounding the inclusion of such sectional, insensitive, repugnant and religiously volatile questions in a general paper.”

Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern,
(MURIC)