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FG moves to crash cooking gas price


The Federal Government has initiated a process to resolve challenges bordering on the supply and pricing of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in the country’s domestic market better known as cooking gas.

A statement by Louis Ibah, spokesman for the Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, said the minister waded into the issue following a rise in the price of LPG per kg from about N700 to above N1,100 in some parts of the country.

He said the meeting, at the instance of the minister, which was held at the NNPC Towers Abuja recently had in attendance top officials of Chevron Nigeria Limited led by Sansay Narasimi; Nigerian Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority led by its Chief Executive Officer, Farouk Ahmed and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited.

The PUNCH reports that key challenges identified as responsible for LPG price increase include FX sourcing for imports and insufficient supply to the domestic market by producers.

Ekpo expressed the concerns of President Bola Tinubu over the astronomical increase in the price of cooking gas and the attendant hardship on the majority of citizens.

The minister who noted that Nigeria is abundantly endowed with gas reserves, said the situation where some of the multinational firms were more concerned with gas exports without dedicating huge volumes to the domestic market was unacceptable and should be discouraged.

He said, “With the exponential increase in the price of LPG, there is the need for the Federal Government to intervene and I am representing this at this moment.


“We acknowledge that some producers are exporting while we are faced with the challenges of importation.

“Public interest is the overriding interest all over the world for the government, and the demand for LPG will increase as we approach December…you have a public service obligation to collaborate with the government to ensure the security of gas supply, we need to therefore bend backwards and find solutions, to ensure that we have sufficient supply and stability in-country and that Nigerians have gas.”

The minister thereafter constituted a committee with a mandate to come up with recommendations on how to boost supplies and crash LPG prices within a week.

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Lagos community accuses state agency, firms of intimidation, land grabbing


For many residents of Roseville Estate in Ogombo, Sangotedo, Lagos State, three emotions accurately describe what has engulfed their state of mind – anxiety, frustration and despondency.

Undoubtedly, Sangotedo, which is where the Eti-Osa Local Government Area ends, is known for its serenity, notable landmarks, fast-growing businesses and residential estates with beautiful architectural masterpieces.

However, several landowners in this plush estate are plunged into a metaphorical limbo and uncertain about the eventual fate of their property due to the invasion of the area by land grabbers known popularly as omo onile.

Purchase of virgin land

Saturday PUNCH gathered that older residents of the estate purchased plots of land in the area between 2003 and 2011. The lands, some of which are yet to be developed, are owned by retired government workers, security operatives and working-class citizens.

It was gathered that Ogombo land is controlled by seven ruling families recognised by the state government. Those who intend to purchase a piece of land usually go through any of these families, who in turn issue them the Deed of Assignment, and with it, they can obtain the governor’s consent to the land.

A Deed of Assignment is simply a contract or an agreement between the seller of a piece of land and the buyer showing details and evidence that all title, rights, and interest of ownership of the land has been transferred to the buyer.

It was, however, learnt that on December 7, 2014, representatives of the state government came to the community, claiming that houses there were built on government acquisition land meant for specific use in the near future.

Consequently, some plots were taken over by the government – a move which some of those affected contested in the court of law.

The residents argued that they purchased the land not from the government but from its original owners (omo onile), the Bakare family.

Some of the estate residents, who spoke to our correspondent explained that they secured the governor’s consent – an integral part of a land transaction – which refutes the claim of the government’s acquisition of the land.

Saturday PUNCH gathered that the tussle over the land began sometime in 2014 and there was a cessation, only for it to start again in 2018, after the death of Mrs Hannah Bakare, the matriarch to one of the ruling families.

Another trouble reared its head in 2022 when security operatives allegedly deployed by the Lagos State Building Control Agency and the Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbers, and some firms stormed the community and harassed several residents.

In September this year, it was learnt that state task force officials came through a back road leading into the estate and violently pulled down all the fences in the estate, reiterating that the land belonged to the government.

It was learnt that in the same month, residents woke up to markings made by LASBCA on a number of houses, indicating that they would be demolished for lacking building approval permits.

However, when the agency with the state task force and policemen arrived at the community in October to carry out the exercise, they were firmly resisted by residents and house owners.

A prominent member of the community, who gave his name only as Mr Tochukwu, due to security reasons, told Saturday PUNCH that the omo onile had first come to them in 2018, informing them that the land was sold after their father’s death.

“The first time the state government came to claim this land in 2014, they demolished the building on my land. I took the case to court and later on, secured the governor’s consent, which indicated that my land was within the Ogombo Global Certificate of Occupancy, which is registered at the Lands Registry Office in Alausa, Ikeja.

“I purchased the land from Mama Hannah Bakare who was in charge of all the Idowu Bakare’s property at the time. But in 2018, when Mama Bakare died, the Bakare children, which included Ambali, Sahaffideen, Tajudeen, and Afolabi, came here to tell us that the land had been sold by their late father.

“By then, I had gotten most of my papers. The family sued us at the Epe High Court describing us as unknown people encroaching on their land. I reported the family to the Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbers, which was then led by Mr Owolabi Arole. For about two years now, the family has not been coming to court again but they have been using other methods to try and hijack the land from us,” Tochukwu stated.

The resident claimed that the court mandated that all activities on the land should stop, a move which he said deterred some people, who had bought plots of land from completing their construction.

Security operatives deployed

Narrating what transpired last year, another resident of the estate, Mr Timothy Omilani, accused state agencies of colluding with some firms to deploy security operatives to harass residents.

He explained, “It started in April last year when a company came here, saying the land belonged to them and started to mark our buildings for demolition. We started to see different signposts erected in the community warning people to stay off the land. The state agencies and the firms would come here with policemen and military men to intimidate us.

Retirees battered, battling medical conditions

“A number of us here are retirees and older citizens who sweated to build at the evening of our lives and we went through the right process. But we are in constant anxiety over the land tussle. Some residents have developed hypertension and one of us here, Mr Lanre, had to be hospitalised for a week when his house was marked for demolition.

“These men returned in September last year to demolish all the fences in the community and for the next 10 days, policemen were coming here to harass us, blocking us from entering the estate. One day, the policemen apprehended a member of our community and tied him up on the ground.”

“This is not the state government’s land. That is why we took this case to the state House of Assembly. There, they asked MIDC to bring the title deed given to them that secures this place as a government project, but since then, they have not shown up at the House,” he added.

Another resident who also spoke to Saturday PUNCH, Sam Adeniji, said when the House Committee on Human Rights and Public Petitions summoned the residents, the original land owners and the agencies, the Bakare family admitted that their father did not sell the land to anyone.

“The family said they don’t know the people harassing us and contrary to what one of them had made up, they didn’t sell the land. The committee then called for the removal of police presence from the community, and said nobody should come here to disturb anybody until their investigation has been completed and report filed.”

Eti-Osa LGA enmeshed in messy land tussles

Findings by our correspondent showed that within a period of three years, there has been a rise in cases of land tussles in the Eti-Osa LGA, involving monarchs, political elites, ruling families and alleged land grabbers, most of which have been settled in and out of courts.

LASBCA GM threatens demolition

On October 6, during a press briefing held at the old LASBCA office, the General Manager of the agency, Gbolahan Oki, threatened to embark on a demolition spree in the Ogombo community.

He said, “This issue has been going on around Ogombo, in the Eti-Osa area of the state in the last five years, and I have been on it for one and a half year. Hence, we are doing the needful by removing the illegal structures because the government must perform their duty. About 80-90 per cent are shanties and between five to 10 structures at Ogombo are without building plan approval.

“We have been in the Ogombo, Eti-Osa area of the state for over five – 10 years. The land is owned by the state government and meant for housing. The land grabbers keep going there to disturb the government officials, sell the lands, and continue to build on those lands meant for the state government. Some even come with fake Certificates of Occupancy.”

A resident of the Roseville estate, Tade Ogunniran, would later reveal that, “They brought two caterpillars here with more than 100 policemen and they said they would demolish houses without approval and permits, saying that this place is a shanty.

“Their intention was to clear all the buildings from the back, but our monarch and lawmaker representing Eti-Osa Constituency 1 at the House stopped them. We want Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to intervene in this matter. We know he means well for us, but we don’t like how some people are using the name of the state government to cause us pain.”

LASBCA withholds building approvals

Also speaking with our correspondent, another resident, Mr Wale Kupoluyi, lamented that he was yet to be given the building approval permit by LASBCA, despite meeting all the requirements.

“I applied for my building permit in 2018, the state government came here to conduct an integrity test on my house, and every assessment was done. They gave me a tax of N1.2 million to pay and I had run out of cash at that time.

“But last month, when I learned they wanted to demolish our houses, I obtained a loan from the bank and paid it and up till now, LASBCA has not given me my building permit and they said the permit is usually issued within 10 days. What else do they want me to do?

“I also have a governor’s consent and it was stated there that the government has nothing to do with this land. If this land belonged to the government, would they have issued me the consent? No! Before you are given this consent, you will be issued a survey plan. In it, you will have a Deed of Assignment given by the Ogombo community, which is signed by this current monarch.

“I have been living here for seven years and nobody has come to disturb me, even the omo onile provided some materials I needed while building, so how can it now become a government’s land overnight,” he asked.

Land ownership processes

Commenting on the processes involved, a real estate consultant, Ademola Olabanji, stated, “If you are getting a land in Lagos State, you will conduct a land survey and then obtain a document known as Deed of Assignment. It is an agreement where an assignor assigns his or her ownership in land to an assignee.

“It contains the names of both parties, the history of the land in question and other details. This deed is drafted by a lawyer or surveyor. So if there is a dispute over a piece of land, it will show in the deed of assignment. The party laying claim to the land will show the deed of assignment and who signed it.”

LASBCA responds

Contacted, the Head of Public Affairs at LASBCA, Mr Segun Olaoye, said the agency never embarked on intimidation of residents or illegal activity in the Ogombo community.

“We conduct structural integrity tests on buildings and we issue a permit after it has been concluded. We test the building materials and certify them through laboratory agencies to be sure that structures are constructed according to the Lagos State building codes.

“For the resident who said he has not been given the permit, what he should do is come down to our office with all the documents that he has. He can visit any of our regional offices or headquarters.

“We don’t intimidate people in our agency, in fact, Lagos State government officials don’t intimidate people. If those demolished fences fail regional planning laws, or are built on drainage alignment, then we will have to remove them. Any structure that goes against the state planning laws or the state building codes has to be brought down,” he stated.

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UK Moves To Close Temporary Visa Schemes As Over 143,000 Nigerian Doctors, Others Migrate In Nine Months

The move was a result of the call made by the New Conservatives party which urged the country’s ministers to end temporary visa schemes for care workers as part of an effort to reduce net migration.

The United Kingdom Government has started considering closing temporary visa schemes for care workers as the country recorded the highest numbers of migrants in the last nine months.

The move was a result of the call made by the New Conservatives party which urged the country’s ministers to end temporary visa schemes for care workers as part of an effort to reduce net migration.


The group, which is reported to be supported by former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, and former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, stated that the government could no longer handle the number of migrants coming into the UK on a daily basis.

The Home Office, the UK’s migration department, on Thursday, noted that 143,990 health and care worker visas were granted in the year ending September 2023.

This is more than double the 61,274 for the year to September 2022.

The top three nationalities, according to the Home Office, on these visas are Indians, Nigerians and Zimbabweans.

Nigeria has the most significant percentage increase behind Zimbabwe at 169 per cent and India, with 76 per cent.

In terms of dependents granted health and care work visas, Nigeria spiked by 329 per cent from 10,533 to 45,203.

The increase in the number of healthcare workers migrating to the UK is attributed to its cheap and easy entry migration conditions as the country faces a shortage of healthcare workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The latest statistics indicate that 1.279 million more people have come to the UK than have exited in the last two years.

This, it was noted, has put a lot of pressure on accommodation and amenities in the past month, raising concerns among Britons.

In a recent interview, the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, said net migration levels are indeed “too high” after one of his senior ministers said it was “unacceptable” that there were a record number of arrivals last year.

Net migration into the UK peaked at 745,000 in 2022, which is a record high according to revised estimates published by the Office for National Statistics on Thursday.

The data places migration levels at three times higher than before Brexit, despite a Conservative Party 2019 manifesto pledge to bring overall numbers down.

The National Health Service Trusts, on Friday, also lamented how difficult it is sustainable to prop up social care with workers on visas.