Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has started receiving 16 of his colleagues from Southern Nigeria, The PUNCH has learnt.

The governor arrived at Alausa, Ikeja, the venue of their meeting on the state of the nation.

The meeting is holding eight weeks after the governors met in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on May 11, 2021. At the meeting, the governors would further assess decisions taken in Asaba on the open grazing ban, restructuring, fiscal federalism and the call for state police.

Some of the early birds at the meeting include Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Adegboyega Oyetola (Osun), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and Godwin Obaseki (Edo) represented by his deputy, Philip Shaibu.

Others are Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Emmanuel Udom (Akwa Ibom), Diri Duoye (Bayelsa), Willie Obiano (Anambra), Ben Ayade (Cross Rivers), Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta), David Umahi (Ebonyi), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Hope Uzodimma (Imo), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), and Oluwaseyi Makinde (Oyo).

Recall that the governors in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting in Asaba, banned open grazing as part of moves to address killings and kidnapping by herdsmen.


But a few days after the meeting, the Presidency faulted the ban on open grazing. The Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, had, in a statement, said, “It is equally true that their (governors’) announcement is of questionable legality, given the constitutional right of all Nigerians to enjoy the same rights and freedoms within every one of our 36 states (and FCT), regardless of the state of their birth or residence.”

Also, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, slammed the southern governors for banning open grazing.

According to the AGF, open grazing ban is the same thing as Northern governors banning spare parts trading in their own region, considering the fact that southerners comprise a majority of spare parts traders in the North.

The President, during a recorded television interview in June, also backed Malami’s position, adding that he had directed that grazing routes be recovered.

Details later…



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Police direct a woman holding flowers out from a cordoned zone, after checking her identity in the shopping district of Causeway Bay, near the site where a man stabbed a police officer in the back the night before, before stabbing himself in the chest and later dying of his wounds. Photo: AFP


Hong Kong authorities on Sunday warned residents against mourning a man who killed himself after stabbing a policeman, saying that encouraging such memorials was the same as “supporting terrorism”.

Police had described the attacker, who stabbed an officer before fatally wounding himself on Thursday, as politically “radicalised”.

Hong Kong has become a deeply polarised city, especially since the huge, often violent pro-democracy protests of 2019. Many residents chafe under Beijing’s increasingly authoritarian rule.

Some tried to pay tribute to the attacker by laying flowers and observing a moment of silence on Friday, prompting the latest warning from police.

“Advocating members of the public to mourn for the attacker is no different from supporting terrorism,” the force said in a statement.

Hong Kong and Chinese authorities have clamped down on dissent using a new national security law, under which a terrorism conviction could carry a life sentence, while promoting, inciting and supporting terrorism could result in up to 10 years in prison.

In their Sunday statement, the police said they were investigating if the man who stabbed an officer was “incited” to carry out the attack.

It warned that “any act with a seditious intention” can be prosecuted, carrying a maximum sentence of two years in jail.

Images published by local media from the scene showed some white flowers left by mourners were dumped in trash bins or seized and placed into police vehicles.

China says its crackdown and national security law are needed to restore stability in Hong Kong. But critics, including many western nations, say Beijing has shredded its promise to let the city maintain certain freedoms and autonomy after its 1997 handover.

The political situation has left many companies walking a tightrope as they try not to offend the authorities.

Vitasoy, a Hong Kong beverage conglomerate, had confirmed that the man who attacked the officer last week was its employee, and expressed regret at the tragedy.

But it had to swiftly apologise and condemn the attack after nationalist backlash on social media in mainland China.



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Majority of Nigerian trafficking victims in Europe and other parts of the world are from Edo, Delta and Kano states, the United States has said in its ‘Trafficking In Persons Report June 2021’.

The report released by the US Department of State chronicled the menace of human trafficking globally in about 200 countries across different continents.

The report significantly noted that the Nigeria government was yet to fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but it was making efforts towards developing its anti-trafficking capacity.

It, therefore, stated that Nigeria was upgraded to Tier 2 in 2021 from Tier 2 Watchlist in 2020.

The report partly read, “Historically, the majority of Nigerian trafficking victims in Europe have come from Edo State, via Libya; however, observers noted an increasing number originating in other states, to include Delta and Kano.

“Additionally, officials noted that Abia, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Imo and Kogi states are common origins for trafficking of victims to West Africa and Europe.

“Cases of labour trafficking involving domestic workers to the Middle East and Gulf States, as well as men coerced into sexual exploitation and drug running to Europe, increased during the reporting period, according to an international organisation.


“In 2019, the media and an international organisation reported that networks consisting of illicit actors profiting from human trafficking and smuggling recruited women and girls from IDP camps in North-East Nigeria for ostensibly legitimate jobs in Europe but exploited them for commercial sex in the northern Nigerien city of Agadez, North Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Europe.

“Primarily in Cross River and other southern states, as well as from IDP populations in the north, illicit actors – including some church leaders – operate ‘baby factories,’ which the government and NGOs describe as a widespread criminal industry in the country; experts state the phenomenon is driven by poverty and a lack of opportunity for young girls, as well as the demands of the illegal adoption market and cultural pressure for large families in Nigeria.


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Donny van de Beek is wanted by Real Madrid – and Manchester United are willing to let him go, the Daily Star reports.

The midfielder joined the club from Ajax in the summer of 2020, but has found himself fallen down the pecking order behind Bruno Fernandes and Paul Pogba.

The newspaper says an initial £2m will be offered for a Van de Beek loan, with the option to buy should he impress in Spain.

Real Madrid star Raphael Varane has agreed personal terms with Manchester United ahead of a move to Old Trafford, according to reports.

Arsenal have eyes on Bayer Leverkusen’s Edmond Tapsoba as an alternative to Ben White if they cannot clinch a deal with Brighton – although the centre-back would actually be more expensive than the Brighton man.


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Public health experts have warned that the delta variant of COVID-19 first detected in India remains a big threat to Nigeria, noting that it could spark a surge of the viral infection that will be difficult to contain.

According to the experts, while the country is vulnerable to a new wave of COVID-19 infection due to low vaccination coverage, the delta variant is of more concern because existing vaccines have not been conclusively proven to be effective against the strain confirmed to be more virulent and more transmissible.

The experts, Pharmaceutical Research Scientist, Prof. Martin Emeje, and Public Health Physician, Dr. Taiwo Obembe, warned that the delta variant of COVID-19 could find its way into the country anytime.

They stressed that the country should immediately begin to put in place measures to contain the variant confirmed to be responsible for a massive resurgence of COVID-19 infections, as well as deaths, in many countries of the world in the last few weeks.

According to the World Health Organisation, the delta variant is now the most transmissible variant of COVID-19 so far.

The global health agency warned that the strain is spreading massively around the world, particularly among unvaccinated people.

Already classified as “variant of concern”, WHO said the delta variant has already spread to 96 countries, as of June 29.


Speaking during a virtual media briefing on COVID-19 on Friday, the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said globally, there is currently a lot of concern about the delta variant.

“As some countries ease public health and social measures, we are starting to see increases in transmission around the world.

“More cases mean more hospitalisations, further stretching health workers and health systems, which increases the risk of death,”the WHO DG warned.

Speaking with PUNCH HealthWise in an interview, Emeje, a molecular pharmaceutical researcher with the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abuja, said studies and practical experience, especially in India where the Delta variant originated from, shows that it is more virulent and difficult to contain because it replicates faster and evades body’s immunity.

“In fact, it is 60 per cent more transmissible than other variants and the faster the transmissibility, the more difficult it is to contain.

“While the vaccine companies, including scientists with vested interests, may jump to tell you that the existing vaccines, which I call ‘experimental vaccines’ are effective against this variant, the truth is that they are all guessing, and this is unfair.

“Until studies are conducted on every new strain, it is unscientific to declare them susceptible to the vaccines. So, my answer is, we do not know how effective the current vaccines are against the delta variant.



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The All Progressives Congress will soon organise a fresh registration/revalidation of members in Kwara State, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said.

Mohammed, who spoke at the unveiling/launch of a parallel secretariat of the APC in Ilorin, the state capital, on Saturday, said the recently concluded registration exercise conducted for members in the state was not genuine in that it did not capture every member of the party.

Sunday PUNCH reports that the state government and a faction of the APC led by the minister had held a parallel rally to mark the two-year celebration of the party in power in the state.

While Governor AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq’s faction of the party has its party secretariat located at the Tanke area, the minister’s faction unveiled its secretariat at GRA, Ilorin.

Mohammed said, “The recently concluded membership registration exercise conducted in the state is a charade as most members of the party were not given the opportunity to register as the registration documents were not made available to them.

“When we observed this, myself and two former governorship aspirants, Prof Oba AbdulRaheem and Alhaji Tajudeen Audu, went to the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, and he assured us that a fresh registration would be done for party members in Kwara.

“We didn’t know him before, he has no campaign office. The battle line is now drawn; without you, members, there would be no APC in the state. I want to assure you all that no party congress will hold in Kwara State until the fresh registration/revalidation exercise is conducted for all APC members in Kwara State.”


AbdulRazaq, on June 26, alleged that a cabal within the party who received hundreds of millions of naira as donations for the Kwara struggle, did not deliver a kobo to him.

But Mohammed denied receiving donations from any minister or governor of the party as campaign funds for the 2019 general elections in the state, saying, “I never diverted APC 2019 general elections campaign funds for my personal use as alleged by Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.

“By the grace of God, I single handedly, with the support of friends and family, raised all the monies for the Oke-Ero/Isin/Ekiti/Irepodun Federal Constituency by-election of November 2019 that brought Tunji Olawuyi to the House of Representatives.

“And I challenge anybody here to say he gave the party one penny apart from what I gave them. I challenge anybody here to say he gave logistics support to the party. I did that by the grace of God.”

The minister said he distributed 500 motorcycles and 20 vehicles, adding that many of the beneficiaries were in attendance to buttress his claim.

He added, “I want them to explain to Nigerians what happened to the N70m that Mr Olawuyi kept that the governor refused to give us during the by-election. But for the grace of God and some friends, there would have been no election in November 2018, because when we raised money, we gave them, but two days before the election, we could not reach them on their phones anymore.

“I had to go to friends to raise another N150m to prosecute that election. I remember very well that there are 42 wards in that constituency. We thank God today that was the beginning of our success. When elections proper came, we did not see our governorship candidate. We could not wait.”


Mohammed stated “without any fear of contradictions” that the money raised from friends, colleagues and associates were used to finance the four elections, adding that the party in the state scored 100 per cent.

“I remember a governor calling me when we won the first election to ask if it was true we won the by-election. And I told him ‘yes sir.’ He said, ‘I want to apologise to you, when you came to me for money, they told me not to give you money. They told me you are a Lagos politician and nobody could defeat Saraki.’

“But then, we did not know that God brings more wonder. That is how we won all the elections. But today, they have got there and forgotten the people that put them there. If we did not give money to the party, how did he think the party won?” he asked.

All efforts to get the reaction of the governor to the alleged non-accountability for the campaign funds proved abortive as the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, neither picked calls to his phone nor responded to questions sent to him on WhatsApp.

The Special Adviser to the governor on Political Communication, Mr Bashiru Adigun, however, said, “It is a matter concerning the party and the party will issue a statement soon.”

Factional Chairman of the party, Bashir Bolarinwa, urged members of the party to register and revalidate their membership when the exercise begins in the state and also reminded them to renew their voter registration cards.

Other party leaders who spoke at the gathering included a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin and former governorship aspirant, Prof Shuaib AbdulRaheem and a member of the House of Representatives, AbdulGaniyu Cook-Olododo.

Others were a former governorship aspirant, Tajudeen Makama; Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo; and a member of the state House of Assembly, Prince Saheed Popoola, who backed the minister’s claims on the campaign funds.


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