Female representation in leadership positions is an economic imperative. A country that keeps down half of its productive demography is bound to perform sub-optimally.
The issue is not just board representation, it is about representation in politics and government where major decisions affecting lives are made. Perhaps, even more importantly, it is about the education of girls.
The high levels of female illiteracy is dangerous from all possible standpoints. If half your population is uneducated, it means that development and competitiveness in a knowledge-driven world won’t happen or will happen too slowly to be of much use.
Educated women means educated children, and this is the pipeline for women who will become CEOs, legislators, government officials and bureaucrats. Female representation must not be reduced to representation by a few elite women who have the good fortune of education.
There is a much larger fight for the future of a large majority of girls who are not even represented in primary schools. We must talk to State Governors. The States of the Federation control primary & secondary education; they must be engaged in the advocacy & persuasion efforts
I think a question that pops up in conversations on this subject is: Do women do better than men in the same positions, or are men better performers on the job than women? The arguments are endless but permit me to share a story from my time as Attorney General of Lagos State ��
Let us also consider these three studies from the Centre for Economic Policy and the Economic Forum; research from Macquarie Business School by Dr. Farida Akhtar and Deloitte's 2021 Women in the Boardroom Report. ����
Nigeria beats the world average by over 3% which clearly shows positive movement in the male dominated boardrooms. We need to do more to increase the number of women's representation in government positions.
Motorists were on Thursday stranded along the Kaduna-Abuja highway following a gridlock caused by an accident involving a truck.
Daily Trust gathered that most of the commuters stranded had to use alternative routes via nearby bushes and villages to avoid the gridlock.
It was gathered that the gridlock started on Wednesday night with some motorists spending their night on the highway. Our correspondent gathered that a truck conveying metal scraps fell between Kateri and Maraban Bisheri not too far away from a military checkpoint on Wednesday blocking the road.
A community leader in Kateri village, Makeri Danjuma Mohammed, confirmed that some motorists spent the night on the highway due to the gridlock.
The community leader further said the natives from the nearby villages assisted in cutting down grasses and smaller trees to create a temporary route for the motorists to ply.
“It was an accident that caused the gridlock. I was made to understand that an articulate vehicle carrying scrap metals fell in the middle of the road. The road is too bad and big cars, trucks usually fall trying to dodge the potholes and muddy parts of the road. So the accident happened between Kateri and Maraban Bisheri.
“As we speak today (Thursday), villagers have come out to cut down grasses in the bush to create a pathway for motorists to pass through. Other motorists went through villages to avoid the gridlock,” he said.
When contacted, the acting Sector Commander of Federal Road Service Corps (FRSC), Kaduna Garba Lawal said he was in a meeting but promised to call back which he is yet to do at the time of filling this report.
I hope the @PoliceNG will prosecute Prof Dike Zainab of Area 11 who assaulted her Police Orderly and ordered her maids to beat her up as nothing will happen because the IGP"s wife is her friend?
‘She Told Her Boys To Kill Me’ — Police Orderly Brutalised By Principal Cries For Help
An orderly assigned by the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters to one Professor Dike Zainab has been admitted to a hospital for medical treatment after she was allegedly tortured at the behest of her boss.
The situation, captured in a viral Video, was said to have occurred at the Area 11 axis of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The orderly whose name is unknown as of press time was captured seated on a floor, with part of her face and uniform, covered with blood stains.
From the left side of her forehead flowed blood as she wept in excruciating pain while struggling to stay alive. All she kept asking was to be taken to the hospital to save her life.
“She told her boys to kill me,” she said incoherently as she spoke to her direct head on the phone to be allowed to be taken to the hospital.
While the video appeared to have been shot at night, THE WHISTLER cannot immediately ascertain when the incident occurred. Still, background voices captured in the video reprimanded a certain woman in a manner that appeared she was the boss.
Later on, an emerging picture on Twitter showed that the officer had been admitted to an undisclosed hospital, receiving treatment.
Nigerians had reacted to the incident and called the attention of the Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi to the video calling for justice and the prosecution of the culprit.
Although some questioned the rationale for attaching an orderly to an academic, others said the culprit may not be sanctioned due to her high-profile status.
The video caption claimed that the orderly was beaten by the maids to her principal and it is still uncertain whether the culprits have been arrested.
However, as of press time, neither the PRO nor the Police authorities have officially reacted to the incident which is unusual, particularly for the PRO whose engagement on Twitter, with Nigerians has not gone unnoticed since his emergence.
The PRO, this newspaper observed became less interactive and engaging on his Twitter handle over the last two days.
This development is believed to have resulted from his reaction to the last incident of an assault of police officers which was largely “misrepresented”. The police had stepped in to control the damage.
First Bank of Nigeria says it will suspend international transactions on its naira Mastercard from September 30.
In March, financial institutions reduced the international spending limit on naira cards from $100 to $20 monthly.
In a recent statement to its customers, the bank said such transactions would not be available on its naira credit card, virtual card and visa prepaid naira card.
“Due to current market realities on foreign exchange, you will no longer be able to use the Naira Mastercard, Naira Credit Card, our Virtual card and Visa Prepaid Naira card for international transactions. This will take effect on 30 September 2022,” First Bank said.
"Please use your Visa Debit Multicurrency Card, Visa Prepaid (USD) Card and Visa Gold Credit Card to continue transacting abroad with limits of up to $10,000.”
In July, Standard Chartered Bank suspended international transactions on its naira visa debit card.
Flutterwave, Eversend and other fintech platforms had also stopped virtual card services for international transactions.
The development comes on the back of foreign exchange scarcity — affecting key sectors — which the country is currently battling.
On Tuesday, the naira dropped to N436 a dollar at the Investors and Exporters window and N712 at the parallel market.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had hinted that it would stop the sale of foreign exchange to banks by the end of the year.
Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, said banks should generate FX proceeds from exporters to give their customers (importers).
“The era is coming to an end when, because your customers need $100 million in foreign exchange or $200 million, you now want to pack all the dollars and pass it to CBN to give you dollars,” he had said.
“It is coming to an end before or by the end of this year. We will tell them don’t come to the Central Bank for foreign exchange again go and generate their export proceeds.”
West Africa - and particularly its most populous nation, Nigeria - is battling an opioid abuse crisis. Medicines such as tramadol, legally and legitimately prescribed by doctors for pain relief, are also being taken in life-threatening doses by millions in search of a fix or a release from poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunity.
People & Power sent filmmakers Naashon Zalk and Antony Loewenstein to Nigeria to investigate how the drug is smuggled, traded and abused, as well as the widespread corruption that follows this illicit trafficking, and the appalling health consequences for those in its grip.
Why Dogo Gide, terror leader, married off our daughters – Father of abducted pupil
Mr Kaoje, a retired civil servant, said Mr Gide married off the remaining 11 girls because the government failed to give him the ransom he requested.
Sani Kaoje, 66, is the father of Farida Kaoje, 16, one of the pupils abducted by terrorists from the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State in 2021. In this exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES, the retired civil servant turned farmer said Dogo Gide, the leader of the terrorist gang who abducted the school girls, has married them off.
On 17 June 2021 terrorists invaded the school and abducted over 90 pupils and teachers of the school. Immediately after the attack, the military announced the rescue of five students and two teachers.
Two days after the attack, three pupils and a teacher were rescued by the military. Two students also escaped from the terrorists’ camp.
In October, the Kebbi State government said it secured the release of 30 students through dialogue with the terrorists. The government said it was making effort to release the rest of the girls. In January, the terrorists freed 30 more pupils following further mediation with the government.
In this interview, Mr Kaoje tells our reporter why the leader of the terrorist gang behind the abduction married off the remaining 11 girls.
Excerpts:
PT: What is your relationship with Farida, one of the abducted FGC Birnin Yauri students?
Mr Kaoje: Farida is one of my children. She is now 16 years (she was 15 when she was abducted). She was in JSS three. I’ve 19 children alive including her. Farida is the 15th of my children. I’ve three wives.
PT: How did the news of the abduction of your daughter reach you?
Mr Kaoje: I was having my breakfast in the morning when Farida’s mother ran into my room shouting. She said she heard that FGC Birnin Yauri has been attacked and pupils abducted. I rushed to the school and met other parents there. At first, the school management and security people denied us entry but they later let us in after confirming we had children in the school.
An hour after the abduction, Farida called me with her friend’s phone. She told me that “Baba, we’ve been abducted and they said they’re taking us to a forest in Zamfara state.” I calmed her down. I told her that God would save them from all evil. That was the end of our conversation at the time.
PT: Some people said there was an alert that the pupils would be abducted. You also said one of your children alerted you. Did you seek explanations from the school authority?
Mr Kaoje: Even Dogo Gide himself told me that he wrote to the school twice before he attacked it. They were just not serious about it. But he said he alerted them. The school, I was told, said the letters were written by some students. I don’t actually know how they handled it since I was not a party to it.
But this school is obviously vulnerable to attack. These bandits follow behind the school’s walls to perpetrate violence on other communities. The signs were there. The authority should have known that the school would soon be attacked.
PT: I learnt that some of the pupils were saved by security agents while others were returned after payment of ransom or other agreements with the state government. Why was your own child not released?
Mr Kaoje: I don’t understand the way this government does things. I thought when they were doing the rescue operations, they would emphasise saving girls first because of their vulnerability. They should have negotiated and got the girls first but they didn’t.
PT: Did the government tell you why your daughter was not among those released?
Mr Kaoje: No. What I know is anyone that you’ve seen now was rescued by the government. The governor (Kebbi state) did his best immediately after the abduction. He tried his best and the first set was brought back and he did it the second time. We waited to hope that they would rescue our child but we heard nothing. No one is telling us anything anymore. Even when we tried to reach them, they would tell us that the governor has gone to Abuja. Sometimes when we call them they won’t answer their phones.
I don’t know if some others were invited or were allowed to go see them (government), especially the Secretary to the State Government but I don’t know if there was anything like that. But as for me, I’ve not met anyone of them.
PT: So, how did you know that your daughter was married off?
Mr Kaoje: He is the one (Mr Dogo) who said it to me directly through the phone. Dogo Gide knows Yauri very well because he once lived here and he told me that he married Farida himself though he was not very direct about it. But he used some techniques to tell me that he has married off the 10 girls to others but as for Farida, she is being taken care of by him. He didn’t say it straight but he said “even if I die, they are people that can inherit Farida from my house”. He was just telling me that he had married her off.
I can’t count the number of times I spoke with him since the abduction. He kept threatening that he would marry the remaining eleven girls if the state government refused to pay him. He called me several times with the same threat. He called other parents too. He pretended that he was sympathetic to us but he kept our children, innocent girls, with him. If he has such sympathy as he keeps saying, he should release our children back to us.
The government didn’t do well too because this issue should have been over by now. If it were to be the children of the privileged, they must have saved them by now. The governor needs to listen to us directly and not through some people. I’m serious. I’m in pain. Everyone in my house is in pain because Farida is like a light in the house. I know several parents who have fallen ill because of this issue. We’re talking of children, all teenage girls. Innocent children for that matter.
You can’t imagine the situation we’re in. Farida’s mother has been sick. There was a day she fall down and had to be taken to the hospital. Some parents have lost their lives. Others are now battling high blood pressure and other related illnesses.
I know one of the parents, Mr John, he can’t even count money now because he is depressed. His business has crumbled. He is my friend and this abduction has taken a toll on him. His daughter, Rebecca, is Farida’s friend and she is also there. We go to bed and wake up in misery thinking of the unknown. I can’t even concentrate on my business (farming). We can’t now concentrate on our family members because we’re always thinking of how to get the children out. My fish farming has been the worse hit because I can’t concentrate. On the other farms, I didn’t even bother to know whether we’re working on it this year because the tension is too much.
Nobody is taken us seriously. This is a Federal Government school but what did the education minister do or even say? They have just left us to our fate as if nothing has happened and our children are still with us.
PT: Was there anytime that Dogo Gide asked you, people, to pay ransom for your children?
Mr Kaoje: No. In fact, we pleaded with him to allow us to negotiate the ransom but he said he would not collect our money and insisted that he would only collect the government’s money. The first time he told me that if the government failed to give him N100 million, he would marry off the girls, I pleaded with him to let parents and relatives negotiate with him but he refused. Whenever he called, I would plead with him to let us pay but he always refuses.
Once, he reduced the ransom to N50 million and some motorcycles, but he still said the intermediaries with the government didn’t respond to them hence they decided to marry off our children. As I told you earlier, we speak with him a lot and he said he has reduced the ransom to N50m and 30 motorcycles but they still refused to give the bandits so they could release our daughters for us. I’ve nothing to say because this democracy has failed us. What would the government now say to us since they can’t protect our daughters?
PT: Did he tell you why he kidnapped your children?
Mr Kaoje: He said he has a problem with the government and that the government is not responsible, and he would only collect ransom from them. If you have a problem with the government, why abduct innocent children? He should be disturbing government people and not the poor. The pupils he abducted were all innocent.
PT: Did you speak with her while she was in captivity? Did she confirm that they had been married off?
Mr Kaoje: Yes. And it breaks my heart to even remember her voice. We spoke with her a lot. And I cry every day he (Mr Gide) called and let us speak with her. In one of such calls, she said “Baba, there is a problem because some of my friends have been married off”. After that, Dogo Gide himself confirmed to us that they had been married off since the government has refused to pay them.
PT: What other efforts are you now making…
Mr Kaoje: (cuts in) What efforts? We’ve just resorted to praying for Allah to intervene. It’s no longer in our control because they said since the government has refused to pay them they would marry them off for good. But we want our children back home and we’ll continue to pray because it’s the only way out.
Media personality, Bukunmi Adeaga-Ilori, popularly known as Kie Kie, is pregnant.
The skit maker announced this via her Instagram page on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.
Kie Kie shared a video of herself with her baby bump as she also showered the expectant baby with prayers.
She captioned the video, “Look who’s going to be a mummy. Me wey never fall dann inside rain before! One small drizzle bayi! I fell pregnant, Danu Danu !”
Skit maker Kie Kie is pregnant
Media personality, Bukunmi Adeaga-Ilori, popularly known as Kie Kie, is pregnant.
The skit maker announced this via her Instagram page on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.
NDLEA busts cocaine warehouse, seizes N193billion worth of crack in Lagos . Arrests 4 drug barons, 1 other
In what appears to be the biggest singular cocaine seizure in the history of Nigeria's premier anti-narcotic agency, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos where 1.8tons (1,855 kilograms) of the illicit drug worth more than Two Hundred and Seventy Eight Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($278, 250,000) equivalent of about One Hundred and Ninety Four Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy Five Million (N194, 775,000,000) Naira in street value were seized.
At least, four drug barons including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager have been arrested in the well coordinated and intelligence led operation that lasted two days across different locations in Lagos state. Kingpins of the cocaine cartel in custody include: Messrs Soji Jibril, 69, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo state; Emmanuel Chukwu, 65, who hails from Ekwulobia, Anambra state; Wasiu Akinade, 53, from Ibadan, Oyo state; Sunday Oguntelure, 53, from Okitipupa, Ondo state and Kelvin Smith, 42, a native of Kingston, Jamaica. They are all members of an international drug syndicate that the Agency has been trailing since 2018.
Located at 6 Olukuola crescent, Solebo estate, Ikorodu, the warehouse was raided on Sunday 18th September, 2022, while the barons were picked from hotels and their hideouts in different parts of Lagos between Sunday night and Monday 19th September. Preliminary investigation reveals the class A drugs were warehoused in the residential estate from where the cartel was trying to sell them to buyers in Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. They were stored in 10 travel bags and 13 drums.
While commending all the officers and men of the Agency involved in the extensive investigation including those of the American Drug Enforcement Administration, (US-DEA), Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) said the bust is a historical blow to the drug cartels and a strong warning that they'll all go down if they fail to realise that the game has changed. Femi Babafemi Director, Media 8, Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters Abuja Monday 19th September 2022
Following a seven-month standoff between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has made known its intentions to halt operations at all international airports in the country.
The national body of NANS met over the weekend in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, and condemned the way the Federal Government was treating the lecturers who were on strike as well as education in general.
Students claimed that the four-day closure of highways and expressways was a success, which is why they decided to stop international travel beginning on September 19, 2022, so that the bourgeois and the government would experience the suffering that students had gone through for the previous seven months.
The NANS National Task Force on “End ASUU Strike Now” Chairman, Ojo Raymond Olumide, revealed that students were already tired of pleading with both parties about the necessity of ending the strike during a press conference.
“The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must settle all outstanding arrears and the lecturers’ salaries”, Olumide said, adding that the airports that would be occupied will remain closed until the strike is called off.
“We shall begin another round of protest next week by storming the airspaces on Monday, 19th September 2022 to #OccupyTheAirports. We want to let the world know about the pains and anguish students are going through.
“Nigerian students whose parents create the commonwealth cannot continue to be suffering at home alongside our lecturers while the few who gain from our sweats and blood have their kids abroad jollying and flexing.
“We will, by this statement, not beg again. We shall be mobilizing all students to shut down the country. No Education! No Movement!”
While berating the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola, over his purported comment on the barricade of federal roads by the students, NANS passed a vote of no confidence on both the ministers of Labour and Education.
The attention of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has been drawn to a viral video on 'Twitter' ( @OmoGbajaBiamila ) where our Officers who drove against traffic (One-way) with an operational vehicle (RTM 08 LA Zone 25 Bariga) was blocked by a private vehicle on Oworonsoki bridge, Lagos.
The Agency hereby states categorically that the video incident video occurred in year 2020 before the #EndSARS protest around Iyana-Oworo. All Officers involved have been appropriately sanctioned by the Authority.
The patrol van with registration No. RTM 08 LA (Zone 25 Bariga) seen in the viral video was among LASTMA operational vehicles burnt alongside our office building by #EndSARS protesters at Iyana-Oworo, Lagos.
The Agency, therefore, urges members of the public to disregard the video that was deployed to embarrass our team of hardworking Officers.
LASTMA will continue effective monitoring and control of traffic across the State, just as it will not condone indiscipline among any of its personnel.
Bro find this una motor go! E dey una office. E dey follow one way enter 3MB. Na me record am. I stopped them and made them reverse. Small fairness no bad. Auction this one too, I get who go buy am.
Funny thing about this video was on that day, there was a police convoy right behind me that day. I no even send their papa. The space reach me to pass but I just wan show them small Dagbo
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, your darling LASTMA officials who in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, recently auctioned off people's vehicles for driving one-way against traffic.
When dem go auction this truck? �
You did well @Dagbofather
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, your darling LASTMA officials who in collaboration with the Lagos State Government, recently auctioned off people's vehicles for driving one-way against traffic.
A Chinese man entered a House and stabbed their daughter (Ummita) to death, in Janbula area Kano State.
Imagine coming to their country, their state, in their house & killed her. If a Nigerian do this in China, their govt will deny Nigerians visa to China.
Delighted to announce that I have been promoted to CNN's Senior Editor for Africa. It's been 6 years living in Lagos, creating a new bureau, editing, and creating impactful content. Looking forward to doing much more and changing the African narrative along the way.
Workers at the Nigerian edtech say the company fired most of its employees at the Nigeria office amid plans to pivot.
Edukoya, the online learning platform which raised $3.5 million in 2021, in a pre-seed round led by Tiger Global may have laid off many of its staff.
A former Edukoya employee told TechCabal that the firm fired most of its workforce amidst plans to build a new fintech service.
“The truth about Edukoya is that it is shifting away from the focus at the moment,” one former employee told TechCabal, “At the moment she [CEO Honey Ogundeyin] halted a lot of things on the educational technology aspect,” the former employee said, adding that most of the employees left at the firm are software developers.
But Edukoya says it only fired four employees following a quarterly employee performance review. In an email response to TechCabal, Edukoya said that while it had “optimised” its teams, it was still hiring new workers and recently hired a senior executive from Byju’s, the Indian edtech headquartered in Bangalore.
Two former employees who spoke with TechCabal claim that not only did the company let several of its staff go, it is rebranding to Koya, a fintech for children and teenagers.
One former employee said Edukoya was already attending events with Koya branding. The event in question was this year’s edition of the TOTAL School Support Seminar and Exhibition held earlier this month.
Edukoya denies this, saying it will “continue to provide access to high-quality education for the next generation of Africans”.
Regardless of what Edukoya claims, this much is certain, it is, at least, bundling a fintech product into its edtech offering.
Koya appears to be a fintech product for secondary school students—the same demographic as current Edukoya users. The product appears to be a savings app plus debit card for school-aged children which would help “teach them money skills.”
A now-deleted landing page, koyakids.com, described Koya as “the debit card and financial learning app for kids and teens.”
Koya offers prepaid debit cards and a savings app to children between the ages of 3 and 18 for a monthly membership fee of ₦2,500.
Edukoya was founded in 2021 by Honey Ogundeyin, former country director, UK-Nigeria Tech Hub. She was also the founding CMO at Kuda, one of Nigeria’s leading digital challenger banks.
Edukoya allows users to review past national student exams for free on the app but charges a fee for students who want to be tutored. For example, one of their offerings, a coding class, costs up to ₦66,000 a month per learner.
Any law that empowers the government to confiscate and/ or auction the vehicle or other property of a citizen for an alleged offense(s), without fair hearing and due process is unconstitutional and void. Such a law offends the fundamental rights to fair hearing and property.
The court of law will declare such a law inconsistent with the provisions of 36 and 43 of the Constitution which guarantees the rights of every person to fair hearing and ownership of property, respectively. Lagos State Government claims that Mobile Courts permitted the auctions.
That is not a sufficient answer to the constitutionality issues arising from the auctions. What procedures were followed in securing the orders from the Mobile Courts? Since traffic violations are criminal offences, offenders must first be tried before punishment can be imposed.
Did the Lagos State Government auction the vehicles after the offenders were arraigned and prosecuted? It has been claimed by agents of the government that many of the owners of the auctioned vehicles refused to avail themselves of the court process. This raises more questions.
If the owners or drivers of some of the vehicles didn’t appear in court, and not convicted, as alluded to by agents of the Lagos State Government, should we infer that they were tried in absentia? How did the Mobile Courts assume jurisdiction over the cases? Who were the parties?
Or should we assume that the orders authorizing the vehicles to be auctioned were made in civil proceedings, and not in criminal cases? The basis of the auction is that offences were committed. Where are the charge sheets? Those vehicles most likely had license plate numbers.
The identities and locations of the owners of the vehicles can be easily traced through their license plate numbers. What steps or efforts were made to trace the ‘fleeing’ drivers who “abandoned” their vehicles? The government can’t punish offenders without following due process.
Again, I insist that there are so many unanswered questions shrouding the auctions. I hope we will get answers to these questions. We should not approach this issue from a sentimental standpoint. Without insistence on due process, law enforcers can easily become law breakers.
To those defending the auctioning of the vehicles because it has been claimed that Mobile Court authorized it, have you been to the Lagos State Mobile Court before? From my experience, the Mobile Court operates basically like a revenue court. I won’t say more than that.
Jubril A. Gawat, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor of Lagos State on New Media:
THREAD: FACTS about the Lagos State Auction Process that happened yesterday.
1. The Lagos State Taskforce in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Justice auctioned 134 forfeited and abandoned vehicles at the Taskforce compound in Alausa, Ikeja.
2. The role of Lagos State Taskforce is to carry out enforcement exercise which is confiscation of vehicles for traffic offenses, and handing them over to the MOBILE COURT (with evidence) for Judgement.
3. Some of the cars being auctioned here were confiscated Not for ONE WAY Alone, there are other offices that attracts just a fine but some people run away from the Court Process, that's why they have been forfeited to the State Government after the stipulated period (BY LAW)
4. The Coordinator of The Lagos State Special Offenses Mobile Court was present at the Auction venue, she says exercise is seemless and well organised and also disclosed that all 134 vehicles on display had gone through due process of the COURT OF LAW before being forfeited.
5. Taskforce says auction exercise is to desist the public from committing crime or traffic offences as no one would be spared if found wanting. He says he hopes that this exercise would serve as a deterrent to other road users who are fond of driving against traffic.
By the end of the 2021 financial year, Kuda Bank recorded a loss of ₦6,092,554,866 ($14,214,681), a 602% rise from the ₦868,062,000 ($2,025,295) loss it made in 2020, according to financial report seen by TechCabal.
PHOTOS: Tears flow as traffic offenders beg bidders at Lagos auction
Traffic offenders crumbled to their knees, while some broke down in tears during an auction of vehicles forfeited to the Lagos state government over traffic violations.
At the auction of forfeited and abandoned vehicles that took place on Thursday at the task force yard in Ikeja, bidders stormed the venue to register, inspect, and bid for different vehicles, including mini buses and cars.
The event venue, which had participants as in a live football match, turned into an arena of tears and sympathy as motorists faced the reality of permanently losing their vehicles.
Traffic offences: Lagos auctions 134 vehicles to public
Lagos State Government on Thursday, auctioned at least 134 vehicles impounded for various traffic offences.
The exercise was carried out at the headquarters of Lagos State Taskforce and Special Offences Unit, Bolade Oshodi, Oshodi-Isolo Local Goverment Area.
Residents thronged the venue to bid for various types of vehicles including cars, buses, Sport Utility Vehicles, SUV, among others.
According to the Chairman of the agency. Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Sola Jejeloye, through the Public Affairs Officer, PAO, Mr Raheem Ggbadeyanka, the vehicles were impounded by the state’s task force for flouting traffic rules and regulations, particularly, for driving against the flow of traffic.
The Magistrate Court Consequently, after trial, forfeited the offenders vehicles to the government for auctioning.
The impounded cars were auctioned and given to the highest bidders.
The much-awaited overhaul of Ethereum known as the Merge has finally arrived to take the digital machinery at the core of the second-largest cryptocurrency to a vastly more energy-efficient system.
This is coming after years of development and delay.
The idea was there from the start that Ethereum would eventually make the switch to proof-of-stake. But the transition was a complicated technical effort – an endeavor so risky that many doubted it would happen at all.
“The metaphor that I use is this idea of switching out an engine from a running car,” said Justin Drake, a researcher at the non-profit Ethereum Foundation who spoke to CoinDesk before the Merge happened. “I like to think of it as kind of like the switch from gasoline to electric.”
“There’s a part of me which hasn’t completely realized that this is actually happening,” Drake said.
“I’m somewhat in denial, you know, because I’ve trained myself to just expect it to happen in the future.”
According to Ethereum’s developers, the upgrade will make the network – which houses a $60 billion ecosystem of cryptocurrency exchanges, lending companies, non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces and other apps – more secure and scalable.
When the Merge officially took off, over 41,000 people were tuned in on YouTube to an “Ethereum Mainnet Merge Viewing Party.” After about 15 long minutes, the Merge officially got finalized, and could officially be called a success.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [which] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States.
Adichie, a feminist, has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). Her most recent books are Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief (2021). In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.
Early life, family, and education
Adichie was born in the city of Enugu in Nigeria, the fifth of six children in an Igbo family. She was raised in the university town of Nsukka in Enugu State. While she was growing up, her father, James Nwoye Adichie (1932–2020), worked as a professor of statistics at the University of Nigeria. Her mother, Grace Ifeoma (1942–2021), was the university's first female registrar. The family lost almost everything during the Nigerian Civil War, including both maternal and paternal grandfathers. Her family's ancestral village is in Abba in Anambra State.
Adichie completed her secondary education at the University of Nigeria Secondary School, Nsukka, where she received several academic prizes. She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. During this period, she edited The Compass, a magazine run by the university's Catholic medical students. At the age of 19, Adichie left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
She transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) to be near her sister Uche,who had a medical practice in Coventry, Connecticut. She received a bachelor's degree from ECSU, summa cum laude, in 2001.
In 2003, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, she received a master of arts degree in African studies from Yale University.
Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005–2006 academic year. In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She was awarded a 2011–2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Personal life
In 2009, Adichie married Ivara Esege, a Nigerian doctor. In a July 2016 interview, she revealed that she had recently given birth to a daughter.
Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, where she teaches writing workshops.
MEN'S MUST READ Few weeks ago, while on duty in the emergency ward, I met a young student who had been having left scrotal pain for 3days. The pain was so bad it affected how he walked. When he noticed the pain initially, he had hoped it would disappear after a little while.
When it didn't, he went to a center where he was given antibiotics. Perhaps they thought he had orchitis. Turns out he had testicular torsion. By the time he got to the hospital where I work, it was too late to save the testicle. Blood supply had been cut off from it for too long & the cells there had long died. The only thing to do was to take the testicle out. "Thankfully", it was only one testicle, not the 2, if not, that very young man would have been unable to have children, & some of the plans he had might have come to an abrupt halt.
I'm telling this story, because I feel Testicular Torsion(TT) is something most people are really not aware of.
That case isn't the only one I've seen. Some others have had it happen to both testes, at the same time, and presented too late save the testes.
TT happens when the spermatic cord (which contains vessels that supply blood to the testes) twists, such that blood circulation to and from the testes is impaired, which could lead to tissue death and subsequent need to remove the testes.
Here's the whole point.
Once a male starts having severe scrotal pain that just starts on its own, or pain that still lingers for a while after trauma to that area, just rush them to the nearest tertiary center (general or referral hospital) around you, please!
Salvaging the testes can only be guaranteed if the surgery to "untwist" the vessels supplying the testes occur within 6 hours of onset of the pain. Yes, 6 HOURS ONLY, so there's no time to lose.
Please let the young males in contact with you know about this..
Let them not endure it, hoping that it will just go. It's better to be safe, than sorry.
Please RT so that others see this too. Might just help another person.
I need to see more youths around you. I need to see more women around you. For me, and I will say this categorically because I see a lot of people who keep asking, I'm not interested in any position, I'm not gonna work for you. I will hold you accountable so that you can give Nigeria the best that Nigeria deserves. Thank you.
Residents of Gozaki ward in Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State are still in shock following the weekend hailstorm recorded in the community for two days.
Although no life was lost during the hailstorm, there are fears that the hailstones may affect the growth of crops in the community.
The farmers worried that crops such as maize, millet, rice, soya beans, and pepper grown in the community might be destroyed because of the hailstones.
The Kafur Local Government Area Chairman, Alhaji Garba Kanya; the district head of Kafur, Alhaji Abdulrahman Rabe, and top council officials had already visited the affected area and the farmlands.
While sympathising with the affected farmers and the Gozaki Community over the development, the council chairman urged them to take the matter in good faith.
The chairman, who noted that farming is the primary occupation of the community, assured them that the Local Council would forward a report of the incident to the State Emergency Management Agency for possible intervention.
Rabe, in his remarks, expressed concern over the level of destruction and solicited the government’s assistance for those whose farmlands were affected.
The district head assured that the affected farmers would not be abandoned.
Official reactions to the incident were still awaited from the SEMA on Monday evening.
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