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Her Majesty the Queen of England, Elizabeth Alexandra; President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); and governors from at least 20 states, ministers and other dignitaries are expected to attend the coronation of the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II.

The Chairman, Media Committee of the coronation, Mr. Biyi Odunlade, said this at a press conference that started a series of activities lined up for the coronation scheduled to hold on December 7.



Odunlade, however, explained that the queen might be represented at the ceremony. He added that guests from many nations of the world had been invited for the ceremony.

The Ooni also said he was ready to fast-track the development of Ife with a series of policies, which he said, would make the Yoruba people proud anywhere they found themselves.

The monarch, who was represented at the press conference by his elder brother, Prince Adegboyega Ogunwusi, said he would do everything possible to address the problem of youth unemployment in the town.

Ogunwusi, who donated 50 transformers to some communities in Ife before he emerged as the new Ooni, said he would donate additional 50 transformers within the next 30 days to boost electricity supply in the ancient town.

He noted that this gesture would make small scale businesses in the town to thrive because power problem would have been reduced.

He said, “Let me acquaint you with what I have done in less than 70 days. I have given out over 20 electricity transformers worth about N250m.

“I donated 50 transformers when I was a prince. I will buy another 50 transformers within the next 30 days to further enhance electricity distribution. With this, small scale businesses of welders, tailors and others will naturally witness improvement.

“Providentially, I know the core investor and the Chairman, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Tunde Ayeni, personally and very well. I have engaged him and his team to make this a reality and work has commenced in earnest. We will witness this transformation by the very special grace of God.”

“To revamp the stadium, I have already opened discussion with the Osun State Government on this. I will set up a football academy and we will have 16 clubs in Ife.”

The new monarch also promised to establish a football academy.

While the press conference was going on, the new Ooni and other guests were at an inter-religious service held at Enuwa Square.

One of the religious leaders, who spoke at the service, Apostle Joshua Fagbule, urged the people of Ife to rally round Ogunwusi in order for him to bring about meaningful development to the town.

Source www.punchng.com/Queen-elizabeth-buhari-20-gov-to-attend-oonis-coronation/

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There were indications on Sunday that moves by the All Progressives Congress to resolve the crisis created by the death of its governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Audu Abubakar, had failed.

The PUNCH gathered that following its decision on Friday to pick Mr. Yahaya Bello as a replacement for the late governorship candidate, the APC had contacted leaders in the three senatorial districts of the state to rally support for Bello.



It was learnt that the party was using its leaders in Kogi West to reach out to Mr. James Faleke, the running mate of the deceased governorship candidate. Faleke hails from Kogi West.

It was gathered that the APC had also contacted its leaders in Kogi East as part of efforts to resolve the logjam created by its choice of Bello.

Faleke had on Thursday written the Independent National Election Commission and the APC, asking to be declared the state’s governor-elect.

A member of the party’s National Working Committee, who confided in The PUNCH, said, “I can confirm to you that we are trying to resolve the crisis created by our decision on Bello. We are trying to reach out to Faleke and the Audu’s camp. Honestly, we have not succeeded. Faleke is not ready to withdraw his demand and many people are insisting on Audu’s son, Mohammed.”

He said the party had planned to resolve the crisis before Monday when the decision on Bello would be announced.

According to him, the leaders are hopeful that the crisis would be resolved before Tuesday.

INEC had on November 22 declared the Kogi State governorship election inconclusive.

On Tuesday, it wrote the APC, asking the party, which was leading in the November 21 poll, to submit a replacement for Audu, who died on Sunday shortly after the result was declared inconclusive.

It had said it would hold a supplementary election in 91 wards of the state on Saturday.

The APC had initially said it would hold a primary to choose Audu’s replacement, but a newspaper had on Saturday reported that the party had picked Bello, who was the first runner-up in the primary that produced Audu.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Timi Frank, said the party would meet in Abuja on Monday and take a decision on the issue.

He told one of our correspondents on the telephone, “We are meeting tomorrow (Monday); the party’s decision will be made public after the meeting.”

Frank had on Saturday told one of our correspondents that the party was still consulting on the issue.

But another member of the APC’s NWC, who pleaded anonymity, said the party had mandated Bello to reach out to his opponents.

He explained that the party leadership had in consultation with its team of lawyers decided that allowing Bello to take the ticket was the safest way to go in the circumstances.

The source said, “We have impressed it upon the candidate to reach out to Audu’s family, Faleke and their supporters to douse any tension.

“He was encouraged to reach out to elders across the state to assist him to broker peace. The party was left with little choice because time is no longer on our side. It is practically impossible for us to hold a fresh primary within the time left for us.

“You will also recall that the Chief Law officer of Nigeria, in his submission last week, also alluded to the fact that the result of the primary, which produced Audu, still subsists.’’

It was also learnt that party leaders would begin a meeting on Sunday and end it on Monday.

The party is expected to make its final decision public after the meeting.

But when contacted, Faleke said the party had not reached out to him, adding that he was not prepared to negotiate his demand that INEC should declare him the governor-elect of the state.

He stated that he would continue to oppose the scheduled December 5 supplementary election and the decision of the APC in the state to pick Bello as the replacement for Audu.

Faleke, who spoke exclusively with The PUNCH on Sunday, debunked claims that the party had reached out to him and had appealed to him to accept Bello.

Describing the claims as “false, not true”, Faleke added that he had written the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, a second letter to protest the nomination of Bello.

He said, “All these talks about the APC reaching out to me are unfounded. Nothing like that has happened. They have not approached me. It is false and not true.

“In any case, what purpose will that serve? I have made my position very clear in the letters I wrote to INEC and the national chairman of the party.

“I have written a second one, and I am saying that the nomination of Bello is wrong; we won’t accept it. We stand by the position as stated in those letters.

“And for the benefit of doubt, I am on this project with (Mohammed Audu)) the son of my late boss. We are working together in opposing this nomination of Bello.”

Responding to a specific question on whether INEC had replied his letter in which he asked to be declared as the governor-elect, Faleke told The PUNCH that he had yet to hear from the electoral umpire.

“They have not replied me. Nothing has been heard from them.

“But, what is important is that I have given my position on this issue and nothing will change it”, he added.

Meanwhile, Faleke has described as illegal his nomination as the running mate to Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who was substituted for the late Audu.

Faleke, in a letter to the National Chairman of the APC, dated November 27, 2015, also described Bello as a disloyal party member, whom he accused of working for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party during the November 21 governorship election.

He described the arrangement to substitute Audu with Bello as unjust, adding that he was never consulted before his name was submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission as Bello’s running mate for the Saturday’s supplementary election.

His letter to Odigie-Oyegun read in part, “I wish to put it on record that I was neither consulted nor informed by anybody before my name was submitted as running mate to a man who has, since the conduct of the primary, abandoned the party, took the party to court, worked for the PDP, thereby causing our party to lose his polling unit – 88 votes to his ally party, the PDP’s 116, repeating the same feat at the ward level with APC scoring 1,146 to PDP’s 2,058.

“While it is true that the said Alhaji Yahaya Bello participated in our party’s primary, it is trite that party primaries are conducted to produce a candidate, and once a candidate is produced, the congress, being an ad hoc tool of the party for that purpose, should automatically extinguish.

“It is clear from this injustice, that our party is on the path of rewarding disloyalty and discouraging loyalty through this act of impunity for which we all fought the PDP.”

Mohammed, who is the eldest son of the late Audu, said he was not aware of that anyone had been picked as a replacement for his late father.

Flanked by the running mate to his father, Faleke, he labeled such move (to pick Bello as a replacement for the late Audu) as backyard move.

Mohammed, who declined to speak further on the issue because the occasion was the 8th day fidau for his father at Oghonicha in Ofu Local Government Area, however, promised to speak on the issue at a later date.

He said, “Our mission here is to pray for the repose of his soul. It is too soon to be discussing politics. I will like us to focus more on the mourning.

“As you can see, people are still wearing long faces.”

Source www.punchng.com/apc-moves-in-kogi-crumble/

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Change dey sleep now e Neva weke up ...loi in Greek.

By Tayo Fadile.

I want to first and foremost commiserate with my IGALLA brothers and sisters on the demise of Prince Abubakar Audu of whom I have paid a befitting tribute to as an icon and a political colossus of our time.may the good Lord accept the repose of his soul and I condole the family.it is a loss to the entire state and the country as a whole.

However,since death is a price we all have to pay at one time or the other,we need to move on with the reality of the situation.
No. 1. Nigeria and KOGI state is not a dynasty,we are in a democratic set up and asking Audu's son to replace his Dad is not only undemocratic,it will be almost impossible because the laws expect him to be part of the whole electoral process right from the beginning before he can be considered,now,we cannot even determine if he is a card carrying member of APC.In any case the governorship position in KOGI state is not a family matter.
No.2. It is a fact that the igalas have been at the helm of affairs of this state since the creation of the state and it will not be the position for ever and ever.As with any other thing in life,change will occur and new people will emerge and that precisely is what is happening now.This is not the time for violence as its been reported on channels TV now ,it is time to allow the will of the God to prevail,and allow other stake holders in the state to be in charge of the leadership of the state,especially since the constitution allows equal opportunity,fairness and justice for all and sundry .
No.3. As if God has planned it,Igalas have already taken the ministerial position,a situation where in some other states they cannot have the two positions at the same time.e.g Niger state.
No.4.when you consider that the combination of Okun and Ebbiras have a much more higher electoral value than the Igalas alone,then you must see that it is time to allow others also rule the state.That will be promoting the principle of equity,fairness and justice.Even in the United States where we copied our democracy,in spite of the history of blacks and slavery in that country,they still allowed a black man(Obama) to govern the country.
No.5. Finally,allowing power shift is not the end of the world,if the other groups in the state can tolerate igala rule and reign for 25 years or more,allowing other groups just four years is not asking for too much.
As, for Governor Wada who wants to continue to rule through the back door using legal technicalities and jargons, i will advice him to remember that History is beckoning on him and he should follow ex -president Jonathan example and allow history to give him a fair judgement,it is bad enough that as an incumbent,APC defeated him flatly,it is unpardonable that he is not accepting that defeat.
My prayer for KOGI state is that we should allow peace to reign,we should allow the will of God to prevail and we should embrace the principle of equity,fairness and justice,that way, the state will have an all round development agenda with a sense of belonging from everybody not withstanding our tribe or religion.I Rest my case.

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In the early 1960s up till the late 1990s, the area used to be very popular among revelers from within and outside Lagos. Day and night, it was the place to be. Ask anybody around Yaba, Ojuelegba and even other parts of mainland Lagos and you won’t miss your way. Empire – a cluster of streets in the heart of Mushin, one of the city’s most densely populated areas, housing several chalets and offering plenty of cheap sex, drugs and alcohol was the name on many people’s lips. The arrival of Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, around 1962, increased traffic to the area. In those days, the area known as Empire which derived its name from Empire Hotel situated on Oguntokun Street, could be likened to a modern day ‘Sodom’ – immorality thrived at every corner.

Though, still playing host to a number of hotels, drinking joints and spots where drugs of all kinds are experimented, Empire has lost some of its spark over the years, with only few people turning to it today for entertainment. But even with such reduced traffic, commercial sex workers operating in the community remain one of the most patronised in Lagos. Charging as low as N500 for a round of sex in some cases, clients from far and near ensure the industry is well and alive.



However, some of the ladies in the illicit profession told our correspondent who visited the area earlier in the week that much of what they earn these days go to policemen who come in weekly to collect compulsory ‘settlements’. According to a handful that interacted with our correspondent after they were assured their identities won’t be revealed, each lady pays between N7000 and N8000 every week to the leader of the hotel where they ‘hustle’. The fee, they revealed, covers rent for the week and ‘tax’ for the police among other such bills. The pressure of meeting up with such weekly obligation is taking its toll on many of the prostitutes who prospect for clients in Empire.

“Whether you work in a week or not, you must pay the regular dues to the head of the hotel,” said one of the ladies whom our correspondent chatted up at ‘White House’, one of several chalets dotting the community’s landscape. “Each of us who ‘hustle’ here pays N8000 every week to our boss who then ‘settles’ the police from it after removing money for rent and other levies. We are over 15 ‘hustling’ here and if you calculate what the police is making from each of us every week, then you’ll see that they are the ones benefiting from our ‘hard work’. If we fail to ‘settle’ them, they’ll come in to harass and intimidate us.

“For the eight months that I have worked here, I have seen a lot of things. It is just as if we have become ATMs for the police; we are like a source of income or a money pot for them. Just to meet up with their demand and avoid harassment, most of us now have to work more than we should. It has not been easy in recent times,” she said.

At ‘Cool Corner’, another hotel in the community where ladies of different ages and sizes flaunt their ‘assets’ in wait for prospective customers, one commercial sex worker who told our correspondent that she was 24 years old and had been servicing ‘clients’ who visit the place since 2012, revealed that the constant demand by police officers has become a big source of worry for many of them. According to her, at least each lady ‘hustling’ at the hotel pays around N5000 as ‘settlement’ to law enforcement officers every week aside from what they churn out for rent. She told Saturday PUNCH that the situation makes them feel like cash cows to the police.

“It is not as if those of us doing this job are proud of it, no. Many of us are doing it because we don’t have other means of survival. But to now imagine that most of what we manage to make these days go into ‘settling’ the police, is really annoying. They don’t come to us directly, they deal with our boss but then we are the ones suffering the whole thing. The money these people make from us every week is just too much,” she said.

At the other hotels in the area our correspondent visited, the feeling was the same. Many of the prostitutes at three other active spots, ‘Number Six’, ‘Lido Hotel’ and ‘Seventeen Bar’, told Saturday PUNCH that the situation has piled pressure on a lot of them and eaten deep into the little funds they usually make at the end of each week. Managers of two of the hotels who our correspondent came across in the course of the findings refused to speak on the issue as a result of fear. They also refused to disclose which station the policemen they pay the weekly ‘royalty’ to come from even though a bar man in one of the hotels pointed that the officers came from all nearby police stations. Empire is in between Mushin and Jibowu in Yaba.

But apart from the dilemma now faced by commercial sex workers in this Lagos neighbourhood, the spate of crime in the area in recent times has reduced life to a living nightmare for many of its residents, especially parents with young boys and girls. Some, for fear of the morals of their children, put them in boarding schools and also give them out to live with relatives and friends in other parts of the state and country.

“I don’t have money to move out of this area yet but I cannot afford to have my children grow up here and have their lives destroyed,” Mrs. Fatima Ahmed, a petty trader, told Saturday PUNCH. She has lived in Empire for 10 years, witnessing a lot of crimes and moral decadence in the period. “If you see what some of the youths in the area do with drugs, alcohol and dangerous weapons, then you won’t want your children to grow up in such environment if you are a good parent. My children are in the boarding house and when they vacate they go to my cousin’s place at Ifako to stay. They only come here to visit me and their father once in a while,” she said.

A commercial motorcyclist, Stephen Okoli, who lives with his three daughters and wife on Oguntokun Street, told Saturday PUNCH that his girls only return to the area at weekends from his sister’s place in Ojota where they live and go to school at weekdays. He revealed that this was the best way he could protect them from being infected with the immoralities in Empire at the moment.

“My wife and I decided to let them live with my sister at Ojota just to protect them,” Okoli said. “They are little girls still growing up and we don’t want them to be corrupted by what people are doing here. Our fear is that there is no way they would grow up here and won’t be influenced one way or the other by the lifestyle here. Many of the ladies are prostitutes while the young men are into drugs and other crimes. I don’t want such for my children. We want them to have a better life than ours,” he stated.

A community leader, Mr. Olalekan Ajenifuja, told Saturday PUNCH that the influx of criminal elements into the area has made police raids almost a constant feature in Empire. According to him, bands of jobless young men attracted by the cheap sex and drugs the area offers, now call the neighbourhood home, putting the lives of residents and passersby at grave risk.

“Security of lives and property is a big issue as far as this place is concerned. Young men from different areas come in here to smoke and harass people going about their normal activities. But instead of law enforcement officers to help us tackle the situation, they are more interested in making money out of our predicament.

“Though, policemen come in here to raid some of these notorious guys causing problem for us, they do so for their pocket. They release them even that same day after being ‘settled’. This is part of the problem we are facing and we want government to help us out immediately. We do not have peace of mind in this community anymore,” Ajenifuja said.

Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Joe Offor, debunked allegations of extortion and summary raids in Empire as claimed by many of the commercial sex workers. Offor told Saturday PUNCH that the allegation was a ploy to blackmail officers who were carrying out their lawful duties in the area.

“How much is a sex worker there making that police will go and demand royalty from them every week? In the first place, is police entitled to royalty? Some stories are too fantastic to believe and sometimes you don’t even need to guess too far before dismissing such.

“Allegations like this, as funny as they sound, are not new to the police. The brothels are seen in most cases as criminal hideouts and if there is any suspicion of harbouring any criminal in such places; the police have a right to raid such places regardless of whether prostitutes operate there or not. In the process of such raids, the prostitutes themselves could be arrested if they have been found to be working with the wanted criminals.

“Most times when they make this type of allegation, it’s to blackmail the police to stop doing their good work. There is no issue of extortion; it is just a case of blackmail especially since the Command embarked on a massive onslaught on criminals in Lagos. Criminal hideouts and black spots are being raided daily to sanitise the state. Our officers are committed to protecting the safety of lives and property and shall continue to give their best in the discharge of their duties,” he said.

Source www.punchng.com/weve-become-atms-for-police-empire-prostitutes/

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