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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on
Thursday assured Lagosians of his administration’s
determination to complete the Mile 2-Badagry Road
expansion project in quick time. Ambode spoke during an inspection tour of the project, which is being expanded to a 10-lane expressway.

He said, “The Mile 2-Badagry Expressway is very
important to all of us and like we said, it is a project
that we must finish within the shortest possible
time.”

On the Blue Line Light Rail project, the governor said efforts would be made to ensure that the Mile2 to National Theatre corridor was completed soon.
He urged the contractor and workers to increase the pace of work on the project, assuring them that the government would address the challenges they might be encountering in finishing the project.

The governor also inspected the Badagry Deep Sea
Port project, promising that his administration would give adequate support to the initiative.
He said the Sea Port, upon completion, would be the biggest in the African continent.

“The land space for the Deep Sea Port is over 1,000
hectares of which we have just been told that there’s going to be a free trade zone and then a container terminal that we are going to have here.

“We have a bouquet of investors who have signed onto this project and what that means for us is that we are going to have the largest cargo container port in Africa, situated in Badagry.

“We hope that in the next two months, we’re coming
to start this project here.”
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The new acting Army Chief of Staff, Maj-Gen,
Tukur Burutai, will be heading to Yobe State to
celebrate his appointment with troops fighting Boko Haram,Punch reported.

Burutai met behind closed doors with President
Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, where he was told of what is expected of him
in the appointment.

The Army chief expressed that it is only fair he
celebrates Sallah with the troops. His appointment was approved earlier in the week by Buhari, together with the National Security advisor for the country.

Burutai was the Commander of the Multinational
Joint Task Force before his appointment.




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The saga continues. Birdman has filed suit against
Jay Z for $50 million, and it’s all over Lil Wayne.
Cash Money Records is suing Jay Z’s streaming
service TIDAL for streaming Lil Wayne’s album FWA.

Cash Money claims it has exclusive rights to Wayne’s music and TIDAL is an illegal intermeddler.

In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Cash Money calls
out TIDAL for resorting to “a desperate and illegal
attempt to save their struggling streaming service.”
TIDAL responds to the claim, saying that Cash
Money does not have an exclusive lock on Weezy
and that he gave it the right to stream his music, in
return for an ownership stake in the company.
However,Cash Money begs to differ and cites its
contract with Wayne, which specifically states Wayne does not have the power to license his music to anyone else.

Cash Money also takes shots at Wayne’s FWA, saying it got “tepid reviews” and could hurt Cash Money’s attempts to exploit Wayne’s music. Just yesterday, Birdman was named in an indictment involving the April shooting of Lil Wayne’s tour buses. In January, Wayne filed suit against Birdmanand Cash Money for $51 million.

www.rap-up.com/2015/07/16/cash-money-sues-tidal-for-50-million-over-lil-wayne/

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Gunmen suspected to be assassins on Tuesday
night stormed the residence of a lecturer at the
Department of Agricultural Economics of the
Obafemi Awolowo University, Dr. Deji Adejobi.
Our correspondent gathered that Adejobi was shot
by his assailants who invaded his residence close to
the Tollgate area of Ile Ife.
Residents of the area said the gunmen, who stormed
the residence around 10pm, shot into the air to scare
away residents before firing their target.
The deceased was said to be the older brother of the
Police Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State
Police Command, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi.
One of the children of the late don, Oyin, narrated
amidst tears how the gunmen killed her father and
threw the family into a mournful mood.
She said, “We finished our evening prayer at
10:05pm when dad drove into the compound. Then I overheard an argument between the gateman and
some people. I quickly looked from the window and I saw another black car that entered our compound
together with dad’s car.
“Our gateman was quizzing the occupants of the
other car but they hit him and ordered him to lie
down.
“The men in the black car stepped out of their car
before dad could alight from his and one of them
shot into the air. Two of them moved into dad’s car
while others came inside the house.”
Oyin added that their grandma begged the gunmen,
who went inside the house, but they heard gunshot
from outside twice.
She said further that the gunmen took away the
lecture’s car around 10:20pm and she heard her late
dad begging them not to whisk him away.
“We thought they took him away and we were praying
for his safety without knowing that he had been
killed,” she said.
According to her, the police team found Adejobi’s
body where it was.
Efforts to know if the police were aware of the case
were unsuccessful as the Police Public Relations
Officer in Osun State, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, dropped
the call while our correspondent was asking him
about the case.
But the Public Relations Officer of the OAU, Mr.
Abiodun Olanrewaju, who confirmed the incident,
said the university community was shocked to hear
the news of the killing of the don.
He said, “We were shocked to hear that he was killed.
We just pray God will give the family the fortitude to
bear the loss. It is terrible.”

Barely a week after a building collapsed in Yaba,
Lagos, another three-storey building on Wednesday
collapsed in Ebute Meta.
About half of the building located at on No. 29
Oloto Street, collapsed on the right side leaving the
other half hanging dangerously over adjoining
buildings. The building has not been occupied since
2012 after a portion at the back collapsed forcing
residents in front apartments to vacate.
A source observed that rescue workers from the
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency
(LASEMA) and Lagos State Building Control Agency
(LASBCA) were at the scene working.
The officials were using sledge hammers to
demolish the building from the point of the partial
collapse.
Some residents of the area expressed the fear that
if the demolition was not properly carried out, it
might endanger other buildings in the area.
Mr Folami Goriola, a tenant in one of the buildings
on the street appealed to the state government to
ensure a controlled demolition to safeguard other
buildings.
Goriola said that the occupants of No. 27 Oloto Str.
where he resides had been given notice to run an
integrity test a second time.
He noted that the test would ensure stability of their building which was adjacent to there maining portion of the collapsed building. “We are nursing the fear that the wrecks may fall over our building,’’ he said.
An eye witness who pleaded anonymity, said that
the building collapsed in the early hours of
Wednesday.
“The collapse happened at exactly at 5.28 a.m.
precisely and I called the police emergency number
and they responded immediately,’’ he said.
He explained that the building had been marked for
demolition since 2012 and that the occupants had
made efforts to ensure it was pulled down without
success.
He lamented that the building was a hideout for
social miscreants and refuse dump posing danger
to the people’s health.
Another resident, Mr Rotimi Azeez, said that the
back portion of the building had killed about 10
persons when it collapsed in 2012, leading to its
being marked for demolition.
“The demolition was delayed till it collapsed after 5
a.m. in the morning today,’’ he said.
Efforts to get the reaction of LASBCA on the issue
failed as an official said that they were not allowed
to speak to the press.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday in Abuja pegged the minimum entry requirement into Nigerian universities for the 2015/16 academic year at 180 marks.

The body, however, said polytechnics and colleges of education, including innovative enterprise institutions awarding National Diploma are to admit undergraduate students with a minimum of 150 marks.

The decisions were taken during the 6th combined policy meeting of stakeholders of institutions awarding degrees and certificates.

The stakeholders also agreed on the admission quota for the 2015/16 academic year, approving a 60-40 ratio for science and arts-related programmes in all universities while a ratio of 70-30 goes for technology and non-technology related courses in the polytechnics.

The meeting was attended by vice-chancellors of universities, provosts of colleges of education and rectors of polytechnics and monotechnics.

The Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of JAMB, Prof. ‘Dibu Ojerinde, cautioned tertiary institutions against flouting the admission process, saying that with effect from the current academic session, the board would sanction defaulters who defy the regulation for admissions.

In his power-point presentation at the meeting, Ojerinde said a total of 1,436,867 candidates, representing 97.38 per cent applied to degree-awarding institutions as first choice preference, while candidates’ preference for NCE stood at 18,341, representing 1.24 per cent.

The 2015 UTME cumulative performance statistics of candidates also released by JAMB indicated that 455,639 candidates scored 200 marks and above.

Those who scored between 190-199 stood at 207,720 while those below 160 were 122,091 candidates.

For the 2015 admission year, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, topped the first choice university chart for applicants with 7.12 per cent, this was closely followed by University of Benin, coming second with 4.83 per cent.

The Federal Polytechnic,Offa in Kwara State, topped most preferred polytechnic with 0.15 per cent, followed by Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot-Osurua, with 0.11 per cent.


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The Commanding Officer, 72 Special Forces Battalion, Makurdi, Timothy Lagbaja, has said that the battalion lost 28 soldiers to insurgency in the North-East and in Benue. Mr. Lagbaja, a colonel, told newsmen in Makurdi on Wednesday that between 2012 and 2015, the battalion lost four officers and eight soldiers to the Tiv/Fulani and Agatu crises in Benue. He said the remaining 16 were lost to insurgency in the North- East, while many others who sustained degrees of injuries were either flown abroad or treated in the country. The commander said the battalion alone had deployed about 500 soldiers to serve in the special security outfit `operation Zenda’ to maintain internal security in the state. According to him, the effort is paying off as weapons hitherto in the hands of wrong people have been recovered. He said that the high criminality in the state had been reduced to “few isolated cases of killings’’.