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(Nigeria) The Lagos House of Assembly on Monday called on the Governor of the state, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to increase the number of officers in the Neighbourhood Safety Corps. The lawmakers also urged Mr Sanwo-Olu to equip the state's security agency so that it can adequately protect the lives and property of residents. The House further resolved that the Governor should call on the commissioner of police in the state to intensify efforts to secure the state. The resolutions of the lawmakers resulted from the attempt on the life of Hon. Olawale Rauf Age-Sulaiman, the state's legislator representing Amuwo Odofin 2 on July 8, during a political rally ahead of the forthcoming local government election. While the lawmaker escaped death, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, whose name was given as Kayode Samuel and who stood beside him, was hit and later confirmed dead. Raising the issue as a 'matter of urgent public importance', Hon. Age-Sulaiman n

*Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State (Nigeria) Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Sunday, alerted that the state was potentially in the 3rd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sanwo-Olu in a statement, said: “It has become imperative to once again provide you an update on the Coronavirus pandemic situation in Lagos State, and our ongoing response as a State Government. “Starting around the end of March 2021, the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos State began to wind down, and we began to enjoy some reprieve from the worst effects of the virus. This allowed us to further open-up the economy to allow the start of the journey towards full normalcy in our lives and the pursuit of livelihoods, after what has been a very difficult year. “Regrettably, in spite of the hard work and dedicated efforts towards sustaining the return to normalcy, over the last three months, we are now finding ourselves at what appears to be the start of a potential 3rd wave of the COVI

L-R: Minister, Information and Culture Ministry, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Minister, Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, at the Town Hall meeting on Destruction of Oil and Gas Infrastructure, in Abuja on Monday. (Nigeria) Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio has appealed to the National Assembly to expedite action on the passage of the PIB Act, and not allow the issue of percentage to be allotted to the oil producing communities to delay its passage, so as to make life meaningful for the people of the Niger Delta Region. Akpabio made the appeal while speaking with newsmen at the Town Hall meeting on the Destruction of Oil Pipelines and Gas infrastructure, organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture at the NAF Conference Center, Abuja on Monday. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Jackson Udom, Akpabio said: "Let me appeal to my former colleagues in the National Assembly to pass the PIB Bill into law so that the people of t

(Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Monday, advanced his administration’s concerted efforts in developing the rural communities through the deployment of government services to create fair and equal opportunity for every willing citizen of the state to create wealth, enjoy democracy dividends and live a healthy life. Besides numerous infrastructural projects across the 17 local government areas of Enugu State, Governor Ugwuanyi’s administration has embarked on sports development at the grassroots to discover and nurture young talents for job creation, socialisation and unification, as well as economic emancipation. Consequently, the governor in keeping with this vision and the commitment to promote recreational and sporting activities, among other numerous development projects, inaugurated a standard-double Lawn Tennis Court, at Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area Stadium, Ogrute, Enugu Ezike.   Inaugurating the sports facility, Governor Ugwuanyi, represented

*Bashorun Askia Ogieh (Nigeria) Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Managing Director, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has expressed concern over the decline in the status of local languages, warning that many of them were rapidly going extinct. Speaking at the maiden matriculation of Niger Delta University, Irri campus, weekend, Askia noted that Isoko language was one of such languages and sought the intervention of stakeholders to save the language. Calling for the inclusion of Isoko language in the Niger Delta University's Linguistics Department, he said this would help sustain indigenous languages. "I call on our sons and daughters who are well positioned to come on board to sponsor programmes and projects in this citadel of learning that is poised to shape the character and scholarship of our children," Ogieh who was chairman at the matriculation ceremony said. He noted that has already set the ball rolling by sponsoring the publication o

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria) Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said that by effectively harnessing and maximising its plethora of wealth buried in the ground in various parts of the country through sustainable mining, Nigeria will not only become less dependent on crude oil as a major revenue earner, millions of job opportunities will be created for Nigerians, among other benefits to the economy.   Osinbajo stated this on Thursday at the maiden edition of the (virtual) Strategic Engagement on Sustainable Mining Titled: Resurrecting Our Buried Prosperity in Abuja. In his recorded keynote address delivered at the Conference, the Vice President added that effective collaboration among all levels of government to ensure the proper regulation of mining activities will ensure that the country fully reaps the rewards from its largely untapped wealth.  Noting that mining revenues go to the Federation Account and is shared between the Federal Government, States and Local Governm

*Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State (Nigeria) Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State,  has dedicated last Saturday of June every year as Imo Youth Day, emphasizing that the day will afford youths from different organizations across the State the opportunity to gather and celebrate themselves. The governor dropped the hint weekend at Dan Anyiam Stadium Owerri during the empowerment of 15,000 youths with the sum of N250, 000 each to enable them startup a business, after being trained on different skills by government. Governor Uzodimma said that the day was significant not only in the lives of Imo youths but the entire State. He, therefore, enjoined them to begin their respective businesses or improve on the ones they are already into, and remember to make themselves available to talk to their fellow youths to shun crime and violence and to embrace peace. The governor promised to institute a forum for yearly regular interaction of Imo Youths in a manner that they will cross-fertili

(Nigeria) The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has expressed delight at Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State’s “robust, proactive and transformational governance evidenced by the prevalence of unprecedented peace, security and progress across the length and breadth of the state”. Babandede who spoke through the Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service, Enugu State Command, Joachim Olumba, who paid a courtesy visit Governor Ugwuanyi, at the Government House, Enugu, on Monday, commended the governor’s remarkable support to all security agencies in the state. Olumba who assumed office recently as the Enugu State Command’s Comptroller, was at the Government House, Enugu, to formally introduce himself and his team to Governor Ugwuanyi. The Air Officer Commanding, Ground Training Command, Nigeria Air Force, Enugu, Air Vice Marshal Frank Goodnews Okparah, and the Controller, Nigerian Correctional Service, Enugu State Command, Godwin Onoko

(Nigeria) Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, in keeping with its rural development agenda, has constructed one motorized and seven solar-powered water boreholes in some courts and markets in the rural areas of the state. The water projects, which are part of the concerted efforts of the state government to provide potable water for residents of Enugu State irrespective of where they reside, were inaugurated simultaneously in five markets, two courts and a community square. Speaking on the project, the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Greg Nnaji, disclosed that the water projects were duly captured in the 2021 budget and consequently approved by the State Executive Council. Engr. Nnaji revealed that the two water projects, located at Eke Ozzi Market, Ogurute, Enugu Ezike in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area were inaugurated by the Commissioner for Rural Development, Prince Emeka Mamah, on behalf of Governor Ugwuanyi, while the one in Ezinese Community Squar

*Nigerian Senate (Nigeria) The Senate has protested a media report by Channels Television alleging that its leadership approved the sum of N37 billion for the renovation of the National Assembly. Leading the protest, the Deputy Whip, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, while relying on order 14 and 15 of the Senate Standing Rules, declared the report as contemptuous and a breach of his privileges and that of members of the upper chamber. The lawmaker lamented that the falsehoods contained in the report by the television station was intended to denigrate the image of the National Assembly and incite Nigerians against lawmakers on the various social media platforms. He said, “Mr. President, Distinguished colleagues, yesterday, Abuja experienced rainfall. And the issue of the rainfall as it happened yesterday which was heavy was reported in various media. “However, when I listened to the reportage on the Channels Television yesterday, there were many issues that were raised in their report t

*Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN visits the DLK Signature Limited Industrial Factory  to kick off MSME Week in Lugbe, Abuja. (Nigeria) Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that “It is very impressive that somewhere in Abuja, you can have so much manufacturing going on, so many people employed and so much innovation and creativity on display.” He spoke on Tuesday, during a visit to DLK Clothing Signatures LTD, a manufacturer of shoes, garments and other items, located in Lugbe, a suburb of Abuja. The Vice President accompanied by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, among other officials, also visited Roving Heights Book Store located at the Wuse II area of the FCT, as the 2021 MSME Week gets underway. At the Lugbe facility, Osinbajo was conducted around the different production lines by the CEO of the company, Lovelyn Mbanefo. He was taken around the shoe-making line, garment factory, and face mask production line. The VP interacted with

*Nigeria Senate (Nigeria) The Senate has mandated six of its Committees to engage the Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, on the Federal Government’s elapsed Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, between 2017 and 2020. The Committees are: National Planning; Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions; Marine Transport; Land Transport; Works and Power. The decision to engage the Finance Minister was reached amid a resolution by the Upper Chamber after it considered a motion “on the need to critically assess the performance of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, 2017-2020.” The motion was sponsored by Senator Abdu Kwari (APC, Kaduna North). In his presentation, Senator Kwari noted that the four year Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, 2017-2020, which was the source document of Nigeria’s four years Appropriations Act had elapsed. He recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari, launched the Plan in April of 2017 to ensure the actualization of a sust

(Nigeria) The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja on Tuesday, “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs and other Nigerians who are Twitter users, pending the hearing and determination of this suit.” The ruling followed the suit against the Nigeria government by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP and 176 concerned Nigerians, arguing that “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter have escalated repression of human rights and unlawfully restricted the rights of Nigerians and other people to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.” The court gave the order after hearing arguments from Solicitor to SERAP

*Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria) Nigerian youths will play even more critical roles in shaping the country’s political and economic future by becoming more active in politics and encouraging platforms for more constructive engagements on national issues, while driving conversations that will enhance national unity, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this during the maiden Progressive Youth Conference organized by APC Youth wing this afternoon at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. The Vice President, who was the guest speaker at the conference themed, "the Future is a Decision, " said more political participation by majority of the country’s youths would, more importantly, help them to contribute to making meaningful changes which only those in government can bring about. According to the VP, “it is evident just from voter-turnout alone that the vast majority of young people either do not register to vote or do not vote.

*Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila (Nigeria) For the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the progressive movement to survive in Nigeria, there must be a deliberate and effective system of leadership recruitment to identify and prepare people, especially the youth, to occupy the important offices of party and government, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said. Gbajabiamila said this was the practice all over the world, especially in countries where democracy had developed over the years. Speaking at the 2021 Progressives Youth Conference of the APC in Abuja on Monday, Gbajabiamila said the party needed to identify competent people both at home and in the Diaspora and bring them on board to be "effective champions of progressivism in the country and in government." The speaker also said translating good manifestos into policies by political parties remained the foundation for achievements. "Political party

*Governor Okezie Ikpeazu (Nigeria) The newly constructed 22.5km Agalaba Ring Road (Phase 2) in  Obingwa Local Government Area in Abia State built by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has been commissioned for use by the public along with Umuopara-Amano and Hilltop roads. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony of Agalaba ring road performed by the Traditional Ruler of Ntigha Uzo Amairi Ancient Kingdom, Eze Isreal Uduko, who is also one of the oldest Traditional Rulers in Obingwa LGA, in continuation of the "Kinetic Abia" Project inspection and commissioning programme of the Governor, Dr Ikpeazu commended the youths and the entire people of the area for protecting the construction workers and their materials. He urged them to continue cooperating with the workers as more link roads are going to be done in the area and will get to Akpaa. "This road traverses all the Wards in Agalaba and even beyond. Your prayers for us concerning the road were evidently answered. I urge you to