LANGBASA CROWNS KING - OBA HAFEEZ OLAKUNLE BADIRU (KAJEROJAIYE 1)

By ADEOLA AMOS All is set for the grand finale coronation of (HRM) Oba Hafeez Olakunle Badiru which started on Tuesday 7th of November 2017. Amidst excitements and sheer expectations the people of Langbasa Ajah, Eti-Osa and notable dignitaries from near and far graced the occasion. Cultural displays from various institutions, cultural troupes and traditional acrobatic dancers light up the grand opening of Tuesday's event. However, the Grand Coronation finale comes up on Saturday 11/11/2017 in colors as star musician K1 De-Ultimate will perform at the event. Notable personalities, traditional rulers, the good people of Lagos, Nigeria and diaspora will be present to seal the grandeur event. More stories await you as we gear up for the glamorous event.

Lagos Empowers Eleguishi to expand her kingdom

The legal tango over the rightful owner of the expansive inland waterways in Lekki area of Lagos state has shifted to the Supreme Court. This followed the appellate court ruling that both levels of government claimed victory. Not only that, the Federal Government and the Lagos state government tussles over the control of the multimillion waterway. Investors who possess valid licenses to expand and develop the waterways felt cheated also approach the court. One of such litigation was on 6th June, 2017 brought before Justice M.S Hassan of the Federal court, Ikoyi In suit FHC/L/CS/655/2017, where the honorable judge ordered that parties involved should maintain “Status quo pending the determination of the application”. The case was adjourned till 25th of September, 2017. The plaintiffs are two investors who had been licensed by National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA since 2003. Megba Toluwaleke Nig. Company and Lucky Megba Ojonla Nig. Ltd. had dragged NIWA, Lagos state government, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, Eleguishi Property Investment, Attorney General of Lagos and Van Oord Dredging Contractors to court over theirs right to operate the waterways for specific number of years. In a move termed as “comptempt of court” construction has begun on the disputed land as Elegushi family members under the trade name of Czar Engineering limited designed and launched an Imperial International Business City on the disputed waterways. Those who attended the launching of the city wondered why corporate organizations partnering the Elegushi could not ascertain the legal status of the land before signing the agreement and not only that moved into the site. The project according to findings is a joint venture between Channeldrill Resources Limited and some self-acclaimed elders of Elegushi family members under the name of Czar Engineering Limited with a trade office at 22, Dr Omon Ebhomenye street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos. The project also attracts other organizations such as Maritime Projects, Royal HaskoningDHV UK (marine engineer & reclamation consultants), Mott Macdonald (infrastructure engineer consultant), Gensler (master town planner), Kedari capital (financiers) and none of them could interpret the many court cases against the waterways as a factor. The project, according to its promoters, was conceived after the Lagos State Government gave approval for the expansion of Ikate Kingdom by 200 hectares of land to Lekki Phase 1, through dredging of the lagoon. The Managing Director of Channeldrill Resources Limited, Mr. Femi Akioye, told our correspondent he is not aware of any litigation against the said project. Akioye who maintains that the transportation network of the city would promote efficiency within Lagos added that all approval to the project has been received and that the city will be delivered in 2022 as work has commenced in earnest. Investigations reveal that continuous work on the site is generating rumbles and tension is brewing because part of the said area is been reclaimed and exhibited as Periwinkle Estate. The developers have also appointed the service of marketers such as Assist2sell and many other agents to market parcels of reclaimed lagoon which is obviously under litigation.

The violence way at which the agents of the Lagos State government moved to hijack the waterways in 2008 lend credence to the fear of many Lagosians including investors who had sought the approval of NIWA to develop the waterways. Under Babatunde Raji Fashola, A lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, as governor of the state Lagos state officials suddenly went after inland waterways operators following the creation of Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, and the repeal of the law establishing the Federal Government body (National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA) charged with the responsibility of regulating waterways in the country. The Incorporated Associations of Dredgers and Water Transport Operators had gone to the Federal High Court to challenge the state government on the LASWA creation and the court ruled in favour of NIWA/NIMASA (Nigerian Maritime Administration and Security Agency) and the operators. The court said then that operators should relate with NIWA since the 1999 Constitution places the control of the inland waterways on the exclusive list to be controlled by the Federal Government. After that judgement, Lagos State stopped interfering in the regulation and control of the waterways in the state until it approached the Appeal Court recently. The Appeal Court delivered judgment last July but the twist to the tussle is that the state government and NIWA are interpreting the ruling differently. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, during a Town Hall meeting in Badore Ferry Terminal, Ajah, warned boat operators and dredgers operating in the state to comply with the LASWA law or have their activities banned. Speaking at a joint media briefing by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde; the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem; the Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Engr. Ade Akinsanya; the Managing Director of LASWA, Ms Abisola Kamson, and Chief Executive Officer of Lagos State Ferry Services, Hon Paul Kalejaye, Kazeem, backed the position of Ambode when they declared readiness to aggressively enforce the relevant laws for the regulation of Lagos waterfront infrastructure development and all connected purposes. The Lagos Area Manager of NIWA, Muazu Sambo, counter Ambode’s position stressing that “when the case went to court, NIWA, NIMASA and other stakeholders filed their cases and they were slated for hearing on September 11, 2017 only for them to be informed that they should come for judgment on July 18. According to him, NIWA has gone to the Supreme Court based on the advice of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, to clarify the Appeal Court verdict. The agency’s General Manager, Public Relations, Mr. Fadile, in a statement, said, “Lagos State House of Assembly, in line with the Court of Appeal judgment delivered on July 18, 2017, does not have the power to make laws in respect of the following International and inter-state waterways in Lagos: Intra-coastal route from Badagry, along the Badagry Creek to Lagos through Lagos Lagoon to Epe, Lekki Lagoon to Iwopin, along Omu Creek, Talifa Kivei to Atijere, Akata, Aboto, Oluwa River to Okitipupa and onto Gbekebo, Arogbo, Ofunama, Benin Creek to Warri. “The same also applies to the canal running from Araromi through Aiyetoro, Imelumo to Benin River and from Aiyetoro through Mahin Lagoon to Igbokoda. Item 5, 2nd Schedule, Section 10 of the National Inland Waterways Authority Act. Cap N.47, LFN 2004.” He quoted Justice Hussein Mukhtar, who read the Appeal Court judgement, as saying: “The required declaration for inland waterways under the exclusive legislative list is made under Section 10 of the National Inland Waterways Act, which includes rivers and intra-coastal waterways specified in the Second Schedule to the National Inland Waterways Act, which have been declared as Federal navigable waterways. “Section 11 thereof provides that all navigable waterways, inland waterways, river-ports and internal waters of Nigeria, excluding all direct approaches to the ports listed in the Third Schedule to this Act and all the other waters declared to be approaches to ports under or pursuant to the Nigerian Ports Authority Act, up to 250 metres beyond the upstream edge of the quay of such ports, shall be under the exclusive management, direction and control of the Authority. “Item 5 in the Second Schedule to the National Inland Waterways Act is the relevant provision for the navigable route that falls under the exclusive legislative list and it provides as highlighted above. Despite all these legal crises against the decision by the state government, the Lagos State Task Force provided security to Elegushi Royal Family to forceful evicts the residents of the riverine communities. The demolition which was carried out at the wake of dawn March 24th 2017 by Lagos State Joint Task Force at Ebute Itedo community and her neighboring village Otodogbame in Lekki, where thousands of Lagosians were rendered homeless.

HOLD OKOROCHA RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS IN EKE UKWU MARKET - PDP

August 28, 2017 1. We condemn the Forceful Demolition of the Popular Eke Ukwu Market and violent eviction of traders in Owerri by the Imo State Government using men of the Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies during which three (3) people including a 10 year old child were extra-judicially murdered and several other people were injured.

2. This violent eviction is all the more condemnable because it was carried out in violation of a pending Order granted by an Imo State High Court restraining the Imo State Government from demolishing the Market and Evicting the Traders. 3. This action, sadly, follows a pattern of the Use of the Apparatus of State Security to forcefully and violently carry out evictions of ordinary Nigerians from valuable property in blatant violation of Court Orders. Not very long ago, the Lagos State Government ordered the Forceful Eviction of indigent Nigerians from waterfront properties to enable it enter into joint venture agreements for the Construction of luxury apartments. Like the Owerri incident, this eviction led to the deaths of at least two (2) people and the Injury of several others, including women and children. 4. As much as we acknowledge the deals of Development and the Construction of critical infrastructure, these ideals must be pursued within the confines of respect for the Rule of Law as well as in a humane manner that preserves the dignity of indigent Nigerians while giving them viable and affordable alternatives regarding where to live, grow and trade. 5. Unfortunately, the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not recognise such valuable ideals and as such, continues to design, promote and pursue anti-people policies. 6. We call for the Immediate Investigation of these extra-judicial murders and for the Culprits to be brought to book. Only such an action will give justice to the Dead and discourage the Use of the Police and other security agencies as tools fo further oppression of ordinary Nigerians. 7. May God rest the dead. Signed: Prince Dayo Adeyeye National Publicity Secretary

Female Lawyer Cries Out After Husband Chased Her With Cutlass

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Female Lawyer Cries Out After Husband Chased Her With Cutlass

Female Lawyer Cries Out After Husband Chased Her With Cutlass 

The Untold Suffering of Nigerians Working With StarTimes

The Untold Suffering of Nigerians Working With StarTimes

The Untold Suffering of Nigerians Working With StarTimes

 By WALE ABIDEEN.

The anti labour practice in StarTimes, a popular Chinese pay TV company in Nigeria questioned the relevance of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the inefficiency which seems to have become the hallmark of regulatory agencies in Nigeria. Investigations by the Nigeria Guild of Investigation Journalists, NGIJ depicts that incredible violation of existing labour law is being perpetuated by the digital TV Company and the unreported psychological trauma of many Nigerians who work or have worked in the company will continue if nothing is urgently done to stem the tide.

According to the findings of NGIJ team led by Wale Abideen, Managing Editor of SECURITY MONITOR and President of the Guild, the Chinese pay TV Company is being accused of systemic racism and anti-labour practices by its Nigerian employees and ex-staff.

Investigations confirmed that senior Nigerian employees are exiting the company in droves amidst allegations of deep-seated racial discrimination between its Nigerian and Chinese staff, management highhandedness and widespread discontent.

The Guild also discovers that over five Nigerian senior management staff and numerous junior executives have recently resigned en-masse from the company also known as NTA-Star TV Network following widespread discontent between the Chinese handlers who occupy the topmost seats and many Nigerian senior staff.

An insider confirmed that, “Over five Nigerian management staff have recently left the distressed company in 2017 with Mr. John Esoimeme, its erstwhile National Sales Director being the latest causality in July 2017. Apart from Esoimeme, Dare Kafar, its only ever Nigerian Marketing Director resigned in March following heated arguments and unresolved power struggle while its Head of Public Relations, Israel Bolaji left in June 2017. It was also gathered that both Habeeb Somoye, marketing manager and Ayokunle Idowu, content marketing manager had left earlier in very unclear circumstances amongst countless others.

An insider source within the company told investigative journalists that: “Most of the Nigerian senior staff who left have had face-offs with the most senior Chinese staff, Mr. Justin Zhang, who typifies raw racism and Chinese mafia at StarTimes. He is the mastermind of the reign of terror in the Chinese company.”

It was alleged that “Any Nigerian who confronts Zhang Justin was always sacked. There was a particular sales manager, Olumide Olawuyi-Oke, a very brilliant sales manager who was sacked on the spot for always disagreeing and raising counter opinions with Justin in meetings. Olumide was summoned to Justin’s office on September 18, 2016 after a minor argument with Justin Zhang during a management meeting and that was his last day at StarTimes.”

A middle aged female employee in the Dealer Sales Department who craved anonymity lamented thus: “Since I joined StarTimes in 2002 as a graduate, racism has remained an endemic problem here. Only a few Nigerians who can spy on others are promoted. Please check the records, 80 per cent of Nigerians have received no significant promotions or pay raise for the last 5 years in the company’s 7 years operations in Nigeria. It is an issue we have been battling for years and even the Nigeria Labour Congress has once picketed StarTimes Lagos office over anti-labour practices. Nigerians are really treated poorly here compared to their Chinese counterparts. There are terribly sharp differences in salaries, working conditions, and benefits such as insurance policy and promotion; arbitrary demotion of Nigerians is also a common practice and no corporate governance.

“But most importantly, the Chinese are like mafias here. No Nigerian employee dare argue or make comments when they talk. They are like the typical Chinese imperialists in traditional Chinese movies. You can tell from the air of arrogance they carry around here. They see and treat Nigerians like second fiddle no matter the office. Strangely, the Chinese bosses have lesser qualifications and experience compared to Nigerians, but as soon as they spend a few months they are appointed director over many senior Nigerians. It is pathetic but because of the economic hardship, people cannot help the situation. Those of us who are junior are suffering in silence but they have been having running battles with the senior Nigerian employees most of whom were employed few years ago. That explains why many senior enlightened bright minds are leaving in anger. In fact, the Chinese often boast about Nigeria’s worsening unemployment rate which they consider an advantage. Justin Zhang usually says there is always another local guy who will do your job for a lesser pay so I can fire you.”

Our findings confirmed by a reliable insider source revealed that for example Esoimeme left in anger after he was recently demoted from his post of national sales director to regional director and transferred to Kaduna to pave way for two new Chinese employees both of whom joined the company less than a year ago – Mr. Thunder Lei and Mr. Boby Wang. Both, we confirmed, were appointed national sales directors following Esoimeme’s unceremonious ouster. Both Lei and Wang were junior employees who earlier reported to Esoimeme before the Chinese pulled the plug on him.

It was alleged that the move was again spearhead by Justin Zhang, the former Vice President of marketing and general manager of Lagos who was just promoted to be CEO.

“Mr. Justin is known to all in StarTimes as a die-hard sadist and racist who has held sway for years. As against the practice of two-year tenure as GM, he was in fact rewarded for his highhandedness on Nigerians by the Chinese headquarters with his promotion to the post of CEO recently. The former CEO, Jack Liu was said to be too soft”, said a former staff.

A former employee of StarTimes, Charles Imomo expressed dismay over what he described as the “growing catalogue of atrocities of Chinese companies in Nigeria.”

He said, “StarTimes like many other Chinese businesses in Nigeria is full of fraud and Nazi behaviours. It is just like a Nazi detention camp where Nigerians lament in silence. I have been here since they started. No promotion and no single increment for 5 years, yet different Chinese bosses come and rise so fast within months to become directors. For instance, to our greatest surprise many of the Chinese bosses are either fresh graduates or those with much lower experience compared to their Nigerian subordinates.”

“Racism is so rife and pathetic that Nigerian senior managers merely carry big portfolios without requisite powers as only Chinese staff call the shots. For instance, every February, the Chinese bosses usually travel to China for their New Year festivity. Before the Chinese bosses travel, they would announce a junior Chinese staffer who takes charge of the company in spite of having Nigerian directors. No structure, no hierarchy, only Chinese and Nigerians. That’s all. For example during such trip in December 2015, Mr. Berlin, the logistics manager in Lagos was announced as the acting GM of Lagos office by then vice president marketing, Justin Zhang, in the presence of two Nigerian directors – dare kafar and john Esoimeme who watched in utter disbelief. There is a pervasive air of superiority and crude arrogance that the Chinese carry around the company. They order Nigerian staff around and threaten to sack at the slightest provocation.

“We once had a Chinese boss in Lagos office called Mr Stone who was so notorious with a violent temperament, so much that he was fond of slapping Nigerian staff at will. When his excesses became unbearable, the NTA, our partner company, having received so much complains from the Nigerian staff came to the rescue. NTA insisted Mr Stone be banished to China. He was smuggled out of Nigeria overnight. It was that bad.

“The Chinese are fond of cutting corners and engaged in sharp practices. Many of them have neither the required immigration papers for residence nor the professional licenses or locally required certificates to perform their local roles in Nigeria. For example, Mr. Justin Zhang, the new CEO was the Vice president Marketing for over three years without any APCON certification, license or membership (Find attached letter to him from APCON) When queried by APCON, he denied and continued his role with impunity. Such is the behaviour of the average Chinese. “The practice at StarTimes is that while Chinese staffers are treated like royalty most senior Nigerian staff are contract staff, even directors. The trick is to offer employment to Nigerians with a clause that the contract is renewable per annum. This makes it easy to ease out stubborn Nigerians. They simply refuse to renew your contract when you argue with any Chinese. Nigerians no matter how highly placed are fired at will or frustrated to resign. Government should deploy undercover intelligence to unravel the underhand deals in StarTimes. On the average, no fewer than 10 Nigerians resign from StarTimes monthly.

When contacted, Henry Eyo, StarTimes Human Resources Director fixed a meeting with members of the Guild but failed to be available for the interview when journalists besieged his office in Oshodi area of Lagfos. After series of failed efforts to reach him, Henry who had earlier promised to spend time with members of the Guild over the allegations later canceled the meeting and instead of fixing another meeting day refused to pick calls and also failed to response to text messages sent to his mobile.

Ramon Aliagan, Publisher and Editor in Chief of TIME NIGERIA Magazine and the Publicity Secretary of NGIJ added that, “There’s definitely an impending implosion if nothing is done”. According to Aliagan, “the working condition of Nigerians in their country is reflection of a failed political economy and it is high time government wades into the matter. Felicia Amos, a blogger and one of the investigators that unravel the erroneous acts of the StarTimes said that “NTA is aware and has tried hard to wade into this matter but with no results”. Amos noted that the reality about the plight of Nigerians working in the company is simply that Nigerians are enslaved on their own land.

Asset Declaration: Court Adjourns Trial of Ex-Perm Sec. on Health Ground

Justice Babs Kuewumi of a Federal High Court, on Monday, adjourned the trial of Dr. Illoh Onubuogo Clement, a former Permanent Secretary with the Federal Ministry of Labour, who is charged before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for not not fully declare his assests.

The adjournment was sequel to the application made to court by Illoh's lawyer, Mr. Uwanna O., who told the court about the declining health status of his client, and non-comply with the section 379 (1) of Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) by the prosecution.

In urging the court for adjournment, Illoh's lawyer informed the court that the prosecution failed in complying with the section of ACJA, by not furnish his client the summary of its witnesses' statement.

He also told the court that the anti-graft agency had fraustrated his client from perfecting the bail granted him by the court on April 4, 2017,  by rejecting the Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) on the ground that it cannot be find in the record of Land Registry, Alausa.

He further told the court that during the period his client was admitted to bail and remanded in custody of the EFCC, he was not given adequate time to discuss with him, as they were only allowed one hour to discuss.

Consequently he urged the court not to allow the trial to go on, but adjourn it till another date.

Responding, lawyer to the  EFCC, Mohammed Idris, urged the court to discontenance the submissions of the lawyer to the former Permanent Secretary.

He said his Commission did not floated the Provision of Section 379 (1) of ACJA, as all the documents needed by the defendant are in the Proof-of-Evidence.

He also argued that in all the witnesses he intend to call, five are investigators with his Commission, while one is a staff of First Bank Plc. Adding that the defendant and his defence team are avail with adequate time to meet and discuss, as they were allowed minimum of three hours to meet everyday (11am to 2 p.m.)

He therefore urged the court to discountenance the defence submission.

Ruling on the submissions of both parties, Justice Kuewumi, said he is granting the application for adjournment on health ground. He however, ordered the defendant's lawyerr to cooperate with the prosecution in facilitating the perfection of the defendant's bail.

The matter has been adjourned till June 23, 2017, for the commencement of defendant's trial.

The EFCC in a charge number FHC/L/1054c/17, alleged that the 59 years old Permanent Secretary, had on April 16, 2016, failed to disclose the sum of N97, 300, 613.44 million, in his account number 3033750243 domiciled with First Bank of Nigeria Limited.

He was also alleged to have warehoused the sum of $139, 575. 50 USD, and £10, 121.52, British Pound Sterling (BPS), in his accounts number 3033750243 and 2017262246 also domiciled with First Bank of Nigeria Limited.

The offences according to the EFCC said are contrary to and punishable under sections 23 (3)(c) of the Financial Crimes Commission (Establish) Act 2004.

Adegboruwa's Vision of Hell -

Adegboruwa's Vision

Legal practitioner, Ebun-olu Adegboruwa on Friday May 5, 2017 issued a statement titled ‘Let us paralyze the system’ in which he ominously called for a shutdown of all sectors in Nigeria as a blackmail tool to force President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. The statement is a monument to a man who, having a psychotropic vision of hell, somehow managed the lucidity to invite other citizens to partake in his desired orgiastic anarchy.

Adegboruwa wanted all sectors of the country, without exception, shutdown. His end game is best assumed from his statement: "Let the National Assembly be shut down.

Let all the courts be closed down. Let all the banks be locked up. Let all offices be closed, especially public offices. Let all schools, markets, hospitals and all such institutions, be shut down completely. Let them be TOTAL PARALYSIS.

“Let all official activities be suspended, until such a time that the President agrees to resign, and until the President disengages himself and his cabal from governance, in order to allow our nation Nigeria, move forward" he charged.
The only problem is that Adegboruwa was barking up the wrong tree. He sees a cabal where Nigerians, who are awake and fully conscious of their environment, see appointees that have continue to carry out their assignments even though their boss, President Buhari, has to observe rest periods because of his ill health.

Fortunately, Adegboruwa, even in a likely state of impaired reasoning, was able to reference a bit of history, which, sadly, totally made mincemeat of his claim that he was speaking against a cabal. For him, the lesson of history was that “We have travelled this route before and we are not prepared to go through the (Late Umaru) Yar’adua experience again."

Comically, it is Adegboruwa and his likes, for whom he is likely a proxy or mouthpiece, that are taking us through the Yar'Adua era. When the late president was gravely ill, there was such hullabaloo about a cabal hijacking the government and that its members prevented the then Vice President Goodluck Jonathan from functioning in acting capacity. The many exploits attributed to the cabal at the time were stuff that will leave Hollywood and Nollywood with materials to work with for decades. The only problem? Yar'Adua died and till date no one was able to convincingly present members of the cabal to Nigerians. Neither has anyone been indicted for the crimes the cabal allegedly committed. It turned out the cabal was the figment of the mutated imaginations of those that made some Nigerians believe that story.

The current scenario is different. When President Buhari recovers, we are going to search with floodlights for Adegboruwa's cabal and never locate it because like the fabled unicorn it does not exist. We are going to discover that the real cabal that is bent on short changing Nigerians is the very one on whose behalf Adegboruwa is speaking. Like those who alleged a cabal to shove their way into relevance and later juicy government appointments in the day of the Yar'Adua saga, carrion birds are again perching to see what they can peck out of the current situation. They wait in vain.

A clear indication to this mindset is the insensitivity in including hospitals on the list of places that must be shut down for Adegboruwa's cabal to have its way. For his crowd, the only thing that matters is to use ill health as the justification for calling a citizen uprising against President Buhari. It does not matter that closure of hospitals will cause avoidable deaths and untold suffering. He feels nothing for awaiting trial inmates whose stay behind bars can be prolonged by as many as six months if the courts shut down as being canvassed. Even children, who in their tender age have no business being deployed as fodder, are not spared in the bid to ground Nigeria as their schools are listed among institutions that must be forced to close.

Even when locked in an echo chamber that allows Adegboruwa and those who commissioned him to hear only themselves in an inescapable timeloop, there should be the slightest allowance that allows issues to be occasionally seen through the prism of reason. This would have allowed him to weigh the other updates about President Buhari and not just be locked into the falsehood originated by his cohorts. But this would be asking too much from a man whose sole claim to relevance is representing violent militant leaders and treasury looters. A death wish for President Buhari from such an entity would thus be in order since it will allow him and his associates run riot and thump their noses at citizens.

The responsibility falls on Nigerians to see beyond the message and deconstruct the messenger, who in this case happens to be Adegboruwa. His vision has nothing to do with a Nigeria running optimally but one taken over by chaos instigated by him, which is the only time lackeys, like vultures and other carrion eaters are able to feed fat. He is not alone as others have attempted the same gimmick before him, only that they had the decency to be subtle in asking Mr President to embark on a medical leave.

Those of us who are patriotic citizens will therefore not heed Adegboruwa's call. We will rather be asking him to strongly consider the detox that will diminish the vision of hell he is having concerning the country.


Ainoko, PhD writes from Bayero University, Kano and can be reached at idokoanoko@yahoo.com

Security heralds Osinbajo to Katsina, Emir's palace - News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)

Security heralds Osinbajo to Katsina, Emir's palace - News Agency of Nigeria (NAN): Security is tight in and around Katsina metropolis following the arrival of the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, for a one-day working visit to the state.