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THE Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, yesterday, ordered Commissioners of Police, CPs, and tactical commanders to immediately intensify enforcement operations against vehicles without number plates. Disu, who spoke during a strategic conference meeting with senior police officers, said there is a “growing and disturbing trend” of some persons driving vehicles without or with concealed number plates on roads across Nigeria. Disu said the trend of driving vehicles without number plates is “unlawful, irresponsible, and unacceptable." The IGP said the police will no longer tolerate the impunity, adding that the situation has “serious implications for public safety and national security”. His words: “Across our country, we have an increasing number of vehicles being driven without registration numbers as well as vehicles whose number plates are deliberately concealed, defaced, covered, or altered in an attempt to evade identification. “This practice is unlawful, irresponsible, a...

MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, yesterday, stormed the party’s secretariat in Ogba, protesting alleged irregularities that characterised the recently concluded House of Representatives and State House of Assembly primary elections in several constituencies. The protesters, comprising party members, supporters and loyalists of aggrieved aspirants, called on the APC leadership and the party’s various appeal committees to investigate the conduct of the primaries and reverse what they described as widespread violations of the party’s constitution and electoral guidelines. Among the constituencies at the centre of the controversy are Amuwo Odofin Federal Constituency, Amuwo Odofin Constituency II, Ajeromi-Ifelodun Federal Constituency, Oshodi-Isolo Constituency I, Somolu Constituency II, Alimosho Constituency, Agege Constituency 1 and Eti-Osa Constituency 1. A House of Representatives aspirant, Ayodele Adebowale Adewale, who challenged the outcome of the APC p...

*Cites disrespect by party leadership DAUGHTER of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof. Iyabo Obasanjo, yesterday, resigned from the All Progressives Congress, APC, citing alleged disrespect, rejection, and maltreatment by the leadership of the ruling party in the State. Prof. Obasanjo, who recently contested for the APC governorship ticket ahead of the 2027 elections, announced her resignation in a letter dated May 31 and addressed to the Ogun State Chairman of the party, Chief Yemi Sanusi. The former lawmaker, who represented Ogun Central Senatorial district, faulted the consensus arrangement that produced Senator Solomon Adeola as the APC’s governorship candidate in Ogun State, describing the process as inconsistent with the party’s established guidelines. According to her, the process violated the APC’s rules, which require consultation and agreement among aspirants before a consensus candidate is adopted. She said: “When I started the journey to get the party’s nomination for ...

By Rotimi Fasan THE entire drama that featured the abduction of Mrs. Olaide Adegoke John-Paul and her 12-year-old twin boys lasted for just three days, between Wednesday and Saturday. Those were tension-soaked days that served mostly to highlight or add to the pressure on a federal government that many had come to see as the very symbol of incompetence. Abuja, for many, had failed to uphold the fundamental objective justifying the social contract between a state and the people: the assurance of the safety and welfare of the citizens. A day or two earlier, Nigerians had been angered to distraction and made desperate by the terrorists in the Oriire community in Ogbomoso LGA. They had released (for the second time) a painful but cowardly footage in which two of the women captives, with the barrel of a gun pointing in their faces, were made to beg the authorities not to make any attempt to storm the forest to free the 46 hostages being held there. Stirred by that footage and reports of mor...

By Usman Sarki "The power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life," Edward Gibbon LET me begin by stating that for the last forty years or so I have kept close to the stupendous work of the great historian Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, whether here at home in Nigeria or during my years abroad. It has remained, in many respects, one of my constant companions in thought and reflection. Over the years I have drawn deep insights from this voluminous work and applied its lessons to many situations in my life, career and writings. Gibbon’s account of Rome is not merely a history of emperors, wars, intrigues, cruelties, foibles, conquests and institutions. It is, above all, a profound meditation on power, order, discipline, civic virtue, institutional resilience, moral decay and the consequences of admin...

 Abducted Oyo principal speaks from captivity, begs Nigerians to secure their freedom *Warns: Don’t play politics with our lives *Says: Kidnappers want release of their members, not N1bn ransom or Sharia lNLC, TUC threaten nationwide strike over insecurity AFTER spending 25 days in captivity, the abducted Principal of Community High School, Esiele, in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Mrs Rachael Folawe Alamu, has appeared in a viral video from captivity, begging Nigerians and government authorities to secure their release. She, however, dismissed reports that their kidnappers are demanding a N1 billion ransom, weapons or the imposition of Sharia law in Nigeria. The pupils and teachers of the Baptist Nursery and Primary School (Yawota), Community Grammar School (Esiele), and L.A. Primary School were kidnapped on May 15 during a fatal attack by bandits. One of the teachers was also killed in captivity by the terrorists. In the video, which surfaced online, on Monday, the sc...