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PFIPC: Allow me to testify, I’m being made scapegoat — ADEYEMI

*Seeks administrative clearance to appear before Reps panel The embattled Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, Mr. Adeniyi Matthew Adeyemi, has asked the House of Representatives to issue an administrative clearance to allow him testify in the investigative hearing of the lower chamber. The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, had at the last sitting of the ad-hoc panel investigating the issue last Wednesday, told lawmakers that the police couldn’t produce Adeyemi before the panel because court clearance was needed to present him. But in a statement by his legal team late Sunday, Adeyemi, currently in custody, said any legislative report on the PFIPC scandal without his testimony was “fundamentally flawed.” Adeyemi’s legal team is led by Festus Akhigbe. Adeyemi’s legal team said their client was being framed as an “isolated, mastermind impostor who single-handedly fabricated a Federal Government agency.” The legal team s...
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Mob killing: We beat UNIJOS student to recover missing phone — Suspects

Four suspects arrested in connection with the gruesome killing of a University of Jos, UNIJOS, Political Science student, Ibrahim Mbaya, have admitted participating in the mob assault that led to his death, saying they beat him in a bid to recover a missing mobile phone allegedly stolen by the deceased. The suspects made the confessions, Tuesday while being paraded by the Plateau State police command in Jos. Mbaya, popularly known as “Ibee,” was allegedly tortured to death on Sunday at an off-campus apartment behind the City of David area along Ring Road in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State after he was accused of stealing an iPhone. The incident has sparked widespread outrage across Plateau State and beyond, with a viral video showing the deceased being repeatedly flogged with planks and canes before he eventually died from the injuries sustained during the assault. Speaking during the parade, one of the suspects, Emmanuel Newyear, 30, admitted hitting the deceased with...
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Mob killing: We beat UNIJOS student to recover missing phone — Suspects

FOUR suspects arrested in connection with the gruesome killing of a University of Jos, UNIJOS, Political Science student, Ibrahim Mbaya, have admitted participating in the mob assault that led to his death, saying they beat him in a bid to recover a missing mobile phone allegedly stolen by the deceased. The suspects made the confessions, Tuesday while being paraded by the Plateau State police command in Jos. Mbaya, popularly known as “Ibee,” was allegedly tortured to death on Sunday at an off-campus apartment behind the City of David area along Ring Road in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State after he was accused of stealing an iPhone. The incident has sparked widespread outrage across Plateau State and beyond, with a viral video showing the deceased being repeatedly flogged with planks and canes before he eventually died from the injuries sustained during the assault. Speaking during the parade, one of the suspects, Emmanuel Newyear, 30, admitted hitting the deceased with...
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Deregistration of ADC, others was judicial rascality — Appeal Court

*Slams Justice Lifu’s action *Verdict corrected grave miscarriage of justice — ADC *2027 polls must be won at ballot, not in court — Atiku *Plot to stop Adeleke thwarted — Gov’s camp THE  Court of Appeal in Abuja has vacated the judgement that directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deregister African Democratic Congress, ADC, and four other political parties accused of failing to meet constitutional requirements, describing Justice Peter Lifu’s action as judicial rascality, impertinence. The other parties include  Action Peoples Party, APP; Action Alliance, AA;  Accord Party, AP; and Zenith Labour Party, ZLP. It would be eecalled that Justice Lifu had given the order to deregister the parties, despite the order made by the appellate court on May 22, directing him to stay proceedings in the case, pending the outcome of an appeal by the parties. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices yesterday, held that th...
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Marine Road risks collapse

* Cracks threaten lives, businesses, access to Liverpool corridor Residents, motorists, workers and businesses along Marine Road, off Liverpool Road in Apapa, Lagos, have raised the alarm over what they described as an imminent disaster following the rapid deterioration of a major section of the road. The road, which serves as a critical access route for residents, commercial vehicles and port users within the Apapa axis, has developed alarming cracks leaving large portions of the asphalt badly displaced and on the verge of complete collapse. A visit to the area showed that the damaged section has become a disaster waiting to happen. Large cracks now run across the entire width of the carriageway, while parts of the road have sunk significantly, creating dangerous cavities capable of swallowing vehicles or unsuspecting pedestrians if urgent intervention is not carried out. To prevent tragedy, concerned residents have resorted to using concrete traffic drums and caution tapes to cordon ...
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Refuse: Lagos govt revives shut dumpsites

THE Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has assured residents that the temporary delays being experienced in waste evacuation across parts of Lagos will soon ease following the resuscitation and ongoing rehabilitation project of Road E at the Olusosun disposal facility, Ojota area of the state and others. LAWMA assured that the upgrading would restore seamless access for waste collection vehicles and significantly improve evacuation operations. Recall that Olusosun had earlier been shut for dumping of waste operations as part of decommissioning for waste to clean energy facility  However, the Managing Director of LAWMA, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, who spoke during an inspection visit to assess the progress of the rehabilitation works, described the project as a critical intervention aimed at improving access to the facility and accelerating waste evacuation across the metropolis. Gbadegesin disclosed that the rehabilitation, being undertaken by a private firm, Zoomlion Nigeria...
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How 4 police officers arrested for extorting ICPC chairman of N53,000

THE Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Ahmed Sanusi, has ordered the arrest of four Police officers for extorting the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Crimes Commission,  Dr. Musa Aliyu, SAN, during an illegal stop-and-search operation in Abuja, of the sum of N53,000. Sanusi who briefed newsmen on police operations, yesterday, in Abuja, described the officers as “thieves under serving of wearing the police uniform.’ He said the officers mounted an unauthorised checkpoint around the Banex area of Wuse after leaving their respective duty posts and extorted the ICPC chairman without knowing his identity. According to Sanusi, “The ICPC chairman was forced to withdraw N53,000 through a Point of Sale operator and even paid the transaction charges before the officers shared the money among themselves. “I must say here also, that we have four policemen in custody as we speak who successfully extorted somebody of high importance, unknown t...
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