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Tinubu Is The Best Successor For Buhari so far -Dayo Adeyeye
THE former Minister of State for Works and Chairman of Southwest Agenda 23, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, on Sunday said, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu remains the best candidate to succeed the President Buhari in 2023.
Adeyeye said this when members of the group paid a courtesy visit to the Palace of the Akarigbo and Paramount Ruler of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi.
He said, “Tinubu is a good product that doesn’t need any advertisement and he has contributed greatly to the growth and development of the nation. He is consummate democrat and progressive.

“We have three geo-political zones in the South, and all of them have the right to contest for the presidency. South West is interested to contest for the presidency in 2023. The person who can help us win this ticket is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

“He has done a lot for Nigerians irrespective of religion and tribe. He has built bridges across the country.

“We gathered together to start campaigning for him. If we can hold our house together, we will have the presidency back in the southwest.”
According to him, the group was earlier inaugurated in Oyo and Osun States while the inauguration of the Ogun State chapter is scheduled to hold on Tuesday.
The group paid a similar visit to the Asoludero Court Sagamu residence of a former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel.
Responding, Oba Ajayi canvassed support for South West to produce next president in the country.
February 22, 2021
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February 22, 2021
Names of five people on board of crashed military plane finally emerge
Hours after a military aircraft named King Air B350i crashed at the Abuja airport on Sunday, February 21, the names of five of the seven people on board the ill-fated plane have been identified. News reports that the plane, en route Minna in Niger state, crashed close to the runway of the Abuja airport after reporting engine failure, with the seven people on board reported dead.
Names of five peoples on board of crashed military plane finally emerge. Here are the names of five of the seven people on board the crashed plane.
1. Flt Lt Gadzama
2. Flt Lt Piyo
3. Flg Offr Okpara
4. FS Olawumi
5. ACM Johnson
The names of the remaining crew members were still being awaited. The Air Vice Marshall Ibikunle Daramola, the spokesperson for the Air Force, confirmed the crash of the military plane and the number of fatalities in a tweet on the afternoon of Sunday, February 21, saying seven people died in the crash. He also confirmed that the plane crashed while returning to the Abuja Airport after reporting engine failure en-route Minna, the capital of Niger state.
He had tweeted: “This is to confirm that a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Beechcraft KingAir B350i aircraft crashed while returning to the Abuja Airport after reporting engine failure en-route Minna. First responders are at the scene. Sadly, all 7 personnel on board died in the crash.”
February 21, 2021
Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, shut down Lagos market to honour Jakande
The Iyaloja-General, Chief Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, has ordered all markets in Lagos closed to honour the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande.
Chief Tinubu-Ojo told The Nation that the first civilian governor of Lagos state deserved more than that for his giant strides.
She said it was a mark of respect and solidarity in honour of the deceased.
“We are shutting down all markets tomorrow (today) to mourn our father. We all know he was the former governor of Lagos, who dedicated his time to develop the state, and dedicating a day in his honour is a good thing,” she said.
Confirming the directive, Chief Executive Officer of Bolswot Ventures at Oshodi Market, Alhaja Bola Olufowobi, said the Iyaloja-General’s initiative was a welcome idea.
The late Jakande, she said, deserved the honour.
“He was a good man. We are happy with the directive,” she said.
Most street traders around the Idimu axis were not aware, but Madam Beatrice, at Ikotun market, said an announcer went round the market to announce the closure.
February 19, 2021
Churchill’s Wife: Tonto Dikeh And I Were Never Friends
Nollywood actress Rosy Meurer has said that what she was accused of became her reality and fate, Igbere TV reports.
The 29-year-old spoke exclusively on how her relationship with Tonto Dikeh’s ex-husband, Olakunle Churchill began in several videos on Thursday.
She said Churchill had always been there for herself and siblings and was a brother to her.
Rosy also said after Churchill’s divorce from Tonto, she stood by him till they got married.
“On a very good day I would stay mute but I just had to address some very important facts,” she wrote.
Rosy on Tuesday said she was not dating Churchill while he was married to Tonto.
She conducted a question and answer session on Instastories.
A fan asked,
“Were u dating Churchill the time he still married to his Ex.”
She replied saying,
“Nothing of such ever happened.”
“Why did you break another woman’s home, your friend for that matter,” another person asked.
Rosy replied saying, “No one broke anyone’s home my dear. It is just what it is. Life happened, something’s you don’t plan. I let God’s will in my life take place, I lost my own relationship in the middle of all the online banter then, something that didn’t concern me.
“I never looked at him in that way. If his eyes were on me. He got married eventually and unfortunately only God knows what really happened and why it ended the way it did and why I was dragged into what I had no knowledge of. I still remained a part of his life like I always have.
“Just this time he was broken and just off, shattered. I still had no interest in him. Still looked at him the same way just with so much pity this time. Time healed him….2 years ago he proposed, 1 year ago did the necessary rights. By the grace of God we are happy today.”
Rosy also established the fact that she was never friends with Tonto.
“I was never friend’s with any of his Ex’s. never had any sort of relationship with any. Met once, an acquaintance, he introduced my siblings and I to her as his family, that was it,” she wrote.
Rosy trended on Monday following the revelation of her marriage to Churchill.
She celebrated her birthday with several pictures and videos flaunting her ring on Instagram.
Tonto’s fans took to Twitter and Rosy’s comment section to bash her for marrying her friend’s ex-husband.
Igbere TV reports that Tonto had accused Rosy to be the reason her marriage to Churchill crashed.
“I am aware of her. I am aware that she is sleeping with my husband. I am aware that my husband is taking care of her. I am also aware that she is the reason that my husband abandoned his son and me for close to two months just before the Big Foundation thing we did in December” disclosed Tonto Dikeh in an interview.
Rosy, however later came out to deny the accusation.
Tonto parted ways with Churchill in 2017 just two years after their wedding in 2015 over allegations of domestic abuse and extra-marital affairs.
They have a son, Andre together.
February 19, 2021
Failure To Stop Herdsmen Impunity May Spike Ethnic Conflicts -Moghalu warns Buhari
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, 2019 presidential candidate and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has clearly told President Muhammadu Buhari that there are grave consequences of his government’s failure to stop heinous crimes being committed by killer herdsmen and bandits across the country..
The former United Nations diplomat gave the warning in a statement he signed and made available for press.
Moghalu warned that the situation, if not controlled could result in a widespread ethnic conflict.
The new generation political leader
recalled his experience with such situations, including the Rwandan genocide and in other countries as a senior United Nation official in the 1990s.
“The failure of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to end the menace of criminal herdsmen and bandits throughout Nigeria has led to the stigmatization of the Fulani and other ethnic groups for the crimes of a few,”Moghalu said.
According to him, the failure of Nigerian authorities to deploy effective security and law enforcement action against these criminals has created a dangerous vacuum that is increasingly filled, unsurprisingly, by self-defense measures by several communities across the country.
“This could lead to reprisals based on ethnic profiling. In this context, I deplore the recent killings of innocent Nigerians of Northern extraction in Oyo State,” the former presidential candidate said.
Moghalu, who pointed out that he had played a role internationally to rebuild several failed states after destructive internal conflicts, called on Buhari to act decisively before it becomes too late.
He noted that at this point, the country has lost its monopoly of the use of force since killer herdsmen, bandits and other terrorists can free attack defenseless Nigerians without being brought to book
The former diplomat warned that no one should be above the country’s laws, wondering why the authorities will appear impotent in cases involving killer-herdsmen and bandits but act decisively to squash peaceful protests by citizens.
February 19, 2021
Zamfara State plans to spend N200million On ‘Repentant’ Bandits
The Zamfara State Government has earmarked a total of N200 million for its amnesty programme for ‘repentant’ bandits in 2021.

The figure was contained in the budget details passed by the Zamfara State House of Assembly in December 2020.
In a copy of the budget seen by our Reporters, N354 million was also budgeted for projects related to grazing reserves.
The Bello Matawalle-led government had in 2019 entered a peace agreement with bandits.
The governor said negotiation with the gunmen is the best option for lasting peace in the state.
Matawalle while hosting Mohammed Adamu, Inspector-General of Police; Yusuf Bichi, Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS); and other security heads on July 16, 2020 also offered bandits in the state two cows in exchange for every AK47 rifle surrendered.
He explained that he chose to offer cows because the bandits need the cows to advance their economic interests.
In January, 15 brand new Hilux vehicles and cash gifts were given to leaders of different ‘repentant’ banditry groups by Matawalle.
“Those bandits have different group, so if they say they repent, the governor will give them a Hilux vehicle but unfortunately they are now using the vehicles to carry out attacks,” a military source told SaharaReporters
“It’s so sad, he called it peace and reconciliation programme, but all you need to be rich now in Zamfara is to take up arms against the people.”
Also, the state government recently granted amnesty to Auwalun Daudawa, the leader of the gang of bandits that abducted over 300 schoolboys in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Daudawa and his gang on December 11, 2020 invaded the school, shooting indiscriminately to scare residents. The operation led to the disappearance of over 300 students.
The abduction happened when President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting his home state of Katsina.
After their release on December 17, 2020, Matawalle, said the boys were rescued through the help of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and that no ransom was paid.
Zamfara, like other North-West states, has in the last 10 years faced devastating attacks from armed bandits.
A committee set up to investigate the menace of armed banditry in the region, headed by Mohammed Abubakar, a former Inspector General of Police, reported that in Zamfara State between June 2011 and May 2019, 4,983 women were widowed; 25,050 children were orphaned; and more than 190,000 people were displaced as a result of armed banditry.
Last year, Governor Aminu Masari, Matawalle’s counterpart in Katsina State, said his administration had to pull out of the peace deal it had with bandits that had been terrorising residents of the state.
Masari said despite the peace deal, the gunmen continued to carry out attacks with their accomplices from Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger Republic, leading to “indiscriminate killings” and kidnappings in the state.
February 19, 2021
Fayemi ready to pay N7.2m compensation to #ENDSARS victims
The Ekiti Government will pay N7. 2 million in compensation to 24 petitioners in 14 days, Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda, has said.
Fapohunda made this known during a visit to the panel sitting in Ado Ekiti, on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Dec. 30, 2020, the panel recommended the amount as compensation to some victims who complained about different forms of injustices and destruction to their properties during the October EndSARS protests.
”Gov. Fayemi will not wait until the panel submits it’s final report before processing the implementation of the recommendations.
”The compensation which will be paid within the next 14 days. We are happy to announce today that the process has begun. We are are renewing our process to strengthening our Departments to respond to Human Rights Violations, the Governor has also directed a holistic review of our Criminal Laws to review the cases of victims of our Criminal Justice System”.
“The State executive council have approved the Ekiti victim charter Bill for onward transmission to the House of Assembly”, he stressed further.
”The Executive Council has approved the payment of compensations so far in the ongoing inquiry to 24 petitioners recommended by the panel to receive N7. 2 which includes seven Police Officers who suffered loses in the course of their duty,” he said.
Responding, the Chairman of the Panel, rtd Justice Cornelius Akintayo, said that the panel received 85 petitions between Nov. 2, 2020 and Dec. 1, 2020.
Justice Akintayo said 24 petitions were struck out, or inadmissible for lack of jurisdiction, lack of diligent prosecution, and withdraw of petitions by petitioners.
He said 27 recommendations have been issued while eleven (11) petitions are still on-going for trial.
February 19, 2021
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February 18, 2021
FG approves N103.7bn for Benin-Ore Road, other projects
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved different contacts totalling N62.04bn at its weekly meeting presided over by the President Buhari
The approved projects cut across the Ministry of Works and Housing, Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory and Ministry of Water Resources.
One of such projects is the augmentation of the contract sum for Ajebandele-Shagamu Section of the Benin-Ore-Ajebandele Road.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, told State House correspondents at the end of the meeting that the redesigning of the road’s should and pavement necessitated the increase in contract sum.
He said, “The redesigning of the shoulders and pavement provision necessitated a revised estimated total cost of N22.879bn to take the contract from original sum of N71.6bn to N92.5bn.
The stretch involved is 99Km from Km162 to 261. Council approved that review of total estimated cost in favour of Messers RCC construction firm currently working there.”
The minister said the council also approved the contract for the Akwanga-Keffi-Makurdi highway.
Describing it as a sub-contract within the contract, Fashola said the contract was for the construction of a nine-way underground cable and telecommunication facility dock over the length of 255Km in the sum of N46.25bn.
He added that the council approved a contract for an automation process for the issuance of certificate of occupancy in respect of Federal Government’s lands.
The contract, he said, was in the sum of N976,037,330 in favour of IQ Systems with completion period of 10 months.‌
He also mentioned the construction of 4×20 meters span bridge at Km18 along Langtang-Wase Road in Plateau State for N2.867bn.
Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello, said the council approved all the five memoranda presented by ministry, including the review of the N19.5bn Southern Parkway project.
He listed the approved projects to include contract for the provision of access road to open up sections of Institute and Research District, Abuja in the cost of N3,462,440,823.88; the construction of access road and car park for Abuja Light rail stations, Kagini Station, in the cost of N1,830,392,696.00; upward review of the contract sum for the construction of Southern Parkway from N16,234,553,335 to N35.7bn.
Others are the contract for the rehabilitation of Bwari Law School Road in the cost of N1,466,334,591.34 and the construction of Kasce feeder road in Gwagwalada in the sum of N3,522,438,591.09.
Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, said the council approved
two memoranda presented by his ministry.
The first one, according to him, is the Fika-Gadaka Water Project in Yobe State with a revised estimated total cost of N555.15m while the second is the revision of the consultancy contract for the supervision of Gere Earth Dam in Katsina with augmentation of N310m.
February 17, 2021