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'Fisayo Soyombo

 

Last Tuesday, the United States announced a hike in the cost of visa application for Nigerians. The US Consulate in Nigeria didn’t mince words in explaining the move: The total cost for a US citizen to obtain a visa to Nigeria was higher than the total cost for a Nigerian to obtain a comparable visa to the United States. The imbalance had to be corrected. It’s a policy that can be rationalised.

If a country’s citizens are not inferior to another’s, their visa application to that country should not be costlier than the other way. It is the least a country could do for its citizens. In this specific case, the US had apprised Nigerian authorities of the disparity in visa fees. Well, the Interior Ministry set up a committee and, as with many things Nigerian, that was the end of the matter. That’s such a shame. What was more mortifying was the ministry’s lowering of the Nigerian visa application fee for US citizens within 24 hours of the US Consulate’s protests – a move US authorities were clearly unimpressed with. Gaping hole exposed: Nigeria’s diplomatic relations are far more woeful than we’ve been imagining.

No need to cast a cross-continental gaze at the US. Over ‘here’, in South Africa, Nigerians are being slaughtered like rams almost every week, and it is the brazenness that astounds the most. Last week, there was a headline, ‘Another Nigerian killed in South Africa’. If you read the papers three of four weeks before, you would have seen the same headline, ‘Another Nigerian Killed in South Africa’. In the previous week, you would also have spotted ‘Another Nigerian killed in South Africa’. Dig deeper to the preceding two weeks and you would have found that same headline, ‘Another Nigerian killed in South Africa’. Every now and then, there’s always a Nigerian, and another one, to be murdered by South Africans. A lot can be said of the insouciance of the South African Government, but beyond the usual tokenistic state utterances, the Nigerian Government has never truly been riled up by the relentless killing of its citizens in almost all corners of South Africa.

In the last three years, and up until July 2019, some 127 Nigerians had been killed in South Africa, 13 of them masterminded by the Police. Between January and June 2019 alone, 10 Nigerians were killed in that country. In the latest installation of the killings a few days ago, Pius Abiaziem, a native of Imo State, was having breakfast in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa when he was picked up among many by eight policemen, some of them masked, and taken to his home where he was extra-judicially murdered. Unknown to them, his sister-in-law was taping proceedings with her phone. Now, their crime can no longer be hidden.

Since the audio became public, Godwin Adama, Nigeria’s Consul-General to South Africa, has been talking about sending a note verbale to Pretoria. Ideally, the gruesomeness of the murder and track record of South African killers should have forced President Muhammadu Buhari to step in. A meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa is scheduled for Pretoria in October, but Buhari had a premature opportunity in Japan, where he, Ramaphosa and numerous African leaders attended last week’s Tokyo International Conference on African Development. Guess what our President was doing? Smiling away with Ramaphosa! At least that is what the cameras of his own photographers and the social media handles of his image makers told us. If the two presidents were any serious about resolving the persistent killings, that meeting ought to have been frank and sombre, fully empathetic towards the feelings of dozens of mourning Nigerian families. Importantly, Buhari didn’t demand for the coming October meeting; Ramaphosa invited him!

Hike in US visa fee and killing of Nigerians in South Africa, what is the correlation? Responsible governments don’t joke with the welfare of their citizens. That is what the US Consulate in Nigeria proved to us; that is what the US Government would have done if its citizens were being wasted in South Africa or any other country. And beyond lowering the corresponding visa fee of Americans, Nigeria can learn to for once send a strong enough-is-enough message to South Africa. Instead of a smiley Buhari and Ramaphosa, what the media should have been reporting by now is a diplomatic row between Abuja and Pretoria.

Earlier this year, Canada rowed with China over the type of citizen a Nigerian would describe as a ‘common criminal’. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, the Canadian, had been originally sentenced to 15 years in prison in China for drug smuggling. He appealed this judgement, only to see the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in China’s Liaoning province upgrade it to a death sentence. The suspicion was that the shocking judgement was politically motivated, owing to the December 2018 arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, in Vancouver on a US extradition warrant – an action China responded to by detaining Michael Kovrig, a Canadian diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a Canadian consultant, in Beinjing on allegation of endangering state security. The execution order on Schellenberg prompted strong reprimand from Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, while the Canadian Foreign Ministry updated its travel advisory for China, warning citizens about “the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws”.

But here in Nigeria, our President is forbidden from speaking on such matters. Buhari hasn’t personally spoken; Foreign Ministry doesn’t even know the significance of a travel alert much less consider issuing one. If anyone makes too much noise over it, the President’s noisemakers would scream ‘Buhari can’t speak every time; that’s why he has aides.’ But it’s life we’re discussing here; and to almost totally leave the crusade to Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (whose commitment to the course, by the way, is indubitable), is to thoroughly undermine the sanctity of human life. If Trudeau could go that mile for a Canadian drug convict, why can’t Buhari do more than laugh with Ramaphosa, for Nigerians who have committed no crime? Maybe we are too harsh on Buhari; a President who can’t even secure the lives of his people at home, how does one begin to ask him to secure the lives of those abroad?

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A militant group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, has threatened to blow up oil installations in the region if the supervision of the Niger Delta Development Commission is taken away from the Niger Delta Ministry.

The group in a statement on Monday, warned that any attempt by the Federal Government to change the status-quo, will be met with stiff resistance regardless of the negative impact on the economy of the country.

Signed by 'General Commanding Officer’, Johnmark Ezon-Ebi, the statement said that RNDA will not watch while other regions control activities of the NDDC.

It read, “Let it be put on record that if the NDDC is removed from the supervision of the Niger Delta Ministry to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, we will carry out collateral damage on all available oil installations and facilities across the length and breadth of the Niger Delta region.

“We have warned and there will be no going back as enough is enough with playing politics and power tussle with the development of the region.

“If this callous, inhuman, devilish and heartless arrangement is not put to an end, the RNDA should not be held responsible for anything that happens.”

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The National Conscience Party has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to dissuade from the continued arrest of persons opposing his administration.

The NCP said this in a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting of its National Executive Council in Abuja.

The party argued that Buhari’s administration had been arresting people whose struggle and actions led to the emergence of his government.

The NCP said, “This trend shows lack of tolerance on the part of Buhari’s government for any person or group opposed to any of its anti-people policies.

“We therefore demand the unconditional release of Agba Jalingo, Omoyele Sowore and others. An injury to one, is an injury to all.

“The continued arrest of opposing voices is damaging to the image of Nigeria and our democracy.”

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Former Minister of Education and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take decisive measures to end attacks against Nigerians in South Africa.

Ezekwesili said Nigeria played a major part in fighting for freedom and ensuring an end to apartheid in South Africa and must therefore be treated with respect.

The former minister, who expressed her views on Twitter, said, “Dear President @CyrilRamaphosa and @GovernmentZA, the maiming and killing of citizens of Nigeria and other African countries in South Africa dishonours everything our collective fight for freedom was about.

“Even as children in primary school, we played our part. Please stop it.

“Dear President @MBuhari and @NigeriaGov, it is time to take decisive actions to protect our citizens in South Africa.

“The maiming and killings have gone on for too long without effective response. The bilateral relations with South Africa is troubled. It is time to be candid.”

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has stated that mobile courts for the Task Force on Street Trading, Illegal Markets, and Motor Parks, will become operational as from September 2, 2019.

Addressing operatives of the agency at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the capital, on Sunday, Governor Wike said that magistrates would be deployed to the various locations on Monday for the mobile courts to function.

He said, “As from Monday, magistrates will sit at the various locations to prosecute offenders of the law banning street trading.

“Anyone that is found guilty will be sanctioned by the magistrates.”

He warned operatives of the task force against taking laws into their hands, adding that his administration will not tolerate the manhandling of offenders.

He added, “We don't want to see any street traders anywhere in Port Harcourt.  Your duty is to ensure that the streets are clean.”

 

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The 123 men from Jigawa State detained by the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences are asking the Lagos State Government and Commissioner of Police to pay them N1bn for their unlawful treatment.

The men together with their motorcycles were arrested by the state's security operatives and detained over the weekend as they made their way into Lagos from Jigawa State in the Northern part of Nigeria.

In the suit with number FHC/L/CS/1519 /19 filed by one Abdullahi Yakubu, the men are asking to be compensated for the harsh treatment they were subjected to.

They are also asking for the release of their motorcycles and other personal belongings allegedly still in the custody of the security agency.

Yakubu and others are challenging the government for profiling them without any evidence of criminality.

The men said their detention violated their rights as enshrined in constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The suit by the men reads, “An order of this honourable court awarding the sum of N1bn payable by the respondents jointly and severally to the applicants as reparation.

“An order of this honourable court directing the respondents to tender unreserved public apology to the applicants.”

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The Management of First Bank PLC has called on the police to fish out those behind the killing of staff of one of its agencies in Ondo State, Adetutu Ibrahim.

The 30-year-old lady was killed by some gunmen last Wednesday at the Oke Ogba area of Akure, the state capital, where she operated a Point of Sale outlet.

In a Twitter post on Monday, the financial institution said, “We are in mourning and saddened by the death of a staff of one of the agencies working with us – Miss Adetutu Nofisat.

“Whilst we are looking to the authorities to investigate the situation and apprehend the culprits, our focus for now is on the families and loved ones left behind.

“We ask that you spare a moment to pray for the soul of the departed.”

The Ondo Police Command has already arrested three female suspects in connection to the crime.

Meanwhile, friends and family members of the deceased have initiated the hashtag #JusticeForAdetutu to pile pressure on the police to investigate the case and ensure justice.

 

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Over 50 shops belonging to foreign nationals including Nigerians in South Africa were set ablaze in an overnight attack on foreigners by xenophobes in the country.

The attack, which occurred late on Sunday, saw a group of violent locals suspected to be Zulu hostel dwellers, besiege Jules Street in Malvern, Johannesburg and looting and burning businesses.

President, Nigerian Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, in a statement on Monday confirming the attack, said that the mob also looted several shops that were around the vicinity suspected to be owned by foreign nationals before they were later dispersed by police.

He said, “Fresh attacks, looting, and burning of properties belonging to foreign nationals started yesterday morning in Jeppestown area Johannesburg when a building was set alight by an angry mob.

“Three people were killed while another person is receiving treatment for inhaling the smoke.

“Over 50 shops and businesses were destroyed, looted and burnt down over the night.

“Also, some businesses owned by foreign nationals were looted in Germiston yesterday evening.

“An Internet café and computer accessories business owned by a Nigerian was among looted shops in Germiston.

“A car sales business owned by a Nigerian is also among several businesses set alight over the night.

“Though the police said that many people have been arrested in connection with the unnecessary attacks, the looting and burning of foreign own businesses continued till this morning.”

 

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The Biafra Zionists Federation says the Indigenous People of Biafra's
plan to attack South-East politicians in foreign lands will portray
Igbo as violent people.

Nnamdi Kanu had directed IPOB members to attack Igbo leaders anywhere
outside the country.

He even urged the proscribed group to attack President Muhammadu
Buhari in Japan.

The leader of BZF, Benjamin Onwuka, in a statement on Sunday, however,
said: “It is a wrong strategy for anyone to go to Japan under the
pretext of arresting Buhari. I feel ashamed when I read what is
happening in Japan.

“People should be very careful, that is why the Zionists are talking
about diplomacy. People should stop doing things that will make the
international community see us as violent people. It is very
dangerous.

“These people should focus on what is achievable; going to Germany to
attack Ike Ekweremadu is just mocking yourself. The Fulani are the
ones holding us down not Ekweremadu.”

Onwuka stated further, “That thing they are doing is very shameful.
Look at the one they did in Japan; you are going to arrest a sitting
president, how is that possible? I was educating them on the net, IPOB
members said they were going to kill me.

“But the whole thing is funny. Buhari has diplomatic protection, so
you can’t touch him, you can’t even go near, even a minister can’t
touch him because he has a diplomatic passport. Going to Japan to make
noise cannot help us.

“So, this is not the way to go, it is damaging us; it is all political
propaganda which they are using to brainwash and collect money from
people. All these violent protests will make the world to begin to see
us as dangerous people. He is destroying our campaign; they should
come and join the Zionists.

“There has been a sustained agenda to stifle businesses of Biafra
people. Mr. Ibeto suffered the same fate simply because of Nkalagu
cement, leading to his incarceration for several months. We fought and
he was released.

“Now to show that those behind this are not ready to give up, they
have now faced Innoson and are now doing everything to kill his
investments.”

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The Biafra Zionists Federation says the Indigenous People of Biafra's
plan to attack South-East politicians in foreign lands will portray
Igbo as violent people.

Nnamdi Kanu had directed IPOB members to attack Igbo leaders anywhere
outside the country.

He even urged the proscribed group to attack President Muhammadu
Buhari in Japan.

The leader of BZF, Benjamin Onwuka, in a statement on Sunday, however,
said: “It is a wrong strategy for anyone to go to Japan under the
pretext of arresting Buhari. I feel ashamed when I read what is
happening in Japan.

“People should be very careful, that is why the Zionists are talking
about diplomacy. People should stop doing things that will make the
international community see us as violent people. It is very
dangerous.

“These people should focus on what is achievable; going to Germany to
attack Ike Ekweremadu is just mocking yourself. The Fulani are the
ones holding us down not Ekweremadu.”

Onwuka stated further, “That thing they are doing is very shameful.
Look at the one they did in Japan; you are going to arrest a sitting
president, how is that possible? I was educating them on the net, IPOB
members said they were going to kill me.

“But the whole thing is funny. Buhari has diplomatic protection, so
you can’t touch him, you can’t even go near, even a minister can’t
touch him because he has a diplomatic passport. Going to Japan to make
noise cannot help us.

“So, this is not the way to go, it is damaging us; it is all political
propaganda which they are using to brainwash and collect money from
people. All these violent protests will make the world to begin to see
us as dangerous people. He is destroying our campaign; they should
come and join the Zionists.

“There has been a sustained agenda to stifle businesses of Biafra
people. Mr. Ibeto suffered the same fate simply because of Nkalagu
cement, leading to his incarceration for several months. We fought and
he was released.

“Now to show that those behind this are not ready to give up, they
have now faced Innoson and are now doing everything to kill his
investments.”

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A respected Islamic cleric, Sheikh Sabiu Jibia has raised alarm over
the increasing atrocities of bandits in Katsina State leading to mass
rape, kidnapping, and killing.

Jibia, who is also Imam in Jibia Local Government in his sermon in the
mosque, called on traditional rulers and political leaders to find
ways of resolving the endemic insecurity in the state and other parts
of the country.

In an audiotape obtained by PRNigeria, Jibia lamented desertions of
villages and farmlands by people due to the incessant invasion by
murderous bandits who killed randomly.

Sheik Jibia said: “We are living in (a) tough time of fear. Cattle
meant for farming activities are rustled, wives and daughters are
being raped in the presence of their husbands and fathers, while other
victims are taken captive by armed hoodlums in the communities in
Jibia, Tsayau, Zandam, and Malamawa, respectively.

“People are scared to carry out their farming and business activities
as their lives are in danger due to the continued banditry, kidnapping
and cattle rustling. Our women and daughters are raped and held
captive by gangsters. Where are our traditional and political leaders?

“It is surprising that our leaders are not taking rapid actions on
these killings and kidnapping. If the government is willing, we are
ready to give our children for training and recruitment as security
forces so that they can protect their families and country at large."

However, he called on the allies of the traditional leaders, governor,
and president to tell them the truth about the happenings in the
communities and country at large stressing on the need for government
to find a lasting solution to the killings.

“Close allies of our leaders are charged with the responsibility of
telling them the truth about the happenings in this country.

"If they are telling them all is well, they are lying. We are calling
on our leaders to provide security to our lives and property as it is
their fundamental responsibility,” Jibia added.

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A respected Islamic cleric, Sheikh Sabiu Jibia has raised alarm over
the increasing atrocities of bandits in Katsina State leading to mass
rape, kidnapping, and killing.

Jibia, who is also Imam in Jibia Local Government in his sermon in the
mosque, called on traditional rulers and political leaders to find
ways of resolving the endemic insecurity in the state and other parts
of the country.

In an audiotape obtained by PRNigeria, Jibia lamented desertions of
villages and farmlands by people due to the incessant invasion by
murderous bandits who killed randomly.

Sheik Jibia said: “We are living in (a) tough time of fear. Cattle
meant for farming activities are rustled, wives and daughters are
being raped in the presence of their husbands and fathers, while other
victims are taken captive by armed hoodlums in the communities in
Jibia, Tsayau, Zandam, and Malamawa, respectively.

“People are scared to carry out their farming and business activities
as their lives are in danger due to the continued banditry, kidnapping
and cattle rustling. Our women and daughters are raped and held
captive by gangsters. Where are our traditional and political leaders?

“It is surprising that our leaders are not taking rapid actions on
these killings and kidnapping. If the government is willing, we are
ready to give our children for training and recruitment as security
forces so that they can protect their families and country at large."

However, he called on the allies of the traditional leaders, governor,
and president to tell them the truth about the happenings in the
communities and country at large stressing on the need for government
to find a lasting solution to the killings.

“Close allies of our leaders are charged with the responsibility of
telling them the truth about the happenings in this country.

"If they are telling them all is well, they are lying. We are calling
on our leaders to provide security to our lives and property as it is
their fundamental responsibility,” Jibia added.

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The Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools of Nigeria in Ogun State
has appealed to Governor Dapo Abiodun to release its members’
promotion letters of  2016 and 2017.

The chairman of the union, Akeem Lasisi, made the demand when he led
other members on a visit to the Deputy Governor Noimot Salako-Oyedele,
in her office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Daily Trust reports.

Lasisi also appealed to the government to employ more teachers and to
tackle other challenges confronting public school teachers.

The deputy governor assured the teachers of the government’s readiness
to improve their welfare and provide the necessary support to motivate
them.

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President Muhammadu Buhari says he has not abandoned his kinsmen who
were victims of flooding in Daura, Katsina State.

One of Buhari's spokesmen, Garba Shehu, said: “Contrary to the
allegations that President Muhammadu Buhari has turned his back on the
people of Daura, we can confirm that pre-assessment relief materials
were dispatched to the victims within 48 hours of the floods.

“Ten trailer loads of building materials including zinc, planks, and
cement, as well as tons of grains, cereals, and other edibles have so
far been delivered.

“The flood victims also received blankets and mattresses.

“Materials were delivered to and signed for by stakeholders while the
Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Faruk Umar welcomed the prompt emergency
response from NEMA officials,” he said.

Meanwhile, NEMA has promised that as soon as the assessment of the
damage to the flood-ravaged communities was concluded more food items
and building materials would be dispatched to the victims.
 

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President Muhammadu Buhari says he has not abandoned his kinsmen who
were victims of flooding in Daura, Katsina State.

One of Buhari's spokesmen, Garba Shehu, said: “Contrary to the
allegations that President Muhammadu Buhari has turned his back on the
people of Daura, we can confirm that pre-assessment relief materials
were dispatched to the victims within 48 hours of the floods.

“Ten trailer loads of building materials including zinc, planks, and
cement, as well as tons of grains, cereals, and other edibles have so
far been delivered.

“The flood victims also received blankets and mattresses.

“Materials were delivered to and signed for by stakeholders while the
Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Faruk Umar welcomed the prompt emergency
response from NEMA officials,” he said.

Meanwhile, NEMA has promised that as soon as the assessment of the
damage to the flood-ravaged communities was concluded more food items
and building materials would be dispatched to the victims.
 

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Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, says he
expected his party to win the forthcoming governorship elections in
Bayelsa and Kogi states.

“What I expect in Bayelsa and Kogi is a victory. There is no other
party in the state. Politics is a market of many branches and this is
the broom.

"The broom will come together as a bunch to sweep all the debris of the past.

"That is it, and we are going to win the election,” Tinubu said.

He stated this on Sunday in Benin at the 90th birthday celebration of
the Esogban of Benin, Chief David Edebiri.

Tinubu added, “There are many apples, oranges and various fruits of
different characters.

"But one thing that is consistent is the broom that will come together
as a bunch during the election.”

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Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, says he
expected his party to win the forthcoming governorship elections in
Bayelsa and Kogi states.

“What I expect in Bayelsa and Kogi is a victory. There is no other
party in the state. Politics is a market of many branches and this is
the broom.

"The broom will come together as a bunch to sweep all the debris of the past.

"That is it, and we are going to win the election,” Tinubu said.

He stated this on Sunday in Benin at the 90th birthday celebration of
the Esogban of Benin, Chief David Edebiri.

Tinubu added, “There are many apples, oranges and various fruits of
different characters.

"But one thing that is consistent is the broom that will come together
as a bunch during the election.”

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Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Construction Review

Motorists plying Lagos-Ibadan expressway have been advised to take
alternative routes as rehabilitation on the Berger-Ogun River section
of the expressway, leading a partial closure of the expressway.

According to a traffic advisory by the Ogun State Traffic Compliance
and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) on Sunday, motorists were advised to
make use of alternative routes.

The alternative routes listed by the spokesman of TRACE, Babatunde
Akinbiyi, are Iyana Ipaja/Ota/Ifo/Abeokuta/Sagamu-Benin Ore
expressway; Victoria Island/Lekki/Epe/Ijebu-Ode-Benin/Ore expressway
or the Ikorodu/ Itoikin/ Ijebu-Ode-Benin/Ore expressway.

Akinbiyi said: “In view of the imminent closure of inbound Lagos
traffic along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for reconstruction and
rehabilitation work on the 600km stretch of the corridor to be carried
out from Berger (New Garage Bus Stop) – Ogun River (Kara Bridge),
scheduled for Monday, 2nd September-Sunday, 15th December, 2019, the
general public, particularly the motoring public, is hereby apprised
of the need to plan their journey, add more time to their travelling
time and take necessary precaution.

“From Monday, 2nd September 2019, inbound traffic (movement) from Kara
Bridge to Berger would be sealed off and diverted into the same
carriageway along the expressway conveying traffic outbound Lagos,
thereby making both inbound and outbound traffic to be accommodated on
the same section of the expressway.

"Moreover, traffic will then be diverted back into the road going
inward Lagos at Berger intersection linking River Valley Estate, where
normal journey resumes inward Lagos.

“Furthermore, outbound Lagos traffic would be divided into two (2)
lanes, both ways from the intersection linking Isheri/Olowora Kara
Bridge, where the road diversion ends and normalcy resumes inward
Sagamu.”
 

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Fourteen persons have been killed in a crash involving two vehicles
along Kano/Gumel Road in Jigawa State.

The crash occurred on Saturday.

The driver of one of the vehicles, Golf 3 wagon, heading for Gumel
from Kano, was said to have lost control after a tyre blow-out,
collided with another car and both cars caught fire leaving eight
occupants burnt beyond recognition.

Six others later died at General Hospital Ringim.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the police in Jigawa, Abdul Jinjiri, has
confirmed the crash and casualties.
 

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The Nigerian Government has charged Agba Jalingo, a Cross River-based journalist, for terrorism while also accusing him of associating with pro-democracy activist, Omoyele Sowore, who had been detained by the Department of State Services since August 3 when he was arrested in Lagos.

The charges against Jalingo were filed before a division of the Federal High Court in Calabar, capital of Cross River.

Jalingo had been in police detention for over a week following a report about an alleged diversion of N500m by Cross River governor, Ben Ayade.

The journalist, who was arrested in Lagos and taken to Calabar, had sued the police over his arrest and detention.

Jalingo is asking the court to order the police to pay him N150m as damages for the manner he was allegedly maltreated.

But while a judge is yet to hear Jalingo’s fundamental human rights case, the police have instituted a four-count charge of treasonable felony, terrorism, cultism and disturbance of public peace against the journalist.

 

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The Nigerian Government has charged Agba Jalingo, a Cross River-based journalist, for terrorism while also accusing him of associating with pro-democracy activist, Omoyele Sowore, who had been detained by the Department of State Services since August 3 when he was arrested in Lagos.

The charges against Jalingo were filed before a division of the Federal High Court in Calabar, capital of Cross River.

Jalingo had been in police detention for over a week following a report about an alleged diversion of N500m by Cross River governor, Ben Ayade.

The journalist, who was arrested in Lagos and taken to Calabar, had sued the police over his arrest and detention.

Jalingo is asking the court to order the police to pay him N150m as damages for the manner he was allegedly maltreated.

But while a judge is yet to hear Jalingo’s fundamental human rights case, the police have instituted a four-count charge of treasonable felony, terrorism, cultism and disturbance of public peace against the journalist.

 

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