A SENIOR Advocate of Nigeria and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said he will provide legal services to Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, who sought his intervention following the singer’s alleged assault on a police officer. The SAN, who confirmed the development to our correspondent on Sunday, said the singer had enough evidence to defend himself. This was as the Police Service Commission demanded the immediate prosecution of the musician, saying no one had the right to assault a policeman in uniform and on official duty, no matter the offence committed by police officer. Reacting to an inquiry by our…
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MEN of the Lagos State Police Command are on the trail of singer Seun Kuti over assault on a police officer. Some officers from the command, it was learnt, visited his Allen Avenue home this morning to arrest him but met his absence. The officers who were stationed at his Allen Avenue home were later asked to leave the area. A source who spoke to News Point Nigeria on condition of anonymity said the uniform men were replaced by plain clothed officer for a maximum surveillance on his residence and offices. This newspaper recalls that the Inspector General of Police,…
THE Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the arrest of Afrobeat star and Late Fela’s son, Seun Kuti who was captured on video assaulting a police officer. This was disclosed in a statement by Force spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi. “The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command to arrest Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, who was captured on video assaulting a police officer in uniform,” the late Saturday statement read. According to him, the incident will also be investigated. “The IGP has equally ordered a speedy and full investigation…
FORMER Osun Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has accepted Tuesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court which upheld the election of Senator Ademola Adeleke as governor of the state. “To the Osun Governor, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your victory at the Supreme Court,” Oyetola said in a personally signed statement. “While I pray for your tenure to be prosperous for our people and the State, I urge you to focus on the delivery of good governance.” Putting politics aside, the former governor stated that the time had come to let his successor know that…
LAGOS’ popular market, Alaba International Market, Ojo, is currently on fire. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Services, which confirmed the incident, said efforts were underway to put out the inferno. “Report reaching Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service indicates shanties at the popular Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos are on Fire. “However, Fire Crew from Ojo, Sari-Iganmu and Ajegunle are being turned back by angry mobs from performing their statutory duty but presently on standby,” the agency’s director, Margaret Adeseye, said in a situation report on Friday. “The agency is consequently collaborating with Security agents to address it,” she…
SIXTEEN persons have been burnt to death and others wounded in an auto crash in the Odeomu area of Osun State. The fatal accident happened opposite Mat Oil and involved a white commercial Mazda Bus with registration number APP834XT and a white Lexus Jeep bearing registration number LSR304HW. Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Osun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Mrs Agnes Ogungbemi said some of the victims were burnt beyond recognition. She explained that those injured had been taken to Ise-Oluwa Medical Centre in the town for prompt medical attention. The victims of the…
THE World Health Organization (WHO) says the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine given provisional approval by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) still needs to undergo more trials. WHO Country Representative to Nigeria Dr Walter Mulombo, during a media parley at the UN House in Abuja on Tuesday, also restated the importance and efficacy of the RTSS vaccine adopted by countries like Ghana and Kenya. As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark World Malaria Day during Africa Vaccines Week and World Immunisation Week, Mulombo also emphasised the need for proper policy funding and education…
BARRING any last-minute changes, the President-elect, Mr Bola Tinubu is expected to return to the country on Monday (today) after a 34-day absence from Nigeria. Tinubu had March 21 travelled out of the country, in what his campaign council said was meant for him to rest and plan ahead of his inauguration on May 29. A statement by the recently dissolved All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council in March noted that Tinubu travelled to France to rest and plan his transition programme after an exhaustive campaign and election season. “The president-elect had left the country through the Murtala Muhammed…
A FIVE-STOREY building under construction has collapsed in Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa area of Lagos State. “The Lagos State Government Sunday said that a four-floor building under construction that partially collapsed on Ladipo Oluwole Street, Apapa ignored the stop work and seal up orders of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA and continued construction behind the scene,” Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Mukaila Sanusi, said in Sunday statement. “The collapse incident, which was flagged on the Physical Planning incident management platform on Sunday evening, triggered immediate preliminary enquiries that showed that officers of the States Building Control Agency had issued…
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says the Federal Government is yet to address most of the issues for the union’s recent strike. ASUU had late last year called off an eight-month strike after a series of negotiations with the Federal Government. Part of the lecturers’ demands is the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). But months after the development, the union said the government is yet to address most of its demands including the payment…
THE All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has said the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will decide the date the fuel subsidy will be removed. Though the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari said the subsidy policy would end by June when the budget for the initiative would lapse, the Chief Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress PCC, Festus Keyamo, on Sunday, noted that the next government would determine the terminal date for the subsidy regime. There has been apprehension over the planned removal of subsidy with marketers and other petroleum stakeholders projecting that the development may push fuel…
ALMOST a dozen commuters travelling along Osogbo/Ikirun road were in the early hours of Friday abducted at Ayepe community by some people suspected to be bandits. The victims were said to have been whisked into the bush by their abductors. News Point Nigeria reports that, the details of how the victims were abducted were not immediately available, but the perpetrators were said to demobilise the vehicle those abducted were travelling in and took them to the bush near the scene of the abduction. A top security source, who pleaded anonymity, as he was not authorised to comment on the incident,…
A YOUTH leader, Comrade Anjorin Tope Victor (aka Omitogun) has congratulated Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke over his recent victory at the Court of Appeal in Abuja which upheld Adeleke’s election as the authentic governor of the state. Omitogun, an Industrial Chemist from Ekiti State University, also commended Governor Adeleke for running a dynamic government in Osun, saying that the people of the state are now enjoying the dividends of democracy. He added that the victory of Adeleke at the appellate court truly reflected the wishes of the Osun people who freely elected the governor for positive change. Omitogun, who…
THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige says the incoming administration of the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu should start discussions on a review of the minimum wage currently obtainable in Nigeria immediately after its inauguration in May. The minister, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday monitored by News Point Nigeria, said the next government should come up with a new minimum wage higher than the current N30,000 by May 2024. He also said the outgoing administration of President Muhammadu Buhari approved pay raise for “hardcore civil servants”, effective January 1, 2023, adding that there…