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Former Chief Whip of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Olafisoye Akinmoyede was today Thursday 23rd January, 2020 discharged and acquitted by a High Court No. 7, Ring Road, Ibadan over two count charges of murder preferred against him and three others.
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The accused, Hon. Olafisoye Akinmoyede and others were standing trial over an alleged involvement in the death of late Temitope Olatoye popularly known as ‘Sugar’, who was shot dead during the March 9, 2019 gubernatorial and State House of Assembly election in Nigeria.
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Justice Mufutau Adegbola added that the PW1 who is the star witness in the case, Mr Olajide Olatoye, a younger brother to the deceased when putting on oath, submitted that none of all the four accused was involved in the murder of his elder brother.
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The court thereafter dismissed the two count charges and acquitted all the four accused persons with no other as to cost.
Counsel to the defendants in his reaction, Barr. Michael Lana who was represented by Barr. Adeboye Adetayo commended the Judge for a well considered judgment, adding that the defendants have been found not to be guilty of the charges against them.
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Reacting to the judgment, Hon. Olafisoye Akinmoyede said that God has vindicated him over the allegation levelled against him on the death of Hon. Sugar, stressing that today, truth has finally prevailed with the court’s verdict that acquitted and discharged him.
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Hon. Lafi who used the occasion to once again commiserate with the family, friends and associates of Hon. Sugar over his death, prayed God Almighty to continue to fill the vacuum that his death.
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While calling on the people in the State to continue to support the present administration under the Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde to achieve all his lofty agenda, Hon. Akinmoyede pointed out that the Governor has demonstrated his readiness to take the State to greater heights through the modest achievements he has recorded within just eight months he has spent in office.
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Lagos State Polytechnic students witness intriguing drama between young lady and a man during school hours.

The ugly incident played out around the school banking hall, located at the campus second gate as popularly known by students.

A video that went viral on Wednesdays 23rd January featured yet to be identified young lady attacking one man in front of the school banking hall, confronting him to have spread news about secret affair they both had together to his friends.

According to the lady statement in the video,

” You f**k me and went to tell all your friends, you think say abi Yoruba girl.

See this one ooh, na me fuck am, him p**** is very small.

Idiot”.

“Know and Study the financial strengths of your sponsors(parents) before choosing between full-time programmes over part-time programmes in the University or Polytechnic”.

You remember that While you were waiting for your admission, you were working and being paid some stipends as salaries.
Chunks of your pay was used to support the family. Your family wasn’t depending on your salaries though but some were used to support the family. Your family wasn’t doing that well but they can manage.
Because you want to leave the house, stay in the hostels with friends and it is good to enjoy freedom.You went for full-time studies instead of Part-time programme and the good thing is that your course of study can also be offered as part-time. Sigh.
You used some of your salaries to support your parents for the admission process. Your JAMB form was even bought with your salaries.
You got the admission. You need to pay for accommodation,buy textbooks or handouts, pay tuition fee, food stuffs, departmental fees and so on and you have stopped receiving salaries which means that the full burden is now on your not-so-doing-well parents. Your parents too do not have supporters and likewise you.

Your parents start running around because they need to cater for you and your siblings now. You also start running around. Your mind is now troubled:you have to think about finance and also your studies.

My friend, it is better you go for part-time studies so that you can work and help yourself and your parents if your course of study offers part-time. Know and study the financial strengths of your parents before choosing your programme. Don’t exercise faith on that, use your God’s given brain.
At the end, the Certificates of part-time and full-time graduates carry the same power.
And as a part-time graduate, you can also serve in the NYSC.

Omoyajowo Sola Omoniyi
Pen Pusher✍🏽✍🏽

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Critical stakeholders on disease control have met with Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN in Akure on the effective check of lassa fever in parts of the state.

Addressing the meeting, Governor Akeredolu directed Chairmen of Local Government Councils to acquire land distant from city centres to be used as dump sites.

“Your environment must be made clean and dump sites should no longer be in the cities”, he said.

The governor who called for collaborative efforts to combat the deadly scourge of Lassa Fever through intense sensitization on environmental cleanness and hygienic living urged the residents of the state to report any suspicious case to the nearest hospital.

Governor Akeredolu urged the Council helmsmen to appropriately deploy their workers into contact tracing and surveillance so as to checkmate the spread of Lassa Fever in the state.

“Lassa Fever is a serious challenge, you therefore need to sacrifice to make people live . You must get your personnel properly deployed for contact tracing and surveillance”, he said

Earlier, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Wahab Adegbenro informed that Lassa Fever is transmittable virus by a type of rat called multimammate rat, also known as Mastomys Natalensis which breeds in dirty environments.

Dr Adegbenro said though the treatment of Lassa Fever is free of any cost to affected persons at the Lassa Fever Treatment Centre at the Federal Medical Centre Owo courtesy of Ondo State Government advised that any feeling of malaria should be reported to the hospitals on time.

In his own intervention at the meeting, an official of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control from Abuja Dr Yahaya Disu appreciated the demonstrated concern of the Ondo State Governor and pleaded with Chairmen of Councils to support the fight against Lassa Fever across towns and villages in the state.

Dr Disu said in view of the fact that Lassa Fever has socioeconomic implications on the wellbeing of the people,all hands must be on deck to frontally confront the disease with uttermost priority.

The NCDC official who described as enormous the cost of treating Lassa Fever put at #300,000:00 per person for early response and a complicated case at #2,000,000:00, said the resources should ordinarily be used for the development of other sectors.

Responding on behalf of his colleagues, the Chairman of Ifedore Local Government who is also the ALGON Chairman in the State, Engr. Alex Oladimeji promised to deploy all human and material resources at making Ondo State free of Lassa Fever.

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The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries – Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, U.S. media reports said on Tuesday.

Some countries will face bans only on some visa categories, the Wall Street Journal reported. The list of countries was not final and could yet change, website Politico said.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Journal that he was considering adding countries to the travel ban, but declined to state which ones. Politico said an announcement was expected as early as Monday.

The move is likely to sour ties between the United States and the countries affected under the expanded ban.

Nigeria, for example, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, is a U.S. anti-terrorism partner and has a large diaspora residing in the United States.

A senior Trump administration official said that countries that failed to comply with security requirements, including biometrics, information-sharing and counter-terrorism measures, faced the risk of limitations on U.S. immigration.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The State Department declined to comment.

Under the current version of the ban, citizens of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as some Venezuelan officials and their relatives are blocked from obtaining a large range of U.S. immigrant and non-immigrant visas.

Chad was previously covered under the ban but was removed in April 2018. Citizens of the countries can apply for waivers to the ban, but they are exceedingly rare.

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It was disclosed that Kwam 1 spent more than N400 million on the recent Maiyegun party, the most sought-after and highly paid Fuji 2019 musician!

He reportedly spent more than 9 million on drinks, N200 million on his Rolls Royce Ghost Limousine and the twenty different celebrities who handled the food, N1 million lace for his first show and other equipment, such as his Dansiki and Kember Luxury Damascus.

The classy party’s account is thus given by Abiola Orisile:

The new Maiyegun in Yorubaland invested over N400 million naira to make sure he had the best party in town, days after the party it is still the most talked-about game that proclaimed the year open / It wasn’t only classy.

The Fuji King, of course, also ensures that he does information about his stuff. He is known for being one of the great men who spare no money making sure their games are elegant. Not many of them could forget his 3 daughters ‘ wedding which, for a few hours, literally shut Ijebu-Ode down. It was one such thing as how much the weddings were spent ensuring that they were magnificent.

This was one of the reasons for which the Alaafin from Oyo made his decision to appoint the Fuji Lord known immediately to the Royal blue luxury invites of the title of Mayegun.

You should probably ask how we got to the 400 million naira we said K1 had spent on his new title. Note, the Fuji Living legend bought the 200 million naira Rolls Royce Ghost. His last toy was shipped to his installation some days ago. Immediately after the letter of his intention to install him as Mayegun of Yorubaland was sent in December by Alaafin Of Oyo.

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This article, written by Dele Giwa — one of finest journalists that Nigeria has produced — was first published in the Newswatch edition of January 27, 1986. That was eight months to the death of the great writer.

In the piece, he talked about the nature of Nigerian politics. 31 years down the line, the issues raised are still relevant. In fact, two of the individuals Giwa mentioned are active in our affairs as a nation till date.

By Dele Giwa

It was such a beautiful pieces of exhortation, not new, to be sure, as an idea, but so fresh in construction that it became in a flash the rallying cry throughout the world as the anthem of patriotism and nationalism. Nothing is more remembered of all the beautiful words spoken by John Kennedy in his 1,000 days as the president of the United States than this anthem.

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Whether it was for its simplicity or its earnestness or its grace, something in those words, uttered on a grey cold morning in Washington 23 years ago, glued them to the hearts and heads of those who love the power of words. But more than the poesy of the expression, their meaning galvanised Americans to whom it was made and the rest of the worlds in one huge soul-searching as to the true meaning of the relationship between a citizen and his country. It became the weapon used by many a leader in the same words or words closely akin to it to whip up national and patriotic sentiment in the citizenry.

They were the words, this anthem, which influenced Muhammadu Buhari’s call on Nigerians to regard their country, Nigeria, as the only one they had, and that all of us, Nigerians, were going to stay here and salvage it together. No other choice. And when Ibrahim Babangida was showing Buhari the way out of Dodan Barracks, despite his efforts to make clear his differentness from Buhari, he found himself repeating the exhortation, word for word, as the credo by which we, as Nigerians must live.

Was it possible that Kennedy uttered the undying 17 words because he thought Americans were asking too much of their country? Did Buhari and later Babangida repeat the message more than 20 years later because they believed that Nigerians were determined to destroy their own country? Yes, in both cases.

Buhari’s and Babangida’s exhortation appears informed by more serious fears than those which informed Kennedy’s. Kennedy did not appear to be in doubt of the love of Americans for America. He were merely asking them to go easy on their demands on the country. But embedded in Buhari’s and Babangida’s exhortation was the large fear that Nigerians may indeed not love their country; it goes without saying that the country has little to give anybody at this time even if they can’t stop asking what their country can do for them.

Nobody paid much attention to the exhortation of, whether we liked it or not, we had no other place to run to apart from Nigeria when Buhari first said it. And when Babangida repeated it on August 27, 1985, Nigerians appeared not to have paid attention to his reason for the exhortation. Perhaps the beauty of the statement gripped some word-lovers. But now that some Nigerians, according to the details of the coup plot uncovered by the government, were determined to destroy the country in the process of getting something for themselves as individual, the exhortation has become an imperative.

And just a couple of weeks ago, while addressing senior military officers on the occasion of the Armed Forces and Remembrance Day, Babangida returned once more to the issue, although in a narrower sense in that he questioned the loyalty of Nigerians under arms. The issue clearly transcends the loyalty of the soldier to the state, it extends to the loyalty of the Nigerian to the state.

True enough, the Nigerian soldier has become a disgrace to his profession, equally guilty of graft and disloyalty to the nation as the civilians, and arrogant and disrespectful to the citizenry who feed and clothe him. It is bad, actually it is unacceptable, that soldiers must feel because they carry arms that the citizenry buy for them in order to protect the citizenry superior to the citizenry whence they come.

True enough, the Nigerian soldier will be shocked that one day, sooner than later, the citizenry will tell him to go back to his barracks. If not to a hotter place where infidels are sent, if he should go on the radio or the television to announce that he has come to deliver the country. For Nigerians are tired of the perennials delivery. Enough is just enough, where every soldier, even a private in the tradition of Sergeant Doe, sees himself as a prospective head of state. Call it what it is: an insult.

All this is true enough. But truer yet is the fact that Nigerians, soldiers and the citizenry alike, don’t love Nigeria. Nobody appears really to care about the country. Even in the banana republic of South America, people like the politicians who killed Nigeria during the Second Republic cannot walk on the street.

Here in Nigeria, people seem to accept the unacceptable revelations of how politicians share millions of Naira belonging to the nation. The newspapers report them and the television speaks about them, but people just laugh; they laugh because they have been shocked to the state of unshockability. The truth that all this brings home so sadly is that Nigerians, in the main regard themselves as passing sojourners on the geographical amalgam called Nigeria. It is like standing away at a distance and looking, like rivetted spectators, at the greatest inferno in the world. Nigeria is on fire, and the citizens are amused. “N21 million shared, and so what?” ” N4 million shared, so, what?” Nigeria is perhaps the only country in the world where such revelations have lost the power to shock.

What is to be done to get Nigerians to care, to show some little love for the fatherland, to get a national consensus on what to do to those who pillage the fatherland? What is to be done to get Nigerians to come to terms with the country and not feel like passing sojourners who have other countries to run to? Who, if one may ask, will bell the cat?

Buhari said his piece, just as Babangida has said his. All the leaders that this country has ever had have said theirs, including incredibly enough, Shehu Shagari whose mismanagement of the nation’s affairs is the single most destructive element in the history of Nigeria, a crime, in a political context, worse than graft. Is Babangida the fellow who will bell the cat and does he have all it takes?

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The Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun has described himself as a ‘baby governor’ that still needs to be given a lot of time in fulfilling his campaign promises.

Abiodun while speaking at the education summit organised by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to bring stakeholders in the education sector together, which was held at Cultural centre, Kuto in Abeokuta, appealed to the people to be patient with him because he is still new in the system.

The governor maintained that his administration is on its toes to ensure that dividends of democracy are delivered to the people of the state.

He said, “I want to remind you that I am still a baby governor, because, it is not easy to begin to do the things that I have done in just little time. I have only been here for three and half months as the governor of the state.

“In these little months, we have embarked on all the projects you have seen us embarked on. I am proud to say that I presently have the best team that any governor can boast of.

“I have people that have come from diverse sectors and they are here because of patriotism and commitment in building their state.

“We have done all we have done, not because we are interested in any 100 days or whatever, but, because of you, our people that voted for us and we have to represent and fulfill our campaign promises”.

The governor also boasted that his administration has generated the highest Internally Generated Revenue in the history of the state.

Abiodun claimed that since the inception of his administration, the government has not sold a single land.

He added, “I am trying to manage the resources available to us. For the first time in the history of OGIRS, we generated an extra amount of money; the highest that was ever generated in the history of OGIRS.

“Meanwhile, we have not sold land and have not done any tax audit. We got that by doing some re-engineering and this is to show you that we are indeed working the talk.

“I want to plead with you to please bear with us and we will plan to accommodate all your demands”.

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A bike-hailing service rider, John Abanna, has met a tragic end in the hands of an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority and a commercial bus driver.

Abanna was knocked down by the bus at Apogbon, Lagos Island, while the LASTMA official was reportedly dragging the steering wheel with the Danfo driver.

City Round learnt that two officials had flagged down the driver along the road on Saturday for violating a traffic law.

In an attempt to evade arrest, the driver reportedly made to zoom off but one of the officials pounced on his steering wheel.

Our correspondent gathered that as they were struggling the steering wheel with each other, the driver lost control of the vehicle and it rammed into Abanna’s motorcycle. The rider died on the spot.

Angered by the incident, some youths reportedly took on the officials who fled the scene and headed for their office along Funsho Williams Avenue, Iponri, – a few kilometres away.

An eyewitness, who identified himself only as Tolu, told City Round that the angry youths stormed the agency’s office in Iponri and vandalised some vehicles.

He said, “Some LASTMA officials wanted to arrest a Danfo driver at Apogbon for a traffic offence but he resisted arrest. One of them started struggling the steering wheel with the driver who was not ready to surrender.

“The driver wanted to zoom off not knowing a rider was right beside the bus. As the rider tried to pass, the vehicle veered and knocked him off the motorcycle. He hit his head on the floor and died on the spot.

“The LASTMA officials fled but some ‘boys’ chased them to their office in Iponri and vandalised some vehicles. Some of the officials quickly changed their uniform to mufti.”

Tolu said police from the Iponri division later came to disperse the crowd and restored normalcy.

The LASTMA spokesperson, Mr Olumide Filade, howver, denied that the officials were responsible for the crash.