Afe Babalola donates N50m to fund emergency national conference
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti
Aare Afe Babalola, legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), on Tuesday, announced a donation of N50m to a self-sponsored National Conference, christened “Summit of Hope”
According to him, this becomes necessary “in order to find urgent ways out of the current crisis facing the country”.
The proposed conference which is scheduled to hold at his University in Ado Ekiti, anytime soon, was an initiative aimed at halting the country’s drift into imminent anarchy or resorting into another civil war.
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President Muhammadu Buhari-led government says kidnapping and banditry are not federal offences in Nigeria.
Information Minister, Lai Mohammed made the comment in response to a statement on insecurity by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) while hosting a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
“It is shocking that a party that ruled this nation for all of 16 years does not know that kidnapping and banditry are not federal offences,” he said.
The minister told the party to call out the states that commit these offences, including those being controlled by it, to ensure a rigorous prosecution of arrested kidnappers and bandits.
President Muhammadu Buhari-led government says kidnapping and banditry are not federal offences in Nigeria.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, Information Minister, Lai Mohammed made the comment in response to the statement on insecurity by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
“It is shocking that a party that ruled this nation for all of 16 years does not know that kidnapping and banditry are not federal offences”, he said.
The minister told the party to call out the states, including those being controlled by it, to ensure a rigorous prosecution of arrested kidnappers and bandits.
Mohammed said the PDP did not respect its own words, as it played cheap politics while playing the ostrich.