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Lagos East: Tribunal strikes out APM’s petition against Senator Abiru
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By Onozure Dania
THE National Assembly and State House of Assembly Election Tribunal sitting in Ikeja, Tuesday, struck out a petition by Allied Peoples’ Movement, APM, challenging the December 5, 2020 election victory of Senator Adetokunbo Abiru.
The three-man panel struck out the petition while granting an application by APM and its candidate, Olusola Babatope to withdraw the petition.
The panel is chaired by Justice Bassey Ikpeme with Justice Mohammed Abubakar and Justice M. Odanya as members of the team.
Abiru, following his victory at the poll, represents Lagos East’s senatorial district in the National Assembly.
Borno: Zulum secures FGC admissions for 959 out-of-school girls, boys
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By Ndahi Marama – Maiduguri
Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum, has facilitated admissions, into Federal Government Colleges for 959 boys and girls from 16 local government areas, who had been out of school as a result of displacements by Boko Haram.
Of the 959 citizens, admissions were secured for 774 girls into Federal Government Girls College, Monguno which currently operates a temporary site in Maiduguri; while 185 boys were taken to Federal Government College, Maiduguri.
In the first phase of implementing Zulum’s multi-dimensional strategies on basic education, the executive secretary of the newly established Borno State Education Trust Fund, Alhaji Maina Yaumi, on Wednesday formally welcomed 185 boys into JSS 1 at FGC Maiduguri for the commencement of studies.
· Tinubu urges assembly to step down proposal
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A privately initiated bill, which seeks to repeal the 1972 Administrative Divisions Law of Lagos State, has stoked dissension among members of the State House of Assembly, pitching them against the Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa.
Similarly, political leaders, traditional rulers and eminent indigenes across the state have disapproved the bill, which under its schedule seeks to classify Alimosho as part of Badagry Division; Kosofe and Somolu as part of Ikeja Division and Eti-Osa and Lekki as part of Epe Division.
Multiple sources, who anonymously spoke with THISDAY on Friday, expressed grave concern about the new bill, lamenting that the proposal would disrupt the state’s administrative structures that the state had been using for 49 years.
A bill to prohibit the casualisation of employment in the private and public sector in Nigeria passed second reading in the Senate on Thursday, February 18, 2021.
The bill seeks to abolish the culture of contractual staffing in the workforce, with many lawmakers noting that it is detrimental to the nation s economy.
Contract employees are typically employed on a non-permanent basis without benefits such as health insurance, paid leave, and other compensation enjoyed by full-time employees.
Sponsor of the bill,
Senator Ayo Akinyelure (Ondo Central - PDP), described casualisation of employment as an immoral strategy of cutting cost by employers.
He complained that many workers in sectors such as telecommunications, oil and gas, mining, steel, banking, and insurance are engaged as casual labourers.
Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, who represents Lagos East senatorial district in the Senate honours the memory of the First Executive Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who passed on recently with a fitting tribute
Nigeria’s cadre of selfless and patriotic leaders was again depleted on Thursday with the passage of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, (1929-2021). He was a titan in his lifetime and he blazed into eternal glory as a hero. Pa LKJ was a rare being. He lived an undisguised spartan lifestyle over obscene opulence. Pa LKJ modelled himself as a trustworthy leader who was sold out to the cause of the masses. He was a Classical Utilitarian in the mold of Jeremy Bentham and