Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador Maryam Katagum, who slumped at an event in Bauchi State, has been discharged and moved to Abuja.
Society gazette gathered that the Minister was at an official assignment in the state – the launch of an empowerment programme held at Sanin Malam Plaza when she suddenly slumped on Monday.
She was thereafter rushed to the Trauma Centre of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) for medical attention.
An eyewitness disclosed that the Minister upon arrival at the event had been touching her head occasionally and looked general uncomfortable and withdrawn.
The minister, who hails from Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State, had been in the state since Saturday and had many personal and official engagements before Monday when she slumped.
When the PUNCH visited the trauma centre on Tuesday, the newspaper was told by one of the security men at the gate that the minister was moved from the trauma center to the amenity ward of the hospital where she spent the night.
At the amenity ward, a nurse said that the minister had been discharged.
The nurse said, “The minister was brought here yesterday for medical care. She spent the night here and has been discharged.
“She suffered from exhaustion and was discharged about 9am because she was stable. She has been taken back to Abuja.”
Angry parents of abducted students of Bethel Secondary School in Maramara, Chickun LGA of Kaduna state have chased away govt officials led by the state’s Commissioner for Internal Security, Samuel Aruwan.
It was gathered that Aruwan and the government officials had come to express sympathy over the abduction of their children.
Recall that bandits on Monday morning invaded Bethel Secondary School in Maramara Chickun LGA of Kaduna State and abducted scores of students.
The affected secondary school is a boarding school located on the outskirts of Kaduna.
Two soldiers were also said to have been killed as they engaged the bandits in a shootout.
The security guard in the school, Daniel Muhuta, while speaking on the development said, “I escaped narrowly. They came around 1.00 am and started shooting. I was at the back of the school domentary when I heard shooting and decided to pin down.”
About 26 of the abducted students have reportedly been rescued by the police.
The bandits later contacted the school management where they disclosed that they have 121 students in their custody.
They however assured the school that the abducted students are in good health and not to worry.
The incident is the second abduction in the state within the last 24 hours.
The development comes just hours after bandits abducted babies, female nurses and security guards from the residential quarters of the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre (NTLC) in Zaria, on Sunday.
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parents chasing El-Rufai’s commissioner
In a trending video seen by SaharaReporters, Aruwan, who is the commissioner in charge of internal security was chased away by some parents of the abducted students during a visit to the school few hours after the attack.
The commissioner was forced back into his official car as the parents rained abuses and curses on him and the Nasir El-Rufai-led state government.
“Go home! Go home! We don’t want you here, Go back, we don’t want to see here,” they were heard shouting in the video.
Arrangements have been made in Arigidi Akoko in Ondo State for another burial ceremony as a sign of respect to late Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua, better known as TB Joshua.
Society gazette understands that the late founder and senior pastor of the Synagogue Church of All Nations hails from the community, and hence the Akoko people are ready to pay him their last respect.
The Monarch of Arigidi Akoko, Oba Yisa Olanipekun, disclosed this on Tuesday, July 6. The traditional ruler said sympathisers would also gather at the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Arcade ground in Igbatoro Area of Akure, the state capital to watch the burial event.
Recall that burial arrangements had commenced in Lagos for the late SCOAN spiritual leader. In this regard, the people of Arigidi Akoko are reportedly set to virtually participate in the burial activities.
Oba Olanipekun said, ”All activities on the burial held in Lagos State will also be replicated in Arigidi Akoko”.
In the same vein, the youth leader of the community, Mr Sola Adojutelegan said the Akokos had benefited immensely from the benevolent and humanitarian activities of Joshua, which made him an unforgettable human being.
Addressing the youths, a relation of the late pastor, Chief Adebisi Kura said the late pastor had many unfulfilled projects for Akokoland. He appealed to the government to immortalise his name.
Meanwhile, fire incident occurred yesterday at the Synagogue Church of All Nations located in the Ikotun area of Lagos State, Naija News reports.
This is as families, church members and many others are observing a candle procession in honour of the late founder of the Church, Prophet Temitope Joshua, better known as T.B Joshua, Naija News reports.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde be remanded in prison custody.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling on Tuesday, ordered that Ojerinde be kept in a correctional facility pending the hearing of his bail application, scheduled for July 8.
Justice Egwuatu gave the ruling after Ojerinde, dressed in white native attire, was arraigned on an 18-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/97/2021, in which he was accused, among others, of complicity in the diversion of public funds estimated at over N5.2billion.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC) said Ojerinde committed the alleged offences, contained in the charge, from 2003 when he served as the Registrar of the National Examination Council (NECO) till 2021.
Ojerinde pleaded not guilty when the charge was read to him.
His lawyer, Peter Olorunnishola (SAN), subsequently informed the court about a bail application he filed and served on the prosecution.
Olorunnishola however sought time to react to the counter-affidavit filed by the lawyer to the prosecution, Ebenezer Shogunle, which the defence lawyer said was served on him late.
Shogunle, who did not object to Olorunnishola’s request for time, opposed the defence lawyer’s application that his client be allowed to remain on the administrative bail, earlier granted him by the ICPC, pending the hearing of his bail application.
A court in Austria has given judgment to the case between Maureen Badejo and an Austrian MFM PASTOR kayode Owoduni Omowanile.
If you will recall sometime last year, Maureen Badejo was running her mouth by levying fake allegations on different pastors of MFM around the world including the General Overseer of the ministry by slandering and alleging fraud and theft by means of peddling fabricated stories.
Anyway, to cut the story short, she was sued by one of the accused and the Judgments is what you will find below.
I would like to warn people who engage in evil journeys just to enrich themselves that the road may look rosy but the end there of is destruction.
Kindly find attached the judgments of the Vienna Commercial Court with the suit number 17 Cg 50/20i – 31
FEMI OYEWALE
The Police Service Commission (PSC) is reportedly considering the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, for promotion.
According to TheCable, the PSC wants to promote Magu to the rank of assistant inspector-general (AIG).
But the Presidency is said to be worried about the “defiance” of PSC which may create the impression that Ibrahim Magu is being rewarded despite the damning report by a presidential panel on him.
Magu, who was promoted to commissioner of police in 2018, had been recommended for removal as EFCC boss by the Justice Ayo Salami panel, which also asked that he be prosecuted over allegations of abuse of office.
The panel had specifically recommended that Magu should be removed “for failing to properly account for N431,000,000.00 security votes/information fund released to the office of the Executive Chairman of EFCC between November 2015 and May 2020”.
He was also accused of causing “disappearance of evidence, stoppage and suppression of cases under investigation and prosecution, and omitting to arrest suspects” in cases involving a former deputy senate president and a former MD of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC).
The panel recommended that Magu should be referred to the inspector-general of police for “necessary disciplinary action”.
However, since the panel submitted the report in November 2020, only a few of the recommendations have been implemented.
A new chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, was appointed in February 2021 while several police officers were recalled to the headquarters.
Magu, who has been in limbo since his probe by the panel, is believed to be in the good books of the PSC chairman, Musiliu Smith, a former inspector-general of police from Lagos state.
The Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has confirmed the fire incident during the candlelight service for its founder, Prophet T B Joshua on Monday.
SCOAN in a statement released in respect to the incident disclosed that the fire incident was a minor electrical fire at a storehouse within the complex.
The church noted that the situation was quickly brought under control without any injuries.
SCOAN added that it worked with relevant government agencies including the Lagos State Fire Service, whose members were on the ground.
The church thanked God for his protection and assured the public that there is no cause for alarm.
The statement read, “In the late evening of Monday 5th July 2021, there was a minor electrical fire incident at a storehouse within The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations complex.
“The incident was quickly brought under control without any injuries.
“As part of the preparedness for the weeklong services celebrating the life and legacy of Prophet TB Joshua, The SCOAN has worked closely with relevant government agencies including the Lagos State Fire Services, whose members were on the ground at the time of the incident.
“We thank God for His continued protection. We assure the general public that there is no cause for alarm and the services celebrating the life and legacy of Prophet TB Joshua will continue as scheduled.”
BELLO INSTALLED AS THE 41ST ROTARY DISTRICT 9110 GOVERNOR, CALLS FOR SERVICE TO CHANGE LIVES.
A past President and Chairman of Council, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Remi Bello has been installed as the Governor, District 9110 of the Rotary Club International, for the year 2021- 2022.
Bello, a Fellow Chartered Accountant, Fellow Chartered Tax Practitioner and member Institute of Directors who was installed as the 41st Governor of the District at a glamorous event which was held in Lagos on Saturday, 3rd July, 2021, in his inaugural address called for more services to change lives.
According to him, the Rotarians and other guests who were at the event, were not for the feast, not to dance and even not to celebrate but to show that they care; that they are willing to join in promoting the Rotary theme for 2021-2022; ‘Serve to Change Lives’.
He said, “we have a lot to do in our communities and society that we all know cannot be left to the government alone, so there is that urgent need to provide support and bridge the gap. Rotary has come to bridge that gap in our human existence by taking action where necessary, although this important step is taken for granted in some other places.”
Speaking on the achievements of the club in the past years, especially in making Nigeria free from polio, Rotarian Bello, said; “I am proud to say we have a living and contemporary evidence of our good work in Nigeria and indeed Africa. On the 25th October, 2020, our country and Africa were declared free from Poliomyelitis that has ravaged our world for so many years. But it is yet to fully abate because we are still having the
deadly virus in two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan. Eradication of poliomyelitis is just one of the good things Rotary and Rotarians/Rotaractors are doing in our world.
“Let me use this medium to congratulate Rotarians, governments in Nigeria and indeed Nigerians for this life time achievement. If any disease has been eradicated from the face of the earth so far, it is small pox but we are at threshold of making history by making Poliomyelitis the second disease to be completely eradicated in our world. We shall not relent until this is achieved, hence the need for all hands to be on deck.”
Bello, who is also the immediate Past Chairman, Eko Forum, a Federal Government body saddled with the responsibility of reconciling Eko Electricity Distribution Company (Eko Disco) with its Electricity Consumers, while calling on people of goodwill to join the club to render more service to humanity, said, Rotary’s imprint can be seen everywhere in the world.
He declared; “Rotary has also been actively involved in the drive to bring Covid-19 to an end through our advocacy. We champion the cause of peace and world understanding as well as conflict prevention and resolution. We support basic education and literacy, we provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene and attend to maternal and child health issues. We also promote economic and community development, support the environment and several other life changing activities.”
Speaking in the same vein, the Chairman of the occasion, Asiwaju Solomon Onafowokan, OON, encouraged the Rotarians nationwide to continue to initiate and support noble ideas that will continually aid the socioeconomic development of the nation. According to him; “leaders at all spheres in the country should also see the current crisis across the country as opportunity to push for socioeconomic development of the nation in all forms.”
Also speaking at the event, the immediate past Governor of the District, Rotarian Bola Oyebade said despite the ravaging Covid-19 in the outgoing year, the District had in addition of 26 new Rotary Clubs and about 550 new Rotarians.
While congratulating the new Governor in his welcome address, the Chairman Installation Committee, Rotarian Henry Akinyele, gave insight to the purpose of the ceremony, he said; “the installation ceremony has become an annual event, which affords us the opportunity to showcase the level of impacts we are making and those we envision to make in communities around us. It is also a window to share the opportunity with our friends and families to be part of the drive to change lives and derive the everlasting fulfillment in the process.”
The event which was beautifully co- anchored by the delectable actress, Kate Henshaw, Rotarian Ehi Braimah and Comedian Koffi had in attendance top dignitaries from all walks of life which include the Alake of Egbaland, HRM, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, CFR, Mr Kola Abiola, Chief (Mrs.) Nike Akande, OON, CON, Mrs Toki Mabogunje & husband and Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi,
Some of the highpoints of the event were flag parade by past District Governors, cutting of Installation Cake and Awards Ceremony.
The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev John Hayab, on Monday announced that 26 of the abducted students from Bethel Secondary School, Kaduna, have returned.
The CAN Chairman on Monday expressed hope that more of the abducted students will escape from the bandits.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the state police command, ASP Mohammed Jalije, has noted that 17 of the abducted students have been rescued.
Jalije said that the exact number of students kidnapped by the bandits during the early hours of Monday was yet to be ascertained.
The security guard in the school, Daniel Muhuta, while speaking on the development said, “I escaped narrowly. They came around 1.00 am and started shooting. I was at the back of the school domentary when I heard shooting and decided to pin down.”
The school is located in Damishi town of Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna State.
Society gazette reports that the camp of Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho is still in shock following that sudden attack by the department of state services (DSS) on his house and aides some days ago.
The security operatives stormed the residence of the Yoruba nation agitator, killed two people and arrested some who are still being detained as we speak.
The two people killed were Sunday Igboho’s right hand men as they were always with him. According to emerging reports by Sunday Igboho’s media aide, one of them was shot at close range while he was praying.
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Rest in peace Alhaji Fatai he was praying when he was shot at close range by the DSS working for the federal Government of Nigeria on the 1st of July 2021 when Chief Sunday Igboho was almost assassinated by the DSS and Nigeria Army with the foreigners at his home.
