The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022.
Education commissioner Folashade Adefisayo announced this when she visited the school on Wednesday morning.
Yesterday, a speeding truck rammed into some of the school’s students, killing two and injuring 12, according to the police. Some reports, citing eyewitnesses, put the death toll at 17.
Adefisayo said the government will, this afternoon, release an “explicit” statement containing an official death count and more details about what led to the tragic accident.
Reports claimed that the truck driver, who has since been arrested, was being chased by officers of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).
But the agency denied the claim, adding that its officers were called to the scene to save lives after the crash tragedy already happened.
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Mr. Omiwoye Sunday, has been shot dead while attempting to stop some boys from being attacked.
Omiwoye had gone to visit a friend at Agbala area in Ondo town along with his wife when the incident occurred.
Witnesses said he parked his motorcycle in front of his friend’s house when some hoodlums chased some boys to the area and the boys ran towards him.
He was said to have attempted to prevent further attacks on the boys when the hoodlums shot him dead.
His wife, Bunmi, said she ran into the compound when the hoodlums asked them to stay out of the fracas.
”Last Sunday, My husband and I went to see one of his friends that stays on the same street with us.
“Suddenly, some men ran towards where we were standing by the gate. My husband was trying to park his motorcycle then. So, two gunmen came with bike and started beating the boys that ran to us.
“My husband challenged them. But they told him that they were not there for him and that he should go inside the gate. I went in immediately, but my husband was still outside standing by his motorcycle.
“Later, we heard a gun shot. So, I ran out of the gate and saw my husband on the floor in a pool of his own blood. The gunmen ran away with his phone and motorcycle key.”
Some residents in the area said several persons have been attacked previously in the area.
It was gathered that the corpse has been deposited at the State Specialist Hospital morgue in Ondo town.
Ondo police spokesman, DSP Funmilayo Odunlami, could not be reached for comments.
The estranged wife of a former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, Precious Chikwendu has told a customary court of the Federal Capital Territory that he has erectile dysfunction.
The former beauty queen further stated that the chieftain of the All Progressives Congress never had sexual intercourse with her in their six-year relationship because of his alleged challenge.
According to Chikwendu, the four children she had with the former minister were conceived through artificial insemination.
Chikwendu claimed that she was forced to be celibate during her relationship with Fani-Kayode.
She also told the court that the former minister did not perform any rites before their marriage nor paid her bride price.
The estranged wife of Fani-Kayode charged the court to declare that she was never married to the APC chieftain.
Like she has done several times, Chikwendu accused Fani-Kayode of assaulting her while they were married, adding that the former minister lied to her that his marriage to his third wife had ended.
The petitioner, Chikwendu stated this in her November 29, 2021 “Application for issuance of civil summons/plaint” against Fani-Kayode, the respondent.
The suit, numbered FCT/CCK8/01/043/2021, was filed by her counsel, Mr Abiodun E. Olusanya.
She is seeking the following reliefs:
“An order declaring that there was no customary marriage between the petitioner and the respondent (despite their six-year cohabitation) under the Nanka, Orumba North, Anambra State of Igbo native law and customs.
“Alternatively, assuming by the evidence during the trial the court finds that there was a customary marriage between parties:
“An order dissolving the customary marriage between the petitioner and the respondent forthwith.
“An order granting the petitioner access to and custody of the four children of the cohabitation between parties especially during their academic calendar.
“An order ordering the respondent to be continuously responsible for the academic, medical, clothing and welfare of the four children of the cohabitation.
“An order ordering the respondent to release and return the Petitioner’s property.”
“The properties are the petitioner’s certificates and documents, trophies from the United Nations pageantry, Red Range Rover SUV, registered under her foundation’s name and the foundation’s certificates and the petitioner’s picture, among others.”
She identified others as her mother’s burial videos and souvenirs, her mother’s certificates and documents, her clothes and personal belongings including gadgets, sewing machines left at the children’s play area and her refrigerator and kitchen gadgets for her food company, Mommy Pee Food.
Chikwendu said her relationship with Fani-Kayode was full of “woes, lies, deceits, quarrels, assaults, battery and domestic violence, lack of trust and absence of love, public disgrace and shame, and absence of sex due to the inability to sexually perform and intolerable behaviour of the respondent.”
“She contended that there was never a marriage between the parties on the ground, among others, that the respondent “has continuously behaved in such a way that the Petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to continue to live with the respondent any further or formally enter into any form of traditional marriage whit him.”
She added: “From the inception of the cohabitation, the Respondent has been a violent person who attacks the Petitioner and her family members at will without provocation.”
She averred that in 2016 when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided Fani-Kayode’s house, she found his marriage certificate with his third wife, Regina.
She said she confronted him with it and requested to see their divorce certificate, following which he allegedly confessed that he had yet to do so.
Chinwendu said, “At every attempt, the petitioner made to have sexual intercourse with the respondent, there was never erection of the respondent’s penis/manhood and penetration was frustrating.
“During such periods of frustration and sexual desire, the petitioner would be left with the choice of merely rubbing herself on the respondent, to have the slightest bit of relief.
“The petitioner then insisted parties should seek medical help for the respondent, and on visiting the family doctor, the respondent claimed he was diagnosed of having a cyst on his penis/manhood, which is not allowing the respondent to have erection and or perform sexually.
“The respondent was supposedly placed on cyprotab and the doctor suggested that the respondent should go and decide when he wishes to remove/untangle the cyst.
“Few days after the visit to the doctor, the respondent informed the petitioner that he had discussed with Regina and she had prayed over it, that the respondent should not do the operation, else he would die.
“The respondent never took the cyprotab medication, but any time the petitioner tried to engage the respondent in sexual activities, the respondent would claim his penis/manhood was paining him and then drink the medication.
“The petitioner bought sex toys for the respondent, but the respondent refused to use it and warned the petitioner never to suggest it again.
“Chikwendu averred further that since August 2020 that she walked out of the cohabitation with the Respondent, she had been continuously denied access to her children and her children have been continuously deprived parental motherly care and protection.”
She accused Fani-Kayode of not paying his domestic staff/workers/nannies, “which leaves the workers angry and they could unleash and or transfer their anger on the children, they may kill any of the children any day, if the children are left with the respondent.
“Most of the domestic staff/workers/nannies that are not paid their wages, usually resign and run away without informing anyone and considering the security situation, the workers could kidnap any of the children.
“Currently the respondent is in court with some of the former domestic staff/workers for noa payment of salaries and abuse.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
He approved a new interim governing board to oversee the company’s daily operations.
It followed the industrial action embarked on by staff members over non-payment of arrears of pensions, allowances, salaries and promotion.
The dismissal, conveyed by the presidency to the Federal Ministry of Power, takes immediate effect, according to a statement by the Minister of State for Power, Mr. Goddy Jedy Agba.
The statement added: “The presidential directives as conveyed has also directed the Bureau of Public Enterprises to set up a new management team of the AEDC.
“However, in a memorandum of understanding MOU, jointly signed by the Minister of state power Goddy Jedy Agba, the chairman Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission NERC, Sanusi Garba, Director General Bureau of Public Enterprises, Alex Okoli, Comrade Joe Ajaero on behalf of the union, the Federal government has ordered the suspension of the strike, given 21 days within which the outstanding emoluments and entitlements of staff will be paid.
“Government has described the nonperformance and incompetence of the AEDC as a national embarrassment, saying the suspension of the management team subsist until further notice.”
A 7-year-old girl, Damilade Fadare who was declared missing on evening of December 6, 2021, at Adehun, Ado-Ekiti, the has been found dead in the early hours of today.
According to reports, she was found dead this morning stabbed multiple times by a neighbour, who thereafter kept the corpse inside a cooler.
The house where she was found allegedly belongs to a pastor at Bolorunduro Street in the Adehun area.
It was gathered that the pastor said his wife was not around yesterday when officers of the Ekiti State Police Command were searching for the child, hence so the policemen could not search the house.
According to reports, irate residents of the area have the house ablaze due to the heinous act.
The court has ordered the remand of 108 suspects recently arrested by the police during a raid on the Merchant Navy training ground in Lagos.
86 male suspects were remanded in Ikoyi prison, while the 22 female suspects were remanded in SCID Panti, while the case was adjourned till January 18, 2022 for mention.
The court order was given on Monday after the suspects and their commander were arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court, Yaba, Mrs. O. A. Olatunbosun.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, on Monday, said the 108 suspects were arraigned before Chief Magistrate O.A. Olatunbosun, adding that 107 suspects were granted N100,000 bail with two sureties in like sum.
He noted that the commander of the training camp, Mr Sunday Dakare, was granted bail in the sum of N5m with three sureties in like sum.
Ajisebutu said, “The suspects were charged with conspiracy, conduct likely to cause a breach of the public peace, obtaining money under false pretences, impersonation and fraudulently acquiring naval military accoutrement contrary to and punishable under sections 411, 168(b), 314, 79(i)(a)(b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2015.
“One hundred and seven of the suspects, who were applicants, were granted N100, 000, and two sureties bail condition each, while their commander, Mr Sunday Dakare, had a stringent bail condition of N5,000,000, three sureties who are level 12 officers with landed properties within Lagos. The sureties must deposit their passports with the court.
Policemen from the Zuba Division in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Friday, reportedly raided Dakwa community, an Abuja suburb, shooting an official of the Department of State Services (DSS).
The unidentified DSS official was said to be on transit when he was allegedly shot in the Dakwa raid.
No fewer than 37 residents and other passersby in the community were arrested during the operation which took take place around 8pm.
A resident, Aliyu Ibrahim, who introduced himself as a security guard in one of the private schools in the area, was one of the people arrested and taken to the police division where they spent the night.
He said other people arrested included traders, tea and roasted meat sellers as well as commercial motorcyclists.
“They stormed the area with three vehicles including a Hilux van, bus and a utility vehicle. “They operated alongside local vigilantes who rode the impounded motorcycles, while their owners and other arrested people were conveyed in the police vehicles.”
Another resident, who craved anonymity, alleged that the arrested residents were released the following morning on bail, after parting with N5,000 each.
Responding, the Zuba Divisional Police Officer (DPO), CSP Osor Moses, confirmed the shooting of the DSS official but said he was responding to treatment at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada.
He, however, referred our reporter to the FCT police command for further details on the incident.
At the command, the police spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh, said she would get back to our reporter but did not up till the time of filing this report yesterday night.
The burial arrangements of a Ghanaian end up capturing the attention of the internet space following his friend’s special way of sending him off.
Man receives unusual burial arrangement from friends (Video)
The video making rounds on social media captures the moment friends of a deceased hung his coffin on a hydraulic vehicle.
It, however, did not stop there as two of the supposed friend of the deceased sat on the coffin while the hydraulic vehicle raise the lifeless body back and forth.
The carefully hung coffin swung back and forth in the air as mourners wail over the loss of the deceased.
Authorities have restored telecommunications services in Zamfara communities.
It would be recalled that the Zamfara government last Wednesday said the process of restoring telecommunications services in the state is ongoing.
As part of measures to tackle banditry in the north-western state, the government had cut telecommunications networks in 14 local government areas in September.
However, on November 27, Governor Bello Matawalle ordered the restoration of the networks in Gusau, the state capital.
Neighbouring Sokoto State had also taken the same measure to curb banditry and insecurity. Now, according to Eons Intelligence, the Executive Order has been finalised and the governor has signed.
