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NYSC: Court asked to order Adeosun’s arrest

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The last may not have been heard over the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, certificate saga of former minister of finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, as she has once again been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja, over the issue.

In the new suit, the court was asked to order his arrest.

Mrs Adeosun resigned her position as minister after she was accused of not undergoing the compulsory NYSC program after are studies in the United Kingdom.

Adeosun dragged the federal government before the court to challenge his

Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment on Wednesday, held that Adeosun was not qualified to have participated in the scheme when she graduated at 22 years because she was then a British citizen.

The judge further held as at when she formally returned to Nigeria, and became a Nigerian citizen,at over 30 years, she was no eligible to present herself for the NYSC service.

In the new suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/732/2021 between Incorpcrated Trustees Of Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN) and Director-General, Department Of State Services, Inspector-General Of Police and Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, GICN is asking the court for an order to compel the DSS and the police to arrest Adeosun.

The plaintiff, through its lawyer, Esther Wuese Iorhuna, prayed for an injunction restraining Adeosun from travelling out of the country to take refuge in another country.

The plaintiff prayed the court frbthe following reliefs:

A declaration that the 1st and 2nd Defendants (DG DSS and IGP) are under legal duty to arrest and prosecute Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, for fraudulendy using a fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Exemption Certificate and intentionally giving false evidence before Ogun State House of Assembly as well as the 1st Defendant between 2011 to 2015 for purposes of screening into the positions of Commissioner of Finance and Minister of Finance, respectively.

A declaration that the action of the 1st and 2nd defendants by refusing, failing and or neglecting to arrest and prosecute Mrs. Kemi Adecsun sued herein as 3rd defendant for having fraudulently used a fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Exemption Certficate and intentionally given false evidence before Ogun State House of Assembly as well as the 1* Defendant between 2011 to 2015 for purposes of screening into the positions of Commissioner of Finance and Minister of Finance, respectively portrays her as a sacred cow and tantamount to dereliction of duties imposed on the 1* and 294 Defendants under the relevant laws.

An order of mandamus compelling the 1st and 2nd defendants to perform their legal duties under Sectnions 1, 2 (3) and 8 of the National Security Agencies Act, 1 and 86 read together with Instrument No. 1 of 1999 as weil as Section 4 of the Police Act, 2020 by forthwith arresting and prosecuting Mrs. Kemi Adecsun sued herein as 3rd defendant for fraudulently using a fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC} Exempton Certificate and intentionally giving felse evidence before Ogun State House of Assembly as well as the 1* Defendant between 2011 to 2015 for purposes of screening into the positions of Commissioner of Finance and Minister of Finance, respectively.

In July, Nigeria’s foreign reserves grew by $123.3 million.

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After months of consecutive declines, Nigeria’s external reserves increased by $123.3 million in July.

According to the most recent figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria on Wednesday, this is the case.

According to CBN data, reserves increased from $33.27 billion on July 1 to $33.40 billion on July 30.

The slight increase for the month of July came after a $300 million addition to reserves in less than two weeks, pushing reserves to $33.08 billion on July 12.
As the CBN intensifies its efforts to stabilize the Naira, the increase in reserves will be welcomed by the Nigerian economy.

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Reserves fell by $905.5 million in June, from $34.23 billion on May 31 to $33.32 billion on June 30.

According to CBN data, the reserves were $34.88 billion as of April 30.

Despite the improvement in July, a year-to-date (YtD) check shows reserves are still down $1.99 billion, or 5.6 percent, from the $35.37 billion recorded on December 31st, 2020.

In a Mali bus and truck crash, 41 people were killed

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During heavy rains in central Mali on Tuesday, a bus collided with a lorry, killing 41 people and injuring 33 more, according to the government.

In the former French colony, such accidents are common, and the poor state of the roads has been a source of social tension.

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The dead included a baby, according to Transport Minister Dembele Madina Sissoko, after a passenger bus collided with a lorry carrying agricultural produce near Segou.

He emphasized that the figure was provisional and blamed bad weather.

According to Sissoko, three of the injured were seriously hurt.

The government initially stated on social media that 37 people were killed in the Zambougou accident, but did not elaborate on the circumstances.

The crash, according to Alassane Traore, governor of the Segou region, which includes Zambougou, “is the result of driving in the rain.”

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“Visibility was poor and the road was wet due to the heavy rain,” a crash survivor said, adding that the truck failed to brake in time.

The government will investigate the incident, according to the transport minister.

He said, “May Allah welcome the souls of the deceased to paradise.”

In the landlocked Sahel nation of 20 million people, road travel is still the primary mode of transportation for people and goods.

The government of Senegal reported that 11 people were killed in a road accident in the country’s north on Tuesday morning.

Republic of Congo, 16 hostages have been killed, in the restive east of the Democratic 

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In a bloodbath blamed on armed Islamists, at least 16 people were knifed to death weeks after being kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east, military and local sources said on Tuesday.

According to local civilian sources, the victims, who included two women, were held captive by members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group linked to the Islamic State by the US.

According to local official Dieudonne Malangai, the hostages were killed along a main highway near Idohu, in the restive Ituri province.

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The killings were condemned by Ituri’s military governor, Johnny Luboya Nkashama, who spoke in Komanda, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the slaughter.

At a meeting with local residents, he said, “We will strengthen our presence in the region.”

“Helicopters have already arrived on the scene, and other military personnel with trucks and munitions are on their way to ensure regional security and to organize safe convoys along this road,” the governor added.

He promised to return in a month to assess the situation in the area, where tens of thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the violence.

“The goal is to completely clean up the area and allow the population to return to the villages,” Nkashama said at a public meeting to a skeptical audience.

“It was hoped that the siege would bring security back, but people are still dying every day,” he added.

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In May, the government of the vast central African country declared Ituri and the neighboring North Kivu provinces to be under siege, in an effort to step up the fight against armed groups.

Meanwhile, an army spokesman reported that an intelligence officer was lynched in North Kivu while attempting to apprehend an alleged ADF accomplice.

In Beni, where the murder took place, army spokesman Antony Mualushayi said, “Agent Olivier Sombo Gonza was killed by a mob by lynching.”

According to the spokesman, he was on a mission to apprehend a woman suspected of facilitating an attack that killed a dozen people last month.

Following that, the suspect and three others were apprehended.

The ADF is the most lethal of the region’s numerous militias.

It began as an armed Ugandan Muslim group and has spent the last 30 years operating in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Catholic Church in the DRC claims the ADF has killed around 6,000 civilians since 2013, while the Kivu Security Tracker (KST), a respected US-based monitor, claims the ADF is responsible for over 1,200 deaths in the Beni area alone since 2017.

Breaking: After winning 2020 Olympic medals, Blessing Oborodudu and Ese Brume will receive immediate monetary rewards

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In a ceremony held on Tuesday at the Grand Prince Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, silver medalist Blessing Oborududu and bronze medalist Ese Brume were presented with cash prizes of $10,000 and $7500, respectively.

Mr. Sunday Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports Development, presented Oborududu and Brume with their cash.

“There is no point delaying the reinforcement of these athletes who have made the country proud, that is why they were rewarded immediately for their record-breaking performance,” the Minister said at the ceremony.

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Chioma Ajunwa was the first Nigerian to win a gold medal in the long jump at Atlanta 1996, and Brume followed suit with a bronze, while Oborududu is the first Nigerian to win an Olympic medal in wrestling.

“I am just super excited,” Oborududu said in response, “and I want to thank all my supporters and the federal government of Nigeria for the encouragement.”

Department of State Services produces 12 Igboho court aides while barring journalists: Lawless

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All 12 detained aides of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, were brought before Justice Obiora Egwuatu by the Department of State Services on Wednesday.

Journalists were also barred from entering the courtroom by DSS officials.

On July 23, Judge Egwuatu ordered the secret police to bring the detainees to court on July 29.

Because the detainees were not produced, the security agency had disobeyed the order.

The DSS’s lawyer, I. Awo, told the court on July 29 that the agency only had three detainees who had been apprehended at Igboho’s home in Ibadan on July 1.

The court rescheduled the hearing for August 2 and reiterated its order that the DSS produce the detainees in court.

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Justice Egwuatu chastised the agency for failing to comply with the court’s order to produce the applicants.

Only eight of the 12 aides paraded by the secret police arrived in court on the next adjourned date.

Following their arrest and detention on July 1 after the DSS raided Igboho’s residence in the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo state, the detained aides of Sunday Igboho filed a lawsuit against the DSS and its Director-General, Yusuf Bichi.

Abdulateef Ofeyagbe, Amoda Babatunde, Tajudeen Erinoyen, Diakola Ademola, Abideen Shittu, Jamiu Noah, and Ayobami Donald are among the applicants.

Adelabe Usman, Oluwapelimi Kunle, Raji Kazeem, Taiwo Opeyemi, and Bamidele Sunday are among the others.

Ikpeazu accuses LG Chairmen of flushing out criminals in Abia Forests.

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Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the safety of Abians’ lives and property, while also pledging to distribute all necessary logistics to enable security personnel to carry out their duties effectively.

Governor Ikpeazu stated this during a meeting at the Governor’s Lodge in Aba on Tuesday evening with the Executive Chairmen of the Local Government Councils and some stakeholders in the state’s security sector.

The governor emphasized the importance of security in Abia because the state is at the confluence of the Southeast and South-South regions, with the possibility of criminal activities from these other areas snowballing into the state.

Ikpeazu used the forum to announce far-reaching strategic security measures at the community, local government, and state levels, revealing that a small number of security personnel will be in charge at various levels of security architecture across the state, with a particular focus on criminal herders’ activities.

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He also stated that in consultation with relevant stakeholders, the chairmen of local government areas in the state will coordinate the security apparatus in their areas, and that the leadership of each group of personnel will be armed with relevant gadgets for prompt and effective communication and dissemination of information.

The Abia chief executive urged the chairmen to be impartial in selecting those who will lead security outfits at the community and local government levels, as well as in launching the new security structure in their areas.

“It is your responsibility to provide additional logistical and training support…” he said. After laying out this plan, I’d like to emphasize that the LG chairmen are free to make adjustments based on the unique characteristics and circumstances of their respective Local Government Areas in order to improve the overall arrangement. I’m not going to supervise it.

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“What we have been preaching at the national level is for the federal government to allow the various state governments to have sufficient control over the security apparatus in the states so that they can respond quickly whenever there is a breach,” says the group.

Herders beg Taraba’s emir for more time and promise to sack criminal herders

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On Tuesday, the leadership of Fulani herders in Taraba State appealed to Alhaji Abbas Tafida, the Emir of Muri, for five months to flush out criminal elements among them.

Herders were given a 30-day ultimatum by the emir two weeks ago to leave Taraba forests or face being forced out.

On Tuesday, the emir met with the leadership of Fulani Ardos (chiefs) and community leaders from 14 of the state’s 16 local government areas in Jalingo, pleading for more time to flush out the criminal elements.

The herders, led by Alhaji Sahabi Mahmud, state chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, pleaded with the emir to assist them in their prayers for success.

The leaders pledged a comprehensive approach to the issue in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, which was attended by the Security Adviser to Governor Darius Ishaku, Col. Angyu Agbu and representatives of security agencies in the state.

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“Those who repent would be documented, while those who refused to repent would be handed over to security agencies,” the communiqué reads in part.

“Even if they are our biological children, we have agreed not to harbor criminals. We have taken an oath to expose their sponsors, regardless of their social standing.”

‘This is my ultimatum to deal with insecurity.’

Meanwhile, Emir Tafida stated that the utlimatum he delivered during the Eid- el- Kabir celebration was intended to address security issues in his domain.

The order, he said, was aimed at criminal elements among the herders.

“As a leader who stands firmly on the side of truth and honesty, I would never allow injustice or shield criminals,” the Emir said in the communiqué.

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The Emir bemoaned the fact that the Fulani’s image as a race was being tarnished by the criminal activities of a few of them.

Mahmoud, for one, promised to track down criminals who are tarnishing the Fulani’s image.

“What we’re going to do, as stated in our communiqué, is check and fish out the bad apples among us,” he said.

Biden urges New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to quit

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U.S. President Joe Biden has called for the resignation of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo following an inquiry into allegations that he sexually assaulted 11 women.
Mr Biden stated Tuesday at a White House news conference that he believes the famous democrat should retire.

When asked whether the governor should be impeached, Mr Biden responded, “Let’s take this one step at a time.”

“I believe he ought to resign. I understand that the state legislature may choose to impeach, but I have no way of knowing for certain. I haven’t gone over all of that material,” the president stated.

Mr Biden continued, “I have not read the report or spoken with Mr Cuomo.”

The report was issued on Tuesday by New York Attorney-General Letitia James, who stated at a news conference that Mr Cuomo had “sexually harassed current and former state workers in violation of both federal and state laws.”

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Mr Cuomo harassed numerous women, many of whom were young women, through unwanted touching, kissing, embracing, and making improper comments, according to the independent inquiry.

Cuomo stated in a video statement released in response to James’ article that he had not sexually harassed anybody and that his interactions with the 11 female accusers were misrepresented due to cultural and generational gaps.

He portrayed himself as a champion of sexual assault victims, apologizing to one of his accusers, Charlotte Bennett, whom the governor said he was attempting to assist.

He stated that he will implement new state-wide sexual harassment regulations.

Mr Cuomo also issued a report on Tuesday, which includes hundreds of photographs of him caressing and kissing a variety of individuals, including Mr Biden.

Additionally, he shared a photograph of former President Barack Obama comforting a Sandy victim.

When questioned about the photo’s usage, Mr Biden stated, “I’m sure there were some embraces that were completely innocent, but the attorney general evidently determined that there were others that weren’t.”

In Osun, we must avoid violence, says Oyetola

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we must avoid violence, says Oyetola

Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, the governor of Osun State, has called for unity and peace among the APC party’s members and stakeholders in the state.

According to a statement released by the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Funke Egbemode, after the State Executive Council meeting on Tuesday, Oyetola praised members from the state’s 332 wards for the success of the party’s ward congress, which took place last Saturday.

“I commend the important contributions of party members and stakeholders to Saturday’s peaceful process,” he said in the statement. I thank the Speaker and members of the state House of Assembly, the state party chairman and his team, members of the state Executive Council, party chieftains, and all other key players for their tireless efforts in making the ward congress a huge success.”

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Oyetola urged the new ward executives to communicate their ideals to citizens and urged all members to avoid violence and work together.
“I am dedicated to the APC’s unity, stability, and progress in the state of Osun, and I believe that these ideals should be paramount to any party loyalist, and placed above and beyond all personal interests,” the statement continued.

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