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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Police Affairs, Mr Abel Enitan has vowed that the management of the ministry is fully prepared to support the assignment of the Transition Technical Task Team of the Presidential Transition Council assigned to the ministry for the 2023 transition process.The Head, Press and Public Relations Unit, Ministry of Police Affairs, Bolaji Kazeem, revealed this Tuesday night in a statement obtained by our correspondent.Kazeem said Enitan gave the assurance during an interactive session with the TTTT of the 2023 PTC led by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Policy and Development, Dr Ibrahim Hassan,…

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, ordered the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police to pay an Uber driver, Adedotun Clement, the sum of N5 million as compensation.Clement was allegedly assaulted by officials of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Agency and the Nigeria Police Force during the first anniversary of #EndSARS on October 20, 2021, at the Lekki Toll-Gate while he was carrying a passenger from the Island to the Mainland and was intercepted by the officials.Following the pandemonium that ensued after policemen and the officers of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Agency fired…

…March 18 elections contest, not war – INECThe National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, has described the forthcoming governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections as complicated, adding that security agencies do not envisage violence.Monguno stated this on Tuesday at the meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security in Abuja.He stated that a lot of meetings had been ongoing, especially with the Chief of Defence Staff and the Inspector of Police, which as a result, the security agencies do not foresee any form of violence. Monguno noted, “Of course, the elections on Saturday are going to be much more…

Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has been named in the Y Combinator’s 2023 top companies list for the third consecutive year. Flutterwave’s inclusion in the list is a reflection of the company’s impressive growth as a major driver of commerce and economic growth in Africa, serving more than one million businesses and processing more than 400 million transactions worth over $25 billion since inception.Commenting on the listing, the Founder and CEO, Olugbenga Agboola, said, “We are honored to be listed by Y Combinator on its 2023 Top Companies List. Flutterwave’s growth and success over the past year is a…

Accidental Scene LAGOS—Tragedy struck on Sunday night when a Lexus SUV rammed into a building on 2, Iyewa Street in the Isolo area of Lagos, killing two siblings, while doctors are battling to save the life of another child at the hospital. The deceased siblings, Abibu Bello, aged 17 and Bolaji Bello,14 years, were children of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Toyin Bayero.Eyewitnesses said the children were playing at 7.40 p.m., on Sunday when tragedy struck. According to a resident, who gave his name as Muyideen, “The Lexus SUV with number plate, LSD 356 GU, first…

The Presidency Monday evening said the Central Bank of Nigeria had no reason not to comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court on the naira redesign policy.It stated that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), did not instruct the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to disobey “any court orders involving the government and other parties.” These are contained in a press statement released by the President’s Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.The statement is a reaction to public concerns that Buhari has not reacted to the Supreme Court…

The Texas Board of Nursing, United States, has announced that it has charged no fewer than 75 nurses to court over issues bordering on falsification of certificates.On the list posted on the website of the board, 43 of the names were identified as nurses of Nigerian origin. According to information on the Board’s website about the probe tagged ‘Operation Nightingale’, the individuals who acquired the fraudulent nursing credentials used them to qualify to sit for the national nursing board exam.Upon successful completion of the board exam, the nursing applicants reportedly became eligible to obtain licensure in various states to work…

I make no apology for saying the following: Lagos is NOT no-man’s land. It belongs to the Yoruba. Other than winning the presidency, the most important thing for the Yoruba to do today is to ensure that Babajide Sanwo-Olu is re-elected as Governor of Lagos State.Outside of that we are finished as a race and as a people. The Labour Party candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, whose mother and wife are Igbo, is running a patently pro-Igbo campaign. Would the Igbo allow any Yoruba man to do such a thing in the East?Our liberalism and willingness to accommodate others has become our…

……. Police Officer Killed No fewer than 17 corpses were found after gunmen suspected to be bandits raided a community in Southern Kaduna and killed many peasants. According to a source who spoke to Switch Nigeria on condition of anonymity claimed that a policeman was among those killed. “A police officer and 10 others were killed on Saturday night when a confusion endued earlier in the afternoon between security operatives and a Fulani man at a checkpoint in Ungwan Wakili.” “First, a Fulani man and the police were shot and killed at the checkpoint.The situation became worse in the evening…

Wakili Kabiru-Muhammad, Nasarawa West Senatorial candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections have dragged INEC to the election tribunal over the omission of the party’s logo. Speaking to newsmen shortly after filing his petition on Saturday in Lafia, Kabiru-Muhammad said the logo of his party was not clearly captured on the ballot papers by INEC. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC and Ahmed Aliyu-Wadada of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the winner of the election is the first and second defendants in the case respectively. He alleged…