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A mother of five, Aisha Tijani, has been arrested by the operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly setting her daughter ablaze.

The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Mowe divisional headquarters by one Moroof Ayinde.

The complainant told the Police that he lives in the same apartment with the suspect who allegedly set ablaze her 10-year-old daughter.

According to him, the woman was upset because the daughter took a phone she (the woman) had seized from one of her children from where she kept it and gave it back to the child, from whom the phone was seized.

The police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi told newsmen in Abeokuta that following the report, the DPO Mowe division, CSP Folashade Tanaruno, quickly moved to the scene with the detectives and got the suspect arrested.

Oyeyemi said the victim was badly burnt and rushed to a nearest hospital from where she was referred to the Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital for proper medical attention.

“On interrogation, the suspect, who claimed to have been separated from the father of the children, explained to the police that she didn’t know what came over her when she was carrying out the wicked act,” he said.

Oyeyemi said the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation.

The newly inaugurated factional chairman of the Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi has said that he has not committed any crime by taking the oath of office as Oyo APC chairman.

While addressing newsmen after administering oath on the 33 local government chairmen, he explained that the position was zoned to his local government, Kajola, adding that the former Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Survey in the state, Isaac Omodewu, is occupying the position illegally.

Earlier, ODUDUWA NEWS reported how Gbadamosi was inaugurated as the parallel chairman of the party at the swearing-in ceremony held at wonderland plc, Amusement Park Ibadan.

The oath was administered by Barr. Kehinde Owoade of MFN chambers.

Gbadamosi categorically said: “What Omodewu is doing is not allowed because we agreed on consensus.

“That is the arrangement our national leaders actually introduced and Omodewu was actually not appointed for anything, he took over from the top.

“The post was not zoned to his local government, it was zoned to Kajola Local Government, not Itesiwaju. In consensus, when you are not able to agree, you introduce an election. The election was conducted, Omodewu’s local government (Itesiwaju) scored two, the other local government scored three while Kajola scored 16. You cannot actually build something on nothing. The process that led to his emergence was illegal.

Gbadamosi, however, expressed optimism that the incoming national executives of the party “will come and do the needful.”

After taking his oath, Gbadamosi also administered the oath of office on the party’s chairmen in all the 33 local government areas of the state.

Also speaking, one of the APC leaders in the state, Senator Ayo Adeseun, said the party belongs to the “vast majority members.”

Adeseun said the inauguration of the “authentic chairman” of the party in the state, as well as that of the 33 local government chairmen, will return the party to the people.

“A small clique cannot hijack and take control and think they have succeeded at anything. We have tried to return the party to the people.

“You know what happened in the party some time ago, that some people did Kangaroo convention and went and stole the structures of the party. We have made a presentation to the national and national has given us assurances that what they did was a non-event,” he said.

Adeseun, who said he doesn’t have any issue with Omodewu, maintained that a clique can’t hijack the structure of a party in a democracy.

“Omodewu has been speaking with us, and let me say this, Omodewu has proven to be a gentleman. I don’t have any qualms at all about his personal characteristics, but that is not the issue, the issue is democracy. In a democracy, a clique can’t go and hijack the structures of the party and say ‘we’ll beg you, we’ll plead with you.’ That’s not the issue, let’s go back to the drawing board, let’s do the needful first and then we can collectively be friends and brothers. But to say you have stolen a mandate and you want to plead and beg afterwards is a non-event.

“He has been reaching out and I really commend him as a person but that seat doesn’t belong to him. The state chairman of this party is Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi Adejare that we just swore in a few minutes ago. That’s the bottom line, once we settle that issue and we restructure the exco, then no problem, we are part of the same family. We will work together amicably and we will get results by the grace of God. We need each other, there are no questions about that. However, where there is no justice, there can be no peace, where there is no peace, there can be no progress,” Adeseun added.

The senator expressed confidence that the party will come out of its national convention, scheduled for Saturday, March 26, strong and unified.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has ordered students to commence street protests against the continued strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The directive was issued on Friday by NANS president, Comrade Sunday Asefon,telling students to carry their cooking pots, mattresses, and other items and occupy the streets of Abuja, the nation’s capital city.

The directive was contained in a letter titled, ‘Urgent Notice Of Immediate Commencement Of Mobilisation,’ dated March 25, 2022, and addressed to the zonal coordinators of the union.

It will be recalled that ASUU under the leadership of Professor Emmanuel Osodeke had declared a one-month warning strike on February 14, 2022, over what it termed the failure of the federal government to address its demands and agreements.

The strike was further extended by two months on March 14 when the initial warning strike was supposed to end.

The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has denied rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari’s consensus list in the forthcoming national convention of All Progressives Congress APC.

This was contained in a statement released and made available to the newsmen by the Governor as read in part:

“The general public is hereby notified that a news story in circulation with the above headline is a misrepresentation of the views of the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

“Dr Fayemi at a policy dialogue organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja on Thursday, was quoted as rejecting the consensus arrangement President Mohammed Buhari reached with the Governors ahead of the party’s convention.

“It must be stated, however, that Governor Fayemi’s presentation at the event was about democracy in West Africa and democratic reversal in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso and not about his party convention.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Fayemi in response to a question from the audience accusing the President of imposing a Chairman on the party at the forthcoming convention, stated that the President’s priority was the unity of the party and he didn’t know about the President endorsing any candidate for Chairman. But that if indeed the President has expressed such a view, the President that he knows is a democrat and those who do not share the view may of course contest”.

Men of the Ogun State police command have arrested two men for allegedly gang-raping a 22 years old girl (name withheld) at Eleweran area of Abeokuta, the state capital.

A statement released by DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, says the suspects identified as Seun Orokunle 38 years and Sarumi Sodiq 28 years, were arrested following a complain lodged at the public complain bureau Eleweran Abeokuta by the victim, who reported that she went to the house of Seun Orokunle who happened to be her boyfriend.

”On getting there, she went to the bathroom to take her bath and unknown to her that the said Seun Orokunle had invited her friend Sarumi Sodiq who came straight to meet her in the bathroom, dragged her out and the two of them took their turns to have sex with her after beating her thoroughly.

After satisfying themselves, Seun Orokunle took her clothes and dipped it in a bucket of water in order to prevent her from leaving the house immediately.

She stated further that the duo, who claimed to be cultists threatened to kill her if she dare report them to anyone.”Oyeyemi said

The police spokesperson added that upon receiving the report, the officer in charge, the public complain bureau, DSP Badmus Opeyemi, detailed his men to go after the two suspects and bring them to book. They were eventually traced to Aregbe area of Abeokuta where the two of them were apprehended.

Oyeyemi added that they have both confessed to the commission of the crime.

He said the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and diligent prosecution.

With a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.97 over a scale of 5.0, Benjamin Damilare Olowu became the overall Best Graduating Student at the 25th convocation of the Lagos State University (LASU) in Ojo.

The valedictorian, who hails from Epe Local Government Area of the State, finished from the Department of Mechanical Engineering with the highest grade point in the faculty’s record.

Also, 111 others graduated with a First Class across the 10 faculties in the school. The graduands were awarded the degrees at the convocation held at the campus, on Thursday.

The Visitor to the school, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, applauded the feat attained by the university, stressing that the school had sustained the established culture of excellence and quality tertiary education.

The Ojo campus of the school was agog with activities, as dignitaries from various parts of the country trooped to the campus for the ceremony.

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, delivered the convocation lecture titled: “Global Trends: Nigeria’s Rightful Place in the World”. Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari chaired the lecture.

Sanwo-Olu, in his address, said LASU had evolved from its humble beginnings to attain a world-class status, noting that the quality of graduates churned out by the school testified to LASU’s tenacity of purpose, teamwork, drive for innovation in teaching, learning and research.