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Sunday Igboho Against Yoruba Nation Rally For Now, Lawyer Speaks From Benin

Sunday Igboho, the Yoruba Nation agitator, has told his supporters to embrace peace and jettison any protest now.

The operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) had on July 1, raided Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo state Igboho’s counsel, Yomi Aliyu, made this known on Thursday, September 16, in a statement sent to the media from Benin Republic –

The embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has advised his supporters against staging demonstrations in his name “for the time being.” The Nation reports that the 48-year-old agitator is currently at Prison Civile de Cotonou — Cotonou Civil Prison. Sunday Igboho has warned his supporters against holding any protest, rally in my name now.

ODUDUWA NEWS gathered that Igboho’s counsel, Yomi Aliyu, claimed in a statement on Thursday, September 16, said Igboho also asked his supporters to ignore any message to the contrary.

He said: “There is time for everything. Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Igboho Oosa, is desirous of respecting those murdered in his house on that black 1st July, 2021.

“In that wise, he has advised against staging any demonstration or rally in his name for the time being. He will also like people to respect his family by not calling his mum out for anything public. Igboho for now has no authentic mouthpiece anywhere.

“In that wise, people are advised to take anything said by anybody claiming to be from him with a pinch of salt. The exception is the statement by his lead counsel. Igboho asked his supporters to respect the dead, saying that on no account should anybody attack any public place or security personnel on the pretence of agitating for the Yoruba nation.

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Southern Governors Say ‘No Going Back’ On Judgment Empowering States To Collect VAT

Governors of the 17 States in the southern part of Nigeria today met in Enugu where they unanimously endorsed the recent Federal High Court judgment that empowers states to collect the Value Added Tax (VAT).

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu in a statement, said the meeting was a follow up to the last one held in Lagos, adding they reviewed progress already made on the passage of the law against open grazing and encouraged southern states yet to pass the law to do so.

“The Southern Governors also restated their commitment to pursue fiscal federalism by working with our National Assembly members to ensure inclusion in the constitution through the ongoing constitutional amendment process.

“In the same vein, we unanimously endorsed the recent Federal High Court judgment that empowers the states to collect VAT.

“Finally, the Governors renewed earlier call that the next President of our country should come from the Southern part for fairness, equity and justice,” Sanwo-Olu said.

Today’s meeting of Southern Governors Forum was hosted by Enugu State Governor, Mr Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

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I am wooing Makinde, Other Govs To Join APC – Fani-Kayode

Former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has formally joined the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The governor also disclosed he is currently working on wooing Governor Makinde and other governors who are his allies to join the party.

Fani-Kayode was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the APC, and governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mr. Fani Kayode while thanking the president to receiving him with his two hands said; “I was led by the Spirit of God.”

“I joined the APC to help for the unity of the country. I was against anything that would cause the disintegration of Nigeria.”

“I was instrumental for the exit of three Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors to the APC recently.”

The governors he mentioned were Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Ben Ayade of Cross River State and Bello Matawale of Zamfara State.

He further said that; he has friends across party line and was wooing the governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde and the governor of Bauchi Bala Mohammed.

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UN Protest: FG Planted Biafra Banner Among Oduduwa Republic Agitators – Prof. Akintoye

Yoruba Nation agitators and other self-determination groups have asked the Nigerian government not to tag their protest at the United Nations Headquarters in New York as an event organised by the Indigenous People of Biafra.

The Chairman of NINAS, Prof Banji Akintoye, declared that a Million-Man Freedom March would hold opposite the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the United States of America from September 14 to 24, 2021 and it has nothing to do with IPOB.

He however implored the Agitators not be distracted by divisionary tactics employed by Federal Government and its agents

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VAT: Akeredolu, Makinde, Sanwo-Olu, Other Southern Governors Converge In Enugu

Members of the Southern Governors’ Forum are currently meeting in Enugu, just about two months after they converged in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, Lagos State.

Governors who have arrived at the meeting include Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State; Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos; Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State; Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State; and Bayelsa’s Douye Diri.

They were received at the Government House, Enugu, by the host, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

While there is no officially published agenda for the meeting, the governors are expected to deliberate on the ongoing Value Added Tax (VAT) battle between states and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), open grazing and security issues.

Thursday’s meeting is coming just over two months after the governors met in Lagos State where they made a series of decisions including banning open grazing.

The governors had set September 5 as the deadline for states in southern Nigeria to promulgate the anti-open grazing law.

Although only seven states – Ebonyi, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo – beat the deadline, more states have enacted the law banning open grazing.

Enugu, Lagos, and Akwa Ibom were the latest states to enact the law against open grazing.

Aside from issues around open grazing, the governors also agreed that Nigeria’s next president [in 2023] should be from the southern part of the country.

They equally affirmed their commitment to Nigeria’s unity, restating calls for state policing among other issues.

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JUST IN: Sanwo-Olu Appoints Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello As New LASU VC

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appointed Prof (Mrs) Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as the 9th substantive Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU).

The Professor of Medicine had earlier served as Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution before her elevation.

Her husband is the current Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello.

The appointment of Professor Olatunji-Bello was approved by Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu following recommendation by the Joint Committee of Council and Senate of LASU in accordance with the LASU Law, Cap 169 Vol 7, Laws of Lagos State.

She assumed duty as the First Professor of Physiology in LASU College of Medicine on the 2nd of October 2007 after rising through the ranks from Assistant Lecturer (1988 to 1991) to Associate Professor in 2005 at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-Araba.

In Y2012, Mrs. Olatunji-Bello attended the Course 34 of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, the highest policy advisory body of the Federal Government, as a nominee of the National Universities Commission.

A member of the National Institute (mni), Mrs. Olatunji-Bello holds a Fellowship Award of the Physiological Society of Nigeria and was also appointed a Fellow of the Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation in the year 2019.

Prof. Olatunji-Bello as well as two other candidates, Professor Omotayo R. Awofolu and Professor Senapon Bakare, were recommended for the position in order of ranking respectively.

The process of selecting a substantive Vice-Chancellor for LASU commenced with advertisements for the vacant position in three National dailies on Friday, July 30th and Friday 13th August, 2021 respectively.

The tenure of the 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, lapsed on January 11, 2021.

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Gbajabiamila Recants, Says He Never Compared IPOB, Yoruba Nation Agitators with Boko Haram, ISWAP

The Speaker of The House of Representatives has recanted his words on the comparison of Yoruba Nation and Biafra Agitators with Bokoharam.

This was contained in a statement released and made available to newsmen through his Media Aide, Lasisi Yussuf as read in part:

“It has come to the attention of the Office of the Speaker, House of Representatives, that some media reports on Wednesday, September 15, claimed that the Speaker, in his welcome address to his colleagues at Wednesday’s plenary, purportedly said IPOB and Yoruba nation agitators are the same with Boko haram.

“In view of the impression created by the said reports, it has become necessary to clarify that the Speaker, in his speech, never mentioned any group.

“For the records, the Speaker said some miscreants and criminals are taking advantage of the separationist agitations to carry their activities.

Hereunder is what the Speaker said:

“We must now add to these concerns an emerging threat that presents the same clear and present danger. In the South of Nigeria, East and West, MISCREANTS AND CRIMINALS MASQUERADING AS SEPARATIONIST ACTIVISTS have emerged to wreak havoc, take lives and commit economic sabotage against fellow Nigerians and the state.

“These people, in their inclination for devastating violence against fellow citizens, their appetite for the destruction of private property, their disruption of academic activities, commerce, and industry, their propensity for defiling institutions of the state, society and community, their refusal to engage in debate, or to consider the possibility of dissenting opinions and alternative viewpoints, are no different from Boko Haram and ISWAP. Given space and time, they will take our nation down the same path of destruction.”

“From the above, there was nowhere that the Speaker mentioned the name of any group. What was conspicuous in the Speaker’s speech was the focus of the activities of MISCREANTS AND CRIMINALS, and its effect on the country.

The Speaker never condemned secessionists or compared them to terrorists.

“As a matter of fact, the Speaker is not alone on the concern about an apparent emergence of a band of miscreants and criminals as different patriotic Nigerians have expressed similar concerns and even condemned the act of maiming, killing, destruction of property and other criminalities perpetrated by the masqueraders”.

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Ikeja Court Orders Oshodi LG To Pay N1m To Motorist Over Extortion of N28,000

An Ikeja High Court has ordered Oshodi Local Government Area (LGA) of Lagos to pay N1Million compensation to a motorist, Mr Louis Idahosa for extorting him of N28,000 for allegedly driving against traffic (one-way).

Delivering judgment, Justice Obafemi Adamson said that local governments lack the constitutional power to impound vehicles and to inflict traffic related penalties on road users.

The judge said that threatening, harassing and extorting N28,000 from Idahosa by Oshodi LGA officials and impounding his vehicle under the guise that he drove “one-way” was illegal.

Justice Adamson noted that the applicant’s fundamental human rights as enshrined in Sections 34, 36, 41(1) and 44 the 1999 Constitution was breached by Oshodi LGA.

The judge ordered the LGA to refund the Idahosa of the N28,000 and gave an injunction restraining Oshodi LGA from harassing road users.

“An Order is hereby granted directing the respondents (Oshodi LGA) to refund to the applicant (Idahosa) N28,000 which was extorted from him under the guise that he drove one-way without affording him fair hearing.

“An Order of perpetual injunction is hereby granted restraining the respondent or its agents from harassing, threatening or arresting motorists or road users for traffic offences, imposing fines and impounding vehicles.

“Doing so is ultra vires (beyond legal power or authority) their powers outlined under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended),” Justice Adamson said.

In addition to the N1million compensation awarded in favour of the applicant for breaching his right to a fair hearing and freedom of movement, Justice Adamson also awarded a cost of N100,000 against the counsel for Oshodi LGA, Mr L. O Mazoke.

Idahosa had via his counsel, Mr Emmanuel Eze filed a fundamental human rights suit dated Sept. 3, 2019 against Oshodi LGA.

According to Eze, Idahosa on Aug. 28, 2019 while being driven by his driver in his Toyota Corolla car with registration number KRD551CZ along Oyetoyo St., in front of the Oshodi/Isolo LGA, they were accosted by six men who were not in uniform.

“They stopped and arrested Idahosa and his driver insisting the driver contravene traffic laws by driving one-way and were taken into the LGA office.

“Idahosa insisted that any crime had been committed, he and his driver should be arraigned in court.

“Officials of the respondent did not agree to an arraignment but resorted to harassing, intimidating and threatening them with continuous detention.

“The applicant was forced to pay N28,000 into the respondents treasury.

“He however discovered that only N25,000 was written on the receipt issued and upon enquiry, he was informed that the outstanding N3,000 was gate pass fee,” Eze said.

Oshodi LGA in court documents however denied extorting Idahosa noting that the persons who arrested and extorted the applicant and his driver were not staff of the LGA.

The LGA also noted that it did not authorise anyone to extort money from the applicant.

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Bakers Jack Up Prices of Bread, Reveal New Price Regime In Osun, Oyo, Other States

The newly adjusted price of bread has been revealed by Osun State Chapter of Bread Baking Association, the picture attached below shows the new price regime. This news price regime is relatively the same with Oyo, Ogun and other States in Nigeria.

Recall, that ODUDUWA NEWS had earlier reported how the bakers’ association went on strike due to increase in the materials and ingredients used to produce bread.

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